The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-16
PRESS AGENTS PROMISE.

On Monday evening at the salt Lake
theatre II. G. Barnabee. w. H. Mac
Donald, Miss Grace Van Studdiford and
other members of the Bostonians viii
appear in the most famous of all light
operas. robin Hood" This season
the Bostonians have made special eff
forts with their organization with the
view of a magnificent new production,
and its recent revival at the New York
Academy of Music was even a greater
success than on its original presenta-
ton. There is no doubt that from a
musical standpoint the legion that has
witnessed this gem of comic opera will
be able to discover new beauties in its
delightful score. From all accounts the
Bostonians will give equally as brilliant
an account of themselves as they did
when robin Hood" first made it's bid
for fame with its refreshing melodies.
The staging of Robin Hood" will be
entirely new. The scenery was ex-
pressly painted for the great stage of
the New York academy, and the cos
TUNES newly designed for the revival
The ballet and original stage groupings
will offer new pictures of the revels of
Sherwood Forest and the chorus VIII
be much larger than on any previous
presentation of robin Hood"
The new De Koven and Smith opera,
maid Marian" that is to have pro-
duction at the hands of the BostOnians
at the OdAL LIKE AnGdlAN L0CSaoy CNCA4g
ing is a SEQUEL to Robin Hood" 1t
has the atmosphere. the color and ali
the characters of Robin Hood" only
in the second act its scene shifts TO the
Crusades, and there is the introduction
of music-a snake charmers song,
march of Saracens-done in the manner
OF the east. With this exception the
opera is altogether old English in its
tone. Its tone indeed, may be said 10
be taken from the first sOund-the
sound of hunting horns-to which the
curtain rises.
The attraction at the Grand the fore
part of the week is THE Hottest Coon
In Dixie" the ragtime musical comedy
and excellent coon show, presented in
rather different mould from the
ordinary negro performance The usual
horseplay and buffoOnery deemed es-
sential are discarded and their places
acceptably filled by graceful drills and
dances, executed by well trained and
handsomely costumed company, and by
mere coon songs and southern mel
odies- The chorus is especially selected
nd trained. and the singing is a
feature of the performance This does
not mean that dancing and comedy
are omitted. for both are well repre-
sented by a cast of many well known
names.
THE Hottest Coon in Dixie, both IN
musical and speciality features, as well
as general excellence Of presentation.
will make it a welcome entertainment
to all classes of theatre-goers. The
cast is a large one and many notable
coiored performers appear in its ranks
ION the Stroke af 70" the successful
sensational comedy-drama which w.
3. Lawrence viii present through the
west this season. has had three sue
cessful seasons in the east. The play
contains two of the strongest climaxes
ever put into a drama-an escape from
prison. and the rescue of a young girl
from den Of cOunterfeiters- In the
first act Jack Rutledge. the hero. is
trapped by the villain into passing
forged check drawn in the name Of
the elder Rutledge. Jack is entirely
innocent in the affair, but his father