Show I AMUSEMENTS In the presence of an aUdience that every and occupied as much standing room as could be sold the new Orpheum was formally opened last The auditorium still presents an an e There are patches here and there where the decorators have not finished their work and some touches or paint and varnish will be needed be Ion the playhouse may be to be absolutely ready The and decorators Indeed were the auditorium as the ot the audience arrived In all essential however the Orpheum is for business It is a clean comfortable pretty theatre The seats are deliciously soft the lighting are good the Is a work of art The entrance Is particularly effective night it was throughout its length with palms and lighted The fIrst audience was as interesting as the performance Composing it were people of all classes And everybody to be entertained and amused That they were warn abundantly dent by the applause that followed every turn Yet It be said that the sa a mixture of good bad and An exception in that it was the very best thing of Is kind ever seen In Suit Lake was the picture of the train wreck era This picture Is so realistic that it cannot fail to tarnish thrills to those who see It Of the straight vaudeville performers tie best Wa Neile MISS Flo rode Is singer Theve Is floUting re about her voice but she is a avery very pretty woman with an alto gather manner that can best be described a winsome The audience would her singing out the evening If some other paole bad not been waiting their turn to oblige V There were some In Lucy and in dancing but their coarsened to towards wards the end Some elimination would vastly Improve thia feature of the A trio obliged with some familiar songs from Il Trovatore The duet was well done In Indeed deed The as a whole aver aes up well Certainly It Is the high eat china vaudeville that has ever been seen iii Salt Lake City of this sort of amusement are to be eon on having a where they are sure to find it Is to have Vw same Une of vaudevIlle 11 in San Francisco Los An gaes Omaha Kansas Deliver New Orleans Minneapolis St Paul Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Indian and A report f the opening would be in incomplete complete without mantles of the did music supplied V by the under the of Willard Harolds ws Mr opining selection and he played the out with Sousas Stars and Stripes Forever The In Incidental music was 0 Ben played to capacity both bothin in the afternoon and evening at the Salt Lake As a spectacular it Is without an equal on the American It is a wonderful of stagecraft Each scene Is striking In Its own fashion but for spectacular effect of course the char charlot lot race to the mind of the average person lu the at least is the most thrilling ibe climax the of the leprous mother and sis te of Hur Is more preg than any Icen The presenting Ben Hur lj it good eiSa who tg Dams pt is a Utah boy Ba freon and is by Vt edis the best In the Play he Hue west be played the of A V OC more ago Orrin wha 13 became ill and EthIer was et stI to take his He the so well that Mr he was in the part strong iii Robert jr who as Mia slUt Weaver as as Iras the sIren is effective an anIs Is Ibe of Ben feminine of the theia ia a rule V were well part or V 1183 wa hibe By chariot race tas f great noise from parquet to Ben at the Salt all the nith and V eec Honest Hearts the corn od old Kentucky Is winnIng much favor at the theatre Two large audiences witnessed the lIon yesterday In tl and evening Tue play Is well noted anti there erg several of a V stIrring nature and excellently staged The Lyric In getting Its theatre patronage of Salt Lake with Merry Th company puts on two laughable A Night the BowerY and Doctor She and these are by a vaudeville contains one or two V V |