Show II AMUSEMENTS I WARDES TESTIMONIAL Hugh J Warde ended his season with the Grand company cm Saturday evening and last night under the guise of a sacred I concert his friends gave him a farewell fare-well testirnoiral The lower paiL of the hous was crowded There was a varied va-ried programme rather long but entertaining en-tertaining and when MrWarde don d-on the stage he had so big a reception vihat he was forced to make a speech which he did in very neat order Harry Corson Clarke did a clever bit in mak ing up for old Rogers in Esmeralda betore the audience and then reciting a poem by Eugene Field he got a double r < cal Mr Edwards was encored en-cored for a clever rendering of Eugene Arams Dream The remainder of the programme was given as published in Sundays Herald the orchestra under un-der Mr Krouse and Mr Royce Mr Goddard the baritone Mrs McNaliy Mrs Fisher Mr Beesley Mrs Edwards Ed-wards Mr Topker and Messrs Spencer Spen-cer Pypsr Patrick and Whitney all acquitting themselves with credit The I finae was something of a surprise in the nature of an act from the Amazons Ama-zons introduced to give Mr Warde a chance in the best role he has essayed I here Mr Ingarsoll Mr Hathaway Mr Edwards Mr Tooker and Miss Dean the latter in her boy costume I assiEited him and all were greeted very I warmy Mr Warde leaves for San Francisco and joins Moroscos forces at I 11rncisco J I once Lisle Leigh by the way com i I I menoes an engagement there at the same time I SALT LAKE THEATREThe American Amer-ican Girl will appear at the Salt Lake I theatre Prldaylrand Saturday evenings next The play is from the pen of H Gratton Donnelly author of Natural Gas Hallen and Harts Later On Darkest Russia and the successful operA Ship Ahoy and other successful success-ful plays The play is a new one here but it has been a success everywhere I it has been produced It had a run of four weeks in San Francisco playing at Mr Haymans California theatre I and his Marquam Grand in Portland Oregon and the western circuit The following is from the Oregonian Portland Oregon H Gratton Donnel ly has written areally good play presented pre-sented at theMarquam Grand theatre last night by J P Howes excellent company Both the play and company made a decided hit The play is one of wholesome sentiment and reflects the shadows and sunshine of life in natural na-tural colors In the unfolding of thee I the-e ents the better sentiments of human nature are stirred and there is natural sympathy with the nobility of character American Girl who stands ter of an Amercan stans on her native dignity asserting her womanhood unabashed in the presence of titled pretense There is a pretty plat that does not drag through the purlieus plCt of vice but shows to what length intrigue and baffled love may goST MARKS HALL This evening at St Marks hall the grand sacred concert con-cert for the benefit of the Lutheran church will take place the following artists taking part Mrs Anna Col burn Plummer Monsieur V de Loery Prof John P Meakin Mrs Meakin Mr Mark Claysen Miss Nettle Raleigh 1r leigh Mr Lowers the Olson Mandolin and Guitar club Herr Yon Bum will act a accompanist TABERNACLE CHOIRThe Johnson John-son company have just qompleted I twelve advertising stands for the California fornia ohorus which are the most unique that have ever been exhibited I in the wcet Each stand contains 175 separate photographs there being 144 of the chorus proper and twentyfive soloists also groups of the Bel Canto and Cecelia clubs and the glee club views of the temple and tabernacle and the interior of the tabernacle showing the organ Some idea of the work can be gained from the fact that there were nearly fiftoen dozen photos on each frame a total of over two I thousand prints Mr Edeson of the Grand who is an oldtime manager considers these stands the most attractive at-tractive of any advertising which could be done for such a mammoth organization The frames have been forwarded to various points in California Cali-fornia where the choir will sing Much credit is due to Miss Mabel Brain for the artistic arrangement of the photos and to Messrs Sainsbury and Johnson who made them |