Show LOCAL TALENT IS ON BIG BIC COMIC OPERA J. J J. J McClellan and Briant S. S Young p. p Promise Unusual Unusual Un Un- usual Treat Soon J J. J J. J McClellan organist org at tho thu tabernacle laber- laber nacle and Briant S. S Young of ot the West Western Wt- Wt st ern frn Monthly Magazine and publicity man for lor the Orpheum theater ter are arc preparing a n. emote comic opera Ita which will be bo given Riven m I Its Initial Ini Ini- pub Ol 10 presentation In Salt Lake City Lily It H will wilt be be called Tune The Sphinx and therefore e tho scenes will be ht laid In the beautiful land of th his river Nile Mr 11 Young la JR writing tho tiro words word fur for the time piece pk-cc while Air Mr tr McClellan Is compo composing the music and lyrics If f time the p people ople of oC this city consider consider con con- sider It li worthy of being br sent over o the country countr It Is like likely that one of the bl big eastern producers probably Savage age will 11 stage the opera then Ther will bo Ito two scenes cene In tho the first act Jet and nd one In the second there being only two o acts The fhe curtain will wilt rise Use on the scene cene of or tho the pyramids In to the background hack back ground with with the Sphinx In the thA cent center r of or I j J the tie stage t An An AnA A American i lt who Is So see ce hug Ing Egypt I Is standing near the tho Sphinx and begins he-gln asking It questions To his surprise surprise- the Sphinx answers As s Its mouth month Is opened out steps beautiful Nazla azla with whom the old wizard Is 18 In love Of Ot course cOUrle the American begins making love lovo lovoto loveto to lo h her r. r for tor that's the kind of or a man he lie Is This arouses the Jealousy of or tho thin Sphinx which 1 opens Its lis mouth again and produces produces pro pro- duces another girl even cven more moro b beautiful than Nazis Nazla to attract the attention at attention at- at tent on of the time traveler from his s sweetheart sweetheart sweet sweet- hla heart rt Then the Sphinx Invites nil 11 to step through Its 1115 mouth Into Its big head and they accept Tho The second sc scene ne Is I laid hl Inside the head A 1 beautiful prismatic plant like limn century plant Is shown Around the tho upper section section arc pretty white while girls Irl while on the thc lower r section of ot tho the plant are Nubian girls Irl Aspray A Aspray spray of glistening frost ro t falls over them dancing In the the light while golden h bees Kees 1 swing wh down and kl kiss s them Tho The b bees will twill be bo pr very small ROlan girls and the picture representing tins the little Insects collecting honey from from the flower Clower will 1 give the ta stage stag director f splendid opportunities for lor pleasing pleasing pleas pleas- ing ett effects cl There I Is n a l story ston In the piece pl that the Sphinx changes t s Its It sex every Yel twenty five years and on this point the tho comedy Is has based d Inside the hI big head of oC the Sphinx the spirit of If the time riddle maker assumes nl lumC's the shape hape of oC m man n Rn and mingles among the them m many n rue guests guest t Including all nil nationalities Just as 11 I t to Is making passionate love lo to to Nazla azla It changes es Into IntI a bewitching girl Ir I Th The fickle American American always ready to love lovo beauty begins paying homage to the thc Sphinx The Tho great real comedy character Is Gut Gue- zeela the tho grand vizier and md chief eunuch to th th Sphinx en Mush an eastern potentate also figures In the time story adding add arM lug ing to tho the oriental atmosphere of ot the piece The Till third scene shows the temple or of with the majestic bond hend of oC the Sphinx above p It The moonlight Is falling fallIng fall fall- Ing over OYer the place and the scene ha has all the tho b beauty auty and charm of tho the E Egyptian countr country To get Iet the situation un untangled t a nth all 11 th the characters are art Invoking In tho the moon to change tho the sex e of or the Sphinx back to a man roan Slowly and steadily lh the time moon approaches approaches ap ap- the Sphinx's head hl un until finally It I h absorbs orbs everything In sight Including the people In front of or the As S the tho curtain descends all the audience can see Is tho the hl big moon Tho The opera will wl ho bo completed complete early In InJune InJune June Juno and presented d during the fall fail with Salt Sail I I-ako I ako talent |