Show the queena lace handkerchief the fine spectacular opera camf boint quen que in diree jobanna strauss the world famed composer of the blue danube and ii inumerable other waltzes was performed last list evening in the house before au an audience whose numbers would have been much larger had not the large entrance fee and the stormy weather deterred many who love music and drama dramn especially of BO so fine a character as its in the queens lace handkerchief the ploton plot of the opera is of the spanish court int intrigue kind mixed with a good deal of ot humor lunior and wit to set off the unconsciously pompous m dignity of the grandazza Gran dezza much of the plot as most of the amusing byplay by play was I 1 lost 01 at to the spectators on account of the totally inadequate dimensions of the stage ta which is not large enough to hold md 60 let alone the CO 60 owners of these voices still there was enough of the enjoyable both for ere eye and car ear the former was dazzled by the rare gorgeous nem of the brilliant costume showing off in real royal splendor while the latter was drinking in with delight the rich strains of straussa music rendered tte equally bally cleverly by the orchestra the soloists solo ats and the choruses the last named equaling if it not rather surpassing the beat best ever done oa ox the ogden stage in that iia line the whole performance which lasted two hours and ten minutes kept the audience in good humor and under the magic ma c 8 spell P ell of the art divine considering rin g the predominance of the choruses and the phenomenal vocal powers of some if not rather all of the leading soloists it is to 0 be regretted that the score of the queens lace handkerchief ded dea not contain mor more solos and duct duets to give the individual artists more opportunity to display their fine vocal powers we hope mccaully McC aulls company will have a better busia business ess as far as the box receipts are concerned in salt lake city to the residents of which town we can heartily recommend the queens lace handkerchief especially as a with the better stage of th the e capital the theatergoers theater goers can see and bear this opera in all iti its force and beauty |