Show AMUSEMENTS TS J Whenever there Is an especially laly cold day or an especially warm day or an especially big apple or anything else ell which may ma permit comparisons the old timer promptly says sas disparagingly Well that may be all al right but I can remember etc etc etc Along the same line lne whenever the play Rip Van Winkle is mentioned there ther are and many others whose experience does not date back for a gen generation generation who will promptly say sy well WeH this man may do pretty well wel in the part pt but you ought to have seen old Joe Jo Jef Jet Jeffersons Jeffersons Rip etc etc etc ete While Thomas Jefferson Jeferson who opened his engagement in Rip Van Winkle Winkl at atthe atthe atthe the Salt Lake theater last evening uses Hees use the name of his hi father as an advertise advertisement advertIsement ment meat and as a steppingstone toward recognition he be Is really raly laboring under undera a handicap if i he wishes to be judged strictly on his merits merit as an actor The Tle fact fat is that there will never be another Rip Van Winkle like hike dear old Joe Jo Jeffer Jefferson Jeferson Jefferson son There are thousands and thousands of or people in the United States today yes hundreds of ot thousands whose ten recollections of ot the stage per performances performances they have hae witnessed duster cluster cuter pr around the first time they saw Joseph Joset Jefferson Jeferson in this role He had a unique and engaging personality coupled cupl th infinite art as an actor and his deline delineation reached the head and the heart Iton equally and thoroughly As for the son sn it I has been established for some years ear that he is entitled to credit as an actor eliminating compari comparisons sons cons with his paternal ancestor Never Nevertheless Nevertheless Nevertheless his performance performance when com corn comparisons comparisons are ae made made illustrates vividly vivi the difference between genius and painstaking ing imitative talent In th first part of the play the father used to arouse affectionate locate ton te sympathy for the weak and worthless vagabond ya bond white while the son n loses I that teat peculiar fascination and ana plays plas Rip Ip almost as a gutter drunkard drunkard arousing disgust rather than sympathy In the latter portion however where Rip awakes from his long sleep the younger Jefferson shows to better advantage than at first He plays t part pa of the tot tottering tottering tottering old man with excellent effect and the contrast with the ideal is not so a strong Rosalie Rosale DeVeaux is too handsome at attractive attractive and lacking in power to be ef effectively effectively shrewish as Gretchen the much harassed wife of Rip She is better adapted to an rt Ie lt Little Lite Gladys Egan as Rips small smal daughter was one of the stars of the th performance The emotional tremor in her voice as she expostulated over oer the tle ejection of her father was truly mindful of the great geat actresses who pet et their ther names in big letters on the billboards Oscar Johnson as the lie youthful Heinrich was also excellent The rest of oC the com corn company company pany were passable to a a greater gater or less les degree degre The Tho house hous last evening was wa small smal alto altogether alo altogether gether too small when the merit of the tha th performance was considered The engagement closes on Saturday evening Mrs Wiggs of the th Cabbage Patch Path one of the most popular plays that has bus been seen on oh the tile American stage in InY years year Y ar comes to the Salt Lake theater Monday night The sale of seats opens today The advance sale for the engagement Of the Lambardi Grand Opera engagement at the tho th Colonial next week opens this morning |