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Show AMUSEMENTS. Rosina Yokes opens her engagement at the theater tonight iu "Percy Pendragon." "My Milliner's Bill," and "My Lord in Livery.' " t.v be followed tomorrow" night with The ld Musician," "W ig and Gown." and "A Double Lesson." Miss Yokes is a vcrv clever comedienne and is sure to be received with enthusiasm. Giimorc's band which is to give a conccrb in this city commencing Thursday is i,n. questionably the most famous organization in existence It is acknow ledged to be tbe finest in America, and when it made the tour of Europe it gained the name of The Best Military Band in the World." It has been celebrated a good many years for the superior su-perior skill of its players, and has been a veritable school for the bands of the country,, for there is scarcely a leader among them,:' who has not played under Gilmore. Tha band has sixteen solo instrumentalists who rauk among the best in the world; sonic of them have tieeu members of the band from ten to sixteen years; some are more recent acquisitions; a few came to this country as solo artists, and others were offered such iu. ducements that they left royal European bands to join Giimorc's. Besides these, Gil-more Gil-more has as specialties a quintette of saxophones, saxo-phones, a quartette of trombones, of cornets, and of French horns. Altogether over sixty different instruments arc played upon dm', ing a concert, many of which are used only" in this baud. With such material and in. such variety, Giimorc's genius has full scope, and lie uses it with a result that hii music attracts and pleases everybody. |