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Show 18 l t&fith the IHr4rt-ffighter.f Ii Ifl ! "EVERYMAN." IB Iff I i If there la a compelling spell in "Everyman," fflj I ' described as the finest of all of the old morality ' Ifl iv PlaySf the players, -who are presenting it here H - this week fail .to cast it with sufficient forqe. m I J For in witnessing this allegorical oddity, re- ilf y Vived by the Elizabethan Stage Society as a lit- fil ; j erary curiosity and exploited in the national press 111 1 1 by sage and archbishop as a marvelous influence J III Hi for good, many thinkers, and among them the ili III deeply religious, can find little that is impressive Jjl l to any great degree. Ill 1 1 j Not a part of the intensity that holds one in III the performance of a religious play is apparent l I in this offering from out of the past, and the as- I ! III sertion that it is a true drama with an interest H III 1 to the modern audience which has made it the II 111 !'! most talked of play in recent years, is a good argu-HE argu-HE III I ment for its worth, from the standpoint of a press H lH 1,! agent, but as a statement emanating from a sane B Ml lilt person, it is almost impossible. H 111 Hi Admitting the loftiness of its theme, and agree- H 111 IP ng tliat evory student of theology, literature, or ! II i? G drama should make an effort to see the peril per-il f formance, it is not for every man to see, and l fails of the stirring qualities which absorb the i interest of the guilty one long enough to make ill, him a penitent. Ii & u ill I j "Everyman" came to us, as so many other Hi ! !N productions, with the stamp of approval from Hfj ill r ., New York, which seems to Garry a certain weight Hljj yJISi'i but which moan, little or nothing, for the reason W III II i tlm 8UCU a thing would be witnessed by thousands Hi 111 21 V iu a-at city wll coul(i not e dragged to the H llir'i theatre to see anything else, except perhaps, H ' III B Mi "Parsifal"; and again thousands would go out of El fill' ill curiosity; and there are transients, thousands Br ill I and tnonaand of transients who could fill all Hfj I HI f ' of the theatres every night and make the pro- Hi, ' III ' , duction a great financial success if nothing else He .ill j While we the country mice must wait for the Hr,; ilf play to judge from, and never believe the notice Hi" ' jil . j that pi jcedes it. Hi Ilf l But as for "Everyman," a word more. It Is HI Ifl supposed to portray the most solemn moment in Hj h A the life of man, the call of Death for the last B m "I long journey. Truly It will be more horrible than B u j our dread thoughts can portray, if the voices B l Jt that we hear, and the ideals we have cherished wK m I ! are likened to the ilk of players now in our Hi IH 11 midst. Bfl Mm 'lifi Hi i H 4iJ Emma Ramsey, described as Utah's Sweetest Hi 1 I '! Singer, is now on the Orpheum Circuit Hj I jj & & jH L Enoch Arden, Tennyson's beautiful poem, re- Bj n J ' cently put to music by Richard Strauss, and B Hi i rendered by Mrs. C. E. Richards, and Mrs IHii u n i i Agnes Osborne at the Ladies' Literary Olub, will be repeated by request at the First Congregational Congregation-al church next Wednesday evening. The rendition is said to be very beautiful, containing con-taining among other features a number of eoIos. & & & AN INNOVATION IN SEAT SELLING. The local management of the concert to be given in the Tabernacle on the evening of April 4 by the superb Conreld Metropolitan Opera company com-pany of New York City has decided upon an Innovation In-novation that will strike many Salt Lakers as remarkable. re-markable. It consists in limiting very materially the number of seats that will be sold. On ordinary ordin-ary occasions at the Tabernacle It has been the custom to sell, or at least to print for sale, anywhere any-where from 6000 to 7500 tickets. ory of Herr Conried that when people pay a good price they are entitled to good seats. B "By this he means seats that afford an abun- B danoe of room. The ordinary allotment of space B for a single individual is eighteen Inches. For B tho Conried concert the allotment will be slightly B in excess of twenty-four inches per person. This fl will enable daintily gowned women to spread out fl their skirts without any risk of having them I crushed and soiled by those sitting on either side I of them. It will enable stout men and thin men I to have an abundance of space. fl "The Conried Metropolitan Opera- company, B containing as It does, the world's best known B stars, proposes to give a concert here that vIll B mark an epoch in the musical history of Salt B Lake City, starred though that history is with B magnificent concerts. Indeed, the Metropolitan B concert with such names on the programme as tne fl names of Nordlca, Dippel, DeMacchi, Homer, Jour- B net and Alten, supported by the chorus of 200 B A Scene in "The Dictator." Wilub Collier's Latest Success. For the Conreid concert just 4318 seats will be sold. When this number has been disposed of there will be no possibility of securing a seat for this, the greatest musical event that Salt Lake has ever had the opportunity to enjoy. "Why are you curtailing the seating capacity of the Tabernacle in so marked a fashion"? the local manager of the concert was askea wnen he spoke of the matter in the presence of the writer a few days ago. "Because," said he, "not more than 4350 people, peo-ple, at least, can be comfortably seated In the body of the great auditorium. I know, and you know, that in the past it has not been unusuai for from 6000 to 8000 people to crowd into the benches. But the result has been the greatest discomfort for the entire audience. It Is the tne- BbBHBBBHbBBbBBBMbBHBBJbBBHI voices trained to the last detail of perfection and the orchestra of sixty soloists, can hardly fall to attract attention throughout the Inter-mountain country. "The advance sale thus far by the Cartensen & Anson Co., 74 Main street, indicates that the public will not be slow to take advantage of Its opportunity. Already, nearly seven weeKs in advance ad-vance of the event, manyof the best seats have been disposed of. Those who delay making their selections until the closing week of the sale will be forced to content themselves with the few Inferior In-ferior seats In the Tabernacle and it is by no means certain that they will not bo entirely barred from enjoyment of this most unusual musical mu-sical event." BBBsBHHHHBHBBBBWBHflHHrt |