Show AMUSEMENTS The artist with the brush has done more for Alexander the Great than the artist with the pen The adorning of the stage has been artistically done The embellish ing Is the work of a free hand such as Is worthy of tho firm of Wngcnhala Kcmpcr noted for Its enterprise and tho generous manner In which It beautifies its eductions J Its scenes ire a serIes of pictures strikingly effective But gorgeous equipment docs not make a pny J Beautiful trees palatial rooms a river that winds prettily and a snowstorm snow-storm that Is J a triumph of stagecraft arc well luC to assist in luring one into feel hug that the play he IB seeing Is the real thing But the play has a duty to perform per-form I must help at all points and this Alexander the Great docs not do Its plot gives the Impression that It belongs to tho patchwork clam The play does not appeal strongly to the heart It does not seem to have been designed to < do much stirring of tho emotions I deco not give tho loading actoro a good chnnco and they cannot give their admirers much justification for applause The tvro stars were uj > numcu 10 oc sure ann urawn out between acts but the applause was not of the old force and there were many Idle hands In the big audlunce As usual Mr Wnrdo addressed the house happily his little speech being about the best thing ho said during tho evening Ho did not have the audience with him last night as he has had audiences on former Ocea nians lie did little to arouse it Ills portrayal was not great enough to make people forget that the part W not un admirable one in their admiration for tIme acting Ho did not lire to the desired height He did not manifest the spirit that thrills And he gave tho impression of an actor not In loo with his lart Nor was Mr James a good fit Ao Alexander ho neither looked well the part of the gallant nor that of the warrior Mr James has won much admiration deservedly de-servedly from Salt Lake audiences but last night hu was disappointing Hla clothier was to some extent responsible for this Think of the great commander going Into anowcovorod mountains In tights and a twelve or fifteenInch gauze skirt with soldiers In the same llpht garb No wonder tho poor follows shivered In the snow But the snow nicene was othor wlso nil right a snowstorm being very realistically produced by electricity and winning some of the heartiest applause of the night The support avoraccH well Miss Margaret Mar-garet Bourne sis Roxana loved by Alexander Alex-ander lent HWcetncsH to the part Mrs James who took the character of a Persian Per-sian slave showed that she lu Improving ill the time Many liberties ore taken with history In the making of the play but these are excusable ex-cusable ao being within the privilege of the playwright But the manner In which the customs of the time are dealt with Is not so guiltless and the temple scene borders on musical cotnrdy burlesque Alexander tho Great goes tonight and tomorrow night Julius Caesar will be glyen Wednesday afternoon and Tluimdny night and In this the company will appear ap-pear to greater advantage V A typical Lincoln J Carter production with its pretty scenery thrilling adventured adven-tured and plciihlng climax Is Down Mobile Mo-bile neon at the Grand theater last even tig for the firut time Two of the scenes were iiartlcttlarly striking one represent lug negro fiunrten on tho plantation with the day Just fading away the other the dismal swamp with tho mowjcovcrcd trees the full moon Just rising and casing casi-ng a Bllvery light over Limo scene with vory realistic fireflies dancing here and horn among the trccH Thin was the home of the witch Mother Guhnrre and very weird It wan with tho seethIng caldron tho hooting owln and the unnartlily sounds created by the winds In the trees But the most thrilling scene of all was the fourth when thc old cotton mill was fired tho villain of the play and his accomplice ac-complice woro killed by the lovers of tho ifrltl w11011 they vcre hiding away untll life old witch was carried half dead from the burning mill Had tho audience not been halfchoked from time effects of the red light Used In this nceno they would certainly have demanded a curtain call Tho cast in a capable one amid tho largo audience pronent last night was gtncrouu In Its appreciation In the cast of characters char-acters arc Lcm B Parker In the double role of Jim BlacKford and Harry Eagerly Eager-ly and by the way Mr Parker makes avery a-very much bettor gentleman than villain William Evcmon aa Charlpu Harper Charles T Del Vccehlo as Col Harper and WUJIam Wolfe an Dick Fox TVCIO all good Mr Wolfi has nn oxrvptlonally good voice anti received a hearty encore after tho rendition of a nolo Of the ladies Miss Grnbor nn Sally a young lady with opinions opin-ions of her own and not afraid to express them Bccmed to be the favorite with the audience but honors scorned to be almost equally divided between all the IndUfl of the cant which Included Maltlii Goodrich as Mother Guharrc Marie Del Vocchlo an Aunt Sue nail Miss Minnie Dixon Parker as Josephine Cal L Uhl wasnt very ntrong In the chai actor nf Uncle Remui but he was a mighty good dancer and received re-ceived the mont enthusiastic applause of tho evening Down Mobile will be repeated re-peated tonight coil tomorrow night with the regular midweek matinee tomorrow af tei noon I S Mr WasenhalH of the firm of Wagesm haln it Kcrnper the firm proncntlng Alexander the Great Is 1 In the city This firm which Is one of the most on torprlslng In the theatrical world Is having hav-ing great succcnn with Resurrection In which Blanche Walnh Is starring its receipts re-ceipts being heavy everywhere It Is pro denied e o John Moore the popular business representative rep-resentative of Waganhalu Kompcr Is with TVardu and James again this season J Cl The sale of scats for Kant Lynne will begin at the Grand theater thin morning 11 John Maguire Ifl here arranging for the appearance of Jessie Shirley at the Grand all I next week In Trilby and A Modern Magdalene Mr Mntjulre Is woll known In Salt Lake and In the Northwest aa a theatrical manager He came hero first thirtytwo years ago with Mr and Mrs V M Bates He has been here frequently since with big attractions and during the ncaoon of Ifln manager the Walker Operahouse He has many friends bore who will he glad to sec him |