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Show TRUTH 12 AMUSEMENT8. Dark. A Woman's SacGrand Theater rifice' matinee today, performance Helds band and Orpheus tonight. club tomorrow evening. Salt Lake Theater COMING ATTRACTIONS. Salt Lake Theater Our New Minister May 3 and 4; Anna Held, May 5-- 7. Grand Theater Elleford week beginning May 2d. Stock Co., The theme mother love in Miss Coghlans recent play is, in reality, The Greatest Thing in the World. GRAND K THEATRE ORPHEUS FMIOUS CLUB TOURING THE UNITED STATES - AND - HELDS MILITARY BAND IVI SUNDAY VSNINS AVI I IVIM I SUNDAY EVENING BPKCIAL PKOORAMMK Grand Selection, "Prince of Pilscn" L. Lucie rf Ileld's Band. Pianoforte Solo, "Theme and Vnriiillons" Katharine I)c Vcro. Chopin lteadlngit Anon a. LoveH Bucrillca" Dunbar b. "Encouragement" Dorothy Wnlsworlh. Aria, Rcgnava Del Silenzlo" (from Lucia Verdi de Lamraermoor) Jean St. Itemy. Violin Solos, "Romance Sana PurolcH" Wieniawskl "Rondo Elegant" Bernhard Wuls worth. Bruhara "Hungarian Dances Held's Band. Pianoforte and Violin, "Sonato Op, 8" .G rclg Allegretto Quasi Andantioo. Allegro Mol to Vivace. Katharine l)o Vero ami Bernhard Walther Song, "The Awakening of the Rose". .Maas (With Violin Obligato.) Joan St. Roiny and Bernhard Walther. 1 Violin Solos a. "Adugio Pulhethiue" b. "La Rondo des Lutins" Dance) Bernhard Walther. Monologuo, "India Dorothy Wals worth. Grand Selection, "Faust" Held's Band. Slats ten this highest essential of dramatic art. Instead of courting concealment they Invite exposure. Their stagy manikins run before the footlights on visible wires. You can set the turning of tho wheels and hear the buzzing The Greatest of the machinery. heaven World the in forgive Thing the adjective! concerns a young man, Cecil, who inherits a desire for strong drink. While under the Influence of liquor Ills vlcicus tendencies assert themselves. At the rising of the curtain he causes an estrangement between himself and his sweetheart and continues to shockingly misbehave himself, finally raising a check given him by a kindly disposed Cecil wears his yellow brother. If as it wore the-re- d streak badge of the play Cecil's courage. Throughout mother shields her degenerate son at the expense of her pride, station and dignity. About him she throws the mantle of a mothers love tlie greatest thing In the world. In portraying the mother the authors somewhat redeem themselves. They give us a woman who, curiously weak and strong, typified indulgent motherhood as it runs the gamut between concern for But self and concern for others. the authors go to unwarranted extremes. Virginia Bryant, instead of all at timed, the convincing being, mother, thrilling us with her open love, becomes, frequently only a sniveling parent dripping with material hysteria. Now, If the writers of this Impossible mixture of warm play and chilly melodrama had chosen other methods to develop a theme so entirely sympathetic and elevating, the outcome would have ben more satisfying. The authors do not appear to understand that, In such matters. Ibsen and Lincoln J. Carter cannot by any dramatic Cecil, miracle become reconciled. from the first, Is recognized by the audience as a cad. He doesnt pos sess even the robust cussedness of heroic meanness. Instead cf working on the sympathetic keyboard of the audience he rings up a mercenary cash register with melodramatic small coin. Rose Coghlan is deserving of a better dramatic fate than is given to her in this little play with a The only triumph in the big title. is her drama personality as a woman But one an actress. as and genius actress cannot make a play any more than one fig leaf can cover naked From a costume standmediocrity. point the play was worth while. The ladies of the company fluttered their dressy feathers like an Easter procession of peacocks. Derr is making the most elaborate preparations to handle the crowds that will be attracted by the Press clubs Shakespearian revival. In order to relieve the congestion inside as well as outside the box office, George is drilling several underOf course when the crowd studies. has quite exhausted him with clamorous rushes, George can retire for a few months, leaving the understudies in charge. George doesnt want a repetition of his Tom show experiences, when the crowd nearly drove him to death for trying to be a good fellow. Although the name of George Derr does not appear upon the official cast of play actors, yet he fills a most important role in the general dramatic scheme a part where money talks. Remember, the Press clubs cast-iro- n cast will appear in its great feat cf tragic endurance for two nights, May sung round the hero in blue we have had In never end? meter. The AchXf and the Ulysses of the haymow ? in times past, stalked across the m2 wheat fields In Homeric measure Yet at all times and always the emotions! aUs corn-huskin- g Zionite has greeted this returning sol dier of tho plow with leud acclaim and a ful box office. Next week our theater-goinhospitality will be nut to the test in a reception to Our New a clerical gentleman from Minister New England touring the wild and woolly for the first time. As Our New Minister brings with him aug thorship credentials from George 1G and 17. SHIELDS MILITARY BAND A. SUNDAY WILL INCLUDB WALTHER BERNARD VMIST DORom mivoKTii KATHARINE DE TERE mm PIASISTE SOPRHO TICKETS ON SALE ALL DAY SATURDAY 40-- PI EC ES-- 40 matic orthodoxy. The play is said to be one of those quaint and kindly stories of way down east life, bucomedy and bbling with pastoral sparkling with home spun epigrams. The memory of The Old Homestead will live as long as trees and sunshine weave their mottled patterns upon the role of the dear old home. Ia Our New Minister Denman Thompson is said to have found the same in key to our sympathetic emotions asand his earlier classic of country life hold living. Our New Minister willat the services not revival meetings Salt Lake theater May 3 and 4. Bnzzlnl Winters Gounod licketa oa sale Smith Dnig SOg Store and Grand Theatro. . . the ambitious title of the story is intended as a reflective compliment to its literary and constructive merit, tho authors (there are two - OMSRRAUI CONCERT EVENING TKB PROGRAMME Salt Lakers have seen all kinds of rural stage pictures hung In all kinds Dramatic epics of alfalfa frames. Goddard discretion. The Greatest Thing in the World is a weak and colorless mixture of the dramatic methods peculiar to Ibsen and Lincoln J. Carter. In the examples of hereditary influence introduced, the authors, with rough shoes walk Into a field, where, If angel3 fear to tread, the mediocre playwriters should certainly hesitate to enter. Tho Norwegian dramatist has so vividly laid bare the vicious tendencies, transmitted from parent to child, that other writers, along similar lines, appear like weak and blundering imitators. Ibsen covers his stage puppets with Borne resemblance to flesh and blood and the emotional strings which control their action are at least partially hidden. Those who Imitate Ibsen fail to understand the genius of concealment. The authors of The Greatest Thing in the World" havp forgot MANAGM Grand Theatre If, however, than . S. ZIMMERMAN, JEAN ST. REMT (Elvos of her) aro possessed of more vanity Denman Thompson and George Ryer, nobody In this town should question his dra-- & Last Sunday evening, for the second time this season, Messrs. Held and GEO.D.PYPEJL SALTTPT m MANAGES. COSTAIN 8HS. 99 yin mltnjtly tnlenjlinj play illajtralixJc of Prices 25 cents to $1.50. over into multiplied themselves mwe it. The best impression was of Miss Marie Stori, an artiste amental and vocal ability vl med equally effective as a or as a singer. She Jns -l . Kentucky Home herself the violin obligato, receivinga st applausive recognition for cut ot the ordinary. Herr.GeTWJ ch demonstrated that the an his musical heath when P toI cornet. He also introduceds are instrument, the hemld da . Mr. Blodecks cello and selections were well receive J WEDNESDAY MATINEE AT J. lif in the entertainment was y TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NEXT Ovir New Minister Zimmerman presented to Zionites an The Mozart imported organization. rendered Symphony club of New York a program in conjunction with Helds fonr Military band. There were only musicians in the Symphony club, y England. Vklldren under 12 will be admitted to the matinee for 25 cents each. rj p- |