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Show GlllEnMWPLiVJ 1 'All Comfort! of Home" Delights a Large aud Fa;hi mable Andience at Salt Lake Theater. MIRTH f KOVOKINQ PABOE COMEDY. A Fince that Does Mnch to Make Life Mure Endurable Presented in the Most Artistic Manner Coming Events. "All the Comforts of Home" delighted a large and fashionable audience at the Salt Lake theater last night. It moro than delighted them; it kept them in convulsions of laughter for three hours and cent them homo feeling nt peace with the world; on good terms with themselves aud in love with their neighbors. neigh-bors. There aro few comforts like laughter, and the latest "Comforts" of Mr. Gil-letio Gil-letio f'irnish laughtft in abundance. It is a farce-comedy par excellence. It brings relief to thu tired brain; relaxes tho tension of overstrained nerves aud smoothes out all the kinks of the cares of the day. What if many of the scenes are overdrawn and improbable? What if many of the situations are such as couid never occur in actual life? They are nevertheless calculated to make actual ac-tual life more endurable. The plot of the piece is preposterous. A jealous husband rushes nil on a trip on the continent to take his young wife away from a supposed admirer, leaving his nephew iu charge of his houso. Tho nephew is an impecunious young rascal and decides to increaso his revenues by taking in lodgers. Ho advertises rooms to let ''with all tho comforts of home" aud the collcctiou ho gathers about him is an unique one. It is however how-ever characteristic. Every one of the lodgers is a type; an extremely exaggerated exag-gerated typo it is true but at the same time one that appeals forcibly to tho imagination. Henry ililler, as Alfred Hastings the nephew, presented a fine bit of acting. Ho was natural and seemed to live the part. By far the most interesting of bis collection was tho Bender family from tho provinco spending a few days in the city. Samuel Edwards, as Theodore Bender, was licvond doubt the best part of the play, lie presented a tine picture of tho husband, who whilo ruled with an iron rod by his wife, still retains a hearty appreciation of the humor of tho si'.uition. Mrs. Bender was the typical strong minded woman and Marie Creeuwald's Evangeline, their daughter was all that was sweet and lovaide. No mora laughable scene is pictured on the stage than that where, Mr. Bender, after sending his wife on a fool's errand, to see his meeting with another woman, allows Young Alfred, who has in the meantime fallen in love with Evangeline, Evangel-ine, to take tho blame of tho hoax and then works himself into a supposed frenzy of indignation at the young man's perfidy. Fife Uritanski, a singer nt the opera comirpie, another of Alfred's lodgers, is a very lifelike character in tho hauds of Maud H.islam. She is a finished adventuress aud works the aged Bender to perfection. She smiles on him so sweetly, as soon as she finds that he is .wealthy and manages to work in her dressmaker's bill iu tho cleverest style possible. She is prettv and clever, but it is a trying part. There is nothing cither lovable or admirable iu the character. char-acter. Perfect as is her art (and in this perfection is the beauty of the art) the glamour of the adventuress has no place in tho study presented by Miss lbislani. Every person on the stage was perfect in his or her part and this made tho piece almost a perfect one. There were no stars or rather they were all stars and the play moved from one mirth-provoki ng scene to another and when the curtain dropped there was not one of the vast audience that did not turn homeward well pleased. The piece was given at a special matinee mat-inee this afternoon and will hold tho boards again touight. Wonderland. The crowd of amii'iement seeking public that thronged Wonderland yesterday yes-terday again attested the appreciation they feel fur this popular people's place of amusement. The stage shows arc a rollicking, merry lot of affairs, and Misa Klla Kwing remains the standard attraction in the curio hall. Today is ladies' souvenir day. ami Saturday children's day; all children will be admitted to Wonderland and scats in the theatoriuni for ton cents. Minstrels on Saturday. W. S. Cleveland's Consolidated minstrels min-strels have been secured for an engagement engage-ment at the Salt Lake theater next Saturday, Sat-urday, March L'Slh. consisting of matinee mat-inee and evening performances. This is an organization of great strength and popularity, containing as it does some of the greatest minstrel celebrities. |