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Show - - , SALT LAKE THEATER. Today, Matinee and Night "Mother Goose." Thursday and Friday lights Margaret Mar-garet An-rUn in "Zira." ,. Saturday Night Orphanage benefit. The engagement of "Mother Goose',' at the Salt Lake theater closes with to-night's to-night's performance. The receipts for the week approximate $15,000, nearly as much fcs the house record made by "Ben Hur" last fall. . The only regular attraction at the Salt Lake theater next week is Margaret Marga-ret Anglln, who is to appear Thursday " and Friday nights in her latest success, 'Zira," a play written for her by Hen-ry Hen-ry Miller and J. Hartley Manners. It !ls founded upon incidents in a novel by the late Wllkie Collins. The prologue is located in South Africa, during the Boer war, the action of the play being in London. Zira Trent, a nurse at the front, was, when very young, wronged by an unscrupulous man of the world, ,who took advantage of her ignorance and infatuation, and then abandoned i her. While on duty she meets a for-jmer for-jmer friend, Ruth Wilding, who, be-! be-! cause of the death of her father, is traveling to London with a letter to an aunt. Lady Clavering, whom she has i never seen, but who she hopes will (give her protection and a home. While waiting for a passport through the En-j En-j gllsh lines she is struck by a shell and apparently killed. This accident is i Zlra's opportunity for redemption. t-Feeling that she harms no one. she r ' - I ' n MARION IRELL. As Carmen, With the Henry M. Savage English Grand Opera Company. this State are with the cost of maintaining main-taining great opera companies, it will be surprising to many of them to learn that the concert to be given in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on the evening of April 4 by the Conrled Metropolitan Opera company of New York City will be more expensive to the management than nine out of ten operas. So rarely are six world, famous artists heard together, to-gether, as will be the case in this concert, con-cert, that one is all. but justified in saying say-ing that never have so many been beard on the same evening. It Is the custom, when a great opera is put on, to make a single star the feature. fea-ture. To that star, male or female, is delegated the duty o( drawing the audience audi-ence and, according as the popularity of the star Is great or little, the house is packed or It holds only a comparatively small audience. In the Salt Lake concert, con-cert, and in that concert alone, Nordlca, Homer, Dippel. Journet, Alten and De Macchi are to be heard. While this enormously increases the cost of the evening's entertainment, the management of the Conrled Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Opera company does not regret the expenditure, because in no other way would it be possible for the people of Utah and the intermountaln country to gain a proper appreciation of what this great organisation is. The salary list for the Salt Lake programme will be upwards of $5000. The fact that only 4318 seats are to be sold for the concert, and the further fact that a large majority of those seats are to be sold for from $3 to $1 is calculated cal-culated to make patrons wonder how the Metropolitan Opera company expects ex-pects to secure an adequate return for Its money. It car. only be said on' this point that the present tour of the company com-pany is largely for educational purposes. pur-poses. If the Tabernacle is packed to the utmost limit of its capacity the receipts re-ceipts and the expenses will be approximately approxi-mately equal. This section of the Nation is being put to a test. Do the people here want music mu-sic that is the best money can buy? Will they go to hear such music in numbers that will Justify a return engagement en-gagement of the Conrled Metropolitan Opera company next year or the year after? The local management of the concert believes that Utah will rise to its opportunity. op-portunity. This belief Is Justified by the advance sale of seats which has been in progress for the last two or three weeks at the music store of the Cars-tensen Cars-tensen & Anson company. Many of the best seats have already been taken, and -there is no good reason for believing that the sale will show any falling off in the brief period between be-tween now and the date of the concert. The Interest is, indeed, growing rapidly. rapid-ly. The indications now are that every one of the 4318 seats will contain an interested in-terested occupant. But those who fail to make early reservations res-ervations will almost surely be obliged to content themselves with inferior seats. As under the Conrled plan no crowding will be permitted, so there will be no such thing as waiting until the striking of the eleventh hour and still being able to secure good seats. (takes possession of Ruth's letter, and, fdisgulsed in the dead woman's gar-rments, gar-rments, receives the passport and is j passed through the lines. Vhe action , transfers to London, where Zira, .known as Ruth Wilding, Is working ! earnestly in the East End missions, proving herself Indispensable to the Sev. Gordon Clavering (erstwhile chap-In chap-In at the front), in the hope that she may.be worthy the position she has regained re-gained and the love that Lady Clavering Claver-ing feels for her striving, meanwhile, to. discourage the growing devotion to Gordon Clavering, whom she feels she has no right to marry without confessing confess-ing her past life and present deception. The play reaches Its dramatic climax In a scene between Zira and the real j tJth, who comes, as if from the dead. A jto claim -her own. She is not believed fty Lady Clavering, 'and her claims would ,be denied but that Zira confesses con-fesses and pleads only for the love that .she herself has won. True redemption J comes when Gordon Clavering, ignor- ing the past and considering only the : true woman, pleads with Zira and gains her consent to share his work and life. Unusual interest on the part of local music lovers will be taken in the opportunity op-portunity to hear the Savage English Grand Opera company that is to give performances of "Lohengrin," "Car- rmen." "Tannhauser" and "La Boheme" at the Salt Lake theater March 27, 28 and 29. Until this season Henry W. Savage's famous organization has confined con-fined it engagements to a limited number of Eastern cities. This year Mr. Savage contracted for an extended , tour of the United States, with engagements engage-ments in sixty-seven musical centers. The English Grand Opera company Is the largest organization of its kind in th country, and will present in this city four of the most elaborate productions produc-tions In its repertoire. GRAND THEATER, ! Today, Matinee and Night "From Bags to Riches." -Sunday Night Held's band. All Next Week, Reception Matinees Wednesday and Saturday Harry Corson Clarke in "Why Smith Left Home." Harry Corson Clarke will resume his engagement at the Grand theater Monday night. "Why Smith Left Home" will be the bill all the week. As the title Implies, the story of the farce relates the troubles of one Smith who has been married to one,' half his own age: she is young and pretty and has an army of relatives anxious to see the newly married couple happy. How they interrupted Smith's tete-a-tete with his wife, forced themselves Into Smith's rooms, ordered and scolded scold-ed Smith's servants, and In general assumed as-sumed control of Smith's actions, is told in "Why Smith Left Home." In addition addi-tion to the annoyance of constant visitors, visi-tors, the young couple suffer from the ills attendant upon the iron rule of a most autocratic cook. It occurs to Smith to emulate the example of the i ancient philosophers by turning the misfortunes of a bad cook into a weapon weap-on of defense. Accordingly, he bargains bar-gains with her majesty, the cook lady, to do her very worst "bad cooking" during the visit of his wife's Aunt Mary, hoping to forqe her visit to speedy and relieving termination by the very bad food afforded by his table. The understanding between Smith and her majesty the cook rests upon a firm financial basis; a fee of $100 being promised if Aunt Mary leaves the first day, for each day the aunt remains $25 will be deducted from the amount. The secretary of the Cook Ladies' union enters en-ters into the conspiracy with all the assurance as-surance and spirit possible to a person of so much importance. In presenting "Why Smith Left Home" Mr. Clarke will make a novel departure from the traditional way of actors by appearing in the role of Lavina, the Cook Lady. It is in fact the leading comedy character char-acter and sustains a relation most prominent and vital to the action of the piece. SYMPHONY CONCERT. The next concert of the Salt Lake Symphony orchestra will be given a the Salt Lake Theater Monday,' March 20. The soloists for the occasion will be John J. McClellan and Anthony E. Carlson. Carl-son. The following programme will be given: Overture,' "Merry Wives of Windsor" Nlcolal First movement of Unfinished Symphony Sym-phony In B Minor" ...Schubert Aria. "She Alone Charmeth Siy Sadness" Sad-ness" from 'Mrene" G&unod (at Largo (strings and harp) Handel b) Peoheur Nti poll tain et Napoll- talne Rubinstein (c) Toreador- et Andalouse... Rubinstein Concerto. A minor op. 16, allegro, mol- to, mooVrato, adagio Grelg Waltz, "TaU-s from the Vienna Woods" Strauss Mephistopheles Serenade from "Faust" Oouiwd March from "Tannhauser" Wagner THE CONRIED CONCERT. Familiar though the music-lovers of |