Show AMUSEMENTS Just as the city clock struck midnight last night one of the largest and finest audiences Salt Lake has ever known quitted the Theater at the close of one o the most artistic beautiful and Impressive Im-pressive performances ever hero seen Henry Miller I has appeared here in 1 wide range o character running the gamut from farce to the tragic Under It al however has lain one element seriousness and stability of purpose The Only I Way a stage adaptation of Dickenss novel A Tale of Two Cities Is throughout heavy If not Indeed In-deed somber No adventitious aid in the way of a comedy clement however little afforded the players Alllthe effects must bo produced with dark colorsa task quite as difficult I for plajers as for the painter Indeed the < analogy may be carried further and The Only Way termed n series of episodes < epi-sodes silhouettes tableaux drawn from Dickenss characters They are exquisite ex-quisite creations but one can understand under-stand why artistes of tho ability of Miller Morgan Harklns and StoddoYt were engaged to present them I ass finished workers would have tad a chromo instead of an oil painting Mr Miller as Sidney Carton was a realistic impersonation of the carousing carous-ing flippant devilmaycare yet noble heroic hero Dickens lectured Thefirst scene of Carton in his cups and the last of Carton at the guillotine frame were line examples of Millers remarkable remark-able talent for delineating character Ills voice was hoarse the resulU of San Francisco fog wind and chillhnd it seemed hardly possible that In such condition he could hold out Yet he went through the ordeal nicely and evoked steady admiration K J Morgan Mor-gan as Defarge gave an earnest effective effec-tive conception of the revengeful brother D H Harkln was strong as tho old doctor and J II Stoddart dean and veteran of the profession excellent excel-lent as the servant V Mr Stoddart was last here in the special engagement of Saints and Sinners Sin-ners when Gov Wells was leading man He referred feelingly to that engagement en-gagement In course of chat last evenIng gasemcnl COUSC n evening even-ing and said the stage had given up a good actor when the State received a good Executive His friends of the 1 Home Dramatic company sent him a rich floral offering in the course of the evening which much touched the old < actor Mr Brennan as Stryver and Brown ns Darnay were both good Little opportunity op-portunity is offered In lady characters though Grace Elllaton was charmingly sweet and sympathetic u Minnie Lucy Robinson was only fairly rendered by Miss V The subsidiary personages and the mob were handsomely done As for stage setting it was replete and I complete com-plete giving to the eye a chain of beautiful pictures Every seat was occupied the audience audi-ence being composed of wellknown men and women Many took standing room and everywhere closest Interest ins bestowed The reception of star nnd assistants was cordial to an extreme ex-treme S V Tonight and V at this afternoons performance per-formance The Only Way will be agafn repeated V |