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Show AMUSEMENTS IN SALT LAKE THEATERS. SALT LAKE THEATER "When . Knights Were -Bold." Evening. -! S:1S. GRAND THEATER "Kidnaped : I- for Revenge," by Theodore -I-Lorch company. Evening, S:0. ORPIIECM THEATER Advanced vaudeville. Malince, 2:15. Even- Y Ing. S:1G. LYRIC THEATER "A Night in Morocco," by the Zinn company. 1- . Evening, S.15. y , ..,,.,."' Fourteen years ago Francis Wilson appeared ap-peared before a Salt Lake audience in Iho Salt Lake Theater when he presented the "Merry Monarch." Ho was funny then. The years that have passed have not changed him for he still makes you laugh and you do this, even though you did not want to laugh. This time ancestor an-cestor worship is tho medium. And on Thursday night Mr. Wilson was greeted, was welcomed by perhaps the most fashionable fash-ionable audience that has Hocked to the Salt Lake Theater during this season. And how this audience did laugh. How they did enjoy this comedy, this satire, upon hereditary society, "When Knights .Were Bold," by Charles Marlowe, that has convulsed audiences wherever it has been presented, lietwoen the second and third acts Mr. Wilson responded to the oncore and made a brief speech before tho curtain, concluding "I'll now go and fall out of bed." And ha did. for Ihe play-is play-is a dream play and it gives him ample latitude for his Inimltablo drolleries. As the play is based upon Ancestor Worship, he hears nothing but "the good old days" until wearied and worn out. Sir Guy De Yexe. Mr. Wilson, enters the land of Nod and dreams and in the dream is carried car-ried back 70fi yours. While the modern Sir Guy Is still the hero, everyone else appears in their own characters of -the limes. With the return to modernity. Sir Guy utilizes a few of the twelfth century methods he remembers from his dream and so successfully thai he not only convinces the lady of his heart that she must marry him, 'but he shows up Ihe general character of everyone else. Including his rival, who. despite the bravest brav-est kind of talk, is at heart an errant coward. Moreover, he convinces his sweetheart, who has been tho chief offender of-fender in the ancestry proposition and the chivalrous deeds of the good old days of old, that 13 Of. is rctally preferable to line. Then he has a splendid supporting company. His leading lady Is the talenl-cd talenl-cd Mary Boland. who is generally regarded regard-ed as being one of tho coming of the younger generation of actresses. Miss Boland Is not only an exceptionally handsome woman, but she enters Into her role with an apparently perfect understanding under-standing of all of the points, and as Lady Rowena Kgglnglon sho Is superb. Her rolo is that of a modern girl entirely under the spell and entirely carried away by ancestor worship. All the other members mem-bers of the company are exceedingly clever. The stage settings arc especially elaborate elabo-rate and the costumes quaint and picturesque. pic-turesque. "When Knights Wore Bold" is the most, delightful farce seen here for a long while. It will be presented again tonight, lomonow matinee and tomorrow to-morrow night. Capacity houses should greet the company. At the Grand tonight Mr. Lorch and his company will appear again in "Kidnaped "Kid-naped for Revenge," the very excellent play which has been running at that theater all week. Next week Mr. Lorch will be seen in a big scenic production of "The Factory Girl." Thero are but three, more performances of "A Night In Morocco'' by tho Zlnn musical mu-sical comedy company at. the Lvric. This week will end the engagement." W n You should seo the bill at. Ihe Orphcum tills week. It is among tho best of tho season and the programme has been greeted by packed houses. There are dally matinees. The bill will end with Saturday night's performance. Tonight Montaville Flowers, the greatest great-est impersonator of character in America will appear at the First f'ongregationai church. This Is tho eighth number In the rnlverslty of Utah lecture course and promises to be tho greatest treat vet given. .Mr. Flowers Is so well known, his work Is so clean and comprehensive that I even those little im-lined to literature find a charm and entran'-enient that is alluring." al-luring." in Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" he is a I his happiest and in tho dellnea- lion of t ho rharaet'irs from this great masterpiece he Is so interesting lliat he holds his audience spellbound. |