Show II AMUSEMENTS j I TONIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS SALT LAKE Land LAKE Land of Nod t ORPHEUM Vaudeville GRAND Uncle GRAND GRAND Josh Perkins L LYRIC YRIO A Hero in ill Rags Moving ELITE Moving pictures AUDITORIUM RINK Roller RINK Roller skating Th Thero ro Is al always wa s 's a big biff show shoe sho tach 5 season son for which r o everybody bod waits and that how this year Is tho the musical fanta fantasy fantasy fan fan- ta tasy lY Tho Land of ot Nod which com comes 3 to th the tho Salt Lake ko theater tonight It 1 Is difficult to lo talk of or The Tho Land of at Nod except In terms used of tho the biggest ag- ag RK a- th that t pIa play under canvas The Th production which wll was built specially fo for forthe forthe the recent engagement In Now uw York cos cost and find can be bo housed only In th the largest theaters Tho company including In Ins ing the tho staff m musicians and stage mechanics numb numbers rs seven ninety and Is la one of ot the largest on 00 tour at th the present time Throe Three sixty foot baggage 8 cars are arc required to transport the scenery seen er cry ery and effects A slant plant switchboard operated b by fifteen nt- nt teen electricians Is carried to produce the beautiful lighting effects Tho The care caro of hundreds of ot costumes Is In chargo o oa ot of ota ofa a complete completo and separate wardrobe do de- de e- e E ery E ery detail of ot the performance perform perform- ance nce Is supervised by a ago at-ago manager manage and several assistants assistant quite lIk like th the management of ot the modern modem circus With an enormous salary laJan list and bills for tor railroading that would stagger the average n enterprise Tho The Land of ot Nod nevertheless thrives and prospers Its success Is easy cany to understand after you ou have e witnessed a performance as It contains contains con con- all that Is worth north In the a aver aver- orase ago ase musical comedy om dY and enough more mora to class It Just three times as good bOod as Us its Imitators S 40 Herbert Witherspoon basso will be heard In this city next Thursday night atthe atthe at atthe the first r Congregational church Mr WItherspoon comes under the auspices o otho ot of tho the University of oC Utah and hl his concert Is ono one of at the very ry best numbers In tho university course of oJ lectures and recitals This announcement is enough for tor music music- lovers lovere to know that they arc aro to hear something veT very much out of ot the ordinary Some of ot tho the musical have hae pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- him the tho greatest basso of at two continents Th The Boston Globe one of ot the most conservative conservative con con- e papers of ot tho the hub has hns the following following fol tol- fol- fol lowing to say regarding his voice olce say Italy Ital has always held that of ot all l th the male mala voices voices the central centra or singing basso was vaa as tho the most desirable nn and enviable lable Less bulky and ard ponderous than tho bas basso o It has equal dignity Impressiveness sl and potentiality with somberness somberness somber somber- ness and melancholy If it needed It passes beyond the sentimentality of ot the I two higher voices Into emotion of ot almost every quality and It surpasses thorn In Inflexibility inflexibility flexibility and as th the earlier composers from and down to Rossini and oven Merca- Merca dante have ha demonstrated b by giving to It so many of ot their florid and yet ot dramatic roles If It well produced It has a bright ascending scale adequate for much baritone music resting on sturdy solidity so solidity so- so lid H which that Olat voice rarely possesses while Its Us timber Umber Is wont to bo be moro uniformly uni maintained Mr Herbert WItherspoon who san sang Bang yesterday afternoon In SteInert hall Isan Is ia iaan isan an Illustration of this His voice oleo Is agreeably rich and smooth Indicative of suavity sua more than severity surely and nd strongly emphatic yet ret not Inapt for tor persuasion persuasion per per- r- r suasion and suggestion and easily flu fluent fluent fluent flu flu- ent and distinct In execution trills and roulades being belne particularly ready and equable Seats for the concert are arl now naw on sale ol at tho the Carstenson An Anson son Music company's corn com pany's store Max Figman In The Man on the tho Box show at the Salt Lake Lako theater next Monday Mon on da day Tuesday and anti Wednesday from all accounts will prove pro one of ot the best en entertainments entertainments en- en of ot its kind that has hus been seen here hero in years Mr Figman will un undoubtedly undoubtedly un- un draw the society theatergoers theatergoer The Tho ealo Salo Indicates big success |