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Show IE; Jlramatie. . Hj j The "Jolly Musketeer." , H I The Salt Lake Opera company with H j Emma Lucy Gates, presents the "Jolly H f Musketeer" 'for the first time tonight. H I George Lask has been giving the company a Hj j taste of professionalism the past week, and m there is a snap about the work in the "Jolly H Musketeer" that savors of something past 1 the amateur. H ' The house has had a big sale for to- M night, and success is assured for next week. H I H 'f Julia Dean with Goodwins. H L Good work little girl. We watched m t you play Cinderella at five years of age in B ' the old Continental, we saw jou play Hearts 1 j in your girlhood days, then at the Grand Hj ' theater, next with Jefferson, then you came 1 home again with the Neils, and now with H ' Nat and the beautiful Maxine. We can't H t write a stereoty)ed notice, little ingenue Hi V with all the host of your old Salt Lake B t friends and playmates we wish you the suc- m if cess that must be yours. H l Jonas. H -fj Jonas played a piano at the theater H Wednesday evening. Jonas treated us. It H j,, wasn't solely an exhibition of beautiful nie- HL , chanic action, it wasn't with the poses and H J mannerisms that most musical geniouses H most affect. lie played music for all of his H L audience, and there was no one who left the B I theater unappreciative. H , i The programme was a most' popular H ' one, and was selected from Chopin, Scliu- Hj j. mann, Liszt, Rubenstein, Wagner, Schubert H ' and Delibes. The professor also played two H i of his own compositions. ;; Calder's new Steinway was the piano H v . used. H H Such a Kidder. m j Kathryn Kidder like Blanche Walsh is jU very unfortunate in not being able to find m a play, but that is no reason why she should H bill an "immortal comedy" and bore a pa- m jj tient audience for three hours. jH J As Peggy in "The Country Girl," Miss M j ! Kidder is clever, but she is becoming a tri-m tri-m j 'fie gross for her old romp act, and she is H ! not attractive enough to hold an audience B j through anything as "talky" as the inflic- H tion of the last two nights. Every now and I then there was a breath of relief in a j if' bright line, but there weren't enough of Hj IS them to compensate for the arid dialogues B Hj in every act. Of the otlier ladies in the BjpJ company Miss Ashworth is particularly H If strong as a poser, and Miss Plinck did a M W rather smart bit as the maid. H II And then a Mr. T. V. Hamilton played H; Moody. A lack of intelligence, and utter i stupidity in his interpretation of the part, Blj was a guaranteed cure for insomnia. As jf "a actor," he is most vealy. Messrs. Hack- HII ett, Ferguson and Orr Cash gave an artistic HM performance, and especially is tliis so in the H case of Mr. Cash "Orr Salisbury." This B is not said bcause this city was his home, HSU HmOL and his friends are here. He gave a finished fin-ished performance. Would that we could say as much for the rest of the support. The company goes to San Francisco from here, and if the Kidder springs "The Country Girl" Mont Pelee will be as a toy firecracker beside Peter Robertson and Ashton Stevens. i Mansfield. It has been years since Mansfield favored fa-vored us with his presence, and his engagement engage-ment at the Salt Lake theater next Thursday, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday will be the most notable theatrical event of the season. He will play "Beaucaire" on Thursday evening and Friday afternoon, "Beau Brum-mel'" Brum-mel'" Friday night, and "The First Violin," on Saturday evening. He is the first actor on the stage today, to-day, and the productions his management has scheduled for next week, are among the most eminent successes of his artistic repertoire. rep-ertoire. Mansfield's "Beaucaire" has been his only play this season, until starting on his Western tour, and from the interest in the story of the barber-prince and the fact that it is to be played but twice there will be a great demand for tickets. Beau Brummel on the stage, as portrayed por-trayed by Mansfield is historical and is one of the most fascinating of his creations. Mr. Mansfield will be seen for the first time here as Eugene Courvoiser in "The First Violin." Jessie Fothergill's story of the musician in the Elberthal symphony is familiar to nearly everyone, and with Mansfield as the princely violinist, the play will be charming. |