Show AMUSEMENTS Before 7 oclock there was a crowd at tho doors of the Salt Lake Theater It soon brew to the dimensions of a Jam It I was there to get in of course and alt but u fraction of It was destined to bo disappointed dis-appointed There had been little but ntnndlng room for aalc all day And at 7M5 even the lute limit of that was reached and the boX office was closed But outsldo there was now a multitude In tho mean time police help had been sent for A portion of tho tiejcctlcati element refusing to be comforted l wan inclined to bo turbulent It was blocking the way of those who had tickets But the presence of the officers tended to cause It to abandon aban-don hope and depart The disappointed one It la believed at the Theater numbered num-bered at least 500 As they went away those whom they of course envied were pressing In In throngs These overran the house They crowded down to the footlights foot-lights driving the orchestra behind the ncencs They hung expectantly from the root They occupied every seat and stood In rows with women insome of the rows on every 1 floor The boxes yes the boxes were filled and you know who are admitted ad-mitted to the boxes In the stalls rich costumed gleamed and Jewels Hashed It I was a magnificent audience The beautiful beauti-ful the wealthy the talented theae were there The business clement the professions profes-sions the church all were represented And so were many other elements that might be mentioned and some that maybe may-be not No audlcnco an largo ever gathered gath-ered In the t Theater at tho prices charged And now why did so brilliant so rcpre scnlatlvc nn audience assemble Some people peo-ple who delight to scoff at their fellow beings might city that It was bdcausc the play was expected to exhibit something that ought not to bo neon But we prefer pre-fer to regard the outpouring as the result of tho announcement that only a mod lied performance would be given We choose to place our fair city on the side that encourages a good purpose Of course our people as a rule believed tho statement state-ment that the worst scenes would be eliminated elim-inated And when they packed the Theater Thea-ter or ntood outside by tho disappointed hundred feeling almost as If I they would like to tear down tho Theater If I not admitted ad-mitted it was all because they wanted to testify their heartfelt appreciation of the action of a company in cutting out everything that might too much offend i the moral sense Ot course there may have been l some present who were not convinced that tho promises i > to eliminate would bo kept but it so some of them no doubt were fair people who when they hear a play condemned con-demned want to know the other aide want to see the play itself before reachIng reach-Ing a decision Others of this class may have gone with the laudable purpose of seeing for themselves who would attend such a plav But If any wero there with the desire to sec and enjoy something awiul they were disappointed The men who ire stationed In the top gallery to restrain the occupants should they be moved by the acting to unseemly demonstrations had nothing to do Tho firemen who were in the house and would have been handy had the play been hot enough to cause combustion did not have to respond re-spond to a single alarm The promises were kept To be sure tho hero we presume pre-sume It Is i technically correct to call him that carries Sapho in his arms up a stairway But she IB properly clad and the carrying occurs in a public place and the stairway docs not lend to her apartments apart-ments So the worst of the Ncthernolo rendition the second scene of the llrst act is avoided The play hna much In common wth Zarp but is not so brilliant bril-liant And Miss Roberts In 7aza has opportunities to do better work than Sapho affords her She was powerful again of course but not so satisfactory And It was not her fault Nor did the support have a chance to do as well as m the openlnj play |