Show e J AMUSEMENTS j jAn i An audience that filled practically every eer seat In the Salt Lake theatre last night witnessed Mr presentation of or Othello As the Mantell engagement nears its dose close local playgoers are realizing realizIng ing what a rare opportunity so many of ot them have missed during the week The 1 house last night was worthy of pC Mr Man Mantell Mantell tell He lie seemed to draw inspiration from i it and played the Moor superbly It was wasa a different characterization from any Mr Mantel Mantell has given here different in that there was more declamation In It Othello though was a barbarian The primal passions surged sur ed hotly hotl through his breast and found their expression In wild loud talk and wilder actions He best de describes describes describes scribes himself when he says Rude am I In my m speech I And little blessed with the soft sott phrase of oC peace For since sine these arms of ot mine had seven seen j years ears pith Till now some nine moons wasted they have ha VI used V k Their dearest action a tk n In the tented field And little of this great world can I speak More than pertains to feats of o broil and battle So Mr lr Othello was a natural Moor The Th voice that was was wont to make Itself heard above aboe the roar of deadly con conflict i met filet could not In a short space of time attune Itself to th the drawing room Throughout Mr Ir Mantell lantt was convincing and In the murder scene S ene he was Infinitely pathetic Each man kills the thing he loves says the writer of The Ballad o of i Reading Goal And Othello loved 1 Des Desdemona DEsdemona Desdemona demona even een as he slew her But he lie was not sane then He had been driven mad malt I J bj by b that jealousy which as a greater t writer than Shakespeare says is cruel as I Ithe the grave I The murd r of Desdemona was war terrify terrifyingly J natural The woman was actually killed before the yes eyes of the audience audlenE kI Her plea pIca for pity pit for one more night of life lire wenlu The one act of or mercy the Infuriated Moor showed was the dagger da ger thrust that ended her suffer suffering suffering I ing Then tho the disclosures that revealed reveal ell I Ithe the diabolical lano Iago Ia o splendidly presented I by Mr McGinn the death of Othello and the curtain The semblance was so close I 1 Ito Ito to the actuality that the audience heaved I Ia a collective sigh of relief when the lights i flashed up and the tho orchestra began begun to play the people out of the theatre i Miss Russells Desdemona was a picture pk turo j i of or wifely love and trust and Innocence None but a madman could have believed j j her guilty guilt of ot the crime of or which she stood tood unjustly accused For her there was noth I Ing ng but sympathy and affection Miss Rus Russell Russell sell read the lines of at the part with such su h feeling and naturalness I IThe i iThe The Mantell engagement memorable in i iSalt I Salt Lake theatrical history closes closs to tonight tonight tonight night with King Richard III In At the th II matinee Macbeth will be repeated |