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Show "Tlic Crystal Slipper." The Crystal Slipper" Is the story or Cinderella told in a way far more attract! vo than the simple tale of the storybooks. All the features of tLe original nursery legend are preserved, pre-served, but they are heightened and elaborated with ttie glamour of stage-settings stage-settings to a degree at oaco dnzzliug aud Impressive. The scurey treat ment that the little kitchen drudge receives is only fur a moment al' lowed to Inspire sympathy with the audience, who aro throughout the cxtravagauza alternately moveil to laughter aud to adtmratiou by the antics and fun of the comedians, the superb costumes and magnificent magnifi-cent misc-sc-jceue. There are the ugly sisters, thu fairy godmother, the pumpkins, rats aud llzuds alter-wares alter-wares turned into a beautifully gilded chariot with footmen and coachman drawn by a teamct live lilllputlau ponies. Of course there ii Hie htudsome prince anj the graud ball where at the ftteful hcur or midulght tho last stroke of the clock finds tho little heroine once mure iu rags. Then ensues the search for tho maiden whom the slipper will fit.ono of the pairs being left behind In Cinderella's hurried flight- A proclamation is issued that the prince will many the w carer of tno slipper. It tan le no other than Cindeiells.w ho becomes the princess and lives Iiapplly for over afterwards. These incidents exhaustively and Ingeniously elaborated will be r resented res-ented at tbo Salt Lake Theatre In four acts, during all of which the eye and the car scarce-Iy find rest for a moment, the movement and action being constant, resulting iu a kaleldotcoplc cflect on a grand scale. The cast includes the best artists iulurlesque that America affords. It may safely be ia'.d that no such sggregatlon of talent has ever been Iu one company, |