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Show 'ISSIAH'REIIDITIOi'l GiVESPROMISEOE : EXCELLEIJCE All in Readiness for Eighth Annual Performance of Handel Masterpiece i Everything UJn readiness for th eighth annual rendition of Handel's Immortal "Messiah" by tha Bait Lak. Oratorio society, at the Tabernacle thla , afternoon, beginning at 4:10 o'clock. Thla maater work of liandel haa been sung every holiday season for mora than on hundred and seventy years, each year by constantly Increasing numbers of oratorio societies and choral organlxationa, and each year to a greater multitude of oratorio lovers, who find the consolation, comfort and uplift In the harmonies of th composer to be more Impressivs each time. It was more than two month ago that the big chorus of ths Salt Lake society began Its rehearsal of ths "Messiah." and with such assiduity have they continued their practice that It would seem reasonably certain Salt Lakers will today enjoy a performance of higher rank than baa beretofoa been given locally. Utah muaio lovers know two of ths soloists for today Florence Jepperson and Jack Summerhaya) well and favor-ably favor-ably from their previous appearances in both tha "Messiah" snd the "Creation." "Crea-tion." In fact, only on of ths soloists (Christine La n gen ha n of New York) la a stranger to the city, for Frank Id. Dun ford, the basso. Is native of Salt Lake, and was here nme two years ago aa the bass soloist and manager of Father Finn's famous Paullst choir, then at Chicago, now of New York. Mr. Dun ford's mother, Mrs. Dora Young Hagan, resides at 1143 Kast Thirteenth Houth street and the noted bass ta enjoying en-joying the double pleasure of slngtng among old frlnds and visiting hta mother during the spare momenta of his Salt Lake stay. Children under the age of S will not he admitted to the performance today. The box office at the Tabernacle will be open from 10 o'clock this morning till the rendition begins at 4:30 o'clock. |