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Show AM IS KM K NTS SALT I.AKK THEATER The College Widow," u f(xitbal coined) In four acts, by Qeorge Ale. First, there Is Its wit and satire. If you leso your Interest for a moment, you mls scmethir.g good. And with all possible alert-pes alert-pes you cannot catch every good thing, ewry shade of meaning. The general scope of Its satire Is obvious. It makes great sport of college sport It lakes the Idea that In 1 Ighcr education athletics are nil-Important, nnd has rare fun with It. Hut In the ex-pii-Hslon of the satlm there are not only pal-pable pal-pable things that are- worked out broadly and excite roars. There arc subtleties that aro elusive. Uniting so l-rlclly that you may but lightly smile at them If you see them at all Then therf are Its types. You at once feel thut most of these chuiueters aro true to nature. na-ture. The play may burlesque collego life, but only three or four of tho many characters char-acters aro actuully in Ihe burlesque clara. Ihorc a a fidelity to reality most unusual In Comedlee of this kind. Those collego boys aro Just the kind c,u would aXDeot to ftnd In a bunch of students In a real school. Tho girls give the Imptesslon that they an- real The hero ol tbu ufTalr. who enables his ffutball train to win. personated by Mr. Truesdell. is altogether natural. Miss Ten-nant Ten-nant discloses the captivating widow us a real being. Aa the athletic girl with tho brown d arms und throut, Ml-, Dunlap reminds re-minds you of some one you have seen. And tbi le who appear In characters that may bo ald to be overdrawn, such as Raymond Chuse s.s tho awkward fivshinan who became eporty, MlfS Nugent, as tho boarding-house girl, and tho big fellow who Is studyTnK art ( r f.-.lull purpo.i. . tire ,1- lightfully humorous. humor-ous. The support throughout Is clever. And there Is lis emotional quality. lt makes you Interested In Its game until you aro thrilled by the spirit of the contest. Last nights big audlenc.j finally became, not a theater audience at all. but a crowd of about 1 " pioplc deepls lour. .1 In ,i f. jtliull struggle. They were on tho Atwater side, ond when, after the excitement hud lcen skillfully worked up, Atwater won, the satisfaction sat-isfaction over the victory was displayed In a prolonged demonstration. And so elated was It that when the Uuptlst father said disgustedly dis-gustedly to his backsliding son who had f ught valorously for Presbyterian Atwater "You are a hell of a Baptist." It was not shocked, but luughcd Joyously. e e "The College Widow" wdll be played tonight to-night and tomorrow afternoon and nlghi CfBW GRAND THEATER "On tho Brldgo at Midnight." good, clean comedy and melodrama. melo-drama. Th- title "On the Brldgo al Midnight" suggests, sug-gests, the "S'dcath." "Cnhand me. villain." typo of ploy; but the play Itself, which opened last evening to Ihe biggest houso that has been seen at the New Grand this season. Is In plea dng contrast to tho title. "On the Bridge at Midnight" Is. for tho greater part, one of the prettiest comedies that has been seen at this popular playhouse for a long time. Of course, h has melolrama ond effect ef-fect as well, but the melodrama u high-class the kind thnt mrVcs the norves tingle and the pluy. as a whole, wont with a rush that could noi bo Otherwise ihun pleasing to the people on tne stage. Tho itory told is that of a chIM kidnaped In Infancy a girl who dressed herself In boy's clothes until eho became too old to longer Conceal her sex. And. at Inst, she llnds tho mother who has grieved for her for years. Th? company Is a most capable one. Frank Weed as "Herman Von Scliulrbcrif." a German Ger-man Baron, called "Germany" for the sake of bigvlty. furnished the major portion of the fun. with ' "Ruddy." otherwise Miss Kuther-Ine Kuther-Ine Crego. the lost child first In thu role of a boy and later as a girl a close second Tho portrayal of the port of tho villainous Italian fell t.. Daniel Reed, and It Is not flattery to say thnt Mr. Reed was so perfect n muke-up voice and action that many of the audience could hardlv restre'n the desire to secure a club and take a hand In the proceedings themselves. them-selves. In the third act the 'knife' bridge over the Chicago river Is shown, and the "realism" Is up to the highest standard. In fact, It Is the bt-rt, perhaps, ever sten at the Grand or any other Salt Luke theater. The brldgo opens to let n boat through a boat that emits ns much smoke as Is complained of on tho part of thn smelters by tbo Salt I.nko county farmer. and then a girl Is thrown from the bridge by a couple of criminals and rerwrued by her lover. When the curtain falls on tho final act everybody la In good spirits but the villains; they are in jail The attendance record rec-ord for the season was easily broken nnd more thnn WV people were denied admission, after all tho sio.uMng room had been inl en "On the Bridge al Hldnicht" will be the bill up to and Including Saturday night, with Saturday matinee. salt PALAOB Klltlei Band, Engagement canceled. Many tnUlll iOYOri had made Up their minds to spend Thanksgiving nlghi at the Salt Poloce were bitterly dlsanpolut- when Vhey visited thai pl2ce of nmusement last cht Mild found the theater In utter dark-"s dark-"s Tho fact thnt the car service to the was. ns usual, totally Inadequate d1 ' i,m' I., Improve the temp'-rii of lb- ,tl-wi ,tl-wi "n"' hut onlv added to the die-ei'poinie.1 die-ei'poinie.1 management of the Kilties ban I ' " ', , Kme for tlv disappointment The s not o osxeps focllltl"? for heating It. hmD iC"" !! Sfeorltlee would not perml- the and the Clt nu;.p, ,f. ,,, purpoie as It Is ,Calns the flro. OTdlK, ,,, bc caucel on1 thus the eng.gernent hA- Xl-H1,nf rvn. n nny were cheated out of of ,he Ing's amusement The mannt lability gonlintlon very much regret ' ,rt,h" ' to fulfil the engagement, and if ran be BCCOied arrunsemeniH wll . for carrying out the programme; hu, " ent no aransements ho been mud" |