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Show THE FREE LANCE. On tho show bills and the stage Lotta appears to bo sweet 10, while in reality tho frisky soubretto is more than throe times that ago. However, she is just as prankish as when, under the name of Miss Crabtree, she delighted the California Cali-fornia miners way back in the (ifties, with her coquettish ways and songs, and received in return a shower of applause ap-plause mixed with a more substantial shower of gold dust. This was a great many years r.go but the welcome double shower has never failed to accompany ac-company Lotta in all her miscellaneous wanderings since, and she is today rich both in popularity and worldly goods. Wo wish Manager Hurt would hire a few able-bodied detectives to suppress the hoodlums in the heaven who express ex-press their approval of an actor or actress In hideous catcalls that make tho strongest men nervous and a nervous nerv-ous woman hysterical. We commend him iu that respect to the Tabor opera houso in Denver. Tho gallery gods in that temple of tho Muses msy grow enthusiastic en-thusiastic to their hearts' content, hut they must not become atrocious. That is reserved for the college boys and the Sioux. Our enterprising fellow citi.en Heber J. Grant spoke in the Provo meeting house last Sunday in his church capacity capaci-ty of apostlo on a subjoct that interests gentiles no less than saints, and Sail Lake City no le,s than Provo. ilia theme was home manufactures and he showed how anxious people were to Invest in institutions promising immediate imme-diate though slow returns on their money, without doing any particular good to the community at large, while they refuse to aid in enterprises of greater promise and moment butilower in yielding prolits. Stock in a bank, for example, is readily subscribed for by business men while factories are slighted. Mr. Grant is right. --The --The Fort Douglas car line will be a most desirable addition to our excel-leut excel-leut system of electric street railways, not only because il will connect the military post with the city and enliven the intercourse between the army and citizens, but because it will make Mt. Olivet cemetery easily accessible. Hosts of people will visit their departed dear who hitherto were unaolo to perform their duty of love because of tho di fli-culty fli-culty in getting there. Especially in fine weather the patronage of the new line which will open in a few days ought to be great. Apropos of the Monday rehearsal of the Choral society which was largely attended, no little credit for the success of this excellent organization is due to the conductor, Professor Radcliffe, who combines with the foibles all tha enthusiasm enthu-siasm of a genius. He was born where Napoleon Bonaparte Was once held a prisoner, on Malta, and he seems to nave imbibed some of the mercurial temperament and love for musio with which the Italian climate is pregnant. The Choral society is an institution of monumental merit. |