Show AMUSEMENTS Blanche Blaache Bates was greeted last night by an audience which in size and bril brilliancy brilliancy haney has rarely been excelled in the history of the Salt Lake theatre It worked itself Into fevers of enthusiasm as Ru though Ough 1 the night were not warm enough already and drifted out Into the refreshing osone convinced that I I is 18 nobody quite like this daughter of the west Standing room was at a premium in 11 the lower part of the th house and the galleries were packed to suffocation with men and women It was a tribute Miss Bates will not t soon forget as she remarked at the close of the performance Under cIer U Two Flags is a triumph first I for tor Miss Bates and then for stage mechanism A good deal has been said baid and written of or both and aud neither has been too highly praised Cigarette does not make her appearance until the sec eec second second ond act Dd and nd as may be guessed th the house was keyed up to expectancy by the time the rushed wildly to the center of ot the stage The ovation was WM perfect The house went vent wild And An she Bhe the object of this unusual outburst I threw kisses at her admirers and bowed and nd bowed acknowledgments in ina Ina ina a cunning way but never for a moment stepping out of the character Her creation of ot Cigarette is marvel marvelous ous In conception and portrayal In Inthe Inthe Inthe the finale of the second act where she dances in the wine shop and endeavors not to betray before the soldiers her agony at heart hurt Miss Bates reaches the sublime The support Mr r Frohman has given the young star is notable Mr Or Ormonde Ormonde Ormonde monde is a strong Bertie Bertle Cecil but has hag hasa haita a tendency to speak his lines a little too rapidly for clear enunciation Rock Rockingham Rockingham Rockingham ingham who is known in the book as the Seraph Berties closest friend is in the capable hands Bands of Claude GlUing Gilling water Rake is well done by Edward Abeles Campbell Gollan Gonan enters caters into the villainy of with sufficient sufficient dent spirit but is hardly Ideal Next to Miss Bates the honors among th the women are borne by Rose Snyder as the countess Miss Klas Howard Is a beau beautiful beautiful beautiful Lady Venetia but many of her hel scenes call can for more force than she dis displayed displayed displayed played mat last evening Mrs Bates In a small part that of the doctress dem demonstrated demonstrated castrated her long and successful ac acquaintance acQuaintancE with the stage In the nine scenes of Under Two lags there are effects which have rie ever er been approached on a local stage The most notable of these is the storm in gorge produced by lights apparently during which Cigarette makes her ber famous ride to arrive with th the condemned Cecils reprieve The ride n itself ef beginning on the stage and ending in the flies mES is a feat not to be overlooked hut but it Is 15 questionable whether It caused cau ed a deeper Impression than the storm effect The Algerian mist mi t is s 8 another trong effect eff t There has be bEen n no play here in years more ha mounted The play itself is rightfully describe I 1 as founded en on n Ouid B romance At times It leaves the book altogether It is a powerful melodrama melO ramo arid and that is isaU all aU In other hand hands than those of Miss Bates Eates and her splendid n ld support its his history history history tory might be a f one The attraction runs niBS until Wednesday night with a matinee tomorrow There ha ban been a heavy advance sale for the remainder of the engagement The Salt Palace spreads sp eads before Its patrons this week one of or the th best at tractions of the season season sea on under the name of burlesque and vaudeville The first part is known as Camp Kent after the Fort Port Douglas rendezvous of the Utah volunteers and in it is portrayed I some of the hilariously funny experiences experiences of the raw recruits r with prominent prominent nent neat places provided for the awkward squad and a German band The pro gramme continues with a chorus by the company n which found Rd high favor with the large audience and md concludes with witha a farce called caned The pall Han Hall of Statues in which the comedians have wide scope The bill will doubtless prove a strong one for the week wee The Los Angeles Angele Express gives the latest news of Ralph Cummings It says sa s Ralph E B Cummings the actor man who held forth at the Burbank during April and May has hied himself to cooler regions ns He U has gone Into the frozen north to recoup his fortunes in inthe Inthe inthe the gold fields of the Yukon His last appearance was at the Alcazar theatre in San Francisco Fra whither he went to coax his wife who is a member of that company into lending him some money But Blanche drew the purse strings pretty tight when theft she saw him com corn coming comIng corning ing and his last appearance In Frisco was as disastrous as his last week in Ia Los Angeles Cummings brought his company here hereIn herein herein In April opening on the in The Little Minister He struck Los An Angeles Angelee Angeles geles gelee heavily in debt but such was the success attending the te t e initial performance performance mance of J S M lI Barries Scottish Idyl that be he succeeded In iii getting out of debt at the end of the first week This was due however to the superb acting of ot the leading le woman Laura Nelson Hall HaU for the rest of the company amounted to little Cummings himself was no actor He was extremely eX careless as to details in the mounting and performance performance mance of plays while his treatment of those under him is said to have been equivalent to the brutality of a pirate captain over a slave crew When Miss Hall left the company it literally went to pieces Since his appearance here Cummings has been going about the northwest playing stands his company getting smaller and smaller as they found opportunity to go else elsewhere elsewhere where until when he appeared in San Francisco Franciaco recently the great actor manager was the e whole wh thing |