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Show nfll With the First Nighters H COMING OF THE GREAT LAMBARDI COM- PANY. The engagement of the Lambardi Opera Company, Com-pany, which comes to the Colonial Theatre for four nights and two matinees, beginning Wednesday, Wednes-day, March 3rd, will be a most notable one. wait Lakers have never before had the pleasure ot hearing this great organization, which, during its tour of the coast, has captured its audiences wherever it has appeared. Mr. Cort wired from Seattle early in the week that this company ais-counts ais-counts anything ever seen in the West, and previous to this announcement the papers of San Francisco and Los Angeles accorded the Lambardi Lam-bardi people the highest possible praise. Salt Lalcers have not been fortunate enough to hear this famous Italian aggregation, which was formed in Milan, Italy, especially for a tour ol the Western and Pacific coast states of America. , If the word of leading reviewers may be taken, there is no grand opera company in America today, to-day, with the exception of the Metropolitan ami Manhattan Opera Companies in New York, their equal. The company is headed by seventeen great celebrities of the Italian lyric stage, and contains a chorus of forty and carries a complete orchestra orches-tra of forty. One celebrated critic says of the company: "All details of operatic endeavor have been carefully gone into to make this company all that it should be. A complete equipment of scenery was painted in Italy for all the productions, ana thousands of dollars were spent in Paris on costumes, cos-tumes, in preparation of complete wardrobes for all operas. "The three directors, Aglde Jacchia, Eduardo Lebegotti and Giovanni Baravelli, are considered the foremost conductors of the Italian lyric stage. The chorus is under the direction of Giovanni Baravelli, of Milan. - "In the incomparable dramatic soprano, Mme. Elvira Campoli, the critics have found the equal of any dramatic soprano in the world. The singing sing-ing abilities of Mme. Campoli have" exhausted all their vocabularies. The celebrated dramatic tenor, Alessandro Scalabini, has alike charmed . MARY HALL New leading lady with Willard Mack who will be seen at the Colonial in "The Rose of the ,fl Rancho," beginning March 7th. !H Agide Jacchia, Director. Eduardo Lebegotti, Director. I i them. Mile. Ester Ferribini, the beautiful young M dramatic soprano, has a voice of wonderful clear- M ness, flexibility and range, and there is that in M it which goes straight to the heart. She reminds M one very much of Schumann-Heinck; there is the M same djfalmatlc intensity and; even quality ot M voice which is not unlike hers. H "Tosi Ardizoni, lyric soprano, has a voice of H wonderfttl range and quality, possessed with a H magnetic personality. The tenor legero, Alfredo M Gerard! Graziani, is gifted with a beautiful, clear, H sweet voice. His singing is a school in itself. H "Eugenio Battain .lyric tenor, has a voice of H rare quality, and coupled with his singing abili- H ties, he has won fame as an actor. In Mile. Do- H lores Frau, mezzo soprano, the company has an H artist that is indeed great. She impresses all who M hear her with her sweet expressive voice and H temperament. H "Mme. Cecilian Tamanti Zavaski, coloratura M soprano of the Lambardi Grand Opera Company, M is one of the foremost operatic stars of the lyric B world, and the ease in which she reached the M highest notes of the musical scale is beyond com- B parison. M "The baritones, Angelo Antola, Allessandro H Modestl and Giuseppe Pimazzoni, are features of fifl this excellent company. Signor Modesti, for sev- M oral years, has been with the Royal Opera Com- H pany of St. Petersburg and Odessa, where he won jfl renown as an artist. He possesses a voice of M the real dramatic baritone quality. He is versa- H Hi1 Hfl tile In lite Impersonations and is admirable both, 9.3 in the French and Italian operas. ngelcTAntola,- By for the past two seasons, has been with the great HP opera houses of Europe. Giuseppe Pimazzoni has Hff been callpd the .succcssor-io the.great Salassa." ,. b The repertoire for the engagement at the Hj Colonial is as follows: Wednesday, "Lucia;" H Thursday matinee, "Faust;" Thursday eve'mng, H "II Trovatore;'" Friday, "Carmen;" "Saturday . H matinee, "Rigoletto;" Saturday night.'Gavallerla . HI Rusticana" and "Pagliacci." n The sale of seats opens at the Colonial this Bj-' morning, and mail orders will be filled In the or- w" der they are received. There will be special ex- m cursions on the Short Line, Salt Lake,Route, and H ' Rio Grande from Provo, Logan, and other centers B I and intermediate points. H "THE RIGHT OF WAY." H B ' N In making a play from a popular novel the ef- l' fectiveness of tthe result depends very largely M upon ability in relation, condensation and elimina- J The result is pretty certain to be disappoint- B ing to somebody or other. One man will read a B book for its story, another for its characteriza- H tion, a third for its conversation and a fourth for H' its descriptive quality. Hv Mr. Eugene Presbrey has succeeded in offering Bi a brilliant dramatization of the widely read and flj much discussed novel, "The Right of Way," by 1 Sir Gilbert Parker, which will bo seen at the Salt H Lake Theatre the last half of next week for four H! performances. Hj The play is especially interesting owing to the H fact that it contains plenty of physical action, as H well as a deep psychological study. Many per- H sons no doubt find their chief pleasure in contem- Hi plating the operations of mental and moral forces H at work on the character of "Beauty" Steele. Hl These are elements which do not easily lend them- H selves to the ordinary methods of theatrical elucl- H dation, but the subsequent regeneration of the H chief character and his ultimate return to a con- H( sciousness of what has transpired in his life, and H the heroic self-sacrifice he waves in order to dl- H vert unhappiness from others are fine moments H of genuine impressivencss. H Guy Standing and Theodore Roberts in the re- H spective roles of "Beauty" Steele and Joe Por- H tugais are specially featured by Klaw & Erlanger H as joint stars, and the opinion of competent critics H is that they have both reached the zenith of their H careers in these two fine impersonations. H W N t M ORPHEUM. H There is a good long laugh at the Orpheum H this week, and those who bought the pasteboards H had no regrets. In the first place, Wilfred Clark H and his excellent company, In their farce, "What H Will Happen NextV" have a rip roaring sketch H with all the action four human beings can go H through In the length of time it Is on the stage. H It's a bully good little show, and Mr. Clark, Mr. H Gillies, Miss Bayes, and Miss De Mott make the H most of it. H The Rooney Sisters are there, too, and they H are a scream, Jos and Jul. They put over some- H thing at the beginning about not being able to H sing or dance, but they 'will take a chance, and H end up with a google-oogle-oogle cantata that H proves their opening announcement, but goes just H the same with the crowd. g Les Salvaggis, described as whirlwind dancers, H do everything from a zephyr to a cyclone, and H there is class' in every one of their revolutions. H Arthur Borani and Annie Nevaro and dog H Bernai, have another entertaining act, and Haw- Hj thorne and Burt are fair fillers preceding "The H Naked Truth,"' which came close to the title, but H not quite. George W. Leslie and company nave a distinct novelty, even if they finish with little mor,e on them ""than at the beginning oftlleir, .careers. The little opera contains some clever ? songs, some' graceful dancing, and plenty of fun, and the only inconsistency in the bill of the play was. the mention of a wardrobe mistress in the cast. Mercy! We nearly forgot the Milch Sisters 1 and we're still trying to. For the week about to come, the Orpheum offers of-fers Edward Holt and company in an Ade sketcli; Fred Ray's Players in "The Noblest Roman of Them All," the Three Yoscarys, the Imperial Male Quartette, Ames and Corbett, Mr. and Mrs. Colby, and Mankin, the Frog Man. ((5 v f , It has been a week of pretty women among the show houses locally, the Colonial heading the list with a big company presenting "The Gingerbread Ginger-bread Man." It's the play's third or fourth time in town, but there is enough pretty music in the -production to carry it a season or two longer. The ' present presenting organization numbers a lot of pretty girls, and Fred Nice and Ross Snow to carry tho comedy end of the show. The play closes with natinee performance this afternoon and tonight's performance. " j ? jc ' ' "The Cabinet Minister" was presented at the Theatre Monday and Tuesday evenings by the Dramatic club of the University. Perino's comedy -was entertainingly handled and attracted two good sized audiences. Loa Roberts, C. T. Woodbury, Miss Charlotte Stewart, Spencer Felt, Miss Dora Johnson, Frank Johnson, Miss Irma BIttner, Miss Lucille Thurman, and Roger Powers were seen in the principal roles of the production, principal roles of the production. tJC & JC Willard Mack has put in another big week at the Bungalow with Nat C. Goodwin's old success, r "When We Were Twenty-one." A better stock company production of the old favorite has not been seen here In several seasons, Mr. Mack's portrayal of Richard Carewe, demonstrating in excellent manner his ability to handle a light comedy com-edy role. Messrs. Morely, Clement, Allen, and Renny are well cast, and Miss Blanche Douglass as Phillis, appeared to better advantage than she has the past two weeks. The. play is nicely mounted and in staging it Mr. Mack has insisted on fast work by his company, so that there is a lot of action in the two and a half hours it runs. & & Much interest is being centered in the concert of the Festival Chorus and the Salt Lake Mjale Ghorus at the Colonial Theatre Sunday night. Assisted byuan enlarged orchestra of thirty men under the direction of Squire Coop, the director of music at the University of Utah, the Male Janet Baycs, One of the Real Hils at the Orpheum. Chorus will render several numbers and the Festival Fes-tival Chorus will present Max Bruch's popular cantata, "Fair Ellen." Miss Edna Evans Will sing tihe soprano iolo and Mr. Horace S. Ensign will take the baritone role, with George E. Skelton, musical director and male soloist, and The Schubert Schu-bert Male Quartette. J 0? Jt The announcement that Mary Hall will, after March 7th, be seen with the Willard Mack stock organization at the Bungalow as leading lady, is of unusual interest. Miss Hall is unquestionably one of the most talented leading women of the day. She has appeared in a very large number of important roles, and has supported some of .the best stars in the country. |