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Show thought or Idea that Is worth something. As Hiss Fulton has used It, the Bowery slang is almost classic In Its effect. Suddenly Hung from the streets into the midst of cigarette-smoking, cocktail-drinking cocktail-drinking women of the upper social crust, tho Brat, though only a Hippodrome dancer out of a job, shows that she is more of a real, woman than the tinseled pretenders who look with condescending patronage upon her through their lorgnettes. lor-gnettes. Before she baeame a star on the legitimate legiti-mate stage, Miss Fulton was a dancer of no small fame, and Just a glimpse of her accomplishments in the ti-rpsichorean art is given the audience in the third act. In fact, it is only too fleeting a glimpse, and the audience would find thorough enjoyment in more of it. Miss Fulton is excellently supported in the eitire cast of her play. Everyone is particularly suited to his or her part, and the result is a well-rounded, artistically artis-tically finished production. All of the cast deserve special mention, men-tion, but particularly so do Edmund Lowe, as "Steve Forrester," and Per-cival Per-cival T. Moore, as "Macmillan Forrester," Forres-ter," a famous novelist. Frank King-don, King-don, In the role of "Bishop Ware," and Leslie Palmer, as "Timpson," the butler, but-ler, are exceptionally good. Gertrude Maitland, as "Jane de Pew," Helen Stewart, Stew-art, as "Angela Smythe," and Ruth Holt Bouclcault, as "Mrs. Pell Forrester," Forres-ter," handle their roles with excellent effect. Bessie Andra, as "Maxgot, the Maid," hasn't much to do, but what she does she does well Actress-Author Is i Charming in The Brat' UAUDE FULTON Is one of tho most 1V1 fascinating comediennes it has been the pleasure of Salt Lake theater patrons to welcome in a long time. There is an originality and personality about her way of saying and doing things that is wholesomely whole-somely refreshing. The vehicle in which she made a decided impression at the Salt Lake theater last night, "The Brat," which is the product of her own pen, is almost as charming as Its fair authoress. author-ess. In the title role Miss Fulton is a star of the first magnitude. The petite and clever little authoress-actress authoress-actress and her play won their way-straight way-straight to the hearts of the big audience audi-ence that filled the theater last night at the opening performance. Miss Fulton made her audience laugh and become serious at wll with the humor and phllos-! phllos-! ftf of every-day human life as she served It to them In her cleverly constructed con-structed comedy satire. The play may be called a comedy satire, for, while the comedy predominates all through, underneath under-neath there is unfolded a philosophy of human nature, of every-day life among real folks that shames the sham of social and religious pretensions. But, to be appreciated in the fullness of its merit and cleverness, the play must be seen with Miss Fulton in the title role. She possesses a way all her own that gives a particular and distinctive charm to the lines, to the situations, to the ensemble. The line of Bowery lingo in which the Brat indulges so profusely, and so effectively, ef-fectively, is different from the ordinary. These expressions which Miss Fulton has woven Into the lines of her play are choice; chosen for a purpose, and each serves most forcefully to drive home a |