Show ah SALT LAKE 0 JL A great Ai And millence lenee greets d reels its if presentation gum 11 T 11 1 1111 11 0 afir it 4 V I 1 i the th salt bait lake capers this morning in ia enthusiastic terms of the I 1 long ong talked of p production ro of friends at the salt like lake Th theatre eatie tho the tribune has baa the following i there have bare been ma amny ay resplendent iclene scones in the old salt lake theatre the atre L none more striking however than those attendant udon noon the perfo performance mance of f friends last evening an andio once enee that filled every inch a 0 the lower floor and up heaved to the galleries an aa audience composed of people famil familiar I 1 ar in social business bu ainess Doli political and religious circles an audience fervent without being fulsome enthusiastic without unseemly adulation an audience t in every way stylish without b be ing offensively fashionable s in an audience that was earnestly ear neatly attentive att entire without being coldly critical such were what may mav be called the atte attending noling circumstances upon the first prodoc tion of mr royles boyles play under its if re christened name but if the audience was of an exceptional centi nal character the perform performance ancO was wa not less so BO friends frienda his has re rep holved between the diamond dust since first seen here and horn from a rough diamond it nai come out the most dan daaling ling of gems gema the frame work of the clayis play i the same as aa when we knew it ax as out oat of darkness tut but it hai b been eon so ao adorned with epi epigram grain burnished dig he d with repartee and decorated with wit that it seems a finished statue where before we had only a block ot marble it is not difficult to see why ia ao man many 7 words worda of praise have been lavishly bestowed bellowed upon this performance it is siri strikingly kinglY original in theme akil fulir constructed and arsan arranged ged with wonderful effect as aa to light and shadow deli del cats cat treatment contrasting with bold outlines it is through and through an all artists accomplishment it is what in in manag parlance would be called a crack performance and a big money winner it was a surprise even to those who have seen great possibilities in the th piece when presented in its crudeness em deneu |