Evening journal., 1907-05-02
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At the Lyceum Theatre to-day, Fri
day and Saturday. with matinees
each day. the attraction viii be The
Fatal Wedding This is admitted to
be the strongest melodrama which has
ever been placed upon the stage. 1t
VIII be presented by the best company
which has ever been selected to inter-
pret the piece and will be excenently
mounted. In addition to the usual
scenery the choir scene will be OF
more than usual strength. The COM
pany carries an immense pipe organ
manufactured by the Estey ORGAN
Company. During ,he play James
Byrnes and his Cathedral Choir of
twenty voices win sing. This choir
has just been secured from New Yorl,
and only recently added to the show.
The soloist will be Master Roy Charles
a famous hoy soprano from New York
city. Miss Zena Keife viii also fea-
ture. I'm another portion of the show.
jerome X. RemicTs latest song San
Antonio, and will also sing I'D Rather
Two-Step Than Waltz" Taken al
together the play viii be the best
which has appeared at the Lyceum
this season.
The most weird and spectacular
mountain peaks in the world were
conquered q fcw months ago for the
first time. They are the Dolomites in
the northern Italian Tyrol. How they
were conquered forms ore OF the most
interesting features of Lyman n.
20 sN L..
Grand Opera House on Friday and
Saturday evenings and Saturday matt
nee May and g. Switzerland seems
tame in comparison with the great
shattered mountains of solid rock
shown in this feature. In shape they
violate all ideas of what mountains
should be. They seem as though part
of another world, or like some colossal
castles nature has built above tho
| clouds. u has always been regarded
utterly impossible to ascend them
/ even though climbers had nothing "a
! look after but themselves. But Ia
I secure these scenes the climbers had
/ to care for the equipment necessary
I To reproduce them as well as cariue
| for themselves while facing the same
/ great perils that dedod and defeated
all others. To succeed. Handicapped
as they were. where all others. with
out such disadvantages had failed
| intensides the amazement at the tri.
| umph. The pluck. cCurare and en-
| genuity displayed is thrilling and sen.
sational I'm the extreme. At times
they are shown fairly hanging oVe'
vast depths. Again they are seer
I clinging to perpendicular walls Of soil,
rock with only q few prccarious inche'
between them and instant death below
A misstep. dizziness. or a false hol,
would be fatal at every moment o
the hazardous venture The fearful
risks taken hold the spectator witt
breathless interest and the wil'
grandeur of the scenery bewilders th'
mind.
on Thursday. Friday and Saturda'
Of next week Manager Humphries vii
hold his annual benefit when the at
traction win be Edward Davis an'
his company. in "A Man Of the Worl'
OF the unmasking"
Manager Dockstader has never Of
fered such expensive shows on th
wane of the season as are playing III
Garricl1 these last sew weeks. Twl
weeks aRo he announced three bil
bills and the one at the house thi
week IS the second Of the three. 7
Is a show that would look well at an
Of the big Broadway kouses. Epl
Thompson's herd Of elephants, gen
erally recognized as the worlds great
est animal performance. constitutes