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Show ' AMUSEMENTS. The Home Dramatic club iu "Held by the Enemy" closed a very successful engagement of fourjiiglits at the Salt Luke theater last eveuing. NAT GOOHW1N. Nat Goodwin appears iu "A Gold Mine" at the Salt Lake theater tonight and tomorrow night. Mr. Goodwill stands today almnst without with-out -a rival as a legitimate American comedian, and lovers of fun may expect ex-pect a rare treat. Tho picco to be produced pro-duced has already beeu referred to in these' columns, and uo further praise need be added than to remind our readers that tho authors aro Brainier Matthews and George Jessop. . It. is well written, the dialogue at times is particularly bright and the plot is not complicated. All extravaganco . is avoided and sensations have no plaeo in it. Briefly stated, tho story of "A Gold Mine" tells of a young American, who goes to England to sell a gold mine, und learning that the nephew of the woman ho secretly loves is in a monetary dilemma, sacrifices his gold mino for tho amount necessary to set the young scapegraeo to rights, thus leaving himself him-self without u dollar iu the world. Tho aunt finds it out, detects a bit of rascality rascal-ity on the part of her brother who had bought the mino, aud buying il herself, makes a present of it, together with her heart, to tho generous American. This in brief is tho play. Departing somewhat from the conventional conven-tional praetico of stars, Mr. Goodwin has surrounded himself with an excellent excel-lent company. As tho company is not by any means a one-part piece aud depends de-pends for its success upon a harmonious whole, Mr. Goodwin showed his wisdom in drawing around him tho best available avail-able talent. "ZIG-ZAI4." "Zig-Zag," a uew and popular three-, three-, aef musical comedy, will bo the attraction attrac-tion at the Grand opera houso on Friday Fri-day and Saturday. |