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Show Florence Roberts aS "Ziza." Miss Florence Roberts has como and gone, and who is it that cdiCa whether Mrs. Leslie Carter can or cannot handle the character of "Zaza" to greater advantage. Mrs. Carter may have a famo reaching from Venus to Neptune, but Miss Roberts has sufficient ability to satisify her audience au-dience In every detail and that's all wo of the common herd desire. "Zaza" is a creature of tho lower theatrical life in Paris a woman Ignorant of all that is beautiful, puro and good In tho world, a woman loving flattery and praise and feeding upon it as the moth upon tho flame, yet withal a woman having that within her that could be and was touched by what alio believed to be tho honest lovo of an honest man. Miss Roberts shows a remarkable versatility in the portrayal por-trayal of this character and easily leads her audicnee from the comic side of any situation to tears in tho tragic side. There is very little moral to the play it is merely a story of a woman in love and one who loves to the limit and was happy in that love for love's sake. She awakens awak-ens from her dream to find it only a delusion and a snare, but still she loves. She breaks away from her lover who was tho husband of a Madame Dufresne of Paris, and goes back to fulfill her engagements on the stage. Her ambitions quickened by her love led her to devote her life to bettering herself intellectually and in her stage capacity. She becomes the Idol of Paris, and in the last scene, wherein was portrayed the final parting part-ing between her and her lover, she rises to a height of womanhood that docs the soul good. Zaza was supported by a company of unnusual excellence, tho characters of Madame Dufresne, Cathcart, Jack Legardo, Aun Roso and Monsieur Dufresne coming in for a generous share of applause. |