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Show REMARKABLE STAGE SETTINGS SET-TINGS FOR "MADAM BUTTERFLY." In the Japanese stage pictures for the coming production here of Puccini's widely heralded " Madam Butterfly," Henry W. Savage is said to have endeavored to give this opera an investiture in-vestiture that portrays with unusual fidelity the atmoslphere of the Flowery Isle. After the drop curtain rises for the first act, another curtain behind shows the great bronze figure of the Buddha at Kamakura, looming high above the fields and streams. The statue is bathed in a dim light, solemn and mysterous. When that curtain disappears another back of it is revealed, re-vealed, from which gleams the white cone of Fujiyama, the sacred mount of Nippon. Then comes a beautiful Japanese scene with a view of a mountain torrent, dashing through a deep chasm to the distant sea. This picture gradually melts into the beautiful beau-tiful scene of the first act, showing the house of Madam Butterfly high on a terraced hill, overlooking the narrow harbor of Nagasaki. To the left stands a little cottage its porch covered with wistari.i. All about is a quaint Japanese garden with trees grass and flowers. In the rear is a red lacquer bridge, like that of J-rikko, leading to the horned arch of the Shinto at the foot of the temple stairway. stair-way. In the distance, far below the heights is the bay ol Nagasaki. The second and thiid acts are in the house of Madam Butterfly. As the curtain rises on this act the light is Iow,- but Susuki, the maid, pushes back the sliding shoji that make both walls and windows, and lets in the sun. Then can be seen in the comer a small shrine, supporting a statue of Buddha, also screens, fire box, and all the appurtenances of a Japanese living room. The ceiling is made to represent the " Ramina," the decoration decor-ation which the Japanese have between be-tween the ceiling and door lintel. Every detail is carefully arranged according ac-cording to designs furnished by Japanese Japa-nese artists. When "Madam Butterfly" was given in New York, Mr. II. E. Krchbicl, the dean of New York music critics said: "This opera has the very atmosphere of the Flowery Kingdom." The mail order sale begins Monday morning at the Salt Lake Theatre. |