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Show I IT j II I i Hartford Orphettm The Janl(ee Consul Woodland i 1 ; j There is no occasion for a frenzy of joy for II those who attend the Orpheum show this week, !g though it is only half bad That of a week ago 1 et a standard that is impossible to follow every week, but there were numerous turns which would be difficult to improve upon. The opening night was rather a sad affair owing ow-ing to a late train delaying some of the perform-j perform-j ers, but the following evening the show was j greatly improved by the addition of Estella Wor- dette and company. The company consisted of a 1 man and a dog, who, with Estella pictured a ! unique "Honeymoon in the Catskills." The best act on the bill, Barnold with his dogs f and cats, was a marvelous performance which de- s lighted everybody, and the Belclair Brothers were i worth the seeing in the athletic specialty. I ' Of the Lucifers well the Webster defines t lucifer as a common friction match, and nothing commoner could cause any more friction in an audienc . ' the low wit, and general coarseness i that chnt. jrized their stunt. The dancer of the ! three w clever, and her act would have been iehjoyable if not marred by the other two. j Hazzard ,the ventriloquist, might have been (worse, but not very much. Much he had to say was vulgar, and he was a fearful bore. The rest !'of the programme was also bad. i The "Raffle" kinodrome pictures were inter- jesting, but very demoralizing to any audience, especially to a Salt Lake audience at this particu- lar time. A hold-up, burglar, murderer and robber, j, who. escapes in every ticklish situation to the igreat delight of the galleries is not the most edi- i ffying spectacle in the world, and it would not be j famiss to prohibit the picturing of such "heroes." I Theo Lorch, who played the dual role in Jekyll and Hyde at the Grand the first of the week would do well to hie himself to a master. He has a lot p to learn, but displays all the signs of being a fine actor at some future day. He will probably be : heard from. (,C I The attraction at the Salt Lake theater dur- 'ing the coming week will be Sam Jones, on the evening of the 15th, and Willard Bean's athletic s extravaganza on the evening of the 17th. The next attraction at the Salt Lake theater after the amateur athletic extravaganza is 1 Charles B. Hanford, who will open an engage-ment engage-ment of two nights and a matinee on Wednesday, ; Jan. 24th. "The Merchant of Venice" will be the i. opening bill, and it will be presented at the matinee Wednesday. On Wednesday night "The Old Guard" and "Ingomar" (a double bill), constitutes con-stitutes the offering. The Hanford engagement closes Thursday night with "Othello." It 4 u v v tS B At the Orpheum next week the headliner will H be The Four Juggling Nelsons, claimed to be the H. -cleverest bunch of youngsters in their particular HI line on the vaudeville stage today. The other at- H . tractions will embrace Horsky, Fairchild and H Bergere, in an entertaining act. The Three H ' Mitchells, comedians, singers and dancers; Count H de Butz and brother, the count doing a comedy H stunt and the brother a straight stick bic -le rid- 9 ing act; Jack Irwin, monologue; Perle et Dia- mm mant, Spanish singers and dancers, and the Kino- BB drome with motion pictures setting forth the do- mm ings of Santa Claus on the night before Christ- Hi ' Henry W. Savage's big production of "Wood- Hf ' land" follows Charles B. Hanford at the Sale H , Lake theater for two nights week afte . "xt. BRILLIANT ENSEMBLES IN ENGLISH GRAND OPERA. A brilliant feature of the English Grand Opera company is its superb chorus of conservatory-trained conservatory-trained voices. Until the advent of Henry W. Savage in the Grand Opera field, it was the custom cus-tom to present a miscellaneous assortment of ill- i grace and beauty, as well as pleasing voices that might be depended upon to sing "on the key." This process has been going on year after year until now his English Grand Opera chorus compares com-pares favorably with the "beauty choruses" advertised ad-vertised by the modern musical comedy shows, sometihng at one time considered impossible in Grand Opera. In the large ensemble productions j shaped singers whose only recommendation was that they knew the repertory. Frequently they had been singing in Grand Opera choruses for a generation. gen-eration. When Manager Savage, a decade ago, began to develop his justly famous company for Grand Opera in the vernacular, one of his fi it precautions was to weed out of the scores of applicants' ap-plicants' all the aged and crooked-limbed. His aim was to secure young singers possessed of some such as "Rigoletto," "La Boheme," "Faust," and the Wagner operas, there are scenes when the stage is crowded with bright, intelligent young faces and graceful forms enough to supply two ordinary light opera companies. His ensemble forces this season were selected from over 1,200 candidates. These came from all the leading conservatories and music schools in the country, and may be said to represent the cream of the ambitious and most gifted American voice-students. With such talent taking the place of' the proverbially stupid chorus singers of olden days, there is -life and action in the English Grand Opera ensembles impossible to be found in the foreign-voiced organizations. cC i$ i$ No other field of human endeavor can compare com-pare with the theatrical world as a realm of rapid rises. One of the most noteworthy instances fo furnished in the case of Lily Brink, whose capture of applause unmeant for her on the first night of "The Press Agent" in Field's theater has taken her from an $18 a week position in the chorus to one which pays $100. Miss Brink now is general instructor in dancing with the Shuberts. The f song which closes the second act is entitled !.-, "Alexis From Texas," and in the course of its ren- dition, several young women dressed as cowboys A go through some rather ordinary evolutions. ' When Peter F. Dailey presented the piece for the first time, the attention of the audience was attracted at-tracted to a young woman in the chorus who was adding to these evolutions some unique steps of her own. The young woman was Lily Brink, and at the end' of the song she was given a round of spontaneous and hearty applause which might have pleased even Sarah Bernhardt. The following follow-ing day Mr. Shubert sent for Miss Brink. "Did you invent that dance step?" he asked. "Yes, and hundreds of others," she replied. "Could you teach some of the girls?" inquired Mr. Shubert. And when Mis Brink replied in the affirmative, he promoted pro-moted her to the post of instructor of dancing. Miss Brink still remains in the chorus of "The Press Agent," since she is too valuable to be taken out of that number, but next season she will have an office in the Lyric theater. "America for Americans" is the slogan sounded by Arnold Volpe, who last week incorporated incor-porated a symphony orchestra in which only American musicians and American soloists will be employed. For six years Mrs. Volpe has been working for the consummation of his ideal, and with the financial aid furnished by Alfred Seligman, banker, bank-er, who made, a most liberal endowment, the orchestra or-chestra has become a realization. Eighty native born musicians are marshaled under the Volpe banner, the first concert to be given January 4 in Chicago. In speaking of the enterprise, the leader says: "When I first formed my orchestra some six years ago, I did so because I saw the need of giving giv-ing young Americans an opportunity for practicing practic-ing classical music. The talent was there, and the ability, but the opportunity to exploit them was lacking. When I saw this, I established my orchestra on an amateur basis, teaching the young men to the best of my ability, and establishing as high a standard as I could. "I have now eighty musicians of the best cali ber, who are rehearsing almost daily, and I feel I confident in saying that when they appear at our concert on January 4 they will acquit themselves with credit. I have a pleasant surprise in store for the music-loving public, for I have discovered a violinist who, I think, is of the first rank. His name is Harry Weisback. He is a native-born New Yorker, and Ysaye has pronounced him a genius. "I am determined to employ only American musicians and American soloists, and I trust that the music-loving public of America will appreciate appre-ciate this and will support us in our endeavor to establish a real American symphony orchestra. I hope also that in the course of time we will be able to play only American music, but until the supply of the right kind of music becomes a little larger I sv .1 adhere to the compositions of Beethoven, Beet-hoven, Liszt and Tschaikowsky, but not Strauss or D'Indy." & & Manager Willard Bean of the Atheneum club has arranged for an atheletic exhibition to be given at the Salt Lake Theater on the night of the 17thi He has been developing a large class of young gladiators during the past year at his gymnasium, gym-nasium, and now has some very adept and promising promis-ing young athletes to exhibit. The contestants and performers will comprise the best local talent, and the card should be an extremely attractive at-tractive one. The program will be varied, including in-cluding tumbling, wrestling and a number of boxing box-ing bouts. i$ , Religious folk have made much complaint against the Sunday theater. Generally their objections ob-jections are not well taken, as this form of amusement is quite beyond anything calling for a ministerial crusade. Still, the Lyric during the past week has provided one or two stunts and some dialogue which was scarcely -palatable for the Sabbath amusement seeker. Possibly it would be just as well for the management to sandpaper some of the weirder specialties for the Sunday night audiences. For that matter, it wouldn t hurt to follow this rule to some extent during the remainder of the week. u& ANOTHER HIT. Two young things met upon the street, School friends of days gone by, Who called each other "dear" and "sweet," Affection in the eye. Then swift there followed maiden fight, The answer true was tough, To query, "Is my hat all right?" "Your hat's all right enough." 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