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Show "Every woman" is Great Play Gorgeously Staged and Splendidly Acted spoken to tba orchestra eccompeni Gorgeous Scanlcally. Seenically th prod action it nlagalfi-cant. nlagalfi-cant. Tha third act shows Everywoman in bar city apartment giving as after theatre supper party to bar friends. The table it act for tbe feast. There is real cut glass. Tbe silver and goldwars are real. Tbe actors actually eat real food, varying tbe menu at different performances perform-ances so it will not become monotonous, la tho fourth act, showing New Year's eve on Broadway, even tbe lights are shown in the upper stories of tba sky scrapers. It it tbe s me of stage realism. The play is tbe story of Evarywa-man Evarywa-man ' quest for love. Ignorant Youth tells ber King Love I. is to be found in tbe theatre af tbe city. She finds there Passion, a playactor, posing as King Leva I. -Later Wealth poses as her long sought king. Haa baa many disappointments. Beauty diet because of too much Dissipation. Youth is killed by Time, the eallboy. Modesty it ban-isheri. ban-isheri. flha it alone and miserable, when Truth, whom the seeks at last, suddenly it transformed from a hideous, mis shapen old bag into a sweet faced wo man with tender motherly instincts, who comforts and leads Everywossaa baek to ber home. There by tbe fireside, asleep, it Kiag; Love I., osly be doesn t look like a king, but U a humble looking fellow, patient and adoring. So we learn that by Everywoman a fireside, in ber ewa little borne, is lore to be foand. Something for All to lake. It is difficult to see how any one could be disappointed with this play. To those blessed with imagination it is something to rave over and enjoy for months in contemplation. To those who can ate, but hear not, there it tbe gorgeousness of the apeetaele, for only one other show this season ha approached it from the spectacular standpoint. Even tbose in whom the precious germ of sentiment haa fallen on barren Sound can find enjoyment in tbe music, e beauty of tbe pictures and tba real ism of th staging. It were better for a growing girl to see, hear and understand the true lesson pointed out by Walter Browne' great play, than to bear many sermons, not to intimate that sermons aren't alio needed. Let ut all be thankful that Mr. Brown was spared until bis beautiful message was given out. Perhaps he had a premonition of bis fate when be wrote for "Stuff," one of the characters in tbe tbow, these line: "Time bath summoned sum-moned all manner of mummer to enact strange scene en tbe stage of life, and rung from many tragic curtains, yet all must obey hi call." TIME, tba inexorable call bey. beckoned beck-oned to poor Walter Browne jnet a Fame was ready to place upon hi brow her precious crown. As this hard working newspaper man lay dying in Audubon sanitarium, in New York, , critical audience was rapturously rapturous-ly applauding hi masterpiece, tbe mod era morality play, " Every woman," at final droit rehearsal. He bad straggled for ten years to have tba play produced pro-duced and waa buoyed up a he bad never been before by hope when Henry W. Savage accepted bis manuscript. But tbe ears that had listened long for the plaudit of the nubile were aever to bear Bueeees' song. At 2 o'clock on tbe morning of February 9, 1(11, tba curtain cur-tain was rung down oa th author 's life, almost simultaneously with it rise on a play that is destined to prove a lasting msmorial to bis nam. For that nigbt in Parson' theatre, Hartford, Conn, the first performance of ' ' Everywoman Every-woman " was given At tba Salt Lake theatre last night tbe Savage production opened a week 's engagement, which likely will play to large andianees at every performance I at least it should. r Henry W. .Savage never slights the west when he sends out a show. He bas proven himself absolutely trustworthy; be has ever played fair with the people and bo 1 reaping bis reward in the box office, where tbe public can moat fittingly fit-tingly show -It appreciation of honest treatment. The production Mr. Savage eat to Salt Lake is thoroughly up to bi vary high standard la (vary detail. Ml Blood It Very Beautiful. A dele Blood is Evervwoman When i.aura Nelson Hall, tie originator of the role, went to London to appear in the play over there. Mitt Blood took ber place in tbe New York production and has played the title part ever since. Abe waa highly acceptable to Broadway aad has woa praise in the other big cities of the east. Mis Blood is gloriously beautiful, with a magnificent figure. Her strikingly strik-ingly pretty blonde hair must cause many pang of envy among other women. wo-men. She fits naturally into tbe gorgeous gorge-ous pictures of th splendid Savage production. pro-duction. Miss Blood meets every acting requirement of th role and so thoroughly thor-oughly pleases that it makes one who did not see the original rather glad that be waited to see Mies Blood. Certainly no one could give more charm to tbe part at least we would have to so the miracle performed before we would beliave it. Salt Laker saw Miss Blood oacr before, she let tbe town talking about her beauty when the appeared at tbe Orphenm theatre in the most ertiitie sketch ever sent over th circuit. cir-cuit. "Tbe Pietnr of Dorian Grey." IT. Cooper Cliff wai tbe original Nobody No-body in tbe play and he has the tame Important role now. Mr. Cliffe is impressive, im-pressive, digaified and commanding in bis weird makeup and hood and gown. He reads bis lines like a great artist in some fine production of Shakespearoi Youth and Beauty There But the first impression that one received re-ceived as the curtain ascended was ibat of the youth and freshness of tbe young women in the shew. The girls of tb chorus were really girls, whose cheeks have aot started to fade yet. And when Youth, Beauty aad Modesty come forth they looked as sweet and natural as youag school girls. They were perfect type of tlic symbolic character they represented. Truth appeared first as aa uglv old witch, for often to all of us the truth dees not seeai plaasant. But in the end Everywoman finds that, after all, Truth i fair to look upon, and tbat by following follow-ing her she ran find true love, for isn 't King Love I. the son of Truth t Conscience, the handmaiden of Everywoman, Every-woman, is one of tbe important characters charac-ters ia the play. 8b ha two song tbat ar very sweet. Mia Charlotte Van Wiekle plivt this role splendidly. Oeorge Wbitefleld Chadwlck composed some fine music for this beautiful blank verse storv and nearly cverv word is |