Show e G 0 AMUSEMENTS The principal occupation of those In attendance at-tendance at the Theatre lat evening aide from admiring Blanche Bates was in expressing amazement at the sparseness sparse-ness of the audIence and in trying to find 3 satisfactory reason for i Why the house was not crowded is indeed a puzzle The Frawieys have always been a name to conjure with in Salt Lake her corn lug had been long and industriously boomed and expectations ot a great opening were at the top notch But the opening night arrived and the attendance could only be ranked a falrIn fact almost al-most slim The approach of the sand s-and the consequent demand on every ones purse the heavy pull on the public just made by Collier and the fact that the play selected for the opening was but little known to theatregoerperhaps nil these causes had their influence in keep ing down the interest Those who saw An Unconventional Honeymoon however were well repaid for their attendance It Is an Ada Rohan John Drew comedy of the most charac tensIle type which means that it Is ri most as much or a twopart erection as The Taming of the Shrewindee i Is a sort ot modernization ot that comedy Miss Bate was thoroughly delightful her earnest magnetic charm or voice and manner being given the fullest possible play and her style at tmes being quite reminiscent or Miss Rehan with whom she has been of late so much associated beeq s muc Mr lrawle played her vIsavis with the usual Frawley ease polish and ccl erity ldF Ile Miss I hates n1 eJel avery a-very hear repton on his entrance The solo weakness of the comedy is In Its being a tune played too entirely on one string I Is a sweet tune but It is sweetness sweet-ness rather Ions drawn out and It seemed a pity that clever Lucille Lavere and Eleanor Carey whose talents every one knows to say nothing or the unused masculine mas-culine ability In the company could not Ibo I-bo given some better opportunity Miss I Fanchon Campbell the Seba Barh Is avery a-very winning actress and Mr Lane Edwards wards made a good deal of mirth 1Ir Mathlen Is not all he should be as the cynical friend and Mr Hickma was a lively Rycer With the large company he has at his command Mr Frwley should be able to give very complete presentations of the other plays In his repertoire with one of which by the way he might have done better to open Tonight he presents The Dancing Girl the play In which Sothen and Virginia Harned once made so decided an impression Impres-sion He and Miss Bates should b ex celent cat In the two main roles The staging and stage management last night were most capable and complete and showed the han ofl vley throughout At the Grand there vs much the same I cause for mysUfcator as at the Theatre Contrary to expectation the turnout was but far the crowd being cntned to the glC The Span or Life Is the thrill ins tumultuous melodrama in which a troupe of acrobats play the star roles TheIr feat or climbing on each others shoulder forming a tower and then tumbling the tower across a chasm to make a human bridge across which the heroine the clutches or villain herine escapes ciutce a vian of the deadliest dye Is very well remem bere here having once been seen at the Theatre I is as remarkable as ever and the whole Is certainly a full ot chls and I thrills a the most insatiate gler fend could desire The scenery IS striking thrpughout and the acting earnest and of the vigorous type the heroine and the soubrette being the best actor In the list The Span oC Life goes the whole week and the cleverness of the Donazett will undoubtedly draw wel wl |