Show AMUSEMENTS Th best serious production that has hon given in lie Grand theater since Its establishment as a combination house was seen thrjrc lasl night Qco Vadis an a work of fiction needs no comment Us dramatization and tim 15 ler tu the stage Is alone concerned in a review oC last nights performance Who Is the author of the dramatic version waa nol revealed by the pro gramme Tho play brings 0111 well Iho salient events of the novel Il preserver with remarkable lldellly I the story with which we are all familiar and it makes one of the I slronj works of the stage The wonder in lam nights production I Isnot that It is lacking In what might be termed finish and virility hut that presenlud at popular pilees IL I has attained such high excellence If one goes as most will go to see a good t capable tonKclMilloiiK effort lo give JL Kixat pkeu of fiction an Interesting Interpretation In-terpretation be will Ond himself absorbed ab-sorbed and thrilled About everything lint can b e < accomplished ac-complished within the limit prescribed by cheap prices Is furnished In this performance The dramatisation Is be yoiil expectations the company ron tains I Severn I strong players a number of fair even ones and butfew bad ones Elizabeth Stewart who la handsome hand-some and graceful played the role of the Christian maluen Igia l Kva Jen nett hardly looked the part of the pm press ns the novell has rreatcd hit but acled It with force amiI l discretion Daniel Reed as th Rnpiun prefet I made an exceptionally tine eharucurl nalion und Air Ixjve gave an effoollxp pjfture of the egotistical bestial ile gnuVd dulbiained Xero St bile Mr 1 i j Sulhei land taM taking HM Ihe aesthetic j aes-thetic Petronloiis and Mr Robertson ns the lover These pla > crs made the I best element of the company Alger as tin philosopher Miss Sllllman a the slave of Peironlous and the others tilled their roles lth fair satisfaction If wo may ex < vpt the poei of Mr Kerning i ton nhleh Ion strongly recalled a low Dutch omcdiun The costuming and mounting of the 1lay were handsome fresh elaborate and historically correct in I the main I It I is 1 a rare treat to find such pretty robes and ounpleto stage settings as Ihose uhich have been brought to this popular u rosen a t ion of Quo VadlB The audience followed the play eagerly and the gallery appealed to get us much enjoyment from It as the I crowded crowd-ed pai queue below Wllh so strong apiece a-piece on Ha boards as this the t Grand will find u weeks engagement of Quo Vadls none too long for the town I Al I lie i St Pauls benefit entertain Then I In i be given at the Salt h t Lake Theater on Wednesday afternoon and evening Sam Park will I I I sing a characteristic charac-teristic song and Mis Agatble Perk heel rill render a new song composed by Rev W Daunt Scott The enter talnment will have many oilier delightful de-lightful I I features and will i I I be enjoyed by large audiences judging from the j demand for Keats |