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Show THE CRANJ 0?EN1HG PERFORMANCE. Brlghnm'ti Talented Hume Club Even SurjiaMBei Itself. "The Broken Vow," as presented by our home dramatic club last .-veiling, can deservedly be called a grand success. Nothing that was ever before presented in theatrical-loving Brigham City, can in the least compare with it. The sentiments of the majority of the warm-hearted audience might 1 be summed up in the folio ving terse sentence that was dropped from the Hps of a young man as he passed out of the opera house last night: "I have been in Omaha, St. Louis. New York and Chicago, tut I never saw anything to beat this," referring refer-ring to the play. The housn was full. There wer; about 550 people in the auditorium. Salt Lake. Cache and Butte being represented. A more appreciate e audience and a better one to play 1 1. we never saw. All the old favorites were given warm welcome receptions. The peice went with remarkable smoothness; even without a perceptible per-ceptible hitch. The scenery and curtain were sublime and called f rth unlimited piaise. But to the actors, whom space vill only permit us to nienti-n briefly. Mrs. I.yd'a Snow Peirce and M rtimer Snow amazed the audi -ncc with their fine acting. These two ?reHt- st favoriUs. received n tremendous curtain call at the end f the second act. Sirs. Peirce out did hersdf in some f her emi tionnl scenes. Mr. Sn ,w has won laurels as a pmfes--ionnl in the n rthwest and he cer-laii cer-laii ly asti nii-htd the Brigham people last night by his clean-cut delineation of Vict r Blanchard. - Prighain can well be proud of him, her must faithful follower of Thespia. R. H. Jon s deserves-special deserves-special mention; he made an excellent excel-lent Judge Carlik. IT. E. Bowring proved a capital Uncle Joe. He and E. A. Uox, the latter impersonating imperson-ating Cartar, the London reporter, elicited from tlroir demonstrative ai.ditrs many a long, loud r(;ar. Mr. Box's make-up was ratbaT '"old," however. A. H. Snow proved a villainous Cap't Dudlev. The character is a trifle too heavy, but Mr. Snow managed it adn irablv. Mi-st-rs. McMasterand Paird hadn't a chance to make a show. if. N, liowring did unusually unusual-ly well, considering this was his fir.t appearance. Miss Madsen dressed handsomely but labored indcr the disadvantage of being .vh dly out of her line. Miss Dirdic Snow's rendition of sprightly Gay t'arlilc was a surprise t all. S nnc day Miss Snow will be Brigbam's star. The writer has attended the best theatres in Portland, Los Angeles Ange-les and San Francisco, but never) saw more than one that would sur- ass "The Broken V.iw," as presented pre-sented by the limine club la-t niglit. uivly Thk B. OLhJii was right in w-.rking like a beaver to have our pera house opened by our unsur-i unsur-i ased h cal talent. We really fe. 1 proud of last night's supi rb ! performance. |