Show I I 1 1 I I AMUSEMENTS TONIGHT'S AMUSE AMUSEMENTS f I I SALT LAKE Lt Nc 7 e v York Yok Symphony I orchestra I ORPHEUM Katherine ORPHEUM-Katherine Groy Grey in Tho I Truth GRAND GRAND- RAND Tho Tho House of Mystery NEW KEW LYRIC The LYRIC The SALT P PALACE Bicycle Bicycle race Ince LAGOON LAGOON Roller Roller skating and dancin dancing When hen half the audience at ot a n theater will applaud for fol two or three e minutes minute utter after af ut- ter each act o of a show It Is 15 going Koine n a little I too far tar for or one person to sa say that show Is a failure t At the Salt Lake theater last I night Kit the audience that greeted neet d henry Henr Miller In The Great D Divide put th the I stamp of It Its approval on tile tare play and on n the aeI 1 acting of r and hl isle sup rap port Some people 1111 hate ha e called this the tho I great American m pla play It Is I difficult to sec Ole why 11 It should ha have this tit title It Such lems lens do not confront the p people p of or Amer mcl ica lea The entire story torr Is Illogical almost Impossible and certainly Improbable Bu Hut But t certainly nh plenty t of ot people p-ople found enjoyment In It last night and that I Is what the average person thinks of ot when going to the theater r The Thc play started out ont VCr very dull and anol tiresome tire tire- some At t 1 least six RI or Ml seven n minutes of the first Hist act should b be eliminated Too much time is wasted d with Idle gossip that Is not entertaining The real roal notion action In In lh the play does not b begin bIn In until the girl Is I left alone In III th the thieo drunken ruffians break down own the door and start to shake dice for Ruth nuth She chooses Stephen Ghent as the strongest of the three and prom- prom faes to marry him If It he lie will protect her hel from the thc others othe Ghent gives I es one of his partners a greaser reaser a string string- of gold Jold nu nuggets nuggets nug nug- I gets ets to bu buy him off and In a duel dUll shots shoots down the other man and then takes the girl to his mining claim Of course COlln c Ruth Jordan Joran who was reared In New England In a home homo of ot culture and refinement could not e love the brute who bou bought ht her with a string of or nu nuggets et and a bullet And wo so until the tho end of ot th the piece she clung to the old theory as Stephen Gh Ghent nt put It that angels anels workIng working work work- Ing overtime could not make up for fOI a awron wron wrong one committed But finally Stephen Gh Ghent's Ghents struggle to atone for the wickedness wickedness wicked wicked- ness of or his earlier life lite wins twins the lows love of hi hh his wife and the curtain falls on theta them In each others other's arms There are aro lots of dull places s In tiLe tice show und and there are some fome exciting onesto ones onesto to oven even up for or them Henry tiller Miller makes all that he can enn out nut of or Stephen Ghent and Miss Edyth E th Olive shows hows a great d deal al of real ability as Ruth Jordan But Miss 11 If Laura Hope Hopt Crews was the tho most pleasing person In the cast and she Mie fairly made mafle the audience love lo her so o de delightful de- de and refreshing was her hr acting the She h Is 1 n pretty prett little woman and as us bright and entertaining as any ony one could coul ask to f see ef on the stage James 1 did a genuinely Iy splendid plen- plen did piece of ot work us RS I Lou Ion on Anderson the theold theold theold old miner at Stephen n Ghents Ghent's cabin Mrs Thomas was artistic an and satisfying satisfying satis satis- as the mother of ot Ruth Jordan and Wyngate made a n capable Philip Jordan Nothing In the line of or stage settings setting and ond scenery was waR ever cpr seen s-en at the Salt Lake theater that surpassed sc In excellence excel excel- excellence lence loncO and finish the scene ccone In the second act of The Great Grea t Divide Ilc last night nigh 1 It ItIs ItIs Itis Is a masterpiece c and find does docs as much mach as us the acting ng of the company compan to make th the pla play I Impressive Imp The Great Divide will o have a matinee tomorrow a and performances tonight ll and tomorrow nightA night A good god sized audience greeted the nur- nur peas gess company company at the Grand last night at atthe atthe the opening p performance of In In the I lI Heart art artof of the Storm The I leading members 0 of the company Including Mr 1 Noble 1 0 Miss Marke larke Mr 11 Earle and Miss Lorraine more than made mado good In their parts The others of the east cast were well up In their lines and the endue performance went with a da dash h. h This Tills will he be the la 13 last t bill but presented pro pre I by In the Burgess company compan which thick will clo close l Its engagement en n at the Grand Orand Saturday nl night ht During their stay slay In this city th the members of the com company puny have ha won many friends on account of the clever chewer work which th they have p done Miss 11 8 Grey and amt 1 associate players will gl c ive I the last lai t performance ne o of The TIc Truth tonight ht at it the Orpheum This as il presented pres II by Miss Grey and com company pan has attracted a R great deal of attention and favorable a comment Ib Ibsen Ibsen's Ih- Ih f sen's sens n s famous play A 1 Dolls Doll's House will wiil willbe willbe afternoon and to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to be presented cn tomorrow morrow night I |