Show I AMUSEMENTS The Donnlc Brier Bush appeals to two great clashes of tersoersthoBO t who U like to he sail and those who like to be merry For the most port their respective portions of the play are wclldcllncd Borne people being wtlhout prejudice might say that they are dIstInct throughout At any rate tho laughers and the weepers ore seldom In conflict When the setno Is pathetic pa-thetic those who arc present to laugh are silent ns p rule And when tho situation Is a mirthful onelhoso who are present to weep dam up their teardrops and hold their handkerchiefs steadfastly In thdlr laps as a rule The courteous waiving of rights however did < not at the Salt Likc Tncator mat night continuously prevail There were tinea when wecpful onus feelIng feel-Ing that the moments were their vero shocked by titters to say nothing of guffaws guf-faws And these were the times too when gigglers bolng convinced that what was going on was their sort of thing found their amusement increased when they detected damp proof of grief We shall not undcrtako to say who were the trespassers preferring tu leave to others the settlement of the question as to whoso innings these rightfully were Bill as we were saying there Is sorrow for the wouldbe sorrowers and merriment for those who would be gay And if is the masterly way In which the feelings of each class are stirred by two artists that the play ls made powerful beyond Its natural strength With full appreciation of the dellghtfiilnesu ot the sketches of Ian Mac Lrfiren upon which the play is I based it cannot be said that the plot appeals with force of freshness The stern father was we believe one of the earliest tlgures on the stage mid he has been coming often of-ten sinco to harrow up our souls by his treatment of hlH daughter But one does not need novelty of plot when Stoddart In 1 > portraying a cluiructur in the play This grand old man who comes to us fron great days of the drama In the t far oft past and who played under the guise of age when In his prime is now i oung in heart arid virile In his powers when age attends him and aids him in his makeup Though his acting was the perfect work due to long service and much talent one could not hodp refusing af times to be deceived de-ceived by It and thinking only of Stod dart the strong untiring 1 Inibltlous loa blo man of 70 whoso career ItielE I attracts a degree of human Interest that Is mint Slit passcd by that arnacd by the character ho represents In thin play he has to win his way with a i portrayal that at llrst calls for severity the severity that an ainllenco resents BtU it ia i easy for Sloddnrl to win his way His admirublo art enables him to draw his audience and holl1llln spite of tho harsh sentiments of his character char-acter Indeed he had his audlcnri captured cap-tured last nicht before he had spoken a word For Salt haIti Nmcmllol him to admire and to jrlvn evidence of Its admiii lion as it did last night In prolonged applause ap-plause when he appeared Heuben Fax was the t ostyof the playas play-as he was last l year and lilsdunih work was as delightful aut bcfun Bob Easton incelvcda warm welcoJll home 1I1d his singing was as enjoyable as aver Wallace Jackson as Tainmas IMIUlie was a lub bony Icl who helped to mako things ridiculous ri-diculous Five more performances will be given one being a matinee on Wtdnoaday |