Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 12 | Committee Plans Fine Performance

COMMITTEE PLAfaS FINE PERFORMANCE Rehearsals for Gyrodrome Show Indicate Brilliant Entertainment. With three more days left in which I to pnrfont details of the plnns, committee com-mittee chairmen for the Deseret K.vro-rlrome, K.vro-rlrome, to ho held Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Deseret Lrymnaflium, reported yesterday to Karl .lay Glado, chairman of the pnneral committee, that everything is ready for the fdiow. The committees announces a a complete reheRrsal of the entire indoor in-door programme for Monday nibt. Mr. Glado will personally direct the stage work, with the directors of tho various departments co-operating. Tho comedy and burlesque features ia under the personal supervision of John I). Spencer. .Some fifty clowns, comedians come-dians and character impersonators have been selected and trained under Mr. Spencer's direction and a programme of comedy and burlesque features is prom ised on a scale seldom seen anywhere in productions of this nature. Three separate ballets, with nearly a hundred dancers, will be the dancing features. The Japaneso ballet, the Indian In-dian ballet and the clown ballet are all being appropriately costumed. The ballets are under tho supervision of Miss Eva PilcIc. director of women's work; Miss Edith Barlow, director of dancing, and Robert Richardson, director direc-tor of boys' work. The dancers have been in rehearsal for several weeks and those who hare seen their work predict that the ballet work will be a feature of the show. ' Other numbers include the Imperial German Turnvereinj in an athletic carnival, car-nival, and a patriotic finale with a company com-pany of cadets as the principal figures. The street parade, to be held Wednesday Wednes-day noon, is declared to be in readiness and somethiug along entirely new and original lines is promised, the decorations decora-tions have all .been completed and the reports from all sources indicate that the auual "high jinks" affair this year will mark a new era in gym entertainments.