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Show SALT LAKE'S GREATEST THEATRICAL EVENT Klaw & Erlanger's Mighty Beauty Spectacle, "Mother Goose." Tuesday night, March 7. at the Salt Lake theatre, the most notable theatrical theat-rical event of years will take "place, when Klaw & Erlanger will present their colossal production of the greatest great-est of the English Drury Lane spectacles, specta-cles, "Mother Goose," at the Theatre, beginning an engagement of five nights with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Satur-day. An idea of the immensity of this production may be gleamed from the fact that more than 400 comedians, singers, dancers and pantomimists appear ap-pear in it, and seventeen scenes, each as elaborate as an entire ordinary production, pro-duction, and more beautiful than has ever been seen upon, the American stage, are used. The costumes number 2,000. and cost alonge $75,000 to produce. "Mother Goose" ran an entire year in London, and all last year in New Ycrk City at the New Amsterdam theatre. It is the first play of its class ever presented pre-sented in Salt Lake and comes direct from San Francisco by special train. It is described as being the mio-hfiesr exposition of beauty, quick, rattling fun, charming melody, and spectacular magnificence known to theatrical history. his-tory. Its production will be with the original cast and every detail of gor-geousness gor-geousness which has made the presentment present-ment of the most talked-of and notable theatrical event of the past two years in the United States. Never has so much (in the way of quantity) been offered for the money. The impression produced by "Mother Goose" is that of a beautiful dream of color, costumes, j calciums and hosts of beautiful women, a dream that never stops for a moment. Moving pictures are as nothing to this delightful phantasmagoria. It is a succession suc-cession of startling changes, each one being more beautiful than that preceding preced-ing it. Then there are the wonderful aerialists. w ho do a.mazing ballets suspended sus-pended in the air, "one of them, without with-out warning, astounding the audience by darting over their heads clear to the back wall of the theatre, all the while scattering natural flowers to those below. The music is harmonious and catchy; the fun, rollicking and in good taste; the specialties, novel and entirely different from those seen in, any other entertainment of this kind.' From a more than casual study of "Mother Goose," it deserves the great success and lavish praise that has been bestowed upon it by play-goers of London and New York. The sale of seats will begin Thursday, Thurs-day, March 2, the prices being 50 cents to $2. Mail orders, accompanied by remittances, re-mittances, will be promptly attended to. This production can only be placed upon the stages of the largest theatres, and will not be seen anywhere nearer than Denver. For the first time in the history of grand opera chorus of all-American voices has been secured by Henry V. Savage for his famous English Grand Opera company. Mr. Savage has been drawing on American conservatories and music schools for nine years with a constant endeavor to build up a chorus cho-rus of home-schooled singers. Each year he has been able gradually to eliminate the foreign voices, but never until now was an all-American chorus secured that could sing hi English an entire repertoire of masterpieces. The vivacity and vocal strength of the English Grand Opera chorus in the famous fa-mous marches and choral numbers of such works as "Lohengrin.", "Carmen " "II Trovatore," "Tannhauser," "Cava'.-leria "Cava'.-leria Rusticana" and "Othello" will be one of the .delightful features- of the coming engagement in this city. The presentation of "David Harum." which is underlined to be made here shortly, and which is being awaited with, considerable interest, will be no- table for several reasons. In the first place, the presentation will make known what is absolutely the most successful dramatization of a popular book that the stage has known in many years. Proof of this is furnished in part by the fact that the play is now in its third year, having outlived ma'iy works which were given to the public i at the time it was staged, and by the further fact that its popularity seems to increase rather than diminish with time. A particularly strong and well balanced company will be seen in the play, which contains all ' the things which made "David Harem" as a novel so entertaining. SACRED HEART ACADEMY. Rarely have the Sisters and pupils of Sacred Heart academy spent a more delightful hour than from 9:30 to 10:30 Tuesday morning, when lime. C. K. Baker held them all spellbound by her beautiful and artistic recital. The recital was largely internretive and embraced selections from the choicest peoms of Browning, Lowell, Riley, Field and others. Mme. Baker prefaced her lecture by a brief talk on books, showing how-much how-much more they connote than is indicated in-dicated by their bindings and the arbitrary arbi-trary black characters within: since they contain the feelings and life-thoughts life-thoughts of ayi time. She compared the wiggly black characters char-acters to the telephone, which is but the medium of transmitting the soul-utterances soul-utterances of some one who w ishes to speak to us. Mme. Baker's reading of Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal" was characterized by such deep feeling and perfect adaptation to the poet's thought that her rapt listeners almost felt "The flush of life Thrilling back over hill and valley." She prefaced this selection by a brif but charming account of the "Legend of the Holy Grail," dwelling with delicate de-licate tenderness on the spiritual significance sig-nificance and mystic symbolism underlying under-lying all the stories woven around thi? soui-inspiring theme. She rendered "Winkin, Blinkin and Woddin" and "The Old. Old, Old Lady" with charming charm-ing simplicity and pathetic grace. In her rendition of "The Tieri t f Hamlin" Mme. Baker displayed her rare voice range and wonderful powers of personation. But, perhaps, it was in her perfect rendering of "The Boy's Bear Story" that Mme. Baker's skill as an artist reached its climax. Not less charming than her elocution is Mme. Baker's personality, which is that pleasing blending of simplicity and elegance characteristic of the genius. "Heart Party and Japanese Tea." The students of Sacred Heart academy acade-my never allow St. Valentine's day to P"nroticed- and this the class of 190o decided to celebrate its passage by a heart party and Ja 3anese tea. given in, honor of the class of 1907 A color scheme of red, in which festoons of bright, glowing ribbon were blendd with arrow-pierced hearts and other trophies of Cupid's conquest, had transformed the library into a suitable abode for the blind deity, whil Japanese Ja-panese lanterns, floral decorations and oriental emblems had fitted it for the Japanese tea. Beautiful silk costumes and a few-deft few-deft toilet touches had transformed the graduates . into charming Japanese hostesses, and with oriental grace Unserved Un-served tea and Ha-ht mfro.i,mt- .' their honored guests, who were also in Japanese attire. A unique feature of the entertainment entertain-ment was a grand art displav. w hich showed the ingenuity of the entertain-f entertain-f rs in devising appropriate and humorous humor-ous resemblances to a miscellaneous collection of oriental and artistic curios. cu-rios. The evening's enjoyment closed with a very animated game of progressive pro-gressive hearts. Miss Shepherd's skill in warding off Cupid's darts was rewarded re-warded by a beautiful hand-painted Japanese picture as first prize, the booby boo-by prize falling to the lot of Miss Bus-well.' Bus-well.' Class 1907 presented the graduates with leather hearts with painted Japanese Ja-panese ladies as souvenirs of the occasion. oc-casion. Heart-shaped cards, with Cupid fishing fish-ing for a heart on the cover and the following verses inside, served as place cards: Class 1905 to Class 1907. For a time-honored custom our class fain would pay. Its homage, by keeping St. Valentine's day. And proudly we issued our final decree, To honor the feast by a "Japanese tea." Fond greetings to class 1907 we extend vvnose presence benignant this evening will lend. , The flavor of merriment hearty and free. To the homage we render the "Blind Deity." A beautiful . lecture in the. morning and a heart parly in the evening are not every-day occurrences of sehonl life, so we venture to say that St. Valentine's Val-entine's feast. J905. will always be fraught with happy associations for the pupils now . attending Sacred. Heart academy. Lenten Regulations, Diocese of "Salt Lake. Next Wednesday being the commencement com-mencement of Lent, the following regulations regu-lations will govern the faithful of the diocese of Salt 'Lake during" that holy-season holy-season : ; 1. All the days of Lent, except Sundays, Sun-days, are fast days of obligation. 2. All persona under 21 years or over 60 years of age, those who are engaged in hard labor, the sick and convalescent, convales-cent, and those who cannot fast without with-out injury to their health, are exempted, ex-empted, from the obligation of fasting. fast-ing. 3. AH bound to keep the fast shall take but one full mea! a day. except on Sundays. 4. The meal permitted on fast days should be taken about noon. 5. A collation is permitted in the evening. t. When the principal meal cannot conveniently be taken about noon, the order may be inverted, so that the collation col-lation may be taken about noon and Ihe dinner in the evening. i. General usjgo has made it lawful to take in the morning a cun of co-,fce, co-,fce, tea or chocolate, with a small piece of bread. 8. Necessity and custom have authorized author-ized the use of i;1rd instead of butter in the preparation- of all permitted food:'. '. By dispensation the use of flesh meats is permitted at all meals on Sundays, and once a.day. at the principal prin-cipal meal, on Mondays. Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays, with the exception ex-ception of ember days and the last Saturday of Lent. 10. Persons exempt from the obligation obliga-tion of fasting may partake or flesh meat at all meals on days when the use of meat is permitted at the principal prin-cipal meal. 11. Flesh meat and fish are not to be used at t,he same meal during Lent, even on Sundays. 12. The. use of butter, cheese, milk and eggs is permitted every day in Lenr. 13. By virtue of an indulgence granted grant-ed by the Holy See, March 15, 1S95. workingmen and their families are allowed al-lowed the use of flesh meat once a day on all fast and abstinence days throughout the year, with the exception excep-tion of all Fridays, Ash Wednesday, the Wednesday, and Saturday of Holy Week, and the Vigil of Christmas. Those who avail themselves of this indult are not permitted to use flesh meat and fish-at" the same meal, and are earnestly exhorted to perform some other act oT' mortifications, such as abstinence - from intoxicating liquors. l-t. ine i'ascal time extends from the first Sunday of Lent until Trinity Sunday, Sun-day, inclusive, during which time all Catholics who have attained the proper prop-er age are bound to receive Holy Communion Com-munion worthily. - 15. To afford "the faithful opportunities opportuni-ties of gaining the graces of the Lenten neason. it is hereby ordered that, in addition to the usual Sunday devotions, devo-tions, Lenten exercises be held on two evenings of each" w eek in all the churches of C.e diocese to which are attached resident1 pastors. On one of the evenings an Instruction Is to be given, on the other the Stations of the Cross, and permission is hereby given for the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament Sac-rament on both evenings. On Good j Friday the Devotion of the Way of the Cross shall be given in all parish churches in the evening. L. SCANLAN. Bishop of Salt Lake. Salt Lake City, March 2. |