Show I If AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS One of the essential qualities of or a first class dass stock actor is the to leap from one part to another no matter what the extremes of difference and do all of 0 I them reasonably well Willard Mack showed last evening that he could Jump I from melodrama heroics to pure comedy and still lIun land on his feet feeL The offering at the Colonial was Prince Karl presented pr by b the stock company One of the reasons why the late Richard Mansfield accepted the play in the first place was because the title role dominates the performance throughout It is hard bard to follow in to the footsteps of such a i genius and Mr r Mack acquitted himself creditably The piece Is really farce rath rather er than comedy and does not amount to much from a literary and dramatic stand standpoint standpoInt standpoint point except that it offers one character study the kind that Mansfield used to delight in and portray so wonderfully It would be wholly unfair to Mr Mack to tomake tomake tomake make comparisons with Mansfield Elim Eliminating Eliminating the shadow of or that genius and using the ordinary run of actors for comparison com comparison parison it must be stated that Mr Mack gave gae an excellent performance The part partis is full of subtle possibilities which he may not hav to the utmost but he played it on broad lines which pleased the audience Blanche Douglas in bt the leading female role appeared frequently but did not have hae much real acting to do She was not seen to nearly such good advantage as during the previous week Most of ot the rest of the cast would have done much better If they had II ad taken the pains to learn their lines Of course it isa Is Isa Isa a hard bard task to 10 learn a new play every week eek but it can be done and done well as has been demonstrated lo to these thelle man many years However It cant be done without work as well as nil rehearsals and actors and actresses who lack in diligence should re te remember remember member that they cannot please the pub public public public lic when they forget what to do and for their lines JInes have to depend de d on repeating what is ts handed them from the prompt promptbook promptbook book In the wings Rings I The TM piece will run until Wednesday evening and then if the nubile Insists Mr I Mack and eo co company paro pany will return to The I Girl of the Golden West Otherwise they will mil stick to Prince Karl the rest of or orthe the week It was announced from the stage that the company will go to the Lyceum the theatre theatre theatre atre next week for an extended stay sta The experiment of having three theatres In the city playing attractions attractions will be watched with considerable interest especially in view Ie of the fact that so many man companies and theatres in innumerous Innumerous innumerous numerous places have been hitting the rocks of late It Is to be hoped that the I company will do a profitable business as the standard of Its performances Is gen gem generally good when one considers the prices I charged ha ld and one play may rna see really good dramas at half the customary prices for I this class dass of shows I i Last night at the Orpheum Orph um lie the Imperial quartet quarreL composed comp led of male voices was i easily asil the head and front of a show that j was as nearly to the good Oed This quartet Is made up of Fred C Graham I second tenor T S Ashworth first tenor VII Vie first bass with an an excellent baritone voice DIce and J 1 Willard I Squires second bass with a voice olce that goes down into the depths The choice of selections by this quartet I was mot most fortunate Every one was tune tuneful tuneful i ful and some of or them gave opportunity for tor individual ual work as well as fOU hand harmony The response to the last encore tickled the audience mightily Is was a clever way ay of handling Peterr Peteri Peter J Jr r i r Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers Poppers It Is a gem gerh of its kind The more the theatregoers t see of George Primrose the more they like him and the more they marvel at his dancing Easily he is Americas most graceful dancer as the program puts It IL George Primrose has bas danced himself into the good graces of ot millions of people for forty years vears and more but be dances better to today today today day than he ever did He has with him I some of his old of the halcyon days of minstrelsy whom he calls his dancing boys boy They are apt and finished pupils dunces of the great eat t Primrose the only dancer on In i a America erica These are ae the Ken Kennedy Kennedy nedy brothers and Burke and Grady Grad GradyAn GradyAn An act that Is entirely ne wand unique is that of Leander Cordova end his com corn company company pany pang In Wireless The spectacular fea feature feature feature ture is fine the apparatus being mechanically mechanIcally perfect there Is no question about the coils cons and the tuning box condensers being the real stuff The apparatus used In the act is 15 capable of sending and re reo receiving wireless messages m up to or miles The dramatic situations are good I The human interest injected into the play let is remarkable especially when it is considered that there Is no on stage woman With DeCordova are William Co eo Cohill hill William G Slider and Harry Ham S Sar Sargent Sargent gent Jent The piece was written by Alice Allee Leal Pollock One of the most pleasing skits that has ever been seen In vaudeville Is III Married in which Harry Linton and NIta NUn Laurence Laureate appear The rh dialogue Is keen sharp and witty Mr Ir Linton does some limericks and other oth r songs with self sel accompaniment I ment on the piano that are really good His closing scene cene ne and half song half haIr rec n which he be daises advises people to take of be life be everlastingly everlastingly I enjoyment out life and not I IThe In ly reaching re for the dollar Is superb The Sisters with mandolin and banjo are pleasing plea Happy Jack Gardner does a mono monologue monologue monologue logue and a series of or songs in that are fetching He Ile is happy happ indeed and hn him makes his audience audlene happy with him Ida Russell Ru en and Grace EloIse Church have ae an act called From Society to the flowery Bowery Gain Coin some The story of Sis Hopkins is I one of subtle pathos Being intimately associated ed ed with the love Jove of Sis Sic 51 the odd little country girl It has m an added charm chann and the tale is t told In a most natural and unconventional manner Miss MIES Rose Mel Melville Melvilla tel villa ville who plays play the part of S originated origInated mated the character Her unassuming ac se acceptance acceptance of the love loe of a man whose de do colt celt is apparent to every one but the girl girlIs 1 Is pathetic yet when she awakens to his Ids I duplicity the punishment she metes out outto outto 1 to him Is swift and sure Miss liss Melville is surrounded this season by b a company comp ny which it is said surpasses In Individual ability any an supporting organization organisation which I she has previously had Sis Hopkins comes to the Salt Lake theatre for tor an en engagement engagement engagement of four performances beginning tonight George GeorgeE E Gill is here looking after the interests of George M 1 latest rural ru cu rural curat ral rat musical tl comedy Fifty Miles Mlles from Boston which comes to the Salt Lake l theatre next Thursday |