| Show F AMUSEMENTS I Florence Roberts always a welcome visitor to Salt Lake opened last night at the he theatre an engagement of or four performances In Zira the drama pre presented pr by Margaret Anglin in this city for the first time on or any stage about two years jars ars ago The play pla It will be e remembered tells the story st ry of a girl who was Entrapped Into a marriage with a man who was already alread married Vh n she learned the truth she left let him and became a nurse with the Brit British British British ish army in South Africa There chance threw her a great temptation the lh temptation to submerge her Identity In Inthe Inthe the identity of a unman oman she believed to he be dead She Site yielded and as the theother theother theother other woman went to London Jn n the great metropolis she took up a settle settlement settlement settlement ment work with a young minister Tho The Theother other oth r woman was not dead In due clue course she returned to London in on front d tho the former Cormer nurse and an the lat I ter confessed her dual personality Tho Th young minister has by this time made madea a declaration of his affection The dis disclosure disclosure disclosure I closure does not affect his love loe but I the woman has a terrific struggle with wi h herself before beCore she consents to share his life But the play ends happily enough The first impression on seeing see In Miss Roberts as Zira Is that she is a new Miss Roberts She Is more restrained more natural In her art And yet there are tricks of gesture and expression the best features of ot her work vork In other parts that are moat most worthily It may almost be said that she Is too to restrained in scenes for Cor examples her almost utter lack of emotion when she meets the father she has not se sn sen n for years But her father had not b en kind to her and she had no love for Cor him Why should she be deeply moved mOld at sight of him The part of Zira en enfolds enfolds folds Miss Roberts completely looks the character admirably and she never gets away from It The company Is In the main very good Indeed Thurlow Bergen Is a most natural Rev Gordon Clavering He Is Isan Isan Isan an actor of talent So Is Orlando Daly who appears as Captain Arnold Syl vester Nor should the work of Miss MIs Kate Jepson as Lady Constance Clay Clavering ering be passed without mention The Roberts engagement runs aa has been said through Wednesday Yf night with a matinee on Wednesday The patrons of the Orpheum were treated to a real show lust last night The bill Is by all odds the best b st that has been seen at the house in many a day From start to finish every ev ry number ID ie worthy to be called a frand and no press agents yam arr The last laston laston on the bill Is perhaps entitle 1 to Mst first place pla e If only because It i U IJ so different from the usual vaudeville stunt The original Maud with all that her name implies Is to be seen and ani greatly gr atly en enL L r L r joyed Nor Is Maud the only on y attraction attraction tion of the act for thre of the clev cleverest de erest crest little ponies seen anywhere are included Of course the merriment in induced induced induced by getting the professional proCessional greenhorns to attempt to ride Maud was wasat of at the usual order but the tue fun tun was much more genuine than that Induced In the same way at thA h he circus The satire on Bernard Shaws and Cleopatra When Caesar Cs Her Heris HerIs is so much more attractive in every way than the Roman travesty seen some weeks ago that there is hardly a comparison possible and yet a comparison comparison comparison ison Is Inevitable ble for Cor of ot cours they are on the same order The Tho lines are aregood aregood aregood good and the three characters arc are well veIl up to the mark mar as actors Emma Francis Is q IJ a great as asa asa asa a dancer of Russian dances but her herlong herlong herlong long suit is in bringing with her hur the two Aab boys who are a pair of gen genuine genuine genuine whirlwinds of the desert Nothing like them m has ever been seen since the Arabs of last year ear and the difference lies in the fact that these are two youngsters one of them not over eight years ears old The Tivoli quartette four Cour young men mon whose voices are perfectly blend blended blended ed made such a hit that they were re recalled recall recalled called call d again and again Their act was wa well set as well vell as well they will piove a drawing card for Cor the tue week Another fine musical number and mid one ont which furnished oodles of for forthe or orthe the audience Is that given by b George Austin Moore whose refined appear appearance appearance ance and evident gentility led one to expect t something wearisome His few songs were not enough to go around and before the week ends he will have to either add to his repertoire or add adda 1 d da a few Cew more verses to Hes q a l Cousin I Mine With a splendid vole voice and pleasing personality he inc J an all ability In dialect which is eitam found The bill opens with Allen Wightman whose work as a clay cla mod modeler modeler modeler eler and pastel painter Is of a high or order order order der The musical numbers are all allgood allgood allgood good and there are no loni watts waits nor short weights Even the has outdone itself and Is good The ElIte theatre again has a fine offering for Cor Its patrons For the first time in iii this city the Great Passion Play of Oberammergau will viii be pro produced produced dued In motion pictures pl tures with music mush to be furnished by the Elite orchestra assisted by two well r soloists Miss Mill and Leon There will also be a special program of other feature films and songs The Passion Play Is Isa Isa isa a sacred drama founded on the life of oC t as portrayed In the New Testa Testament Testament Testament ment This play Is presented every ten years by the peas its of the vil village village lage lago of In Bavaria who vho possess a rare union of oC artistic ability and cultivation out of gratitude gratitude gratitude tude for blessings received and as a means of religious Instruction That this last mentioned object Is fully re realized realized Is evidenced by the tact fact that this secluded village rs fa noted for lor its piety and the people for their familiar familiarity familiarIty ity with religious subjects The Thc Moore stock company In A Mothers Devotion a story of the south is 18 the bill at the Lyric this week It Is a good strong melodrama with enough of the sensational part to please all Several new faces Caces are seen In the cast and every ever member of the company Is doing good work |
