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Show Opera House was Crowded Welcome Old Favorites Favor-ites Last Tuesday The Salt Lake opera company opened the theatrical season In Logan last Tuesday evening with Julian Edwards comic opera "The Girl and tho Governor." The company has been seen here in mora ambitious attempts, Robin Hood for example, but seldom have these popular singers sing-ers given a more pleasurable performance, perform-ance, a he "Girl and the Governor" is one of the best of its kind and Its kind is mlghtyly entertaining 'Full of i fun making, ridiculous situations, and ', speeches with pleasing music, dancing , and gorgeous costumes, It is a'pleasure , to the eye and ear and a relaxation for , the mind. The prlmn favorite of the ; evening was Mr. Spencer. He played ; a part created by Jefferson De A ngells r and he was a close second to that ad- mirable artist. His dry" humor, dap-i dap-i per walk, prim mannerisms, mock ; sentimentality, in short his general 1 enjoyment of tho senselessness of the part put him In the front rank of sing-; sing-; ingcomedlans. Ho certainly Is a Jolly ; fellow. At his side among the prlncl-1 prlncl-1 pals were Miss Taylor, beautiful to 1 look upon and equally beautiful of voice, a stunning stage Dguro especially especial-ly In her black gown and Merry Widow hat; George D. Pyper a romantic and forceful singer and actor and Miss Berkhoel. Tho last has a superb voice but wo were somewhat surprised at the unconvinclngncss and conventionality convention-ality of her acting. Hers was the hardest hard-est part of all to fill, but wo should like to see the bitterness of unrequit ed love expressed In some more mobile manner than continual frowns and a geueral tenseness of the entire body. Among tho secondary characters Miss Evans and Mr. Graham easily were leaders. Tho former has a most fetching fetch-ing little personality and won everyone every-one by her graceful dancing, charming voice and bewitching ways. Mr. Graham Gra-ham did probably tho best thing vocally vo-cally of tho evening In his serenade, though the cntlro company In tho sextette from Lucia sang well a hackneyed hack-neyed but always pleasing operatic bit. Mr. Ensign, as Tacoma tho Indian In-dian dealer In charms, furnished no Continued on Page 8 , Opera House Was: Crowded. i Continued From Pago 1 ( I small share'ot the evenings fun, while ' the parts of the three high commls- ' sloners were well acted nnd sunn. Tho ' fresh clear voices of the chorus were ' no small clement of tho success of the ' performance and tho Greek maidens ' In tha second act were fair Indeed to ' behold. It is greatly to thecrcdlt of tho state that it can produce the "singers to give an amateur performance perform-ance of so high a general average. Much ot the work was worthy of professionals. pro-fessionals. We have said nothing of the plot. It was the old, old story of he loves her but she loves another and another loves him. Most of the complications in the theatrical and the real world arc due to just such a combination. |