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Show io TECE w8 DRAOIA. 1 BEE said to bo very pretty, often bordering on grand opera. In addition to tho latest popular songs, selections from current operas are introduced. Among tho leading members of the company are Thos. J. Ryan, who plays tho part of tho hired girl, E. S. Morey, Waldo Whipple, John It. Cumpson, Fannie Fields, and the four sisters Du Held. m ATTRACTIONS SCHEDULED. NEW GRAND THEATER. Hired Girl all week. Evenings at 8:15; matinees 2:15 Wednesday mid Saturday Blaneys A SALT LAKE THEATER. Frederick Wardo in "Virginius, .Monday evening, April 25th; Tuesday evening, April 2Gtli. OBrien the Contractor, a play where tho scene swifts turns from the building of a western railroad to the parlors of a millionaire in New York, has been given by Daniel Sully at the New Grand the first three days of the week. Tho scene where the railroad strike occurs, and where tho last rails aro laid, is clever and original, and Mr. Sully is given an opportunity to do some good acting. has been given the last Auld Lang Syne, a comedy-dramof the week by Mr. Sully and his company. It is a realistic play of home life and one that touches tho heart. It is the best play that Mr. Sully has been seen in here and is interesting and pleasing. Mr. Sully gives us an Irishman that is real flesh and blood, not a creature a, of imagination with a green wig, red face and billy goat whiskers. He is an actor, too, who strives for clean plays with good morals. The managers, press agents and newspapers that have so persistAuld Lang Syne goes again this afternoon and evening and is ently boomed Anna Held evidently believe, as Barnum did, that the well worth seeing. American peoplo like to bo humbugged. Her success is an apt illustration of the potency of newspaper advertising, but not creditable A correspondent indulges the hope that when the new theater manto tho newspapers who have aided in her boom. agement takes formal hold, such attractions as Anna Held will not tightly-girtheTo think that a petite, bo booked. slim-limbe- d, d, ox-eye- d, French hussy, with tangled hair, posing in suggestive attitude, shorn of modesty, can enthuse the metropolitan aristocracy Damrosch and Ellis cleared between $15,000 and is appalling. Wo need war. A war that will deciminate and extertwo weeks with Melba in Chicago. minate this class of moral pigmies, devotees of pleasure giants in squeaky-voice- d vice. Tho vehicle that Anna uses to get before tho public is a farce In the language of a Western ritic, this entitled A Gay Deceiver. sort of play calls for protest, not criticism. Tho Cat and tho Cherub, which precedes A Gay Deceiver, contains all the elements of a tragedy, but as now staged needs some side lights; it is too gloomy, nightmarey, horrible. It leaves a creepy feeling. Tho memory of that moonlight scene in front of he hut of the opium keeper, tho two Celestials sitting on the bench, the one just strangled dead the other, the old doctor, coolly smoking a cigar, talking philosophically to this dead figure that he upholds, as the night watch goes by, transcends anything yet staged for giving one that creepy feeling. Jekyll and Hyde, tho death of Svengali, are outdone in horror. $1S,000 on NEW GRAND THEATRE. H. F. McGARVIE. Lessee and Manager. One Week, Commencing MONDAY, APRIL 25. Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday. Chas. E. Blaney has been responsible for a number of funny skits, but his best effort is said to be A Hired Girl, which will be seen next week at the Grand. The piece is a satire on the servant girl question, but there is also a well defined plot, which brings out the Chas. E. Blaneys Big City Production of the Seasons Most Successful Farce Comedy, A HIRED GIRL. Direct from the Fourteenth Street Theatre, New York City. Thos. J. Ryan as the Hired Girl. With a Big Specialty Cast and a Chorus of THOMAS RYAN THE HIRED GIRL. troubles of a German professor of music at Vassar college, who had foolishly contracted a secret marriage before coming to this country. Having been wrongly advised that his first wife was dead, he married again, and thereby placed himself in the hands of an unprincipled schemer who had been his chum at college. The hired girl helps him out of some of his difficulties, but succeeds in involving him in many more. The music of the piece was written by Harry James, and is n You will see your own Domestic Troubles Vividly Illustrated on the Stage. PRICES, 25, 35 AND 50 CENTS. their |