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Show Hfij ' Dramatic. H j: ' 1 One of the dailies informed us, during the week, EB ' ' that "the Salt Palace opened last night with the HflBr J strongest specialties of the season." True, and it Boi ''J Jf was a case of hold your nose and hold it tight. Of HBi.nl'l all the seasons where good performances are le- HBf .Jill sired, where facilities are line, and exhibitions 1' ff i awful, this is the season. Entire lack of enterprise, yijl a feeble effort on the part of the management to , bl' set something for nothing, and the general dis- Bf f I gust of the public has marked and marred the !" V, I summer. ' jj Performances at the Salt Palace are calculated H'j ' ' to give the uninitiated nervous prostration, and 1, K the wide-awake manager might as well shut up "! j 4 shop. A large crowd went down to the races the m -. . ,t ' , ' night of the Fourth. They purchased tickets at i' the front gate, presented them at the bike en- w ' , trance and were informed there that there was Mi i -J nothing doing. They went back to exchange them LV i for theater tickets and were told by the man in the J l? . -, cage that they could hold the tickets for another Mi ' night that he wasn't authorized to exchange them. f Then a howl of rage went up and he had to give r j 'A in. Back to the pretty little theater and the rot- Hi il ten little show went the crowd. i Hy v: 'llie stimts began about 9:10. After a weird con- Hiirlt! tortlon or two from the "Artists" and a repeti- HJ Iji'i tion of that favorite old ballad "Nigger, Nigger, Hl In '( J Never Die," a rummie walked out and announced Hf jj J (at 9:35) that the "entertainment" would conclude M& 'ji n or(ler to give the "vast crowd outside" an op- Hi , 'j I portunity of witnessing the show." ; fi 'V 4 Now, we're good suckers here, but when we are ' looking for amusement it is no joke to make your f , own- H'f . Denver's summer resorts, with no natural ad- Hi j vantages such as we have, can skin us to a frazzle H j on summer amusements. The people here will pay H ' . for the goods, but they must be delivered in pretty Hf fair shape, with sufficient allowance for leakage H ' i j j and breakage in transit. I j 1 Hi) fj , Two summer opera companies and a stock com- Hi, . pany are doing flno business in Denver nightly, and Hj'.V'l 1 that, with the competition of the City park which Hi 'I, , is no small matter. There, the street car com Hr pany provides numerous amusements free, and Hhl ML four times a week band concerts with soloists, etc. Hk (' It) Hj$Vi J Uj Here is a sample programme: HK ! .' CITY PARK PROGRAMME. Bt PART I. 1 j," i P March, "New England's Finest" Clarke IH w J Overture, "Rossini's "Stabat Mater". ..Mercadante H ' 1 Medley, "The Jolly Buffaloes" Witt ;i'I! Introducing "Coon, Coon, Coon," "Everything at H j! I-. ;P Reilly's Must Be Done in Irish Style," "Sweet- H 'J J heart Call Me By That Name," "My Heart's H 'M ' Delight," "It's Just Because I Love You So, Bj!! f Cindy," "I Dream About You," "Odd-Jobs HBflif' I 'Jackson," "How to Win a Woman's Heart," Hgfp ' I "It's Up to You, Babe," "March of the White MVjV n Rats." BBIl ' 1 Waltz, "Souviens Toi" Waldteufel HBhII i E "Pearl of the Harem,". Oriental Rag Guy BHnt'1 HI Sol for Baritone Selected HHI IF W. H. Daniels. BIP if PART II. Hill Iff March ."Coronation" (from "The Prophet")... HH f; 'ill! Meyerbeer HBlr f Selection ,"11 Ti-ovatore" Verdi Hnliii Sol for Cornet Selected Bld sW Signor Pietro Satriano. HHI! H The Indian 'Campaign, "Life in. the Wild HHEKui West" Gordon HBPyEJ Spring Song Mendelssohn BHwHJ "The Tale of a Bumblee Bee" Luder HBHB And all this costs is the strqet car fare. Paul Hammer, Jr., has just returned from the East, where he has listed a long line of fine bookings book-ings for the coming season. The Grand is on the list of Stair & Harkin of New York, the booking agents, who promise a great line of attractions. V The "Corianton" work is progressing in splendid splen-did shape and every detail of the novel performance perform-ance is being attended to with the utmost care. The play is receiving an immense amount of free advertising all over the State, owing to its peculiar local interest. Mr. Jerome A. Hart has a four-column article in the Argonaut for July 7th. It is humorous and written in this inimitable writer's best manner. His text is the melodrama, "The Two Orphans," and he compares it with modern plays, which he characterizes as anaemic and wishy-washy. |