Show AMUSEMENTS The prettiest play that has been seen In Salt Lake this season is Monsieur Beaucaire Nor has hilS any been more ar presented Booth never wrote a daintier story than the story of Monsieur Beaucaire or one with finer possibilities Miss Sutherlands dramatization of the tale of the whimsical Duk of Orleans better known in Bath as Monsieur Beaucaire leaves nothing to be desired except per perhaps perhaps haps in the ending The story rang true with Orleans rejection of Lady Mary Iary be because because cause of her scornful refusal to have haye more to do with ith him when she thought he was only the barber of To have the curtain go down on this pair and cooing like any urtle doves is to strike the one false note in th tha play pla Creston Clarks Beaucaire was genuine from beginning to ending It Is difficult to win sympathy in a 1 ph play of this char har character aeter acter The people are not real people to the modern audience they are myths In Inthe Inthe the seventeenth century they strutted their upon the stage stag of life and vanished forever But Mr Clarke achieves the seemingly He makes Beaucaire a very much alive aUve man a man who gambles s and fights and makes love yet true to the etching Clarkes Beaucaire is no His gambling is so done his s graceful his loe making so that he is most attractive In aU all three It has been said that on the stage tage Clarke is Beaucaire That seems the beet be t description The company is on the wholE adequate One could wish Winterset more a vii vil lain than AI Alfr fro I 1 woth make him for painted this degen degenerate crate erate duke a very ry black villain but generally Mr Hollingsworth was satisfactory The only other real part In the play though there was some deft character drawing was the part of Lad Lady lI Mary Carlisle done by Miss liss Nell NeU Miss McEwen mea measured well up to the pictured hau haughtiness of the story character this Is not her Iler fault the delineation Is necessarily weakened by the happy ending But what would you ou The audIence must go home happy y yut ut art or no art Monsieur Beaucaire will b seen twice toda today at the theater matinee and even evenIng evening Ing Ben Davies the great Welsh tenor gave a most delightful at the tab tabernacle under the auspices of the Cam Cambrian Cambrian brian society and the occasion attracted an audience that would have seemed I large in an any other auditorium As most Salt Lakers know Mr Davies h a m s dramatic tenor and his pro gramme was qualified to develop the strength the sweetness and th the robust quality of his voice to its utmost Ran Raning Rang big ing from his first number the thie Intensely dramatic recitative and aria from Jep tha to the quaint simple old ballads of England with selections from the Italian German and British classics the evening afforded charming channing variety given with a great artists artist skill The Tabernacle choir opened the pro gramme opened with Handels Y Is the Lamb given splendidly Then came the Jepth recitative an example ef cf feet oratorio solo sin singing n followed b by Tre Giorni by dl di by bv two dainty old favorites Hark Hark the Lark I and Who Is Sylvia b by Schubert three Schooner Stern I Kon In die ie Stille and Fruh If I one might choose from so rich a collection of the old ballads the two Shu Schubert rt numbers would be sel selected as the finest bits of the whole evening I The They were sung with exquisite thou Uon of their significance and melodic pos and the ending of the ballad I was the signal for an d demand mand for an encore In re Mr Davies sung a Welsh ballad hr r his own ton tongue e u Mother lother and Child which evidently evident touched his Welsh Yel h hear hearers ers era deeply Pat Part two included organ b by Prof McClellan with excerpts fro from TrIstan and Isoldo Isolde and intermezzo wr which ch were encored and brought the fa favorite a Then Thea Yo n Remember Me as asan asan an wIth the vox tremolo most rendered F t Mr Davies gave Adelaide I Attempt from I Loves ves Sick Sickness ness to 10 Fly Ben Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes Ees and for encore Welsh ballad The evening closed with a part song b by the choir Fannings a pleasing depar turn lure from the heavier number which the choir usual usually studies for public appear I ImperIal open at the Lyric this afternoon an engage meat ment of tue ne week The company is said to be an exceptionally strong one The Daughter closes at th Grand toni tonight ht The usual matinee performance will be given gien Toni Tonight ht will see the last here of monkeys MIgnonette Kokin Len Les Auberts md and th other favor favorItes favorItes Ites tn on the Orpheum Um bill There Is prom promise ise e of 1 big ig houses at both Mth matinee and evening performances |