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Show the Pioneer stake hall, continuing tor Ave nights, with a matinee for the children chil-dren Wednesday afternoon. The hall has been beautifully decorated and preparations prepara-tions hara been made for a time of rejoicing re-joicing throughout the week. The hall and the rooms .adjoining it have been fitted up with booths, stocked with all kinds of holiday goods, while the programme pro-gramme will include high-class musical numbers, specialties and other amusing features not at this time divulged. Beside, Be-side, there will be a contest for queen. In which tha most popular ladies of the stake will participate, with drawing and guessing contests for articles of much worth. There will also be a poppy bed, a hall of relics and curios and a refreshment refresh-ment stand, from which meals and other delicacies will be served during the week. 1 THEATERS Seeboeck, the plan let-composer, and his concert company, including Mrs. Marie White Longman, contralto, and CarlyU Gray, violinist, will appear at the Salt Lake Theater tonight. Seeboeck made a strong impression here last year and will be welcomed by the music lovers. "Nevada" thrilled a packed house at the Grand theater last night. "Nevada" is a Western play of the old border type, with plenty of gun-play and Intrigue, but with a tender love story running through it. Virtue, of course, triumphs and the villain is thwarted, while the curtain goes down on a scene of happiness. W. W. Bittner plays the part of Col. Btjah Clayton, Clay-ton, proprietor of the Sweet Home hotel and red paint emporium. In a manner that brings the greatest pleasure to both pit and dome. Rose Wilbur makes a sweet and attractive Jennie Williams, a wild flower of the West Zellah Carting-ton Carting-ton as the actor on his uppers, furnished an amount of fun to satisfy everybody. The cast Is well balanced and the play goes with vim and ginger. "Nevada" will be the bill until Wednesday, night, with-matinee with-matinee Wednesday. "The best the house has offered so far In Its history" was the remark of a patron pa-tron of the Lyric at the elope of the performance per-formance Saturday night. The show referred re-ferred to was the "Jolly Grass Widows." which opened a week's engagement at this popular playhouse Saturday and at once found favor with the patrons. The show has plenty of go in it. there being scarcely a dull mom:nt from the rise of the curtain on "The Widow's Wedding Night" to the drop on the last scene of "The Sign of the Red Light." The company com-pany is a large one and contains about the best looking and best costumed lot of girls that the Lvric has yet offered. It may also be added that the chorus can sing. The scenery also deserves mention as being good. The bright particular stars of the company are Mile. Gulchard, Murray Simons and Charles Burkardt, who keep things lively whenever they are on the stage. Of the vaudeville part of the performance Plnard and Walters In a musical act and Bush and Gorden in a hurley-burley act are above the average. "The Jolly Grass Widows" will be at the Lyric until Friday night, with a matinee Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. "In Old Kentucky," fresh and entertaining enter-taining as ever, will be given at the Salt Lake Theater Thursday and Friday nights. Seats go on sale tomorrow. "The Sho-Gun." one of George Ade's most successful musical comedies, under the management of Henry W. Savage, will be at the Salt Lake Theater Saturday Satur-day matinee and night. On Tuesday evening a fair will open in |