OCR Text |
Show Theatre. Miss Rose Bain made her first bow to a Salt Lake audience last evening as Lady Margaret Oliphant in the play of "Madge of Elvanlee." j The part of Lady Margaret is a difficult one to assume, and requires more than ordinary ability to portray the varied emotions with which the peculiar situations in which she is placed cause her to feel and express. Misa Bain is very pains-taking, and certainly docs all in her power to do justice to the author's meaning, but the part of Lady Margaret is rather beyond her power. Notwithstanding this, tho lady made a favorable impression. im-pression. Mr. Lindsay enacted the part of Sir Malcolm with great energy and much feeling. As Dr. Fairlie, Mr. Gill showed great aptitude- in his adoptation of the Scotch accent, and made a feature of the part. The balance bal-ance of the characters for the most part were well sustained. The play was, however, Bomewhat marred from an evident lack of study and want of Knowieage oi me text un mib part ui the company. This evoning Miss Rose Bain and Mr. Willie Gill are to be the recipients of a farewell benefit, when will be presented Ojtave Feuillet's great play entitled "The Sphinx." The character char-acter of Blanche De Chelles by Miss Rose Bain, Mr. Willie Gill as Arthur De Jardie, Henri De Savigney, Mr. Lindsay; Admiral De Savigney, Mr. Marden; Lord Astley, Mr. Forster; Bertha De Savigney, Miss Carrie Cogswell, Cogs-well, and the balance of characters in competent hands. The performance will close with the roaring farce " Box and Cox." Mr, Willie Gill as Box and Mr. J. 0. Graham Gra-ham as Cox. |