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Show THE ARGUS. 7 the name. Its efforts have been successful and those who visit the Theater Sunday night will be assured of a rare musical treat. Hmusements. ' BALT LAKE THEATER, MERE MENTION. Knights of Pythias Military Band, in Grand Concert, San day, May 30th. Tonight De Wolf Hopper in ' El Capitan," Howard Kyle is preparing to give an outdoor performance of As You Like It at Liberty GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Wright Huntington Stock Company, in "Held by the June 5. Tonight The District Enemy, all week, May Attorney. Louis James is coming west again next season. His repertoire will include The Robbers, The Fools Revenge, Rinaldo, Spartacus and HE DISTRICT ATTORNEY as presented by the Wright Huntington Company is a strong play, filled with interesting situations and dramatic fire. It is a political story dealing with the gang that controlled the patronage of the city of New York. The District Attorney (Mr. Huntington) marries the daughter of one of the gang, a contractor by the name ot Brainard (Mr. King). The exposures of the methods and work of the gang are brought to light through the efforts to release Frank Pierson (Mr. Hallock) from serving a fifteen years term in Sing Sing, having been induced to plead guilty by the gang for a promise of fifty thousand dollars to a charge of forgery, in order to shield the members of the gang. All the efforts of the gang including Mr. Brainard, the law are unavailing District Attorneys father-ito shield the culprits. The entire company appear to advantage and Mr Huntington is especially strong in his role. Mr. King and Mr. Hallock do splendid pork and Miss Edy the Chapman as Grace Brainard has a part well fitted to her The District Attorney is a good powers. play to see and one which once seen, especially in such good hands, is not soon forgotten . n The W Stock Company present as a farewell formance Held by the Enemy, one of the most famous of war plays. The Salt Lake public is well acquainted with the play, it having often been presented in this city. The Home Dramatic Club made a success of it and gave it when the Thatcher Opera House at Logan was opened. It has made its author, William Gillette, famous and has never failed to make Held money for any company presenting it. by the Enemy will be put on in elaborate style and no expense will be spared to make their farewell performance a great success. right-Huntingt- on per-Performan- ce. Virginius. David Belascos play, Heart of Maryland, has made a great deal of money for its brilliant author. It will be seen in Salt Lake early in September. Marie Wainwright, who went to Europe a week ago, is to make her debut in the vaudeville on her return. As usual, her contract is with Robert Grau, whom this vaudeville turn of affairs will make a rich man. She will bring back a novelty from London. Swaner, the jeweler, has in hand several Subscribe for The Argus, three months 50c. Brothers Otto Stalmann, William Kahn and Walter Scott were instructed in the lore and mysteries of the Scottish rites of the Ancient and Accepted Order of Free Masonry by Inspector General Francis M. Foote, assisted by J. J. Greenewald, both thirty-thirdegree men, and Julius Gauer of the this week. d thirty-secon- d And now they say that Senator Cannon is about to leave for China to study politics in the lapd of queues and Confucius. When he returns he will probably give his supporters their, cues. But there is a Q right here at home the political importance of which cannot be overestimated. , de- signs for an elaborate silver cup, ornamented with gold, to be presented to the Hou. W. J. Bryan on his arrival in this city next July. The cup will be beautifully engraved, eighteen inches or two feet high and composed of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 . The designs under consideration carry out the Pioneer Jubilee idea early immigration scenes and primitive mining methods being depicted in contrast to the modern manner of mining and metropolitan life. Those who have already donated the refined silver solicited, or have promised subscriptions, are Messrs. R. C. Chambers, John Beck, W. S. Mc- Cornick, Auerbach Bros, and others. - Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers the other day in this city gave utterance to this sentiment : I have no use for agitators who go about arraing labor against capital and say that an inevitable conflict is on between them, for this is not the case. One is indispensable to the other, and the best means of settling difficulties is by arbitration. If the Greeks and Turks could have done all this in the Midway Plaisance at Chicago it would have saved General Miles a long trip. That Texas mob which lynched a white man the other day and spared a negro in an adjoining cell charged with the same crime, has dis- arranged some of the stereotyped editorials of bloody abolition papers. Governor G. Peabody Wetmore of Rhode Island is ambitious to be a candidate for President at the expiration of McKinleys term. It has the appearance of rain. small party of young men will ride out to on their wheels. Messrs. Bingham Downey, Holden, Shearman and Wickes will be among them. A to-morro- w The jubilee commission has requested the raising of flags next Tuesdav, on the ninety-firs- t anniversary of the birth of Brigham Young;. i Since President McKinleys monetary commission sailed for Europe the price of silvei has , been steadily falling. The Argus is the leading weekly newspaper of Utah. Subscribe for The Argus, three months 50c. FOURTH AND LAST WEEK OF El Capitan is a delightful comic opera, tuneful, bright ' De Wolt Hopper. and witty, filled with happy music, funny dialogue and the splendors of stage settings. It is headed by a prince of comedians and put on in a style of grandeur. The music of 44 El Capitan has a charm and a swing to it that only. Sousa can give. There is no depth or grandeur to it, it is all bright and catchy and rippling on the surface, but it pleases us and Hopper makes us laugh and we go home feeling that such a performance should only be greeted with smiles and the critic who has it in his heart to say anything mean of it is a bad fellow indeed, and one whom the craft should not fellowship. The Inimitable Corbett-Fitzsimmon- Park during the Jubilee. 31-t- o The Farewell The right to exhibit kinetoscope, vitascope or s verascope reproductions of the fight in every state and territory west of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers has been secured by Messrs. M. E. Mulvey and Henry Harrison of this city. There is big money in this scheme. Tbe Vrigbt Huntington STOCK COMPANY IN Tbe Greatest Wat Pby ever written, r. Gillette's Music lovers will be interested to learn that the Knights of Pythias Military Band will give a grand concert at the Salt Lake Theater tomorrow (Sunday) evening. For some mouths the band has been faithfully at work on new music and preparing to give Salt Lakers a br499 band that is worthy Company Auxiliaries numbering flATINEE SATURDAY BEST SEATS, fi GREAT P30DJCT10H. |