Show I 1 i I PROMISE 0 OP PRESS AGENTS Dorcas The engagement of the Pauline Hall Opera company in Dorcas at the Salt Lake theatre begins on Tuesday night and runs two nights and a matinee MusIc lovers are fully alive aUve to the treat that is in store for them while tho those e who enjoy comic b era In its best fohn are likewise looking fOI forward ard to the ap appearance of th the prima donna wIth the most pleasurable anticipation Des Dor Dorcas cas is by Harry and Edward Paulton authors of Erminie conceded to be bethe bethe the most successful of all modern operas The piece has everywhere been received with the greatest enthusiasm With her only rival for queenly honors Lillian Russell now vaudeville In MIss Hall has the comIc opera field practically cally to herself Her present tour has been a triumphal one her unusual sue suc success cess no doubt being in a measure due to the lavish manner in which her man managers managers agers Nelson Roberts and Frank B BArnold BArnold Arnold have mounted the opera and the additional fact that the original New York cast wIthout the slightest elimInation Is being employed In the road tour The roster of names reads like the cast of an allstar company compan JosephIne Jennie WeathersbY May Bou Bouton Bouton ton Ethel Comstock Mamie Scott lanthe Ianthe Willis Jenny Bartlett Geoffrey SteIn Charles Fulton John E Young Lyman White Robert Burton George Han Hall and J P Donnelly are among the principals 4 Beaucaire With an embellished and beautified production of his last years great sue suo cess Beaucaire II Creston Clarke will appear before his many admirers In InthIs Inthis thIs city at the salt lt Lake theatre next Friday and Saturday An evening of complete enjoyment is assured for here will be a combination of a splendid play and a splendid player the one superblY the other capItally cast and finely supported The Atlanta Ga Constitution always sparing in its praIse of an actor found much to ad admire admire mire in Iii Mr lIr Clarkes portrayal of the title role In Beaucaire according to the following article Creston Clarke gave a delightful production of Beaucaire at the Grand last evening JIe He pas has surrounded himself with an unusually capable His manager also has done his part ell eli l has left n nothing hing to be dEsired in th the way of and scenery of course Is the central fig figure urt ure throughout the performance and his means the success of the thes s Mr Clarke is a success The UThe D Daughter Mud Much js is said and written about The Daughter which relates a story of the He is saId to be and is a lawbreaker He is thought by many to be impo imposed fl upon by his The knows he is a lawbreaker but believes he has the right to be such He is a lover of liberty and of that right which gives him the right to use thic th corn that he grows and to convert it into a l which mikes life seem seem to the soul He Is streng In n the belief that his right to make the moun mountain tain tam corn whisky Is n and hE is willing to hazard his life in de rt this right He lo s with ardor nd hates with fierce intensity and if here is anything on earth carth he hates it is 1 revenue officer From the depths of his innermost soul and with wah a bitter bitterness ness fleas that cannot be expressed in wordS he despises them A highly sensational and startling melodrama has been written dealing with these peculiar people and the revenue officers Each succeeding act grows with intensity and the climaxes climates and scenic effect are arc area arca a marvel of stage craft The comedy is wholesome and enjoyable for tor what Is more amusing than the doings and sayings of the old southern type t negro The specialties are bright and c captivating and the singing of the Quart quartette tte is wen well worth the price of admission The company is an able and efficient one having been especial especially ly engaged for the line of work peculiar to this play Mann Buh er erCo Co wilt will present this startling attraction attraction tion at the New Grand theatre three nights commencing on Thursday March 22 2 A Fight for Honor The New Grand theatre Ill have havo for its attraction the first four nIghts ts of the wee week the beautiful society play A r Fi Fight ht for Honor The play is one that holds the audience intense until the fall of Ute the last curtain It is the story of an artist who at the height of his career is stricken blind and through ad adverse adverse verse circumstances is forced to go to the home of his sister with lila Jda wife and little child It is there that through an awful misunderstanding lie thinks his has deserted him and after denouncing her ber he hc takes his little child and leaves the house and then thee corn com commences the Fight for Honor A lapse of sixteen years takes place lie tween these two acts In the third act the husband and child turn Up again The child now aman a man has hac grown up and has made fortune for himself In this act is the tho beautiful work comes in and the young man and his mother meet again after many years of sop sep separation In the last act the fathers sight Is restored b by a famous physician and husband and wife and son are re reunited reunited united again The Play is elaborated In many ways having excellent scene scenery scenery ry etc A souvenir matinee will be given Wednesday Vaudeville It ivill vIII he be worth while at the Or Orpheum this week judging from the bill that is promised by the manage manag management ment Manager Bistes Biste says there fO o othree three kinds of or gar garden gardon don den bills bilIS good bills and great eat bills This weeks he cl classes ses among the last designated The headliner is a European animal act acL monkey actors without doubt the cleverest histrionic simians before the public will wUl contribute to the gaiety of the These sons and daughters of have hae a skit that thatis is described as being funny enough to tomake tomake make a mummy sit UP and take no notice notice tice In every city on the Orpheum circuit the critics f been een lavish with their adjectives when dealing with with the shiners Mignonette Fokin chanteuse et danseuse is again w west st after three years in Europe Miss Ko 10 Kokin kin Is as graceful as she is pretty and talented and promises a series of sing singing singing ing and dancing surprises S he e has luts been appearing in Los Angeles at the during the last tast two weeks FOr further particulars hunt up the papers they only devoted some sOIne tour columns to thIs ebb chic little lady The regular sketch feature this week will wUl be In the hands of and Gussie Brosche who will present a satirical skit which bears the sig significant significant title of A Woman of Pew Few Words S Another continental turn Is that of Les Auberts dancers who came direct from Paris to the Orpheum circuit The couple make a specialty of waltzing during which they indulge In a number of stunts not seen in tny ny ballroom A novel musIcal t rn will be that of De who plays the and of whom the Denver Post says De Dc richly deserved the three or four encores which the audience demanded J 3 rank Ely monologues songs and stories has been engaged for laughIng purposes only For fifteen minutes he will endeavor to make the man with a grouch smile and even scream The the pace set with some new motion picture dramas A Revolution in Russia and License No 13 or the Hoodoo Automobile Ben Davies Ben DavIes the great Welsh tenor lenor who sings in Salt Lake thIs week has had an interesting musIcal career Born in 1858 he lost his father at the age of 7 years two years after young Ben had begun to sing At the age of 6 he was a member of a choIr that competed for a prize at an Eisteddfod at Carmarthen At an early ago age he joined the choir of the Congregational chapel at as a boy alto he never sang soprano Ever since he was 10 years old he has earned his own living Before b a concert singer he was a clerk in a store in Swansea Wales where lIe he worked un until until til he was 24 In 1ST 1873 he paid his first vIsit to London as a member a of the South Wales choir It was at the age of 19 that young DavIes suddenly ills dis discovered covered that he possessed a tenor voice He then went to London where he studied at the Royal Academy of Music on the advice of the late Brin Briney Icy ey Richards He remained at the academy three y years rs at the end of which time he took the gold medal and anda a year later was graduated with the hig highest hest honors Other prizes he won were that for declamatory English I singIng and the Parepa Rosa gold goldmedal goldmedal medal Both or of these were given by bythe I Ithe the Royal academy His first oratorio engagement was In 1879 when he sang the Hymn of PraIse Then followed numerous appearances with the most prominent English societies for at his first appearance he had made a fine success After this his success grew until he was looked upon as greatest tenor and with this acknowledgment he first came to this country in 1893 when he was engaged to at the worlds fair in Chicago Critics proclaim him the greatest tenor now before the public and as such has al always always ways been looked upon both In this country and in Europe Mr lIr Davies appears in the tabernacle on the ev evening ning of Friday next His tour of the United States Is under the direction of Henry He will willbe pe be heard with such important organizations as the Boston Symphony the Philharmonic orchestra of New York the Chicago and Pittsburg orchestras as well welI as with the leading oratorio societies In the east and middle west including an appearance with the tho New NewYork NewYork York Oratorio society with whom hum ho hois hois is tp play the role of samson amson in Sam Samson Samson son and S |