The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-18

Interest in the coming production OF
robin Hood" by the Salt Lake Opera
company is increasing among the low
ers of the home company, and those
who have attended the rehearsals which
are now carried on nightly say that the
expectations of the public will be fully
realized.
The company has been exceedingly
fortunate in a number of ways. First
in securing the services of Mrs. Her
bert Stanton, who for several seasons
was with the Bostonians and who
knows all the positions in the opera
and, next, in being able to arrange fol
the entire complement of costumes es-
pecially made by Madame A John OF
San Francisco for the Idora Park pro-
ductiOn of Robin Hood" They will
be the most pretentious yet worn by
the Salt Lake Opera company, includ-
ing numerous changes for principals
and chorus.
Another week of vaudeville will be
put on at the OrDheum next Monday
night The management is highly gra-
titled with the result of last week.
business, and they claim that there
will be no falling off in point of merit
in the performances to be given this
week. They say. rather, that as the
season progresses they expect to not
only maintain the present high stand
ard, but to keep raising.
As head liner for next weeks bill
Willard Simms & Co. appear in Film
ders' Furnished Flat" This number
Is said to be a screaming farce with
plenty Of action and dash. It not only
hae ha crit Of haf
but the business promotes side-split-
ting laughter. In the final scene Simms
attempts to paper the wrong fat, and
when he gets through his ludicrous eff
forts at this work you are left to Won
der if the stage ever can be cleaned
again.
Then there are Rose and Jeanette
Partisan models and dancers direct
from Ambassadors theatre, in Paris:
the two Hiltons, comedy acrObatic cy-
clists, who are said to perform some
stunts on bicycles and otherwise that
are truly marvellous. Then Muller
Chunn and Muller. hoop rolling Won
ders, appear, and their performance, if
advance notices count for anything. is
one that viii cause the audience from
the front row to the last seat in the
balcony to sit up and take notice
By way of variety, Mueller and MueI-
lar, singers of popular songs, will en-
terrain by rendering up-to-date meIO-
dies. They are said to have splendid
voices and have made several songs
famous by their original way Of rem
dering them. Then Helen Adair. who
has won recognition in two continents
as an operate whistler and bird irni-
later. IL IS claimed for her that in her
particular line she occupies a position
in a class all her own.
The popular kinodrOme pictures
have arrived and viii have their usual
place on the program. The orchestra
numbers are now looked upon as being
a necessary part of the program, and
Director Weihs promises that there
will be no disappointment as far as tht
music is concerned
The same arrangements for ventilat-
ing and cooling the theatre which
proved so satisfactory last week vii
be carried out during the remainder OF
the warm season.
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Reports from the east say that /. P
Christensen has. with the salt Lake
Juvenile band captured the hearts OF
the people Of the middle states. At the
several chautauquas visited they nave
mere than fulfilled the expectations OF
the public. and in almost every place
have received an invitation to return
next year. At WinOna Lake. Indiana
where the Boys City is located, and
which really was their eastern object
i've point. the people were so anxious
to hear them that the management Of
the Winona assembly arranged to have
them play in the large Auditorium
Whenever. they appear on the streets
they are given an ovation. 1t is not
only because they are boys and have
attractive uniforms that they are sc
greeted, but because they are able
through their excellent training. to rem
der frst-class music. Professor Chris
Jensen deserves much credit for the
success the band has made, and it is
because of his faithfulness and perse-
verance that they are entitled tC
such praise for their playing. When one
remembers that scarcely more than q
year and a half ago most of the boy:
who play in the band could not blow
one note, Il certainly shows that Pro-
fessor Christensen can get some mu-
sic out of raw material. They do not
play ragtime and popular music alto
gether, but are playing classical selee-
lions.
The Model theatre, 139-145 East Sec
ond South, with Harry Leighton as
manager; Miss Kathleen Fitzpatrick,
soprano, and little May Miller, the
clever child actress, singer and dane
er; the latest moving pictures, and all
that is new IN illustrated songs, makes
a good combination.
The Model in every sense lives up to