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Show CEORCE THATCHER'S "TUXEDO." George Thatcher's Minstrels combined with Rich it Harris' Comedy company, will produce pro-duce their new minstrel farce-comedy creation crea-tion "Tuxedo" at the Salt Lake Theater tonight to-night and tomorrow night, "Tuxedo" H a.happy combination of high class minstrelsy ami clean farce comedy. The idea is novel, and has met wilh suikug success. "Tuxedo" introduce minstrelsy in a new guise. The play abounds iu lively incidents, while all the salient features of minstrelsy have been retaiued, such as superb ballad singing, the antics of the end men, in fact, nit tlio'ingro-tients of a minstrel lirst part, and it may in; characterized as a dramati7-ed 1. rin of". inioirelsy from which the w ncrahlts f en litres, so long a draw-ba k iu l:i ter-day miaBtreisv, hate been entirely eliminated. Itisane.w type of amusement, and has the advantage of being iu thorough touch with the time,s. Mr. Ed Marble, the author of "Tuxedo,"' lays no claim to any distinctive liteiary merit for the j.icee, but there is not a dull moment throughout the entire pei formauce. When the c.uriain riss on act first the audieuec sees a auiubar of society people trying t get up a performance for charitys ; I suke. At the l-.v3l moment some of tbeir number, who had promised to take part, failed to appear. They are at their wits' end. about to abandon the undertaking when Gaoi-gs Thatcher arrives at Tuxedo as a guest. On learning of their quandary he volunteers to help them out of their dirtieul-ties dirtieul-ties by bringing his minstrels from 1'lain-lield, 1'lain-lield, where they are rehearsing, to Tuxedo and giving a performance there. The second act shows the minstrels on the lawn iu front of the Tuxedo club-house giving a first part. In this scene the ladies of the company make up the audience and joiu in the enc ruble choruses, which gives a brilliancy to the concerted numbers never before heard on the minstrel stage. In the lirst part Thatcher and Dougherty occupy the ends. R. J. Jose, Raymon Moore, H. W. Erillman and Thomas Lewis furnish the ballads and quartette selections. John A. Coleman introduces his grotesque dancing and Ed Marble acts as interlocuter.' George Thatcher appears for the first time during his career in white face, iu the first act, in which he plays himself. Hughey Dougherty has made the hit of his life in white face iu the character of Red McGee, a toug song-and-dance man. He was never so droll as in that character. John A. Coleman plays an English Lord, and his graceful and grotesque dancing is one of the features of the performance. Burt Shepard plays the part of a typical Chicago man. Among tiie ladie3 are: Misses Ida Fitzhugh, Mamie Gilroy, Blanche Hayden, Grace" Hamilton, Alice Trudelle and Corinue Cook. |