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Show : park city: 1 ' The Emmet Celebration. (Correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) Park City,' March. 6.-The entertainment entertain-ment given by the A.? O. H. at the Dewey theatre on Monday night was a magnificent affair, and was more enjoyed en-joyed and better appreciated than anything any-thing that was ever held in Park Citv. Invitations to the number of seven hundred were issued, and every one who could possibly attend was present. It is safe: to say that all returned home satisfied and loud in their praise of the A. O. H. and the young amateurs. Pilgrim's drama of "Robert Emmet," revised, corrected and lengthened by the "amateurs," and rehearsed under the able direction of Mr. Harry Ma-lone, Ma-lone, was presented in a masterly m?. ;-ner ;-ner and Mr. Malone is being justly complimented on the good judgment 1 he displayed in his caste of local A-ent. A-ent. Every character was more than good. Lawrence Malone as Robert Emmet Em-met looked handsome and assumed tho attitude of the Irish martyr almost to perfection. One would judge by his manner and movements on the stage that he had studied carefully the life of the great patriot. He appeared first in a rich blue suit, the uniform of the Society of Friends. After his capture, he was stripped of his uniform. In Kil-mainham Kil-mainham Jail he wore a black coat, and stock, light pants and vest. This scene was very affecting and many-were many-were noticed in the audience weeping. Miss Veronica Fitzpatrick as Miss Curran Cur-ran has 110 equal on the amateur stage, i John Kelly and Genevieve Fitzpatrick j as Darby and Judy kept the house in ' roars of laughter. They were true to life and their friends will look forward j to the pleasure of hearing from them j soon again. Dan Gallivan as O'Leary j could not be better. Dan Coughlan who I took the part of Dowdall justly mer- ! its his share of the praise and M. M'Gill as Sergeant Topfall was where he belonged. James Burns, sr., per- j sonated' Lord Norbury and looked as j merciless as ever his lordship could ' have been, all could see at a glance j that there was no mercy for the mis- j oner. Mr. Clark as jailer acted very I gracefully and humane. Mr. B. M'Donough took the part of high sheriff, sher-iff, ' read the death warrant, and accompanied ac-companied the prisoner to the gallows. gal-lows. Mr. F. Fitzpatrick read the pro- j logue to the play, and astonished every ! one by the masterly manner in which ( he did it. The remarks on the last hours of Robert Emmet by Mr. H. Ma- , lone were well received and richly ap- j plauded. The chorus by the children of j the A. O. H. was very well given. ' John Kelly received round after round i of applause for his rendition of "The I Day We Left Ireland." Miss M soriey, whosii cultivated voice is always appreciated, ap-preciated, sang three beautiful selections, selec-tions, and as on other occasions did herself credit. The Kelly sisters were also good. Miss Malone, under whos- direction the musical part of the programme pro-gramme was placed, is deserving of extra credit. Taking it all through, it waa an entertainment that the order may Justly feel proud of, and the young amateurs cannot find their superiors. su-periors. East or West. After the programme was finished, Mr. McDonough introduced lie v. Father Fa-ther Keeman of St. Mary's Cathedral, Salt Lake City, The Rev. gentleman commenced by thanking the order for sending him not only one invitation, but two. He said he had often heard Father Kiely speak of the good generous gen-erous people of Park City, but never before, had the pleasure of being en--tartained by them. He encouraged encour-aged all the young men to join the A. O. H. and sail he hoped by next March to find the order in Park City numbering 500. He then said a few words about the coming lecture; for the benefit of St. Anne's Orphanage. The dramatic company with Father Keenan and another priest (whose name the writer has forgotten) in their midst, had their pictures taken on the stage. Thus closed one of the most enjoyable en-joyable entertainments ever given in Park City. - |