Show + 5 AflUSEMENTS + Mr Brigham as an arranger of unique entertainments runs Mr Brigham Brig-ham as a singer of sympathetic ballads bal-lads a very close race Mr Brighams managerial head was distinctly level when it occurred to him that the time tme was ripe in Salt Lake for an evening devoted to southern song and story he arranged his programme for last evening and the town literally swarmed to the Congregational church to listen to it the audience was as handsome and brilliant as it was large and it is a pleasure to be able to record what is so seldom recorded of musical events that the entertainment was a decided financial success as well as a rare artistic one The programme was rendered as hitherto published by The Herald I was made up entirely of darkey songs and selections from the well known I negro lore of Joel Chandler Harris I I Ruth McEnery Stuart and Paul Dun bar the latter by that very gifted lit tIe woman Mrs Igleheart the former by Mr Brigham aided by Messrs Ashworth Best Patrick and Chris topherson four gentlemen who make one of the most ideal quartettes Salt Lake has ever turned out by Mr j Willis who sings darkey melodies with no especial voice but with a good deal of camp meeting style by Mr Claw son and Miss Henderson two excellent accompanists and by a lady soloist Miss Dwyer whose Louiiana Lou was a charming number Mr Brigham himself was at his very best His sweet sympathetic voice his refreshing refresh-ing enumeration and his very taking style throughout were given full play in such delightful melodies as Kentucky Ken-tucky Babe and Mammys Little I Pumpkin Colored Coon He yielded only one encore and then gave the always beautiful Linden Tree The quartette lent him excellent support and did some clever work of its ow notably the Banks of the Wabash with solo by Mr Patrick Mrs Igle hearts negro dialect is delightful and her readings proved one of the surprises sur-prises of the evening she received prses several hearty recalls and responded with two encores in admirable taste At the conclusion the quartette led In singing America the audience joining join-ing with a hearty will o < The concert at the tabernacle last night in aid of the University Kindergarten Kinder-garten was a success from an artistic point of view but financially i was a dismal failure only a handful of people peo-ple being present who were lost in the great building The tabernacle choir and the K of P band made an excellent showing on the platform but the performers exceeded the audience in numbers Some thing must have been seriously wrong in the management manage-ment as the programme printed and rendered was a good one and worthy of a well filled house The K of P band whose excellence Is well known had the largest share in the performance giving six selections selec-tions all of which were meritorious and some of them excelling The two choruses by the tabernacle choir were strong full harmonious and effective r Nellie Druce Pugsley and Mr George D Pyper the favorite vocal soloists were both in good voice and called out all the enthusiasm possible possi-ble from so small an audience Miss Luella Farron and Mr A J Graham rendered sweetly and feelingly the duet Adieu receiving merited applause ap-plause 0 < Tonight Hoyts A Texas Steer with Katie Putnam in the role of Bossy opens at the theatre Few plays of the past ten years have enjoyed the success suc-cess that has attended Hoyts masterpiece master-piece and it will doubtless draw well here Harry Emery attends to the business end of the company < < 0 This morning at 10 oclock the advance ad-vance sale for the matinee and night performance of Said Pasha on Decoration Dec-oration day opens at the theatre The production will be given with the same cast as before including Miss Savage Miss Fisher Miss Dwyer and Messrs Spencer Young Goddard Pyper Sherman Sher-man and Scheid The full chorus of 45 the principals and the orchestra will take part in the patriotic finale which has been arranged < 0 0 Mr Harold Russell and his wife Ada Dwyer Russell are at home again after af-ter a winter of hard work in the profession pro-fession Mrs Russell has been with the Puddnhead Wilson company in which her rendition of Boxy won her many hearty enconiums Mr Russell was with Charles Coghlan in his big production of The Royal Box and he too comes home loaded with favorable press notices pes notces 00 I will be a surprise to the many old friends of Mrs Annie Adams mother of Maude Adams to learn that she has been quietly resting In Salt Lake for several weeks past with her relatives When encountered on the street yesterday yester-day she laughingly said she was here Incog because her trunk had failed to arrive from New York which left for visit her without suitable apparel ing places of amusement She will remain re-main for some time with her near relatives rela-tives She says that Maudes phenomenal phenom-enal success In The Little Minister continues without a break and that the play Is one of the few heavy moneymakers money-makers of the past season |