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Show O. TJ. Bean has again broken into the stormy sea of dramatic authorship and will make an effort ef-fort to keep a new play, "The Gypsy Countess," above the billows. The scene is laid in Merrie England, and Mr. Bean is sure that the play will meet with a less doleful reception than Corianton. fcz (J v Our New Minister Mr. Denman Thompson and George W. Ryer certainly achieved very considerable of a dramatic drama-tic success when they wrote the sparkling lines of "Our New Minister." The play is a very gingery gin-gery portryal of all that is most entertaining in rural life, with sufficient plot, a good sprinkling of spicy incident and plenty of bucolic humor. It was received with great delectation by the conference con-ference visitors.. The roles generally were in capable hands, although there might be some slight improvement by the eradication of a ten- dency toward horse play and gymnastics. Charles Stodman was very engaging as" Lem Ran-son Ran-son and Joseph Conyers won much merited applause ap-plause in the role of Davies Startle, the country detective. John P. Brown also gave a consistent and effective characterization. Local theatergoers theatergo-ers were much pleased with the appearance of the rising Salt Lake star, Miss Ethel Brooke Fei-guson, Fei-guson, who shows considerable improvement. If she could forget a slight tendency to lisp and slur her words, Miss Ferguson's theatrical luminary would look brighter, although al-though these defects are minor ones and will be cured with time. Miss Phila Peroxide May was j the only real groan causer in the cast. Altogeth- 1 er the play made a very good impression, though J the climax was utterly weak and unsatisfying. "THE RESURRECTION." A troupe of alleged thesplans disarranged the interior of the Grand theater during the fore part of the week with a presentation purporting to be "The Resurrection." If Blanche Walsh could have seen this distortion of the dramatization of Count Tolstoi's great novel, in which she is starring star-ring in the East, the shock would nave been so great that she would probably have been carried from the theater on -a litter. The actors themselves them-selves were mostly frayed soubrettes who had seen many, if not better, days and some spavined old tie-walkers. It is strange that sucn weird old acrobats, carrying with them the seedy fragments frag-ments of a really meritorious play, can always be billed at a local playhouse, and thereby inflict anguish, an-guish, acute and lingering, upon an unsuspecting public. |