Show AMUSEMENTS PASSIONS EIAVE Miss Nellie Boyd The favorite of two hemispheres including in-cluding Pocatello and Hams Fork appeared ap-peared at the Theatre in John A Stevens Ste-vens play of Passions Slave last evening even-ing The gifted Mr Stevens himself once unfolded the beauties of this particular par-ticular composition to a Salt Lake audience so that it does not take us entirely by surprise Since he parted with itt hasundergone afew changes but it cannotbe said to be less dizzily beautiful than before It is one of those lurid works abounding in dark stages pistol flashes and hahas the i language of which often takes sublime flights beforewhich even Shakespeare or Steele Mackaye would have to doff the hat as when the villain utters The game is yours now but my time will come or as whenthe heiopn being informed that I the Jieroine Is to wed his rval exclaim ex-claim Rather would the gentle dove mate with the toad JJ This telling sentiment sen-timent sometimes flies over the heads of the parquette but is always caught up by the galleries wjth infinite gustc The company with which Miss Boyd suriyiunds herself are strictly oil a par with the offspring of Mr Stevens genius They might qrowd the gay halls of Amy Wyoming or serve to woo the restless sheep herderof Scd field Emery County i to forgetfulness of the tariff but from the app plectic lunged leading mandown through the shouting villain and the tenderfooted ather to the ghastly ecmedy men of the play they should one and all unite in apetition to have aside track built around Salt Like when they again think of extending their depreda Lions out in this direction The house though not large wail better than the same company has been accustomed to draw in this city THE HOWARD ATHANEUM This spec alty Co one of the beston the oad appears at the Theatre this evening THE OLD FOLKS SHOW The Old folks Committee seem as determined to do something for the delight of the venerables m midwinter as in midsummer summer and the old folks day at the theatre for the past few yearsnas come tobe quite as notable to them as their p cnic day in the summer C R Savage Sav-age of the Old Folks Committee is moving in the matter of the annual performance and has secured the Theatre The-atre freelor next Thursday afternoon wnen the Home club will give a free performance for the old folks widows orphans and mates of the City The Club left the choice of the play with the Old FolksCommittee who named the Green Lanes of England as being the one on the Clubs repertory which would most please the varied tastes of the audience The Green Lanes there ore will be givenat 320 Thursday af t erno n next |