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Show PAIN'S POMPEII SPECTACLE. r The Season's Most Colossal Amusement Amuse-ment Enterprpisc Pompeii is to be destroyed again. Not the ancient city that nestled among'the Italian hills at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius, but the big scenic city in Pain's vast spectacle of "Last Days of Pompeii." This mimic city. represents with ideal accuracy the fated city that perished in the first century of the Christian era. The scenery used in this production covers an area of fully four acres of ground, but so deceptive is the perspective perspec-tive that it appears to spread out over many times that space. The view is said to be marvelously correct and historically his-torically accurate, being like what the archaeologists now suppose the ancient city was at the time it was destroyed. The whole effect under the glare of half a hundred arc lights and calciums is most beautiful. As one sits in the vast amphitheatre and gazes on the scene before him he sees the tall Vesuvius with its head raised against the sky; below are the houses, temples, arches, ptc, and to properly represent these latter many real structures twenty to forty feet in height are blended in with the "picture" in the background. The scene opens wih a fete day in the ancient an-cient city, and for upwards of an hour the audience is entertained with a vivid production of the sports and feats of the hippodrome, exciting chariot races, sensational aerial and acrobatic acts, pretty ballets, imposing and gorgeously costumed processions, choruses, music, etc. The tragic dramatic episodes of the spectacle are shown in pantomime. The fetes are interrupted by the terrific eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction destruc-tion of the city by the earthquake, which is a scene thrilling beyond description, de-scription, and brings into option all the skill and ingeniousness of Pain's artists. Following these stirring scenes there is presented aeautiful exhibition of fireworks, fire-works, and those who have seen these pyrotechnics of the famous Pain have never realized the full meaning of the word before. ' This grand open-air spectacle will open a week's engagement on Walker's field. Salt Lake City, the evening of Pioneer day. July 24. The many novel features in fireworks will be in honor of the day. |