The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-03
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The opening of the Lambardi grand
opera company season at the Colonial the
atre occurs tonight. Boxes and large
blocks of seats have been sold, and
Utsh's elite will be in attendance, as
well as some of the leading musical peo-
pie of this city.
The opera tonight, Lucia di Lemmer-
moor will be given with a cast COM
posed of Nine. Cecilia Tamanti Zavask
as Lucia, Eugenio Battain as Edgardo
Adalgisa Giana as Alice, Giuseppe PM
azz0ni as Henry Ashton, and Artidoro
Mauceri as Raymond.
The repertoire for the balance of the
week will be, Faust" tomorrow matinee;
I'll Trovatore.' tomorrow night. Car
men" Friday night. "RigolettO." Satur-
day matinee; "Cavalleria Rusticana' and
4 Pagliscci, Saturday night
We've seen good time for once in
our lives cried Asia Wigs TO her moth
er, still dazed by the light and color of
the playhouse. as they returned TO the
Cabbage Patch after their first visit to
the theatre. So, too. every one sees
good time-perhaps the best the current
stage has to offer-who goes to see Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch which
closes its engagement at the Salt Lake
theatre with todays matinee and tonights
performance.
Sir Gilbert Parker's stirring drama,
"The Right Of Way with Guy Standing
ana IuEOQOfe FkODeIlS IN tDtE tHEDlluS
impersOnation Of Charley Steele and Joe
POrtugais. under the management Of
klaw x Esrlanger viii be the attraction
at the Salt Lake theatre tomorrow night
for the balance OF the week
The dramatization of what has been pro-
Dounced the greatest novel Of the decade
was made by Eugene W. Presbrey, the
successful adapter of "Raffles." The
story is told in five periods or episodes.
The first shows Charley Steele at the
height of his success as a lawyer and
leader OF his social world in the city Of
Montreal He is a man without heart.
a doubter. a wrecker Of men for selfish
easons. There is quick transition in the
second episode, showing Steele seeking his
recrea tons in the mire of the river taV-
ern on the banks Of the St Lawrence. 4
blow, and his memory is wiped out. Here
playwright and novelist part Sir Gil
bert never answered the question of
Steele's redemption. He left his readers
with the impression that Steele died
suicide and debauche. Mr., Presbrey shows
his salvation through faith and love.
Mary Hall was but young girl when
she made her debut with Madame Nodes
ka, but even then, that great artist prOph
esied her success on the stage. In the
role of Juanita in The Rose of the
Rancho" which Willard Mack will pro-
duce at the Colonial next week, she will
have q part for which she is tempera-
excellent introduction to the Salt Lake
public. Mr.. Mack and his company are
Ia wing a highly successful week with
Because She Loved Him So at the Bun
galoT.
''Mirth. music. mystery and muscle to
quote from the press agents vocabulary,
are the features at the Orpheum this
week Edwin Holt and company are pre-
senting one of the best sketches of the
season. and the other acts are all max
ing good with the audiences.
McEwan, the hypuotist, being a mem
Der of the order of the X. of p. has do
mated to the Pythian Sisters one-fourth of
the proceeds OF his Saturday matinee en-
tertainment at the Grand The Sisters
are accordingly hustling for a crowded
house.
The Lyric is showing a wonderfully re-
sistic film depicting the scenes at the
Messina district five days after the great
earthquake. This picture is a marvellous
piece Of realism. 1t was taken only under
the greatest difficulties by a great pho
tographic house of Rome. This company
some of the finest films on
the market The present picture is one
feet long. The distressed people
are seen ciambering over the great piles
of building material that chokes the
streets. The Russian sailors are digging
for the wounded and the Italian soldiers
are seen removing the dead. In the tent
of the Red Cross, nurses are bandaging
wounds and all the terrible reality of the
great earthquake is unfolded upon the
canvas The picture was exhibited for
the first time on Tuesday evening, and
will be run for one week. This great
moving picture has been pronounced by
critics in the cast as the greatest pro-