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Show I With the First Nighters H DE WOLF HOPPER j At the Salt Lako theatre beginning Tuesday, B September 1st, for three nights and Wednesday H matinee, WJlliam A. Brady presents Do Wolf BH Hopper and the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Com- Kj pany with its cast of artists, every ono hav- H lng at one time or another been seen In roles H of individual prominence, for this organization H includes, besides Do Wolf Hopper, Idelle H Patterson, Gladys Caldwtell, Jnyne Herbert, H Anabol Jourdan, Maude Mordaunt, Herbert H Waterouss, Paul Hydo Davies, Arthur Cunning- H ham, Herbert Cripps, and John Willard, a native H of this city, with the addition of a chorus of fifty H voices, in revivals of Gilbert and iSulllvan best H comic operas. x ' H These different operas will be given in the H following arranged repertoire. On Tuesday even- H lng and Wednesday matinee, "The Mikado" H , Wednesday evening, The Pirates of Penzance" H Thursday evening, "Iolanthe." H About three years ago William. A. Brady H reached the conclusion that the time was ripe H for a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera revival, H provided that these operas were properly cast H and presented with that same strict adherence H to tradition laid down by the authors, themselves. H The result has been that the success made by H this brilliant organization has been nothing short H of wonderful. H The first fear that any Gilbert and Sullivan H admirer has for any revival of their favorite H opera is for their adequate interpolation, it being H essential that the best singers and comedians H must be called upon. H In their present revival the playgoers need H have no fear in that connection, for a persual of H the cast announced for the different revivals is H warrant enough to satisfy the most sceptical H that the comedy and unusual value of these H operas will find magnificent Illustration. Owing H to the work entailed, by the operas, Mr. Hopper H finds it to exacting too recite "Casey at the Bat" H except when the "Biraites" ds sung. H |