Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-09-23

Harte and Lincoln J. Carter are so
badly initiated in Sunday" that a
| good melodramtic Sabbath is almost
desecdated. Miss Barrymore's charm
and personality do much to lift the
role and the play above barren medic.
Gritty, but even her popularity can not
wholly hide the disappointment of her
audience. AS a matter of fact there
is only one real moment in the play
the scene where the young Westerner
shoots Sundays" would-be betrayer.
This is at least filling the veins with
blood-red melodrama, while the rest
of the play is as pulseless as tissue pa
per, cardboard or papier-machie.
Sunday" will be repeated at the
matinee today and performance to-
night. But, say now as / said in the
beginning: Ethel Barrymore-ex-I
quisite Ethel; purr-voiced, kittenish
Ethel; mode-model Ethel, is here
again in all the elusive charm of per-
|sonality and mannerism.
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About the wisest thing that has been |
done by Provo was the sending of |
delegation to solicit the Salt Lake |
Opera company for a date in the south |
ern town.
1t was a rare display of wisdom, |
but above all that, it was an encour- |
aging testimonial to good thing. That |
the Salt Lake Opera company is held |
in such generous box office esteem at |
home, and in Ogden and Provo is |
something to crack nuts over That a |
prophet may not be without honor, |
save in his own country, is often quot |
ed by the preacher But that the Salt |
Lake Opera company has such |
musical reputation in the home mar
ket, is something to be lovingly quot
ed | wish l had the space to review
the excellent work of the company.
For once, at least, the bouquet tossers
on the local papers threw their flowers
in all the fragrant frenzy of rhyme |
and reason. 1t is common to place
local effort upon a pedestal and bend
the knee in adultation. In a measure |
our prostrations are justified, though |
often hypocritical. But, one may free
ly spill moist adjectives over the Salt
Lake Opera company and still not |
exhaust the fountain of truth.
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Next week there will be big musi- |
cal doings at the Salt Lake theatre. |
Next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day the Sultan of Sulu" will hold mis- |
royal court behind the footlights. The |
scene of the opera is laid in those far |
away islands which Admiral Dewey |
picked up one morning before the |
Spaniards had warmed their breakfast |
coffee. George AIDE, the author of |
the book, endeavored to point a |
moral and adorn a tale by giving the |
commercial adventures of a Yankee |
in the land where breakfast foods
and sawdust still refuse to assimilate. |
At every point and even in unsus-
pected places, the pungent humor of
the Hoosier funster is said to leap
out and convulse the audience. Cor |
geous costumes, gaudy Oriental trap-'I
pings, bewildering scenic effects are
all called for and lavishly supplied
The company is large, while especial
attention is directed to a chorus said
to be shapely and vocally assertive.
Following the Sultan of Sulu" is that
other pleasing lyric Offering, 1.-THE
Chaperons," which has already won
its musical spurs before Salt Lake
audiences. 1.-THE Choppers" round out
the week beginning Friday night with
the usual Saturday matinee.
If you have loose piece of money
in YOUR DOcket do NOT forget tho hon