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Show ) , i . , I Ng With the First JVighters vg Attractions for Week of Novembtr 24. Salt Lak Theater Monday evening, first ap- ' , fe pearanco of Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra; ' ! Thursday afternoon and night, "Held's Big Minstrel Min-strel Co." I J Grand Theater Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- 1 i day "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Thursday, Friday and ' Saturday and Saturday matinee, "The Telephone Girl." ! The Symphony orchestra on Monday night ' should be greeted by a great house. It is composed com-posed of the best musicians in the city; it will be m a musical treat, and the untiring efforts of Arthur If Shepherd have made it possible. Drop in Monday i night and show that you appreciate what has been i done for you. "Held'a Big Minstrel company" of flfty-flvo peoplo will blaze forth in the calcium at the Salt Lake Theater on Thursday afternoon and evening. even-ing. It has been some time since we have had a i clever local minstrel show, and if the one booked for next week is everything Held claims it is, there'll be plenty doing. Held's Military band will I be much in evidence, and the "best local artists" l are scheduled to appear, by the press agent. 1 Of these Johnny Trewhela is the star, with his I, new stunt entitled "One touch of humor makes the i whole world grin." A big street parade will take HB ' i; place at noon. H ! Signor Setaro will appear with the Symphony H j. orchestra Monday evening. Setaro is a harpist of H! ! ! rare ability, and lovers of that music have a H ! treat in store. I j j ; HI j i; "Maid Marian" was a disappointment. Not the , maid herself, for she was Van Studdiford, as sweet H ffi a singer and as fair a woman as ever appeared H ij with the once-famous troupe of which she is now H ff a member. H , But the opera as a whole is forced, if that is K , J the proper term. There is nothing distinct, noth-E noth-E ; ing striking, and while the music bears the brand H ' i ' of that of "Robin Hood," it is just enough like it M j j and just far enough below it to make the opera Bm ' ' what it is, a disappointment To the usual quests! ques-ts! ' tion of "How did you like it?" there were mutter-1 mutter-1 I ; ings of "Br r well there's a sameness but it Kl can't compare with "Robin Hood." 1 ; One fine feature of the opera is the ensemble Hx i i work, and the climaxes at such times give the B w i ' whole stage a chance. The result is a series of Hj 1 i '' beautiful effects, both in music and scene. Bl W h Grace Van Studdiford was given brilliant op-HC op-HC M j portunities, none of which escaped her. She has BS m 1 1 a beautiful face and figure; she knows how to put HB m ; her clothes on, and, above all, she has a wonderful Ht W i voice. The audience that witnessed the first per-Km per-Km W& m formanco on Tuesday was cold and dreary, but B M Ij even under such conditions Miss Van Studdiford HJE jm m made a lasting impression. H jlj 1 Alice Judson is awfully clever, and was charm-HS charm-HS jwj ing in the "Mistletoe" song. Her voice is fascials fasci-als jll 1 nating, and she looks as Jessie Bartlett Davis used B wi I to when we were all in kilts. B m 1 "Maid Marian" will probably run fast and B m short, and the Bostonians had best stick to "Robin HK SJ 1 Hood." In that we know that all the music is H B 1 good, and while we know, too, that the repartee is El W 1 moth eaten, it goes because they're singing "Robin H Mi f Hood." But for new work nay, nay. Best get B m the Delineator or the "Spice" column of some BB B I- newspaper, and stay home and read. HB s. Horace Lewis and "The Poor Relation" drew a Ei lw! w fair noUBO on Thursday evening. flB B K The Bostonians opened at the Salt Lake Thea- HH w I ter Monday evening in "Robin Hood." Many of the old faces were greeted with ovations from the largo audience, and Josephine Bartlett and Henry Clay Barnabeo, the doughty sheriff with the "eagle eye," were vigorously applauded. Alan-a-Dale found a charming presentation in Alice Celeste Ce-leste Moore, who is an artist in voice and gesture and made many friends by her clever work. Alice Judson was a sweot little kissable flirt and worried wor-ried the "front-seat push,' who disappeared over the parquet railing the moment the curtain rung down and bolted for the stage door. Without doubt the hit of the opera was Maid Marion, the most magnificent soprano the Bostonians ever had, Grace Van Studdiford. Her voice is clear and flexible, every note smooth and rounded; her stage presence is magnificent, and her rendition of tho part of Maid Marian faultless. Friar Tuck was as jolly and rotund as every, while William C. Weed-en's Weed-en's Robin Hood was artistically portrayed. Allan C. Hinckley, tho robust Will Scarlet, possesses a magnificent basso. The rendition of the operatic gem was superb and caught the well-filled house from parquetto to tho realms of the "gods." Miss Levy and Mr. Kent will sing at the concert con-cert of the Symphony orchestra Monday evening. The selections on the programme for the concert con-cert of the Symphony orchestra Monday evening have been carefully chosen, and Mr. Shepherd is to be complimented on his clever work. |