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Show "CYRANO DB BERGERAG" Mrs. Baker Gave Artistic Reading of Play Last JNight- Rostand'S "CyraOO de Bergerac ' was the piuv selet te.i by lira. Rertha Kuns Paker for her n adli k at the Inauguration if the scries of literary entertainments provided by the M. 1 A. lecture bureau at llarrttt hsll last night. Mrs. Baker Is too well known to Salt l.nko audiences to require any Introduction, Introduc-tion, and. na she hers.-lf expressed it. she "felt she w.ih coming; iinionK friends." Anl the large audience present extended to h-r s 11 h a warm welcome that tin I. dy must now be convinced that here she can number her friends by the hun-d-eda. Before commencing her reading of the llin n, Mr I'.nki-i ' pl. lined th.it when this h'-r ilc comedy was presented In ParlB t. r. j i in .1?" it set astir an influence and force which it Is difficult to measure at this time or any future t)m- It cams al a time wlv-n the world had Ijo-m burdened bur-dened with problem plays giving expression expres-sion to ( world of weariness and cynicism, cyni-cism, it cams as a fresh breeze from the htlln of romance, this work of Rostand's All Purls hurst lito n flame of enthusiasm. enthusi-asm. Nothing- had been known like, It cm n In the palmy days of Hugo. The work belongs, to the class of pure romance Americans are much Riven to weigh things In a scale and measure their value by mmnv. The greatest events In ;. .iur llfn and mine." the speaker 8aid, "are those we cannot measure; they come from tho mstcrlous realm of the divine." As u render Mrs. Baker is an artist. She pnyji ssi - n Hnese and subth-tv of devor nn ! delin itlori that are highly artistic BhO wrrasps even, phase of the character. Of every emotion and paasli n sh- Is complete muster and he c;m play ui.n every heart chord as only the true rt:,st CSI1 Tonight Mr- Baker rd give "JiuJith and Hi ilof ernes." Among other entertainers who have bef-n engaged for the series ife I n v il Starr Jordan president Leland Stanford, Jr., university; Alton Packard, humorist and cartoonist; Jerome k. Jsromet hu-morist; hu-morist; Edmund t'ook and Opls l'L.ld |