Show AMUSEMENTS 1 Ever since the rival rial original American productions of The Devil stirred the theatrical world managers have been bus busier busIer busier ier than busy and as a result within a afew afew afew few months more Devils have been turned loose on the theatregoing public than were ever cast ast out In the Biblical era There have hae been all kind of versions pirated and poor and all kinds of actors In the various companies mostly extremely extreme bad Some of the pirated and extremely extreme badly acted productions have hae hitherto reached Salt Lake In J fact all aU allover allover over tho the country cities and towns town to ms have been surfeited with Devils of this stripe until they are in no mood to ap appreciate appreciate predate any an production which might real really really ly hy have merit The Colonial last evening offered o red the Henry Beril W Savage S version erslon which is a translation from the original authorized by Frank FranI Molnar the Hungarian author autho It therefore has authenticity to recommend recommend recommend mend it at the start The play pIa should be Interpreted by b a thoroughly fine corn com company pany pan Unfortunately there is little to be said in favor of the company which played it last evening except that they did not absolutely destroy destro the powerful drama beyond recognition and that the troupe is probably the best which will willever willever willever ever be seen here In this play pIa Conse Consequently Consequently it behooves all persons who wish to see this sensation of the year ear to go to the Colonial this week for this is probably probably ably abl the best chance they will have in the west The Devil Is a ai l Intellectual play It Itis Itis Itis is an allegory somewhat along the vein of most of writings but without any of hideous grotesqueness and generally superior in conception of situations working out of plot and in lines The Devil while I devilishly devilish is almost real and the whole drama is natural in the depiction depiction depiction tion of the emotions The story of the play pia has been told so soman many man times recently that repetition seems unnecessary It deals with the love of an unmarried man and a married woman of their struggles to crush crasi the passion and be honorable and of the Satanic Dr Miller who creates situations and In Influences their minds so 50 that they the give themselves up to fullest selfish en enjoyment enjoyment of their illicit love The story stOl properly understood Is far from being prurient and Is told delicately in spite of or the nature of the subject It Is a tal tale talor of or a struggle st which h is going on n today to a the world over with different principals a struggle which is won or lost in pro proportion proportion portion portio to the strength shown by b the various principals in resisting the tempter It Is all aU worked out brilliantly and calls for the best talent available to give an adequate interpretation The company now playing at the tile Co Colonial Colonial Colonial lonial Is headed by Ramsey Wallace Ap Apparently Apparently Apparently he follows Henry E of he the role and gets along much better than If he had taken a poorer mod model model el It would be the easiest thing in the world to make a burlesque of the part and this Mr Ir Wallace does not do He does well enough so that one is inspired with a desire to see a really splendid actor in the title role supported by a strong cast castAs castAs castAs As for the rest of the company the greatest kindness to them Is to refrain from detailed comments The play runs the rest of ot the week Two thoroughly thorough enjoyable features of the Orpheum bill which will be presented for the remainder of the week were the trio and Mack and Marcus The remainder of the bill was a trifle mediocre after the clever eleer performances of last week but presented some attractive fea lea features features tures Bird Millman is not only a marvelous wire dancer but she Is I remarkably beau beautiful beautiful beautiful woman and her performance Is done with a certainty an abandon and a lithe grace which was pleasing to a degree Apparently as much at home upon the In Insecure insecure secure footing as upon terra firma her every move was a delight and the re remainder remainder remainder of the troupe were adequate prop properly properly properly erly to set off her performance While the performance was no surprise to those who have been familiar with their ability Mack Marcus in Evolution Evolution Evolution tion were a surprise to the audience which was as kept in a gale of delighted laughter over their clever and artistic drawings The scene for their act shows a garden wall with seven blank spaces upon it These blank spaces are rapidly into clever dover pictures under the deft crayons of the artists and these pic plc pictures pictures tures in turn tum by b a few lightning lI strokes are changed to represent something en entirely entirely entirely different The audience leaned Jean for forward forward forward ward eagerly to see and predict what the next evolution would be and Its guesses were usually usual at fault The act Is an ab absolutely absolute absolutely solute novel one Last nights hights performance was the first given gen by b Mack and Marcus on the Or Orpheum Orphe phe m circuit but all who saw the act predict that it will m be a universal u hit wherever it is billed Fonda Dell and Fonda opened the bill billith with ith their wonderful club swinging act acL The trio perform the most Intricate and difficult evolutions with ith apparent ap arent ease and Miss Mabelle Fondas performance Is really remarkable aided by a I I near Hermann makeup performs a series I of supposed mind reading experiments by what hat is known as m 1 whatever that is The performance is Js somewhat on the order of that of Anna Eva Fay Fa ut is by b no means so 00 well done Snyder and Buckley Buckle who have been seen In Salt S lt Lake before do a rather clever cleyer ec cc eccentric eccentric centric musical turn In which they were aided by the orchestra and Injured by the electrician Mrs Murphys Second Husband played by br Gracie Emmett and her com corn company I pany Is a rather slim vehicle forso torso large a person but Miss Emmett has a delight delightful ful Irish accent and Lon W V Carter as the second husband had an excruciatingly funny makeup mak up and was admirably fitted by b nature for the part Happys Millions the sketch played by William Morrow and Verda Schellberg suffered from the line on the program which announced the scene as laid in To Tonopah Tonopah Tonopah New Nev ey The scene costumes and characters were totally foreign to Tono Tonopah Tonopah Tonopah pah and It was not until the action of the piece revealed the fact act that the scene was laid in Cut Bank Teton county count Mont that the became even near nearly nearl nearly ly l possible Mr Ir Morrow sang Big Bill Deveros old laughing song cleverly It was a well pleased audience which left the Grand theatre after the close chose of last nights performance of o the Scott company in drama and the additional vaudeville given between the acts The Scott company presented a four act drama Falsely Accused in ill the usual good lively style which is always found in this productions and the vaudeville between b tween the acts acu of the drama was pleasing especially the acro acre batic work worked of La Petite Ruth the shadow graphs and the moving pictures The same bill runs through to Wednesday night with a matinee on tha date Thema will cill be the bill for the last half halt of the week we k Including the New Years matinee It Is lo Io these many years ears ago that Lincoln J 3 Carter began supplying the th public out of the viv vividness vivIdness vividness of or his imaginative Ima nathe powers and his fertile brain seems always able to weave some nev new design out of the old threads and colors of the detective villain wronged man the little boy bo and his younger sister and the inevitable Jew dago Irish Biddy etc Carters latest play pIa Too Proud to toBe toBel Beb Bel Be is the weeks offering presented at atthe atthe atthe the New ew Lyceum last night It does not furnish anything particularly neW neV in the theline theline theline line of melodrama and does docs not depart from the playwrights usual style It nis IUS all the thrills that one can wish for how however however however ever and has its mixture of pathos patho com corn edv elly and sl s The villain In the case strange to say sa saIs is an inspector of police pollee who is not sat satisfied satisfied satisfied with a gentle touch but goes go s sInto Into wholesale robbery and attempts to break up the home of his assistant a de detective detective detective i The play Is presented by a n capable com corn company compan pany pan headed by E J Comans Co mans and Mis Leah Leak Faro and if cne cue likes Is well worth seeing The beginning of ot the Lyceums second week finds the completion of ot the new playhouse nearly in sight and gives fur further further further ther promise that it will be one of the prettiest and coziest theatres in the city elt Before the end of the present week all I Ithe the carpeting will vill be laid and work well under way on the Interior decorative ef effects effects effects which nas ilas been b n unavoidably Jn vt de delayed d delayed lay Id I James J I Cor t at the head of his h hI own company In Facing the Music Is sched ached scheduled scheduled for lor the Salt Lake theatre tonight Facing acing l the Music was originally pro produced produced produced In New York with Henry Dixey in inthe inthe Inthe the principal character and enjoyed a along along along long run at the Madison Square theatre Later it was seen at Powers theatre In Chicago where it ran through the entire summer The work is by b Charles Henry Darnley Darnle and Is said to be one ot of the best comedies written In years Last win winter winter ter H H Frazee who had entered into a contract with Mr Ir Corbet Corbett Cor ett under the terms of which the th latter was to be starred de decided decided decided that Facing the Music was just the vehicle for his stalwart and hand band handsome handsome some charge Corbett He is said to be eminently capable In his new venture Max new play pIa The Substitute Substitute Substitute tute In which he will appear at the Salt Lake theatre on Thursday Friday Frida anI an Saturday Is simply an lD Interesting sty story with a lot of comedy corned incidents The seat sale begins beins tomorrow The Lyric c received late Saturday even evenIng evening evenIng Ing and added to Its program the noted picture produced by b the Great Northern Film company of Copenhagen entitled The Escape From the tile Harem This Thi mi picture is a fit successor to the Russian Bear Hunt of last week |