Show AMUSEMENTS J JIs Its Is daring very daring this inviting of comparisons alt all al around That is what William ilam W V 17 and ad Joseph Jefferson are do doIng doIng doing Ing They Tle are seeking reciting to follow In their fathers footsteps and furthermore they are choosing as a a vehicle a play associated associated not only with him but bul with scores of others other of the most distinguished actors of over a century They The appeared last lat evening at the Salt Lake Lae theatre In The Rivals have been much easier this matter mater of succession if Joseph Jefferson pere Pr had ha been ben a dealer in dry dr goods or a banker baker Had he been ben a sordid business businessman businessman businessman man and died the sons might have havo been ben Imbeciles or misers miser or profligates and even then well wel trained subordinates schooled for a lifetime in the business might might have continued the house as a Jo Joseph Joseph Joseph seph Jeffersons Sons Son Bankers and kept the honored name and pelt pelf In this ti actor business however the situation is different The sons cannot hire subordinates subordinates subordinates nates to do the work ork while they get the glory glor It I Is purely a matter mater of ot Individuality aUt The sons must stand on their own merits merit To ro o compare compare them with their father rather is scarcely fair to the boys There was time Mir greatest comedian of vi modern times If I not of all al times He lie was no buffoon like the majority of present day da comedians but h a hman hman aman man of f deep Intellectuality and a a subtle magnetism even eC more mor overpowering than ta his humor His gentle gent smile smie and his hi in iii inimitable Il imitable inflections will wi linger until death with wih those who have hae witnessed e the per of the elder in ills his hi prime and nd he will wi eer e er remain In their affection as Joe The house of ot Jeffersons Sons Actors Actor has been ben experimenting for some years now as a to th thu best bet method for tor preserving the family reputation and encouraging the family revenue Success has not always smiled plenteously on them but In The he Rivals they have hae probably found the Ule hap happiest pi cst vehicle for their efforts This delicious old comedy is just as QA asgood asgood good now as it was over a century ago a Its It very v r quaintness adds add a charm char while its It intellectual humor and Its It brilliant brIlant character drawing are so far ahead of the therun thern therun run rn of ot modern comedies that ono one wonders wonder If the th worlds genius Is i going to seed But to cone como to the tb Jefferson seed boys bo s as actors They ThE have the nubile long long enough now so that th they te have h had time to live down town to some extent th the i fact that they the are sons son of a distinguished father The only just way to judge them Is to obliterate all al memories of dear old Joe their sire and look upon them as legitimate actors a tor who are not seeking to ride Into public favor with the momentum of or fathers popularity but who are seek seck Ing ng to hew new out a way wa for themselves and by b their own efforts From this thin view point pint William WIlam who takes take the fat pan part rt of ot Bob Acres ma be Acrs may classed as a better casel a beter beterI I actor while Joseph J In the part of ot Sir Lucius seph may ma be de dc nominated nominate fair But William you dont begin SI to reach the wonderful humorous possibilities m of ot that great geat part And Jos Jo Ad eph you are ae far short shor of the acme in the the portrayal of ot the blustering Irishman A for the t e rest of the company again I we w come to comparisons Every Ee part re quires quire a star str to bring out anything pa near all al there is In It i and casts cst of or The Rivals Rival have been great events from time to time for over oe a century get event The Te cast was far from cs Cr being bing allstar aIst and yet vet et they ther t did not mutilate mutate this great gret comedy The 1 I best bet bit was Philip Bishop as David Davd while T C C Hamilton as Sir Anthony Anthon Ab solute and Leopold Lane as Captain Ab I Lne a Ab Ab solute were acceptable Th Thi ThI I rest ret were neither very er bad nor very er good But the play pia It It is one of ot the grea go i lassies classics since Ince the time Ume of or Shakespeare cn and no opportunity should be 0 missed ms to SeP see s It performed perre by any an reasonably goo goot company compan A few tew remarks were made re recently neatly in these tee columns about those per I tose Eons pons Ens who ho feel they must prostrate prostate them themselves themselves I selves ehe and beat bat their bulging I II I foreheads for head on the te ground und before the mystic mU f figure of f Ibsen Ibs n To these the persons the sug su geton Is I made that tat they the will il not sacrifice any 1 of ot their Ul lr prestige e as being bIng Intellectual by taking an Interest In InThe The Rivals Rials Gt Ge G ana and see this thi comedy cO dy of ot and an 1 f i cheer up The present company will wl be here until Wednesday evening Another big and ad delighted del audience wit witnessed wi witnessed the Orpheum bill bI last evening This weeks program is fully fUl up to the high standard of or the past few fe weeks week which amounts to saying that the entire entre bill bH is i excellent d The musical comedy Fantana which Is 15 at the Colonial Colonia all al this week and by b the thea way a this Is its ita first frt time In Salt Sat Lake Le was as written for tor no other purpose purse than to tomake tomake tomake make one forget and forgive the sordid world Its It mission seems sem to be accomplished successfully for or Its a laugh a athe a athe i the tile way wa through through At the New e Lyric the current week the is showing a genuine at attraction attraction traction In the Gibson girls The feature Is I novel and ad entertaining and with other features on the bill bill it makes make an afternoon or evening of entertainment that Is hard to beat e t the The he Honeymooners was voted at the recent Actors Fair In New York to be bethe bethe bethe the best of George iL M L Cohan song shows and Cohan was voted to be the most mo s pop popular pOPular popular ular star actor This was a wonderful double tribute for tor The he Honeymooners was playing at the time and Indeed all al summer In the New ew Amsterdam theatre to packed houses For the first time In Inthe inthe the history his tr of the New York stage winter I prices were gladly paid in hot summer r weather Cohan Cohn wrote The Honeymoon Honeymooners ers em to please himself himsel and feeling that one cannot have too to much of ot a good thing he crowded It with his hi best In gO the way of ot lyrics music plot and amI humor The fhe he original production comes come to the Salt Lake LaJ theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday |