Show AND davas reappearance re appearance of these favorites ANOTHER TREAT PROVO THEATRE GOERS and the world against her to le played jos R grismer and phoebe davia begin a two nights enragement enea gement at alie lopera house next tuesday evening january ast 1st in claim greenes drama f forgiven to be followed by frank best melodrama the world against her R mr grismer is an actor of ability obtaining his dramatic education in a good school having rigidly abstained from one ind continued to work hard in stock theartres theatres the atres where a new play once a week was tha auld he has been professionally associated with the bright lights of the stage hav ing trod the same baarda with charlotte cushman adelaide neilson ame mme janauschek au ame mme charles fechter edwin adams ernest rossi lawrence barrett barry sullivan and other luminaries of the dramatic firmament mr grismer is also noted as ono oz tha best producers and managers in the country and any piece staged by him may be relied upon phoebe davia has always been re as phenomenal actress having in a single season from the low est rune of the ladder to the elevated position of leading lady she hiu had more experience perhaps than any of tier years during her yar upon the stage she played nearly one bundled different parts and her strong dramatic her clear and acute artistic perceptions have elways brought her high up in the seal of IE irit mr grismer andara davie havo now been starring together for over six years and have met with such success that they have accomplished quite a competence and are classed among the most wealthy theatrical people of the country the san francisco chronicle july 31 says forgiven clay greenaa Gre enea latest play was presented last night before a crowded house at the alcazar theatre it was greeted with applause of arreater as reater tor 13 a credit to the young calif ors ian dramatist and he will doubtless make money out of it it hanga on ft simple thread the is a gamblers wife who unhappy over the ra attaching to herself and her child through th e occupation of the father is about to run anav at the instigation of a villain she does not intend to do anything wrong but the husband overhears and the result of a strong scene illogic alin some measure is that she 1 takes her child arid disappears first having ordered the villain out of the house the husband finds them all ten years later in new mexico the earlier acts take place in florida and louisiana in the same gewn this is proof to him and he is wild enough to threaten to kill the couple the villain has noi seen the woman since the left now orleans until that moment thero la a complicated vengeance in the lat act and finally the husband believes hia wife and she is forgiven for giyen clay greone has a very decided and strange vein of sentiment which runs through all hi plays and crops freely in this piece but it is always clean and wholesome sentiment and very different from mere sentimentality there is much that is original in forgiven there ig a new kind of tramp who in spite of his red nose and ragged appearance commands a great deal of respect and gets several rounds of genuine applause the villains are original and tha gambler is sufficiently different from other gamblers to excite a new interest the comedy is good in that denver dan has a strong character ander his comic makeup make up there are several exceptionally clever lines which last night brought long continued laughter the dramatic situations are well worked up and the curtain of the third act is strong and surprising and the interest is consistently sustained to the last climax which is at onca a surprise to ahn audience and a fitting denouement to the claver play new york herald the world against her by frank harvey author of the wages of sin wag produced last night at the grand opera house before a large audience aad proved to be one of the strongest melodramas on the staga today to day the interest is artistically worked up from tha and well sustained throughout alie curtain finally falling on a scene that is so effective that the audience a rather rare thing for this city with na abord delayed its exit although it was hilf past eleven to while the leading characters bowed their edge ments before the curtain to say that everyone in the house was delighted would be but a meagre expression of the truth thoy were held spellbound through the most interesting scenes and were wrought up to a pitch of rare enthusiasm all thia was due to the workmanship of tho author aloba there is really not a weak character is the play madga carlton a wrongly suspected and cruelly divorced wife with a noble fore bearance and simplicity completely captures the hearts of the audience the part of james carlton the but forgiving husband and the martof gilbert the accomplished accomplish pd villain who gives tho key to the whole drama are also well drawn characters bob millet a showman is an excellent comedy character and the pat of flav his wife is admix able those alio have seen the play will indorse opinion we have expressed as merit of the world against her |