Show AMUSEMENTS Last night Salt Lake had a reaction from the gay the trivial and the frivolous friv-olous of the season coming like a cold shower bath after a hotwater plunge Farcecomedy and vaudeville and minstrelsy min-strelsy and extravaganza and comic opera were brushed out of memory by one stroke of a masterly artiste in a masterpiece conception Nance ONell is a name one used to Slue sobriquets might easily associate with cheap melodrama melo-drama or musichall accompaniments Every such thought however will be driven from one who has seen the possessor pos-sessor Last night she swayed her audience au-dience at will In Sudermanns ponderous ponder-ous Mugda With all due allowance for a city which is exuberant in its theatrical likes which has a fondness for giving encores and which dotes onstage on-stage speeches making all due allowance allow-ance for this wellknown characteristic of Sai Lake audiences the fact remains re-mains that the reception of this new star was little short of an ovation I was a tribute drawn to a remarkable oman It Is n little hard to analyze the art ot Nance ONell At first one thinks her coarse next that she is crude and finally by the very daring of her genius ge-nius and boldness of her method you are carried out of the realm of analysis into the realm o reality She lacks culture finish polish whateer you care to call It this artificial side of the stage but she possesses reserve strength loftiness of purpose sincerity dignity depth oC feeling and genuine dramatic instinct In repose her manner man-ner is often heavy in quiet scenes her voice seems harsh but when she rises to heights of emotion her impassioned tones and majestic glace carry everything every-thing before them I is no wonder that this strange creature planting natural strength where artificiality has reigned should startle the dramatic profession Exceptionally able people appear in support of Miss ONell Clay Clement as the young preacher MIce Run kin its the aged and paralytic Colonel Bar Ion Hill as the retired MajorGeneral and Charles i infield the Canlelr as hypocritical counselor The veuy tribute these wide lyknown players pay to the rising star In acting in her support Is Itself comment com-ment on her position Clement has not so felicitous a cHaracter in the parson as he die in the highminded German Htudcnt llohcnstaufen and McKee Rankin Is less favored than in some of the parts h < has made famous but both filled the full measure of their opportunities and made opporlunites subsidiary roles clearcut Individual and Interesting Burton His slight bit at the card ta ble was superb and George Bucks old professor was likewise neatly handled Mlna Crolius as the demure Mai It Cello Griffiths as the old mother Rlcca Allen as the straightlaced aunt Mrs Berthe loLte as the lieutenant and Mr lete tS leutenant John Raymond as the servant completed the strong cast No oijo but able plujtrs can interpret Sudermann Ibsen and Illce dramatists Salt Lake has a dramatic dra-matic festival before ita feast of serious plays by people capable of presenting pre-senting them Tonight Magda wi be repealed Tomorrow and Saturday nights The Jewess will be given Attendance At-tendance lust night way large a u a 1 Remember the Maine opens Its engagement en-gagement this evening at the Grand filling the remainder of the week C C a a The Orpheus club will give Its frat subscription concert of the season this evening at the First Congregational church The following is the ol wlnT pro gramme for the occasion Sailors CloriiB Dr Parry Orpheus Club tWl th Overllowhib Heart Arhi 4Tho Soft Southern Breeze from lvcb kah Rarnby Mr Glenn Hall Reverie Vleuxtemps Miss Sllenco Dales nSwcct be Thy RistMeyorIIelrnund brhic Klnp Ahuntlng GocsMucy UrphniiK Club aDonna Vorrel ISforlr Toall bTho Inquirer Schubert cAlrts That Spring Should Vanish Van-ish with the Rose from Persian garden Lehman Mr I Hull Airs Hongrols Hul Ernst Miss Dales The Destruction Orpheus of JaxaIj Club do Rlllo Grande FantafflaDc Berlot Miss Dulc nThou Art Like n Flower Cila1 wick bDrlnk to Me Only wllli Thine Kycs Old English c Llobcsllcd Dvorak II o llnll Apropos of the recently departed Boa tonlaiiM there Is n story more or less Interesting concerning the Viceroy which is to have Its first production next month In San Francisco by this organization The opera was to have been delivered last October but such I were the demands made upon Victor Herbert by reason oC the three scores that he has had to write this season for Frances Wilson Alice NielSen and I Frank Daniels that It was not until < short while ago that the Viceroy was turned over to tin Bostonlans 1 This L the reason that the Smug glers has been used as 1 makeshift There Is i no denying that it Is i not a success suc-cess and The Tribune ascertained that the opera is unpopular with the company com-pany The scene of the Viceroy Is laid in Palermo in the Island of Sicily The opera Is replete with bandits and viceregal guards The locale offers abundant opportunists and Director FltxgerjiUl declares that the Viceroy is I the best opera yet offered by Victor Herbert and Harry B Smith Banmbee Is cast fOI the title role aa the Viceroy while McDonald makes a departure by assuming the role of romance ro-mance and light comedy leaving the lovemalting to the new tenor Rush worth Miss Bertram is to be a genuine genu-ine bandit while MissVan Dresser is I 1 said to han a most happy role I |