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Show ilWttsdAfrttiHHHlSirthsh'iirtii MflflflWaQnag-1rtfcrTlM- -- - c. fit ..- TR U T H. requires a literary fumigation after which there should he a sul- pie Best 25 Cent V&Aideville Show Staged in this City. . 8:30 p. m. SHOW AFTER. THE RACES. Bicycle Races 4 Friday. 25c Palace of Illusions, lor DANCING DONT 10 mid-summ- cents EVERY EVENING. FORGET a : THE BUILDING OF THE WEST. phurous injection of vigorous dialogue and logical situation. By a peculiar Irony of fate good acting .painfully reveals the inherent weakness of a play, despite the fact that whatever strength the drama has is fully magnified and revealed. The saying that the plays the thing reveals only a partial truth, for you must have a combination of good players and a good play. The large and dressy audience, which flowered over the auditorium in white waists and snowy shirt fronts, made a cool and breezy protest to the actual condition of the weather and stood out in the dry, sultry air of the night like an oasis of ventilated freshness. For an August audience; it was demonstrative, too at times even actually explosive when applausive exertion meant personal discomfort. Altogether, it was a rare triumph for Mr. Miller and Miss Anglin to the dramatic virility and skill of the one and the winsome gracefulness of the other. But as for the plays, themselves well, August is entirely too oppressive for such dramas. THEATRE Curtain Raises nirt ciTt",rT-iirf1lt1-tT-n"illi- GRAND CONCERT SUNDAY NIGHT BY HELDS BAND AMUSEMENTS. Salt Lake Theatre. Richard Jose Minstrels, matinee today, performance tonight. Grand Theatre. Wiedemann company, week beginning Aug. 17th. er ordinary to draw Salt Lakers into a theatre during the blistering heat of August. But if things are theatrically right, we are willing to forget our prejudice about the warm weather and take a dash of superior foot-ligamusement, even in the good old If the Miller-Angli- n summer time. combination had sailed into this harbor, without the advantage of a previous reputation, their anchor would have fallen into the box office with a hollow, empty sound, instead of jingling against a bunch of eager coins, as was the case. The average Salt Laker, when it comes to stage idolatry, is a hero worshipper whose lungs are full to overflowing with atmoadducent spheric superstition and vapor. Just wherein lies the box office potency of The Taming of Helen and the coin drawing strength of The Devils Disciple is as elusive as a problem in metaphysics, and, yet, Zionites, with the heat of the dog days upon them, fairly frothed at the mouth in hydrophobic appreciation of both dramas. We are told, the plays the thing, hut is it? Doesnt a big measure of box office success depend acupon the personality of actor and tress? Nobody denies the dramatic ability of Mr. Miller or questions the the stage talents of Miss Anglin, elsepoint, however, is not here, but where. The plays in which the appeared, and especially The Taming of Helen, were productive of disappointment. I cannot understand why an artist of Mr. Miller s calibre should pin so much dramatic faith in dramas so destitute of spirited dialogue, virility of action and Mr. worthy climaxes. The abilities of outso far Miller and Miss Anglin afforded stripped the opportunities make the them.! by. the. plays as to Tarn-incontrast actually painful.' The of Helen w&s dramatically not Disci enough' so, while .The Devils ht For countless ages, neath the skies the deserts waste lay bare; No sound of song birds trilling note rose on the torrid air. The waters of the mountain brooks, which now revive its lands, Paused at its edge to, frightened, look; then hid beneath its sands. No violet, no rose grew there, to shed a sweet perfume; No flower, save the cactus wild, eer raised Its head in bloom. The wild wolf shrank In mortal dread, nor crossed Its dreary reach, Lest death should in his footsteps tread and leave his bones to bleach. The red man gazed In awe upon its sterile, fallow plain, Then sought his home In other realms, nor eer returned again. Oer all its expanse, wild and sear, with Terror at his side. Grim Silence ruled, a king austere, this domain bare and wide. . Led onward by s' stoi ucca ui v ut: m, ruse; The toiler, sheltered from the glare. In shade enjoyed repose. Still others came, they plow a trail from each brook, creek and lake ?or water made, and where it flowed, joy followed In its wake; Tarm joined with farm, and towns grew up where wild beasts used to roam; Where once the wolf his howls sent up, the watch dog welcomed home. Then cities with a thousand roofs while railroads plied between Replaced the settlements so fast twas akin to a dream. Fair temnles grew, and public schools their belfrys raised on high; Shons. ringing with the clang of tools, their smoke sent to the sky; The miner stormed the mountain crags, in heat and winters cold, To. send down to the citys mart their silver and their gold. And thus was made a smiling land, once desolation sweDt; Thus Life, with all his merry hand, reigned where Death vigil kept or - -- d tliP preaefou. as carrfflorpg wore plenty is suspected the older chaps did It on purupne. anvway. it. GEO.D.PYPER. MANAGER. curtain a:i5. COOLER THAN OlT-DOOR- S. co-sta- rs . i'fjfnriririn an unseen hand, LENVOI. across tbe trackless plain. Oer swollen streams, thro canyons The lay is ended;, but the past Its Jl Jl histry wrote so plain grand, and over mountain chains. The white shirt waves of popularity Came men of heart, and mind, and That he who runs may read its page; which the Miller-Angli- n rode with so lets to work again. strength, and with them women, too. Oer all the untold areas of the great, such cooling assurance of success, To fight this monarch of the waste, mighty west suddenly subsided and caught the Lie acres broad, which only wait the his wilderness subdue; Richard Jose Minstrels in the reced- To build them homes, where wife and restorative zest. undertow. are The Which comes when waters from the ing hoys, however, child, in quiet, sweet content, snows on the eternal hills. making a splendid fight against a com- Would bring mans heart a pleasure Thro ditches and canals, down flows mild as to his toil he bent. conbination of weather and to fields that labor tills. road, his ditions, despite the further fact that The savage lurked along the ' streams that roll unbridled may The in knife hand; thirsty they are playing an engagement just be flood storm and Disease and harnessed, stored and saved, hunger, four weeks in advance of the usual Till band. menaced brave the eer smiling grain fields greet the eye dramatic schedule. It is worth the onefe the grease wood waved; a where with each travler toiling on, Eer price of admission to hear Jose sing But is the farmers plow to futile walked beside; nothing remarkable about the tech- Heshadow tame marked his halting places with great rivers wide; nique of his voice, hut it Is as caresXerxes Like at the Hellespont, twont died. of who those the graves singly sweet as a canary bird singing For twas a stem with their rolling tide. fraught journey among honeysuckle vines. must lend Its aid and Our with with with care; government toil, grief, pain, when the work is done, But God directed. He was chief, He Messrs. Jones and Hammer anA million men and women more will' led them everywhere. call the Great West "Home. nounce a preliminary engagement in of the place o the appearance of the Weidemann Though grim the aspect where first their tents they spread, For two or three days during the company for one week, beginning They faltered not. nor were dismayed. week the antlered hunch known as Monday. The Grand has undergone nor obstacle did dread; a general cleaning up and renovation But first the waters from the stream the Elks have been leaving their during the summer, so that the patturned on the thirsty soil, tracks all rounds the city. They have rons of the popular house will be And saw new verdure, fresh: and bed a Food time and have roamed at agreeably surprised in many unexgreen, rise up to thank their toil. will, without ioterferenre. Durpected ways. The regular season at Blade followed blade, field followed ing their stfwypolice they perfected a State, the Grand will, however, not open field, as round the foothills crept organization and elected officers. This until about the middle of September. The ditches, which soon turned to is a movement calculated to brine the HARRY LE GRANDE. brooks and gayly onward swept; cpvprsl lodves into close touch with o And soon the land that once was each other. The hovs had a hasehall blank, save where the sagebrush "sme in which the score was much Will Devote Life to Charity. grew, 100 to 9. was exciting. Having won the degree of master of blossomed rank ies than side lost and harvests With golden and the winners The losing arts at the New York university after and choicest flowers knew. won. Dan NlcVum. 0. M. Neuhausen a three years course of study, Mrs. Oer all the valleys dull expanse and several of the older members gave Charles H. Truax, wife of Judge came smiling spots of green, the narade pud had to he Truax, will begin active work in a Like, emeralds in the pure gold set, out during in ca.rrla.orcq. labeled amiiud fouled as fair as ever seen. philanthropic society that will look UMVs. but. that didu't take faurv-hreafter poor inebriates. Where once the dusty plain lay hare, tivthiuar awav from the enlovmppt. of. out-do- It takes something more, than the (By C. M. Jackson.) tf 1 r nrwi r iMnriiiMM RICHARD AND HIS J. EXCELLENT MINSTRELS MATINEE THIS AFTERNOON.. CLOSING PERFORMANCE RcadWhat the Sell Lake Papers Said of us. Regular Prices. TO-NIGH- Matinee Children, 25c; Adults, 50c. T. . Mr. Vlnrorf, (VurMau. who hog iMy flllod tfcp position of private SO see-atiT- v fo ffonotor TCearns slpce the soverod Ms inftov's elootion. son tor. bovine: rethe with signed. Mr. rugMn will leove for the est shortly, bnt will return at n ftsriv date "ud en goce In the nrae. t.ice of lw. .Truth. wishes him every oneness In his nw venture, but dislikes to port with him as the senator's fonfldentlol adviser) as it will neces-oitof- e setting un new head lines for However The Senator and Cog. Mr. Conghlans successor, who. is as vet unannounced, will do as' well. Mr. nouerhlon h8 made many friends in this city during his stay here who will he pleased to learn that, he is branch-- . fug out for himself, and the bar of this state is to ..be congratulated on his becoming one of its" members, for he is an exceptionally bright young-man.- hs con-Tiooffrt- Ti - - |