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Show . -r e V j " ' rr.c::?rLT at : thcrsdjlt itekiso, Clin.tn ' Jamei J. Jeffries tnUnd the rir.pardon us made hla entrance on tha si&rs, and wu received with tumultuoua applause. And maybe ha didn't make rood. In tha words of tha Immortal Bard of Avon,- "He waa there Ilka a duck." lie may not have been there with the tender ten-der little touchea which made Frank Mayo great In tha part, but It la a cinch that cone of the speeches were lost, and aa a bolder of the door In the aecond and third acta he had Mayo beaten to a pulp and ."..;:r.(f on desperately to avoid punlsh-. punlsh-. menu lionasily. there have been many t worse actors than Jeffries seen In Salt Lake, for he la sensible enough to avoid randc; and la aa natural aa is possible. He baa a stage manager, however, who should be cast Into outer darkneaa. In the first place none of tha principals dressed tha part at all and It waa rather "outre" to see charactera supposed to bo living about 1830 dressed In ISO! clothes. Then, too. In the aecond act. when a fierce storm la supposed to be raging out- . aide, everybody who entered waa palnTully dry and uncovered with snow. The play makes a pack-horse of Jeff moat of tha , ; time. Ut.a he makes hla first entrance , he la carrying a dead deer. Then he car-- car-- rlea In the heroine and repeats the same atunt In act two, and In act four ha carries car-ries her out with exceptional haats and agility. By tha way, the beat thing Jeff did waa In the fourth act, when be- rave - hla own version of the story of "Young i Lochinvar." In hla scenes with the heroine. hero-ine. Jeff evidently believed In long range work, aa the lady did all the clinching. Anyway, the man who said 'The play's tha thing" waa evidently mistaken Thurs- . day night. Aa one of the spectators remarked re-marked between acts, of which there were , Ave, "I wish the preliminaries were over and they would bring on the main bout." It waa noticeable that none left the theater -after the fall of the curtain on r- the last act, and tha most violent enthusiasm enthu-siasm of the 'evening waa. prevalent during B the three-round bout between tha champion and his sparring partner, Joe Kennedy. Tha rounds were short, but the men gave a splendid exhibition, and those who had not seen the champion in action were sur-' sur-' , prised at the science and speed exhibited by Jeffries. The company continues at tha. ; ' , , Grand Friday and Saturday nlghta and" Satardajr matinee. e a e "TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES," ONE of the most Intense and powerful dramas , on the stage, will be Florence Roberts' ; offering at tha Salt) Lake Theater Friday night. It is a performance that brings : out the great , qualities of this ' gifted aotreae and a very elaborate production. Melbourne MacDowell will make hla first appearance In tha cast Friday night aa Aleo D'Urbervllle. e e e ROSEMARY eGLOSZ HAS OPENED HER engagement with Hamlin. Mitchell 4k. Fields at the New Colonial theater in 'New York. She baa the leading singing A In "It Happened in Nordland." |