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Show "H0B80N'S CHOICE" 15 ARTISTIC 3 55 3 C3 OPENS AT SALT LAKE THEATER Comedy Is Splendidly Presented Pre-sented by Most Capable English Company. THE wonderful skill of the players who comprise the company makes "Hob-i "Hob-i son's Choice" an ariistie triumph, as well as a well -wrought farce comedy. The piece is a bit lifted bodily from "Old Hmgland'V it is a transplanting from a small English town, bag and baggage. The audience which witnei-sed the opening open-ing performance at tiie Salt Lake theater last night laughed until its sides ached, collectively and individually. The company is English throughout and is said to be made up of the same actors and actresses who presented the piece in London and later during its long run in New York and Boston. Certainly, they are amazingly clever at their work. The English dialect is a thins difficult for any to master, but these players, one and all, have mastered it; and those of the audience last nigh't who have in times gone bv been familiar with the peculiarities pe-culiarities of 'tongue of the locality where the scenes aie laid pronounced the. colloquial col-loquial tongue mimicked on the stage to perfection. "Hobson's Choice," while a hilarious farce, is yet filled with bits of "legitimate" "legiti-mate" humor which give, it a distinctive tone. The principal character is that of Maggie Hobson, played by Miss Viola Roach. The part affords opportunity for genuine acting and Miss Roach meets the requirements with consummate skill. The role demands a woman of vast self-assertion self-assertion and determination, so equipped with mentality and personality that she mav match her blustering father. Galwey Herbert plays the part of William Wil-liam Mossop, a young man whom Maggie marries, at first much against his will. Herbert is a scream. His work at tne i end of the thirl act the act being devoted de-voted to the wedding is unmistakable genius. Marshall Vincent as Henry-Horatio Henry-Horatio Hobson, the explosive father, is another strong character actor. The change which takes place in Hobson In the last act. when the audience sees him an ill and broken man, yet with flashes of his old-time fire, is a. real bit of the plavers' s art. Vincent does this extreme- ly well. The other members of the company. , while playing parts of lesser importance, ' are remarkably capable. The playwright who put the farce together to-gether had a keen sense of the ludicrous, yet he contrived so to interweave lines that attain merit as philosophy. The production is true to the times which it aims to recall 1S70-1 SS0. The costumes of the women are. of the vogue of that dav. and one sees again the "bustle" in all its glory. The scenic effects ef-fects in furniture, pictures, draperies and other details fulfill the demands of tne styles of forty years atro, "Hobson's Choice" will be repeated tonight to-night and tomorrow night, with a matinee mati-nee on "Wednesday. DRAMA AND VAUDEVILLE. SALT LAKE: "Hobson's Choice." tonight and tomorrow ni?ht. WILKES "Jerry," in which Miss Nana Bryant appears in the chief role, ail week. Matinees Thursday and Saturday. OKPHEUM New vaudeville bill headed head-ed by "The Bride Shop." Maude Lambert and Ernest R. Ball, opens tomorrow evening. Matinees daily. PA NT AG ESB ad get of fun characterizes charac-terizes running bill. New performance perform-ance opens Wednesday afternoon. MOVING PICTURES. PARAMOUNT-EMPRESS Oliver Mo-rosco Mo-rosco presents Lenore Ulrich In "The Road to Love," a story of Algeria, Al-geria, by Blanche Dougan Cole. REX Today and tomorrow, "Carmen." "Car-men." ' ORPHET'M Today, double feature photoplay bill, with Pearl Arhite in "Pearl of the Army" and Baby Marie Osborne in "Sunshine and Happiness." AMERICAN Today, tomorrow and Thursday, Marguerite Clayton in "The Frince of Graustark." MEHESY Today, Frank Gotch. wrestling wres-tling champion; "The Isle of Life," romantic cave-man drama, in five reels; "Too Many Smiths," comedy. Tomorrow. "Diamond Fjpm the Sky." BROADWAY Last time today, two popular stars, Robert Warwick and Mollie King, in "All Man." |