Show AMUSEMENTS BLOW FOR BLOWSuggests that the play larder at the Grand is running run-ning low Either the supply is short or the management is wary of attempting attempt-ing anything that makes extra demands de-mands on its leading lady who sweet and girlish as she is is not equal to the requirements of strong emotional pat Blow for Blow is one of the old old timers its very name suggests the musty top shelves of the literary closet and after one has seen it the impression deepens that i is a drama with a very remote past In the old days when McKenzie Margetts Graham Gra-ham Lindsay Miss Adams Miss Col brook et al 1 were the idols of Salt Lake theatre goers the play was familiarly known later about 1S85 or 1886 our amateurs the Home club tried it on but only for one consecutive night Ada Dwyer played the lead Mr Spencer Spen-cer the villain Mrs Cummings the hero Mark Wilton the doctor and Mrs Wells Lady Linden The impersonators imper-sonators of the other roles have faded from our memory Even in those times the play was found out of date stilted and impossible and we regret to say all those characteristics are accentuated ac-centuated now The piece starts off well amid holds up fairly till the last act when it collapses completely like some promising cake that on being be-ing taken out of the oven falls into a soggy chunk The old time ending Mr Edeson in which the villain is tumbled out of a window and falls to the pavement below is surely preferable prefer-able to the lame finish of last night The characters l strove nobly under I their handicaps First praise is due Mr Edeson who made a unique and telling scoundrel Miss Warren was sweet and sympathetic but lacking greatly in the necessary strength Miss Winters very pretty deliniation deepened deep-ened the impression she created during dur-ing her brief stay at the Lyceum and she was greeted with a warm welcome Mr Edeson made everything possible out of the not very fat old man and Mr 1 aIde did likewise with his very albruptly chopped off and uncompleted role Mr Ingersoll had 1 very lachry man part and did it passably The other slight characters were in good hands HERRMANN The great wizard opens his engagement at thc theatre this evening He will be aided by his wife and a company of fourteen people peo-ple COGHLINS SALE The sale of seats for Coghlin and Stockwell at the I I theatre in The Magistrate and Masks and Faces Monday and Tuesday Tues-day next begins this morning Emily Enimett is AlA Special to The Herald BUTTE Mont Nov 21Mrs J K Emmett known to the stage as Emily Lyton arrived in Butte today with the Rose Coghlan company and in an interview in-terview this evening talked about bringing suit for libel against the papers pa-pers that published the story sent from Memnhis that she had stolen S4700 and a lot of diamonds from her husband at Denison Texas and deserted him for Edmund Hayes a member of the Cogh Ian company Miss Lyton says she knows Hayes only as a friend and knew him long before she married Emmett and that she determined to leave Emmett long before he attempted to kill her in San Francisco and her determination to leave him caused his attempt om her life She refused to prosecute him because be-cause she pitied him and not because she loved him Miss Lyton says she has retained Attorney Deweese of Denver Den-ver to bring suit for divorce and that Alice Neilson a singer at Tivoli will be named as corespondent on Em metts admissions of intimacy She says she traveled with Emmett since theSan Francisco affair only for the purpose of securing 700 which his manager owed her and was a wife to her husband in name only |