| Show I Salt last lal night tok took a plunge In Into to 10 tIme tho new domain of oC art we bl had o our r first real contact wih with the widely talked ot of holy hotly dl dIscussed but bat hitherto un an unknown known chod cf modern O dr ml time the school ot of ot of Ibsen the school ot of real le life the school of calIng calInga calling a spade a spade the school of moral and mental dissection the school for tor men and women to thought thoughtfully tuly fully and the school for boys boy and girls religiously away from The question ot of the purpose ot of such drama dramas Is 10 too biond n a ono one for discussion her here They The poInt a undoubtedlY So do the lives ot of the pointed painted denizens of Commercial street but we would not think ot of taking younG young people there to pursue their studies Hut such sueh dramas continue to be lured turned out by the tore foremost most writers ot of the day or no purpose morel moral or no moral and the bet best actors and actresses continue to present them to the public So the critIc can on only reo us view them as ho he finds them The Inter Interest set est and strength or of a play like Magda can not b be tor or n a mo am moment meat ment denie denied not even een the hideousness or of Is its coing closing when an aged agell father falls dead a paralytic stroke caus caused by bythe bythe the announcement or of his daughter that she ahe Is nfl an abandoned dIspel pel the charm th the play piny exercised on the audIence and though eer every one left the Theater wih with a bad taste tute In hi his mouth everyone went out marvelIng over oer the of the drama and nt at th the wonderful manner In whIch I ii had been presented Miss ONel ONeIl In tac tact stormed her way Into the hert hearts ot of her hearers like her fre fire her ImpetuosIty her force torce and her magnetism have been heard wIthIn thos those walls for tor n a generation She suggests hal half a dozen ot of her art but WO we think her tha lM superior or of al all ot of them SomethIng of Mr Mrs Ls Lee Leelie le lie Carters IntensIty In expressing emotion n a vat vast deal or of Kid Kidders ders ders dashing tram from convene conven tonal rules rule and PO poses I and much or of Fanny Panny Daenport Davenports power ot of expressing tim tho these she possesses S Set yet et wih with Q a tenor fervor 1 a dash duh an indescribable able fetchIng of her own that neither ot of them over ever dreamed or of owning She Is a wonder In her ways way Not entirely tre free from crudity perhaps riot not perfectly torme formed I as yet et It may be yet she dent defIes critIcIsm and It you OU at attempt attempt tempt to set let up agaInst her methods any ot of the ordinary standards she wi will scatter them as the wInd scatters chaff and before beCore her fur fury ot of enthusiasm you will 1 find yourself toot foot and dragoons AdmIrably wa was she support supported ed b by Clay Clement and McKee IcK nan nankin kin whIle the mInor parts were al all In good hands tir Ir Clement got an ova oa ovation goo tion on his entrance After ter one becomes ton accustomed to hearing hIs tones separ separated aled from the German accents of at Dar Bar Daron Baron on It was ver very hard at first to doIt doIt was a pleasure careful meth methods to follow hl hIt scholarly ode leKe Rankin was most natural and to 1 a as the father Indeed the work of these thre three players was fU throughout the evenIng a surce source of the keenest delight to 10 al all hovers loers ot of the legitimate In acting I It WO was a freshen hog Ing breath from the old tock stock lays days a taste tute of at the artIstic inspIration that gave birth to the Salt lAke Theater I It awoke echols echoes that have hae long ben been slumberIng In the hl historic old house and aroused memories of the old hal halcyon halcyon cyon daYI days of the drama In Sai Salt Lake that had long been forgotten Daton Barton 11 showed hiI hi admirable art in n it small ni part and Mr Canfeld Canfield dId the difficult role ot of the doctor with discretion The others other were ni all god good Magda goe goes again tonIght and Saturday afternoon FrIday and Saturday nights night The Tue Jewel Jewess FIday another version erlon ot of ILah the Forsaken Last LUI nights audIence was lare large but It would have hac been lager larger had the en enA A Bostonians not followed so closely on the S S Remember the tho MaIne opens at the Grand Orand tonight and runs rune the remainder of the week week IS The Orpheus Club subscription rn con In the Congregational church to tonight nigh night Is the general theme In music cIrcle circles turnout turnout There will I doubtless be a great |
