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Show THE . CHRYSTAL SLIPPER. ' Next Wednesday night the story of Cinderella will be told at the Salt Lake Theatre In the Chrystal Slipper, the extravaganza ex-travaganza which has just completed a most remarkable run at the Grand Opera House, San Francisco. In the Crystal Slipper the tale of Cinderella is followed closely. There are innovations, innova-tions, however, as there must be in transferring a nursery tale to the burlesque burl-esque stage. The first act occurs in the city of Pretzelstadt, where a fete is in progress in honor of the prince coming of age. In this act all the characters in the story are introduced, excepting the fairy godmother, who does not appear until the second act, when she changes the pumpkin, rats and lizard into a coach, ponies and footmen in the orthodox ortho-dox way, and then shows Cinderella a glimpse of fairyland, a scene painted by Dangerfield, and one which ljaa excited the admiration of spectators and critics wherever it has been shown. In this the nursery rhymes ballet is given, introducing in-troducing such favorite' characters of juvenile fiction as little 1 Miss Mullet, Johnny Horner, little Boy Blue, Ja ck and Jill, little Bo Peep and others. The third act gives us the famous ball at which Cinderella as the Duchessof Can-teloupe Can-teloupe meets the. prince. The ball takes place in the palace of Fans and here the great banquet ballet is introduced, intro-duced, and A.ella, the liyiug dancer, docs her wonderful aerial act. A novel doll dance also takes place and the act ends as the clock strikes twelve, and Cinderella flies from the scene in rags. In the fourth act two beautiful sets are shown, the moonlight terrace of the prince's castle and the throne room of the palace where the crystal slipper is tried on by tho beauties of all nations and Cinderella finally puts her foot in it and wins the prince. The play ends with Dangerfield's grand transformation transforma-tion scene, entitled "The Fleeting Seasons." Sea-sons." This scene has called forth most complimentary notices from the critics in Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, Fran-cisco, the only cities where it has been presented. It is a beautiful and delicately deli-cately harmonious series of ideal pictures, pic-tures, beginning with winter and ending end-ing with a triumphant autumnal scene, lighted by tho full orbed harvest moon, across the face of which in a hammock of vines swings the only figure in the scene, a little girl in ethereal attire, representing the goddess of harvest. The people engaged in the productiou are some of the best known burlesque artists and dancers in the country. Tho ballets are led by the well-known premiere pre-miere dansense Fraulein Clarfi Qualitz and jjy Madeline Moranilo and Henrietta Hen-rietta Rosche, and all under tho personal per-sonal supervision of the composer Stg-uorMachetti. Stg-uorMachetti. V Arrangements were completed yesterday yes-terday with the Union Pacific and Rio Grande Western railways whereby excursion ex-cursion rates of one fare for the round trip will be made from Ogden and Prove to Salt Lake City, on October 20. 110, 31 and November 1, to enable the residents of those cities to witness the performances perform-ances of "The Crystal Slipper" at the Salt Lake Theatre. |