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Show I I II e XOHh the Firt JVighters. H , J J i "THE LAST FAREWELL." $ m ii fl; L i I (With apologies to Baron Cedorstrom, Robert fl;f J I I Grau, George Pyper and Charles K. Harris.) Bil i I I We are thoroughly aware of the fact that over m'l ! P I I tne head of Pattl tue snow Bpi ill Of many winters has been empowdercd, and we flfi 'if likewise know fll ' h That a voice does not last forever; but we are as- flhj J J J suredly opposed to the management K I , : Which advertises her as an imperial songstress; fl ' ' I : x v 'and to our pecuniary damagement B j ' J . Says that her vrice is the same, diadem of molody B ' j . ! ; ti as of yore. fl jh k Wo wanted to see Patti once, sure; we would not B i I i j ; , mind seeing her once more BL! jji j'j!:i And we would not for the world see the choral B J ' artisans with feet uppermost in the ruck; B- I But it is idle to state that when we parted the B , JjBj other evening with that farewell buck B 'f fl II Wo rtltl not oel certaln resentment; and while fl' I ' ' m I wo sti11 retain a vast reverence B- I f- I For tnis onG t'mo Pssessor an Orphean larynx; fl; '! 'HI 1 yot ie severance B 1 H i From our mazouma was some heartrending; and Bj fl I reminded us of Zangwill, of gaberdine and Hi I 1 slaff- B I I Who after launching his lamented Ghetto play, as B ) I ' li fl consolation presented a photograph B 'i! ' I Of his top heavy Semetic visage to the auditors; Bjl " ' 1H stl11 at Pattl WG do not roar MS i !' IB For on tne "Sweet Home" stunt we bore up even BF ! f'l kfflm under that incessent Tabernacle encore. ki I mm Br" 'I Wm Tne man we desrQ 0 anathometise is Robert H' ' if IB Grau, the monumental grafter, H Iwm Who has lived on his brother's name for twenty- B 'i mH five years; the self-same fakir who after Bu ' j is That many years of petty pilfering resurrected B I ' Ji a Patti and made himself secure B ! ! li 1 By turning over to a syndicate of angels the finan- 1 I ' HI 1 c'al resPns'ty of the tour; 1 I ii 1 When you go skyward, if St. Peter doesn't drop 1 ! n I dead at the sound of Grau B ! m&t 1 e mJs3 ' but wo predlct yu'H steal the keys 1 ' J' HSI i and s n anyll0W- I iflB fl slloultl b grateful for one thing; and that is 1 'i iSf tlia1' lIs theatrical mal-fieur I 1 1nfl I Seriously announced that this would be Adelina's I c 1'llB B farewell tour; Ml ImBI I Though that was hardly necessary; the public is Hi ii'lBl nt daft; and the rich oasis hue H9 utSm m our &ratitude would wear more lavish tints if Hfl jf wffl S this withdrawal specialty referred to you. HfH iMm m Patti announced once that a great voice was heav- HH f fB! ens filft' we'ro Prepared to believe that HUN 111 "I Cut aPParently In this case providence was raised Mlflrillf t0 lligh and refraln0(1 from standing pat; Km f IB 1 But ProvIdencG Iias other troubles coming; I had But Plii a vision and saw Gal;)rIel dip BBi rill C Far Into the millonial dawn; and then raise to his BW flilf V immaculate lip BBI fill! The awakenJn& trump; but ere he could shake BBilroB I th0 world wItu the inItIal blare BByilii I A dIva's double forti hurtled to his pedestal with BAIS lill I the stralns of Robin Adair; BBkP I "Great Scott," he cried, and dropped the bugle BBB tflii M golden, 'I'm up against it sure, HraIj B Here's Patti with the Baron upon a farewell tour." n I A-K n. BSf rP B c tt 3t P jM fl A somewhat mystified individual emerged Bpf fl from tno closlnS lecture of the Burton Holmes H g fl travel series in Chicago recently. He paused a Bill ii moment at the box office, where Mr. Luckett was Bm'Mii'i B standing, and said. BBSs! I ls timt man the rcai thins?" JWWffHnBI ' r? :, i "Certainly," replied Mr. Luckett, in a tone of proper managerial Indignation. "Is he the original Holmes?" "Ho is." "Well, it was a good show, but it wasn't qulto what I expected to see. I thought there would be more handcuffs and a murder mystery or two, with some stolen documents and an occasional shooting incident. He is the most peaceable detective de-tective I ever saw." Mr. Luckett gazed on him for a minute in pitying surprise and then a light broke. "You have got the wrong man in mind," he said gently, "This is Burton Hoimes, not Sherlock Holmes." And the man merely said "Oh!" in a tone of dubious astonishment and went his way. & & e HELD'S PROGRAM. To be heard at the Grand tomorrow evening. 1. March, "The Midnight Flyer" Hager 2. Caprices a "Dance of the Fireflies" (new) Losey b "An Arabian Scout" (new) .... Moulineux 3. Solo for cornet, "Berceuse," from "Jocelyn" B. Goddard Mr. Held. 4. a "Gloria," from Mozart's 12th Mass . . Mozart b Baptiste's "Pilgrim's Song of Hope" 5. Saxaphone Solo, "Serenade" Titl Mr. Earl Mackay, with Flute Obligato, Mr. Bendixen. G. Baritone Solo, "The Lost Chord" Sullivan Mr. Charles Kent, with Band Accompaniment. Accompani-ment. 7. Ballet music from "William Tell" Rossini .8. Caprices a "The Passing Soldier" (new) Arnold b "King Rag'" (new) Orean Smith 9. Overture, "Lurllne" Wallace First time here. i3 y t5 THE PATTI STEAL. This obtaining money under false pretenses practiced by the Patti management, was the worst bunko Salt Lake has had to stand for many a day. And not only that. We who had never heard her, had been taught to almost roverance the name of the great diva, and then came the awful disenchantment. FItz tried his old punch on Jeffries, but the punch was gone, and what Patti used to have in her thorax has disappeared. When you put three dollars on the thirty-three, you've got a chance to get something back. And how can the police consistently pull a tiger den When such grafters as the Patti managers run such a whip game as that we sampled Monday night? t t5 5 ONCE WAS ENOUGH FOR FELIX ISMAN. Felix Isman is a business man. He lives In New York, but ho works in Philadelphia. Time was when Isman endeavored to 'break into the show business," and time was, too, when he tried quite as hard to break out. Not long ago an actor with a proposition approached ap-proached the former angel and assured him that he had a great play. Incidentally he insisted that there was money in the show business. "You are perfectly right," replied Isman; "there is lots of money in the show business. I put some of it there myself." 5 & KAISER FROWNS ON "PARS! FAL." Kaiser Wilhelm highly disapproves of any pro-production pro-production of "Parsifal" outside of the sacred precincts pre-cincts of Baireuth, if gossip from Gotham Is to be credited. And herein lies the explanation why Mr. Krauss, first tenor of the German contingent of the Metropolitan opera houso, was not as. signed the role of "Parsifal" in Mr. Conried's pro. duction of the music drama. Mr. Krauss, it is told, happens to be the high-est-prlced singer in the German empire, with a contract for ten years as first tenor of the Im. perial opera house in Berlin. He has the privi-lege privi-lege of an occasional leave of absence, and took a five months' vacation upon receipt of an offer to sing in the Metropolitan opera house this season. After Mr. Krauss had signed the contract with Mr. Conried he telegraphed the fact to the im-perial im-perial intendant, who was in Wiesbaden waiting on the emperor. He promptly xeceived this an-swer: an-swer: "You may go, but the emperor commands that you do not sing 'Parsifal.' If In your contract, leave of absence is revoked." Needless to say, Mr. Krauss made haste to obey the mandate. 3 t$v THE POPULAR CONCERT. Held's Band played to a fine audience at the Grand Sunday evening, rendering an exception-ally exception-ally fine program, which greatly pleased the appreciative ap-preciative audience. Miss Ruhi Wilson was the soloist of the occasion. |