Show AMUSEMENTS MRS POTTERS PAULINE Mrs Brown Potter drew another good audience to the Theatre last evening the galleries thia timo evenfurnishinga quota of her critics The verdict all around seemed to be more favorable than on the opening night probacly because there was more sympathy with the play and it must be said because the faults of the star were not so pronounced pro-nounced The heavy stride was suppressed sup-pressed in a great measure and there was less restlessness than before All in all though it fell short in the greatest scene of the play where Pauline discovers tho deception Claude has prycticed upon her Mrs Potters delineation of Pauline was a clever one and one that may be worked into a good deal more There wee occasional oc-casional stumblings both on the part of 1 1 r DII the lady and Mr Bellow last evening I that told the piece was not entirely familiar to them and the strangest lape of all was a sudden and awkward halt in the great speech of the play beginning be-ginning This is thy palace etc Why too does Mrs Potter change Balwers language the speech Hath he a magic to exorcise hate to the commonplace UWhy do I cease to hate him That dialogue is known to every school boy and girl who ever passed through the Fifth Reader and the change inclines an audience to think that the lady underrates its intelligence by simplifying Bulwers English to their capacity Mrs Potter wore some lovely and costly gowns of the Directory period which elicited little gasps of admiration all over the house Mr Bell w was as exquisitely handsome in face as ever and a little less Irvinglike in his delivery Ho played Claude with a certain chastened chas-tened holy fire much aa if the gardeners garden-ers son had become a disciple of some early Oscar Wilde but Mr Ballew is so finished an actor that we are not prepared pre-pared to say his Clande was bad though it did differ from the traditions of the past Mr Bakers Beauseant was fair the balance of the support quite bad Those who have seen the hale bluff and brusque character oKenzie for instance made of Colonel Dames in the past must have groaned at the very wooden delineation afforded last evening by Mr Kellard The company leave today for San Francisco BOYCE LANSING It ia comparatively a rare thing for ns to be able to announce an entertainment entertain-ment which we honestly feel will be in no sense a disappointment to our people Such we are confident will be given by Royce Lansing Company tomorrow eve |