Show II I AMUSEMENTS V VEaR Salt EaR Lakers Laker aker discovered last Jast st night that the many good g o things they had heard of Nat Goodwin and ad Maxine Ma ine El Elliott ElI Elliott liott Hott their play and 8 nd their the ir company com P any I were fully Justifiable able This seems to embody the entire enire praise in a nutshell yet It is not sufficient to express the I many many excellencies of the occasion oc on A veritable dramatic treat is a phrase phrase I which has been used liberally Uber lly and not nut always by the press preas I agents Yet it comes to ones mind in connection with last nights I ance nce as though it had never neer been used I before When We Were by H HV HV V Esmond the popular r English play playwright playwright I wright is a play pla unlike any we have seen It is not one on of the sort of society plays yet it appeals to the same class of theatergoers It is I not in any sense a melodrama although altho it is intensely dramatic It is if you like a problem play but not the kind to which we have become became accustomed It does not use wickedness as its at attraction attraction traction but rather handles it as a foreign element It is deep it is dra dramatic dramatic matic and it is interesting Further Furthermore Furthermore more and perhaps most important it itis itis is most moat admirably interpreted by Mr Goodwin and Miss Elliott and the corn com company pany V First to be mentioned is Miss Elliott I the most thoroughly charming and fan fas fascinating I 1 actress who has appeared be before before fore us for many a day It is no alone her beauty which captivates it it her unaffected manner her grace and sim simple simpie pie naturalness Her voice is as beautiful beautiful ful as her face In short the en ensemble ensemble is i enough to make one grow enthusiastic I Mr Goodwin is an actor artor of tf telling methods and his bis comedy if one may be permitted Is most net expressed by means of o his pathos His facial expression is admirable and he heis heIs is in every way master of the part he portrays Next to the stars should be men mentioned mentioned Mi Mr Henry whose por portrayal portrayal of the WitS was one the fine things of the piece It is rarely that one se such splendid acting done bv by a man He was ad admirably cl closen sen for his part Miss Is Isabel Isabel abel Haskins a strung strong bit as the Firefly Miss Mr OBrien Mr Frank Gillmore Mr Handyside and Mr Oberle were all excellent and aU all aUthe the minor roles w were re well filled In Indeed Indeed deed not a false note during the entire performance and this tale of good might be prolonged for or some sometime someI I time It is to be hoped that a return I engagement of the company can be I arranged V |