Show AMUSEMENTS S If the pleasapt Impression left by tho opening performance at the Grand last night is perpetuated through future productions Salt Lake and the new stock company will be fast friends It was comingout night for the new organization and handsome turnout oC wellwluhers was oiv hand to welcome wel-come it Friendly as was the audience It did not assemble to flatter or to gush and during the first portion of tho play wherein the players Introduced Intro-duced 1 themselves the audience was reserved re-served and almost ohllly As the actors began to show their several excellences < < and the play developed Its Interest the audience thawed warmed enthused and then broke into earnest applause A Gilded Fool l is a strong American play which has never had a previous hearing in Salt Lake It was a splendid splen-did vehicle for the new company Ralph Cummings the organizer and proprietor of the company quickly revealed re-vealed himself as an actor of ease artistic ar-tistic mrthod and distinctly Interesting PersonalitY lie made a happy hit of I his difficult role and was well appreciated appre-ciated Laura Nelson Hall the new leading lady possesses the dramatic gift in connection with exceptional charms of person and to this nlust be added what women so much admire good taste in dress She was suffering with a severe cold and showedas did others the strain of first appearance Yet wjthal she Installed herself In favor and gives promise oC becoming a favorite fa-vorite Blanche Douglas Mrs Ralph E Cummings Is ° nnother strong card in the company She has brightness vivacity and readiness and will be a close second to Miss Hall Mr Cummings I Cum-mings too has a near second in Wil lard Blackmore who If he keeps upI up-I last nights record will rank with the I best supporting members of the old I I Grand stock In the role of the old I I banker Robert Cummings was natural and forceful Edith Angus In one of those unsympathetic partsthe old maid which must be taken by someone some-one was extremely good Poland as the missionary Harry Cummings as the roustabout and Mr Downs as the servant were good The only noticeable noticea-ble shortcoming was that of Ellena I Marls who neither looked nor acted tho role of the refined mother She gave I rather the Idea f of the Janitors wife and the line of the play Aint mothei a dream 1 was caught up by the audience audi-ence with much laughter The setting of the play was rich and complete In detail Involving much work Miss Hall displayed some pretty gowns Summarized It may be said the new stock company Is a clever capable little lit-tle ensconced in a cosy little home and if a suggestion may be offered It would be that the management manage-ment drop extravagances such as most versatile actor In America famous I fa-mous celebrated lo and Incomparable Incompara-ble company resting assured that the town will appreciate the excellent players I play-ers and their work quite as much without with-out such exuberance of language i Every scat was filled last night well 1 known faces being seen on all sides Once the nervousness which Is inevitable inevi-table on such occasions has disappeared disap-peared the company will handle Its work more rapidly and easily A pretty floral offering well I deserved was sent over the footlights to Mr Cummings and Miss Hall S S Yesterdays reiteration by the Herald of the announcement that a nw and splendid l theater was to be erected by Manager M E Mulvey is very funny to those who have heard that 4manager and his treasurer Mr Carruthers declare de-clare quite recently that there was no such intention In view Mr Mulvey himself expressed the ideas quoted in Sundays Tribune that Salt Lake was not big enough to support three houses and that the man who bucked the syndicate I syn-dicate would have an uphill job of it I I Mr Mulvey further saldthnt while he I expected to figure in theatricals probably prob-ably as the owner of a firstclass com I pany he would not build a new house In Salt Lake as had been represented No one ever handled the theatrical r business here more satisfactorily than Mr Mulvey and as director of the Pocatello Po-catello and possibly two or three other houses in the Northwest every one expects ex-pects him to duplicate his success here Salt Lake would gladly welcome him backbut he will not figure as Inventor of the fifth wheel to any theatrical wagon If he reenters management here it I will not be in the direction exploited ex-ploited by the Herald |