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Show ZILLAH, THE FORTUNE TELLER-CTadamc TELLER-CTadamc Janauschefe's Opening Piece at the Salt Lake Theatre "Zillah, the Fortune Teller," in which Janauschek opens her Salt Lake engagement engage-ment to-night, is one of the fine pieces of dramatic work which cannot but imbue an audience with that feeling necessary to enjoy a great work, fine pictures and the natural delineations of a mother's affection and attachment for a long-lost child. In this work the acting of Madame Janauschek so developes the mind, that for the time being one forgets he is in a play-house, and only beholds the natural yearnings of a mother's heart. To see this play rendered by the Janauschek company compa-ny is a dramatic treat seldom offered our people. In the acting company we find the names of the people who have for years Deeome - laminar wun practical stage requirements, standing at the head of the profession as the leading and reliable re-liable persons in the lines of acting Messrs. George D. Chaplin, Alex. H. Stuart, Jas. Carden, Perkins Fisher, are gentlemen well recognized regarding merit. While the character of the despised Jewess is not the Madame 's greatest im-ersonation, im-ersonation, it is one of her best. The main plot of the play centers on the efforts ef-forts of the Jewish mother to recover her child, stolen in infancy and brought up by a patrician family of Christians. But when the poor mother discovers her child she finds her firmly attached to her supposed parents and imbued with all the prejudices which existed against the Jewish Jew-ish race during the middle ages. The mother, however, after many rebuffs suc ceeds in establishing her claim to her daughter and also in getting her away from her supposed parents. The girl is placed by her mother in a beautiful home at Venice and there seeks to win the affection of her child by every art and to alienate her from her former friends. The pathetic story ends with the death of the mother and the return of the daughter to her Christian lover and foster parents. The piece affords full scope for Madame Janauschek' s wonderful won-derful powers of tragic acting. |