Show r AMUSEMENTS I 1 l d J JEvery Every seat scat in the Grand theatre was wa sold yesterday before 5 for the first fint frt presentation of At the Risk of at His Life Lie and the standing room was wa dis disposed disposed posed pos d of at before teore the curtain went up It I was a big house many man or of the folks who came in for the conference and the state fair were present The melodrama Is a good one superior to most of ot those seen at the Grand in In n the course of ot a season seaon It I has a number of ot strong dramatic situations the plot is in interesting terl the Interest Is sustained to the end and the comedy Is clean and whole wholesome whole wholesome some There is no horseplay and there Is little of the cheap and tawdry sensation sensationalism that ruins so many productions Theodore Lorch is the star of ot the cast of at course and in Julian Thome Thorne the mill mil superintendent who shoulders the murder superintendent of ot his benefactor b to t shield the woman he loves love he has lias ha a fine part and presents It I well wel He holds the sympathy of the audi audience audienCe audience ence from first frt to last and ad is always fully ful up to the demands made upon him Mr Lorch has ha surrounded himself with the best company he has ever presented to a Salt Lake audience There are still sti weak spots but on the whole the play Is well wel presented Miss Camile Camle Lewis Lewla carried off oft honors last evening In the part of at atthe the spiritualist and medium she Is decided decidedly ly clever cever Miss Myna Ketchum as a the adventuress is strong Jack Montgomery gives a good illustration of ot the workings working of ot fear tear on a guilty guity conscience His work Is consistent and worthy worth of mention menton Mau Maurice Maurice au aurice rice Whisk WhIsh as a the detective is good Fred Frederik Frederik erik Roslyn and Miss Cecil Ceci Fay present a pretty love story against the background of at crime and Intrigue At the Risk of ot His Life Lie was wa well wel re received re last evening The applause was generous throughout One drawback was the long waits between acts act This will wi of course be b remedied In future presenta presentations presentations The scenery is good goo The play runs till ti tons Wednesday night with wih a matinee Wed Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday afternoon S The long lon advertised concert by Mine Mme Johanna Gadski assisted by Frank La LaForge LaForge LaForge Forge pianist ill take place in the tab tabernacle tabernacle tabernacle tonight tonight comes direct from Europe Salt Lake being the opening night of at her seasons work under the direction of ot Mr Ir Loudon Ludon Charlton Charlon ranks among the greatest Wagnerian sopranos and ad music musk lovers loers will wi be afforded a treat tonight The Alaskan is attraction at the Salt Lake theatre This Is the new comic opera with wIh Its scenes laid in and ad about the Nome N me goldfields which was produced by b John Cort and had a success successful successful ful tnt summer run in New York at the Knickerbocker theatre According to the complimentary newspaper comment the theoper opera oper has ha been receiving along the route between here and New Ness York and especial especially ly In Denver it has hns lots ot of attractive features pretty girls and catchy music The local orchestra has been playing se selections selections from the opera oper which have a very pleasing swing to their melody The com oem company company pany travels everywhere by special train There are ar people In the en ensemble ensemble ensemble and two baggage cars car lull full tul of ot scenery mid arid effects effect Max Ma Figman directed the staging of ot the new comic opera O I Ivery very act of the thoroughly enjoyable program was relished by three audiences Which filled tied the Lyric theatre from the th orchestra to the box box office There is not nota nota a a weak wak spot on or the list and ana one act is es especially especially worthy of at commendation That Thatis is the dramatic satire satre on one of ot problem plays called caled Friendship pre presented by Perkins Lappin and company The work of the two principals is excel excellent excellent excellent lent and the piece is handsomely staged The principal fun making falls fals to the lot lotOf lotof Of ot Rome and Ferguson who give an Imi Imitation imitation tation of two Bowery Bowry Bow and Deery and Francis in their turn entitled The Rube and the Maid And then comes come the handsome Austral Australian ian with wih the powerful contralto voice Miss Hiss Fyvie F le Dench and the head and hand balancers and upside down acrobats Little Lite Miss ll s Dorothy has ha a new illustrated song and there are re extra added pictures for or the Next week Manager Donnellan Donnelan proposes to spring an Innovation in the local the theatrical theatrical line In by instituting Ins l a comedy stock company at the Lyric theatre in addition additon to the regular vaudeville bill bi All Al the latest high class comedies light operas and musical comedies come les It I is promised will wU be presented at a 10 and 20 cents With all al the acts In the Orpheum offers the following excellent bill I tonight Fred Ray and company In iii A Shakespearean Travesty Sisters graceful and daring wire artists Chris Richards Richars the famous English comedian trio Introducing That Minstrel Man Sullivan Sulvan and In their comedy comedy singing skit A Newsboys Appeal Kol KolIns Kollins lins Ins and Klifton Americas premier banjo banjoists banjoIst isis the and the popular Or Orpheum Orpheum heum orchestra 1 IL |