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Show THE REALM OF PLEASURE. Mint .lurhln Tannhauser." The tirst oppearanceof Kichard Wagner's Wag-ner's wild, weird anil wonderful music ! in Salt Lake was the occasion last night of a full-dress audience at the theater. "Tannhauser" was ably enacted by the Jucb Opera companyit was intelligently intelli-gently presented to those who possessed a libretto. Miss Jucb carries a big company of people of moderate ability. The costumes are well preserved and the stago settings scientifically arranged. ar-ranged. Miss Jueh lias appeared in Salt Lake before and is well and favorably favor-ably known to Salt Lake opera goers. SUo has a woll-controlled voice; it is fairly strong and occasionally sweet. But "Taniihaustir" is not the opera in w hich to display tho powers of Miss I Jueh. When Mr. Wagner composed ' Tannhauser'' he was certainly in his most melancholy mood. Ad the discordant dis-cordant sounds of naturi' are given voice, and where nature is exhausted Mr. Wagner's Imagination begins. There is harmony in "Tannhauser" pleuiy of it. But then therejis harmony in everything in the sighing of autumnal au-tumnal winds through leaflets branches, in tho roaring ot chill blasts down mountain chasms, and in the thunder's rumble. 'There's even harmony in the clash and smash and dash of a Wagner-inn Wagner-inn orchestra. But it is a music that one in a hundred comprehend and appreciate. ap-preciate. The other ninety nine neither appreciate, nor comprehend. Tonight Gounod's "Faust" will be produced in magnificent, style, with elaborate scenery, properties and electrical elec-trical effects. The caste announced is one of unusual strength, including Franz Vett in his superb impel situation of Mephistophelcs. maniay nrii n. a, On Monday evening, March tl, Henry M. Stanley will deliver a lecture at the Salt Lako theater. Of his lecture the Rochester, X. V. Herald of the (ith ult., says: An audience which occupied every seat at Music hall welcomed Explorer Ex-plorer Henry M. Stanley back to Ituohester last evening when ho delivered deliv-ered his second lecture in this city. As tho lecturer came upon tbe platform hi; was greeted with an outburst of applause ap-plause which ho acknowledged with a smiio and a bow. There was no introductory intro-ductory address. 'Tho great explorer came upon the stago alone and entered at once upon the consideration of his subject. "Incidents (if twenty years' life in Central Africa" was the speaker's theme, and it was treated in a manner whic held the close attention of the assemblage from the opening sentence until the closing word. To those present w ho hud heard Mr. Stanley's first lecture in this city last evening's addresses proved mucii the more interesting of the two. The speaker told his ssory apparently with no effort whatever after rhetorical effect, ef-fect, but his simple yet gaaphic and forcible style was most effective, while in descriptive passages he displayed his powers at the best. XVoiKtarland. The continuation cf snow and grand epera. not to speak of the other oppositions, oppo-sitions, is easily counteracted by the myriads of curiosity, and the excellent bill to be seen at Wonderland, and the audiences are numbered accordingly. And besides, tho ten-cents admission charged is a feature indeed, and enables en-ables a great mauy families to attend that could not do so under other circumstances: cir-cumstances: A feature of the curio hall is Huth, the veiled prophetess, who was visited yesterday by no less than 80 ladies. She has a dark, mysterious corner in the hall upstairs, and the old fashioned colored lady who tends tho door is kept busy answering questions asked by tho many seekers of the fate behind tho future's veil. |