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Show AMUSEMENTS- The very slim house at the theater last evening proved the great necessity for shelving the farce, "Skipped by the Light of the Moon," for it is fearfully old and worn threadbare, and the company now playing it is not nearly so good as Harrison's, who opened the play first to the public years ago. ! One of the principals last night, Bud Ross, talked so fast you could not understand one word, and his jokes, most of them, were decidedly de-cidedly antique. Both the leading men.Rooker andRoss.are very clever at dancing and acrobatic work but the rest of the company is fair only. ' Yon Yonson. Tonight,- tomorrow niirht and tomorrow matinee, "Yon Yonson," the new Scandinavian-American comedy by Gus Hee-e is announced for an appearance in "tins city, the author in the title role. In many respects the play will be a novelty to local play-goers. Few people know anything aboui the scenes and incidents of the peoDle of the great lumber regions of the Northwest. North-west. The square miles of high stumps, tho acres of floating logs, the great gang saws the large lumber rafts, the midwinter camps in the timber, and the curious people who live amid these scenes, are about as strange to the average resident hereabouts as would be the Baud hills cf the Sahara desert. Perhaps Per-haps nobody but the author, who spent considerable con-siderable time in the lumber region, would have thought of the possibilities of a play laid there. And yet why not comedy and tragedy in a lumber as well as a mining camp? At any rate, Mr. Heege constructed one and we are to see it tonight for the second sec-ond time. Milton .Nobles. Tuesday, "A Son of Thespig;" Wednesday "For He venue Only." J' So great was the success of "For Revenue Only" at the Broadway last night that it is doubtful if the bill will be changed on Wednesday as intended. The play hit the nail right on the head at this time of political excitement, and the humorous hits, which compose most of it, kept the audience laughing continuously. The first act. in wnicn me newspaper man takes possession of the banker and would-be-statesman is de-liciously de-liciously funny, principally because the political po-litical methods advocated in the conference have a distinct resemblance to those of Boodle hall and similar machines. All the parties catch it in turn during the progress of the play. Mr. Nobles and Mr. Loring are, of course thoroughly satisfactory in their parts. Clar'-! Clar'-! ence Arper, as Durham Perry, gives an excellent ex-cellent performance, and the other male I members are good. Mrs. Dollie Nobles and Miss Lovena Atwood, as Rose and Violet Merrywin, are charmingly pretty. Miss Mary Davenport, as the president of the Woman 3 Suffrage association, and Miss Genie Harlan, as Mary Ann, fulfilled all requirements. re-quirements. There was a large house Denver Sews, Tuesday, October 18. |