Show SALT LAKE GIRL MAKES GREAT HIT BEFORE HOME AUDIENCE IN THEATRE 6 f tf x t I 1 11 t c q Ii U I j jI I fr frI t L I j f I 6 4 t ft Jf 1 9 I 41 L June Junc Mathis The temptation to throw caution to the winds and engage in a riot of su superlatives superlatives is almost irresistible in the writing of a review of Millions It may be said without passing beyond the realm of cold facts that the audience that packed the Salt Lake theatre last night enjoyed practically practically every moment of it And there was hardly a man or woman there who feel an inclination to come again If It Millions had had an engagement of a week in instead Instead Instead stead of three performances only It la Ia that capacity audiences would have been the rule throughout Last nights great outpouring was a tribute to June Mathis the Salt Lake girl who plays the part of Peggy Grey The people came to welcome the little girl who went away to join the player folk only a few years ago the little girl who by the sheer speer force for e of ot her un undoubted undoubted Undoubted doubted talent has been winning her ner herway herway way to a place near the top of her pro profession profession Friends had made her dressing room a flower ower garden There space in that room for all the offer offerings offerings offerings ings They overflowed upon the stage where they were seen in the first act In great clusters cluster of ot American Beauty roses bunches of carnations all the flowers that are In season or out The first appearance of Miss Mathis was comparatively unnoticed Al Although Although Although though there had been talk of ot Peggy although the people on the stage had announced that she was expected there was still an unexpectedness about her entrance The applause fol followed followed followed lowed but it was not as pronounced as that which followed the close of the act and some of the later scenes For Forthe Forthe Forthe the little girl had grown Into a big girl a girl with a charming stage presence with a magnetism that pro proJected projected itself beyond the footlights and anda a delightfully sweet voice Miss Mathis might have been ex ox excused excused if she had been nervous even if she had missed a line or a bit of business here and there because she was playing before people ople she knew and loved who loved her and any artist will tell you ou that that is the hardest kind of audience to play to But Miss Mathis showed no signs of nervousness She was not indeed Juno Mathis at all She was was Peggy Grey Gre Grethe the beloved of Monty Nonty Brewster and of everybody else with whom she came camen In n contact And while the part Is the lie most im ha important Important among those taken by the wo vvo women men nen of ot the tho company it was ras not as im Ira important Important as Miss Mathis is clearly capable of ot sustaining In lb less talented hands lands Peggy would not be nearly so attractive In all the personal require meats ments In expression and mannerisms m In n fine line In all that goes to make up the I we long for or and so rarely see sea Miss Mathis measures up to the most exacting standard It was a great pleasure to have seen her performance and ind her friends hope she fahe he will not make the he Intervals between her visits so long hereafter Millions is a mans play In the sense sene that the male char characters characters characters loom largest especially the character of ot Monty Brewster almost flawlessly lawlessly done by Robert Ober Mr Jr Ober ber before last ni ht was W wa unknown to Salt Lake playgoers Next year or any other year ear If he comes to Salt Lake regardless of ot what he plays plas he will be sure of ot a most cordial welcome The future of this young oung man would seem to be assured He was the Mon Mony Monty Monty ty y of the book to the last hair on the tho top of his apparently erratic head His humor is delicious and In his soberer moments he acts with discern discernment meat nent with a recognition of the possibilities that is rare even In many men who have been starring for tor years Who Vho that saw him last night plight can for forget foret forget get et the finish of that great third act The captain of tho the yacht Is protesting against the of the tho distress signal alon on the ground that It will cost coat Brewster of ot the million ha he is trying so hard harl to spend You say It rill will cost to hoist this signal says Brewster Then with sith vigorous cs tS he hauls the flag to the top of ot otos os J foremast and Now Jones Iones come tome a me he Concludes as the curtain falls alls 1 Every act in Millions MU A has an interest all its own It is Ja a matter for regret that there space to write an extended review of each of them and indeed of the work of all the members of the company for practically all of them were excellent ex ellent But the third act ct will remain longest in the recollection of the average audi audience audience ence enee Such a storm scene such real realism realism ism lam was never before seen In the Salt Lake theatre The yacht seems to be tossed about upon the waves the wind howls through the rigging the harbor lights pass pase In a long procession Ing dimmer r until the yacht has passed out Into the deep The hurrying of the sailors the shouting of orders the an answering answering answering flare of the ship that is sig signaled signaled signaled all are worked out until har harden den d playgoers rise in their seats seas se and applaud madly Millions will be seen twice more unfortunately The engagement ends with per performance forman e A matinee will be played r The sale of seats Mats for subscribers only for the coming music festival which occurs at the tabernacle April 1 and 2 will commence at the Clayton Claton Music company Monday morning The first week of ot the sale will be for subscribers ers era only who will be entitled to tickets at the regular price Buster Brown the well w lr known cartoon comedy closes its engagement in this city with a matinee this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon and a performance tonight The engagement here liere has been a ver sue suc successful su one and has proved the best pleasing show at the Grand for some sometime sometime sometime time Coming to the Grand tomorrow night Sunday Sunda Is la Theodore Lorch in inthe Inthe inthe the spectacular war drama Captain Herne U S A Quincy Adams Sawyer opens at atthe atthe atthe the Lyric L with this afternoons mat matinee inee and goes for a week |