Show SA aalt LT LAKE L ak L OPERA CO TONIGHT bonifi fa t r i 1 1 IT THE GIRL AND THE GOVERNOR AT THE GRAND star players make a big hit irl ir home town company as a whole a talented one the girl and the governor which is to be produced by the salt lake opera company at the grand tonight receives the following comment in goodwins weekly oh you johnnie spencer youve got no business keeping off the stage tor for such long intervals its a little selfish in you to do it too for your fellow men need the joy that your presence lends and you ought tobe to be philanthropic enough tor help them forget their burdens at the end of every day instead of making an ephemeral dash into the open now and then and just as were beginning to believe that your engagement gel 1 Is indefinite yo you disappear and go to writing prosaic old insurance su rance and until your next appearance we have to be satisfied with a lot of professionals of course you understand that but for the fine fat lines that fall to your bour lot and the good music that now and then interrupts The girl airl and the governor ernora is really a frost but you and miss taylor and miss evane U vans and miss berkhoel Bork hoel and mr and mr ensign and mr graham and the rest do so very well that julian edwards effort is really forgotten in the plea pleasure zure you all have given your audiences and then mr mcclellan and mr evans and the orchestra at large and that little beauty who was second from the end on the right hand side looking from the audience and the cos costumes and everything else local made the girl and tho the Governor happy enough even if the opera itself was citroni zed in robin hood hazel taylor proved her right to all of the nice things that were said about her both as a singer and as an actress of ability but the improvement over her previous performances is so marked that it is to be hoped she will not forswear the stage entirely in accepting the engagement she has for the latter part of this month she unquestionably has hag a great deal of dramatic talent and it would not be pleasant to think that she has made her last appearance behind the lights miss edna evans bvans repeated her former pleasant impression only more so 80 she has a splendid stage presence and the passing year has only added to the charm of her voice fred graham scored a great hit in his song cupid has found my ay iy heart which by many was considered the prettiest thing in the opera As Ped petrillo pedrillo rillo ho he iva was called upon upon for a good deal of musac muad and riot a great deal of acting which was fortunate all around and gave him an opportunity which he has seldom had and which he took fine advantage of horace ensign aa a the indian medicine man made the most of the part and greatly added to the favorable impression he previously created george was in particularly pleasing voice and tes as the english officer acted with an ease and ana grace that has come with the experience of years but the opera itself would have bevi a sorry mess but for the interpolations and without them it Is doubtful if even so talented a company as the salt lake opera company could have made anything of the de angeles frost |