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Show T RU T H. 12 AMUSEMENTS. Salt Lake Theatre "Silver Sliptoper," matinee today, performance tonight. Homer Davenport lecture morrow evening. Grand Theatre Helds Hand concert tomorrow evening. Unique theatre Vaudeville. Novelty theatre Vaudeville. Coming Attractions. Devils AucSalt Lake Theatre The March 7; IJostonians, Mch. tion," 9-1- 2. Grand March Theatre "Sandy Bottom," 7-- 9. jC The matinee today and performance tonight close the highly successful engagement of The Silver SlipMr. Fisher has no reason to per. H IE L Br MILITARY BAND girls, clad in the uniform of dressmaker captains and millinery drum majors, marching, dancing, whirling, that one loses count, hopelessly sinks Into his chair and curses the The Silver impotency of arithmetic. Hall Owen was written by !31ipper and Leslie Stuart, two robust Englishmen, who, for several years, have been trying to climb into the chairs vacated by Gilbert and Sullivan. They have been wonderfully successful, these Piccadilly lads, and the royalties they have drawn from the ears of London and New York represent a big pile of shillings and dollars. But, if it were not for its flounces and frills, The Silver Slipper is not to be compared to Florodora, by the same fruitful gentlemen. We shall be under the musical shade of The Sheltering Palms" and the tuneful glances of the Pretty Malden long after the barrel organs have ceased winking Two Eyes of Blue or have worn off the jim Jams of The Champagne Dance." Not that there is no pretty oh my, no! music in The Slipper What I mean is, there is nothing substantial to the airs you hear nothing in particular that will keep the ghost of memory haunting the ears. But there is plenty of light shimmering stuff that soothes you as long as you are under Its influence. Much of it is ravishingly liquid and runs from the orchestra like water through a stained glass syphon. There is said to be a plot in The Slipper," though to establish it would require expert testimony. Plots in musical comedy have been' declared contraband of war. by those two belligerents, music and dancing. There is much ado' about nothing" concerning the uncertain whereabouts of a talismanic foot piece. Throughout the comedy it is diligently searched for by Lady Sherlock Holmes carrying musical dark The best things in The Slip- -' per" are The Champagne Dance" and the pretty ball room whirling of the twenty-fou- r ladies and their partners. These dances form about the most superlative combination of poetic motion and music that. can he imagined. They are things to spill adjectives over. The suburbanite should put on his seven league boots if only to. come in and seo them, or forever after bold his peace. The principals in The Slipper" are not calculated to set one raving, Samuel Collins as Henry Bismarck" Henchs ach Himmel! is really serious in his efforts to be fanny. He has. bis moments of clever ness, and, at times, is even incandescent. But Ills switch board does not always .work and we are often in the dark as to the meaning of his fuss and feathers. But why is he allowed to make a continuous billiard ball of the center of the stage? There are other sticks in the cast waiting to chalk their cues! Diminutive femininity is becoming a big feature In musical comedy. Ann Tyrell, the love trou , , A. S. ZIMMERMAN, . MANAGER Grand Theatre UNDAY TOMORROW EVENING CONCERT SOLOISTS: Mrs. Bessie Browning, Soprano Mr. Walter Spencer, Baritone Mr. Walter Sims, Clarionet Mr. A. 8. Zimmerman, Comet TICKETS ON SALE ALL DAY SATURDAY 40 PIECES 40 laq-torn- , complain of the rainfall of dollars which is falling into his umbrella pockets. Ever since "The Slipper walked into town, a cascade of easy money has been running through George Derrs quick and nimble Ungers. The show could run all next week and do a big business. As a rule the Salt Lake Johnnies haven't currency to burn. After tonight, however, they will sigh because they cant continue rubbing off tlio asbestos and applying the chain pagno torch. The Silver Slipper" is a decidedly girlous-ly- , girly display of girls. Girls, girls, girls bushels of em, barrels of em! Yards and yards of girly ribbons from the beauty counters; quantities and quantities of 3weot things from the girly bonbon boxes; peaches in plento ons plenitude from the girly orchards! Mr. Fisher lias piled up a shining stack of girls which ho can play against the other Monte Carlo choruses in a game for the butterfly stakes The uncoutostcd features of the show are its girls, costumes and scenery. From tlio rise of the curtain till its fall on the last act, the stage is a resplendent holiday picture of Christ mas tree gorgeousness for grown ups. The tinsel and paper angels have been replaced with glittering ward robes and gitjs who fly from Venus to the earth.. There is such a pageantry of raiment, such d budding army of . - s. bled Wrenne, is the baby blue ribSlipbon of purring smallness in The tiny-neson Not your Lose her? per. Louise Moore plays Stella, and the girl who kicks off her slipperelevaan in Venus comes down from tor of feverish excitement. She is a dashing beauty and the peachiest appeach in the operatic basket. Her in the pearance creates consternation front orchestra chairs. But handsome is as handsome does, and Miss Moore doesnt have much else to do. Alfred Kappeler displays but little more than an unctuously sweet and persuasive voice. His rendition of Two Eyes of Blue Is so vocally appealing that exthe tra padlocks should be placed in The. schools. young ladies' boarding y Slipper is a gorgeous scenic pagen-trin which the colors of the rainbow march in dress parade. If you like to see showy costumes, rich and riotous toggery clinging to shapely girls, then you should see this muchly slippered bunch of Cinderellas. You will come away with nothing particular in your head, but your eyes will be swimming with chromatic mermaids. s! The precocious child of the draMaster , William matic nursery, Shakespeare, received, early in the week, a rough spanking at the hands of one Charles Hanford, who, in addition to using a hickory stick, the frightened urchin to his room and compelled him to go to bed in the dark. This, perhaps, was not altogether Mr. Hanfords fault. It has been .noticed of late that Master Shakespeare is becoming more and more obstreperous. Not long ago he incurred the displeasure of Marie Wainwright, and, although she freely applied to him the female prerogative of an active slipper, the perverse youth fairly stormed with abusive stubbornness. James and Warde have, in the past; applied their united efforts against the rebellious boy and to some extent have clubbed him into reluctant obedience. Where, oh where will the matter end? What, in Heaven's name, can be done? Some have suggested the reform school as an extreme measure. But this is going to unwarranted extremes. The lad is not bad at heart. He has, after all, only acted upon the defensive and who would deny, even to a spiteful boy, the natural rights of self preservation. I understand the Press Club Dramatic association intends to apply for the possession of the child sometime in May. It is proposed to have Master Shakespeare, at the Salt Lake theatre, make a public confession of his delinquencies and explain just what ails him. . day evening by the usual larg. and demonstrative audience. The program however, was hardly up to Mr. HoHg usual musical standard. Of course it is a difficult matter to make selections, week after week, that will appeal with equal force to varying tastes. Mr. Held, no doubt, fully appreciates this difficulty himself. There are many who think that Mr. Held is inclining too much to light and flip, pant music. But on the other hand there are others whom it would be impossible to satisfy with heavier and more classical numbers. The general audience to which Mr. Held caters, could not, to save its musical reputation, tell just what kind of a menu GRAND THEATRE HELDS : MILITARY BAND venIng MARCH 6 per-sue- d PROGRAMME March, King Cotton Grand Selection from Carmen Sousa Bizet Bari ton Solo la) Answer" (b) He G ve His Life for His Country" MU. WALTEB SPENCER Cornet Solo, Sweet Sixteen Waltz. .Levy Mb. A. S. Zimmerman Auber Grand Selection Fra Dlavolo Popular Selection, Prince of Pllseu"... ....Ludera Clarionet Solo. Airia Louisa de Montfert" Mb. Walter Sims ... Solo. Soprano Paulson (a) Patti son Waltz" : De Kovcn (b) Rosalie" Mrs. Bessie Browning Cupnea March, Comique. , . Grand Selection, El Oupitan" Carlton Sousa CENTS . SEATS 25 ALL DAY SATURDAY TICKETS ON SALE : GEO.D.PYPER. MANAGER. CURTAIN AX ON MONDAY NIGHT. ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY OF Y ALL'S EVERLASTING DEVIL'S AUCTION PRICES: 25c to $100 SALE OF SEATS NOW ON. MARCH 9.12 Helds band was greeted last sun. THE BOSTONIANS would satisfy its hunger. Last Sunday the Imperial quartette made its vocal debut to Mr Helds patrons. The quartette consists of Messrs. Squires, Ashworth, Philips and Chru topherson, gentlemen whose voices have already acquired- more or less Their voices of a local reputation. blend splendidly and they may rest assured of a warm reception when ever they appear again before a Salt Lake audience. But why, oh why, ow they give us that tearful lassie of the Annie Laurie, Scotch bluebells? a by right of servitude is entitled to well earned rest. In the Wandering Singers" and the encores, the quartette made a most happy impression. The coon song Love Your Honey was a gem of its kind, and rendered in a manner that brought down the house. The band was in fine trim and rendered most of its selections most satisfactorily. Willards march, The Band Master, and the firaj number on the program, was run with a captivating dash and snap. was Bedelia, the New York craze, given to us for the first time, wj sinis Semeremide, with its inspjr ing climaxes, closed the concert. morrow evening another splendid piy gram will be rendered. Mrs. Bessi Browning, the well known singer, the vocalist of the evening. - - 1 jt s An esteemed confrere, who wields caustic dramatic pen on a contempublication, gave us, week, an exclusive bit of foot-Ii-g porary I |