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Show her to marry him and she became his wife. Harry In his fancied security, Tom lavished all the1 affection on the woman that was possible to sn honest heart like his, but it was not returned. One day there appears on the scene a villain," the former lover of the woman, who commits a cowardly murder and with the assistance of the ' woman, fastens the crime on Tom, who is tried and convicted con-victed for the crime ,of-another. Tom is sentenced to State's prison for life, and the. villainous pair congratulate themselves- that they have not only gotten rid of him, but have secured immunity from the law for themselves. But providence has been watching over the blacksmith, and unseen influences are - at work to thwart their plans. Humble friends of Tom Logan do not forget, him and. their endeavors to bring the case to theTiotlce of the Governor' of Arkansas are finally successful. The villains are-unmasked and Tom Is proved Innocent. The play is a athetle one with many thrilling scenes, ut there is a very strong comedy 'vein running through it which gives the necessary neces-sary contrast. . , Manager Nankevtlle has provided a most adequate stage Investiture for the play, and has engaged an admirable - company for Its portrayal. - ''Human Hearts" will play an engagement engage-ment - of four ; nights and Wednesday matinee at the Grand, starting . Sunday evening February 24. For three nights, beginning Thursday, February 38, Harry Ward's minstrels will be the attraction at tbe Grand theater. Patrons of this popular playhAiis are to be congratulated upon having can opportunity oppor-tunity to see and hear this organisation. Tbk company comprises twenty-live all-white all-white musicians and performers. Among whom are: Park and Zeno, novel song and wooden shoe artists; Jacobs and Sardell. acrobatic comedians; Prof. Home and his educated canine; Master Cart Fletcher, a phenomenal boy soprano; Alexander, a monologlat of exceptional merit; LeRoy, Alexander and Felling, L. L. D. (leading laugh distributers) and C. ' C. Cuttell. champion bag-puncher . of the Middle West.- A bright, clean minstrel performance, new jokes and catcby songs, putting into oblivion the old adage that "there is nothing new under the sun." The company com-pany also claims to have the most gorgeous gor-geous first part setting of any minstrel show on the road at the present time. A full band and orchestra is carried by the company, and an elaborate street parade will be given each day at noon. - ) dinal Xlmenes determines to burn her at the stake. Don Enriquex de Palacios, a young Spanish nobleman, betrothed to Joana, daughter of Lopes de Padllla, Governor of Toledo, la given the task of arresting Zoraya. He starts on Jils mission vowing to bring the sorceress bsck with him, but upon their meeting he falls a slave to her beautiful tragedienne is a strikingly handsome hand-some one. All live acts are embellished with a wealth of scenic Inventions and handsome costuming fully worthy of the noble player, who will appear as Zoraya. By those competent to express an opinion it Is said Miss O'Neil has the greatest role she has ever taken. A supporting cast of forty players Is required to present the LYRIC THEATER. 'The new bill at the" Lyric, starting Sunday night, will be "A. Gypsy's Romance." Ro-mance." It is In four acts and will be put on by the Utahna 8tock company, which has been playing in Ogden the last few weeks, the Lyric company going up there to take Its place. v The company is headed by Miss Adelaide Ade-laide Knight and Russel Barrett, two Eastern performers who come with' the best of- press - notices usual matinees Wednesday and Saturday. DR. HILLIS' LECTURE. Dr. Newell Dwlght HHUs of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, will lecture at the First Methodist church next Wednesday evening even-ing on "The American of Tomorrow." Dr. Hlllls is too well known to require extended ex-tended mention. Both as a lecturer and as a sermontser he' stands smong the best known men of the times. He was the successor suc-cessor of Prof. David Swing In Central Music hall, Chicago, and eight years ago succeeded Dr. Lyman Abbott, who followed fol-lowed Henry Ward Beecher to the pulpit of Plymouth church. The lecture will be a number in the Epworth league's star course. MUSIC FESTIVAL, The advance sale of seats for the muslo festival begins Monday morning, March 4. at the Clayton- Music company's store. The first 1 night of the festival, Monday April 8. "The 'Death of Minnehaha," from J. Coleridge Taylor's "Hiawatha" will be given . by the orchestra, soloists and the festival chorus. , The second night, Tuesday.' Tues-day.' April 9, Handel's "Messiah" will be rendered, the choruses of "Messiah" being be-ing siing by the combined forces of both the - Tabernacle choir and - the festival chorus- A matinee will be given on the second day by the orchestra and soloists. Arrangements have been made with' the' railroads to ' make-special rates from all points for the festival. The orchestra will si , : t TONIGHT S AMUSEMENTS, : - i SALT LAKE "Susan, in Search of a husband." . J ?HEUM Vaudeville. tND "A Jolly Americsn Trafhp." LEIC "The Octoroon." ! CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Tree. I AUDITORIUM Roller Skating. WASATCH RINK Boiler Skating. SALT LAKE THEATER. What promises to be one of the most j notable events bf the season win be the presentation at the Salt Lake Theater next week 6f Miss Nance O'Neil ln"'JThe Sorceress," a five-act play by Vlctorien Sardou, translated by Louis N.,. Parker. "La Sorciere" was originally acted In the Earah Bernhardt theater, Paris, with JJme, Bernhardt in the leading role. The action of the play takes place In 9 ' ' i i - . . . . ; ;' ..:.. ' : . x , ' - ' . . I MISS NANCE O'NEILL, Who will appear at the Salt Lake Theater in Victorian Sardou's great drama, "The Sorceress." ...... . . . -. 1 ,JI Hi,. .l-..ll.Jv ) Ul '-'ML II I M ! - , ' ; 1'. - . drama. Miss O'Neil will appear at the Salt Lake Theater all next week. "The Sorcerers" will be played Monday, Tuesday Tues-day and Wednesday nights and Wednesday Wednes-day matinee, and the rest of the week Sudermann's emotional drama. "Magda," will be offered. McKee Rankin will appear ap-pear as Col. Schwartze, one of the finest character impersonations ever made known In a modern drama. - ! f ' v ; - ',.-1' sC X V r charms and permits her to go free. The Inquisition Is very strict concerning the relationship between . the Moors and Christians, the death penalty being Imposed Im-posed upon all those Christians who be. come lovers of Moors. The affairs between Don Enrlquet and Zoraya continue uninterrupted unin-terrupted for some time, and finally the Cardinal's suKpiolons are aroused, and Don Enriquez in compelled to hasten his marriage with Joana. Zoraya discovers that the marriage Is to take place, and appears at the palace on the wedding night. She goes to the chamber of Joana and puts her in a sleep from which no one but herself can awaken awak-en her. Don Enrique and Zoraya then meet and his great love for her asserts Itself. They will fly to Africa; where they can be happy in their- love. Cardemos, agent of the Inquisition, breaks In upon them, and by his threats to deliver Zoraya over to the Cardinal, so enrages Don Enriquez En-riquez that he finally kills him. The lovers then escape from the house, but are soon captured and Zoraya is brought before the tribunal. Cardinal Xlmenes well knows that nothing noth-ing can be wrung from the Moorish woman wo-man by subjecting her to torture, and so lie makes it plain to her that if she confesses con-fesses to everything the wily Cardinal suggests that she is a witch and that she practices all kinds of sorcery the life Of her lover will be saved. This she gladly. glad-ly. does, confessing to everything the wily Cardinal suggests. When Don Enriquez learns of the sacrifice she has made for him. he Insists that she shall retract her Dr. Hugh Schussler, basso . cantante, with the Chicago Syntphony . orchestra orches-tra appearing in the musical festival in' the city next April, 8 and 9. ; . 0RPHEUM THEATER. "Something new all the time" Is apparently ap-parently the slogan of the management of the Orpheum and It is on the cards that next week will he no exception to the rule. Heading the bevy of vaudeville entertainers en-tertainers comes Ned Nye and the Six Rollicking Girls In one of those vaudeville vaude-ville fantasies that embrace singing, clever dancing and chic maids accompanying accom-panying a good comedian. Ned Nye'e work In "The Bell of New York" leaves little to be said of his odd comedy methods. meth-ods. The Reid Sisters are Included In his act. theirs being an acrobatic dance turn. Another strong sketch will be presented next week, this time by Richard Buhler andrumpany, whose vehicle Is "The Cracksman." a story of a man and woman wo-man burglar who meet while rifling a flat. Subsequent developments make the plot one that Is followed with the closest Interert. Warren and Blanrhard, In "The Comedian and the Singer," have a- turn that is unique In its way. The act from the first is a scream and the comedy JOHN A. WEST, The Musical Brownie at the Orpheum next week. ' be under the direction of Alexander Von Fielltz. Evan Stephens will be the choral conductor.. Many ordera have been received re-ceived from out of town for subscribers' tickets. Some of Chicago's best oratorio singers have been engaged to do the solo numbers In these oratorios. Marie Zimmerman Zim-merman will be the soprano. Elaine de Sellem, contralto; E. C. Towne, tenor, and Dr. Hugh Schussler, bass. and near Toledo, In 1507. and deals principally prin-cipally with the pernecution of the Moors by Cardinal Xlmtnes. Archbishop of To- iedo'andyfcrand InquUltor. Zortiya Is a iloorlsh Woman, the .daughter of a man skilled in healing, who, .upon his death, imparts his Becrets to his ilaugliter, wl)p in turn becomes even more skilled it cur-- cur-- lng the Ills and sl:kneses of lor people s than was her falher. Gradually the fact that she possesses a curious power Becomes Be-comes known to the Inquisition, and, claiming that she is a sorceress, the t'ar- throughout Is both clever and devoid of the suspicion of vulgarity. In Cavalier A. L.. Guille the Orpheum offera a celebrated French tenor, formerly with Pattl for fourteen years, and one of the few singers in vaudeville who can take high "C" without Indulging In contortions. con-tortions. John A. West, the musical brownie, is destined to make a hit among the patrons of the State street theater. He has a hilarious biack-face turn in which he Introduce some good Instru-i mental work interspersed with gags and parodies. Maxwell and Dudley have one of those Joyous little singing comediettas comedi-ettas that Invariably put one in a' good humor. Their offering eailj under the caption of "For Sweet Charity." The klnodrome will present some motion pictures. pic-tures. "Picturesque Holland," and "The Grafter." v Bert Levy, the clever Australian artist who appeared at the Orpheum this' week, will return to Salt LaKe City In June, under the management of J. J. Murdock, when he will deliver his celebrated Illustrated Illus-trated lecture on the ghettos of New York. London and Paris. Levy has Incidentally Inci-dentally secured for charities in the last year the munificent sum of $40,000 by mean of his unique lecture. Thirteen thousand feet of motion pltcure films are exhibited showing Israel Zangwill's visit to the great East side of New York. a) " 1 . "HUMAN HEARTS." ' "Human Hearts," that beautiful, poetical poeti-cal play of the homely folk of Arkansas, deals with the happenings of honest Tom Logan, the village blacksmith. Tom dwells with his parents in a picturesque spot of the Arkansas hills. There he has been pursuing his vocation, living a plain simple sim-ple life; the mainstay of his aged parents, beloved by all who know him, and respected re-spected Above his fellows. On a certainly unlucky day there came to the village a beautiful woman, a temptress, unprincipled unprin-cipled and black at heart, but with a fascination fas-cination that proved to be the-undoing of poor Tom Logan. He Immediately proceeded to fall In love with ber, asked Scene from "Human" Hearts," Grand Theater, four nights, starting Sun-. Sun-. .day, February 24. confession. The Governor of Toledo then offers her unconditional pardon if she will awaken his daughter. This is done and Zoraya is given her freedom. The monks and populace, however, demand her life, andthere Is every likelihood of her being torn limb from limb. . Sardou has concluded this wonderful stage story with one of the greatest climaxes cli-maxes ever. made known in any of' his plays. The production provided for. the ; .. . . . . . |