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Show I n tOith the First lighter?, vg H ATTRACTIONS FOR WEEK OF APRIL 13TH. M Salt Lake Theatre. Monday and Tuesday M evenings, Al G. Field Minstrels. M The Grand. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- M day, Lewis Morrison's "Faust." Thursday, Thompson-McLaughlin wrestling match. B &fc tv fr H O'Neil's "Elizabeth." H There is a mill stone around the neck of poor M Nance O'Neil. It may be McKee Rankin, it prob- M ably is, but the undeniable fact remains, that the H progress' of this wonderful actress has been lit- H The day is past when the popularity of any H man or woman on the stage can carry him or H her alone, sans stage setting, sans detail, and B worst of all a bad company. Rankin made H Nance O'Neil, but now the trick is to lose him. H He has watched and studied her carefully, he H has made her make herself famous but now, he H should be unselfish enough to retire. Not that H she must play the lngrate. She can be generous H in a hundred ways, but she must get out of this H rut and the time is now. H Ragged scenery, unsightly furniture, mas- H querade costumes, and wandering William Tb.es- H plans mako a poor background for Genius in H Royal purple, and in this talky, inactive play H "Elizabeth, Queen of England" they spoil all the H good that is in it. H And that good is needed. The play itself is H positively awful, with nothing to commend it in H word or deed, or lesson. Paulo Giacometti, who Hj wrote it should be compelled to hear it. More Hj punishment we wish for no man. H . Nance O'Neil is versatile, magnetic, intense, H powerful, great, but a one woman play as doleful H as this Elizabeth, must at least have one trimming, H and all that it got came from the critics. It is H full of carnage and cruelty, and grief, and a H hideous morsel for any audience to go to sleep H on. Elizabeth is a poor vehicle, and aside from H Mr. Ratcllff's Earl of Essex, which was excel- H lently done, the company made a smudge of it. H Charles Bertram as Sir Francis Bacon, was a H ham, the Lady Sarah of Ricca Allen, and the H Lady Burleigh of Mrs. Brooke were unmention- H able, most of the men were sticKs, ana McKee H Rankin as the Marquis di Mendoza help! H His role was a roll, and he made the finest H comedy out of a serious part. Back back do M Bill Seres, but forget the rest. As another says, "Yesterday's successes belong be-long to yesterday the day is here the time is now." 3 & Field's Minstrels." The Al G. Field Minstrels come to the Theatre Monday and Tuesday evenings, and for the rest of the week the house is dark. Besides Al Field himself, the troupe includes Tommy Donnelly, John N. P. Phillips, Doc. Qulg-ley," Qulg-ley," Sam Goldman, Wm. Murray, Tommy Hyde, Tom O'Dell and other merry makers of the Al Field school, most of them much funnier than Al himself. "The Field Minstrels" is a good show, but let us hope that Al has cut out his personal monologue mono-logue stunt this season. & 3 & Uncle Tom's Cabin. Manager George Pyper, after violent effort, has been obliged to retire, the managers of Uncle Un-cle Tom's Cabin, having absolutely refused to put on the piece for more than one night. Every member of the cast must belong to the Press Club or be an associate member, and so far the assigned parts have been beautifully placed. The beautiful southern stoiy will be seen at the Salt Lake Theatre the first week in June, and the think tanks of the whole Press Club are now busy jest thinkin'. The free list will be entirely suspended, and you'll all have to stand in line. |