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Show TONIGIirS A1HJSEMEHTS. SALT LAKE Olga Vetbtrsola la -Adrienna LacouTretir." - -ORPirEUM Vaudeville. : : OE.ANI "Lost In New Tork." .' LTEJO "A Pledge of Honor.' ' CHAMBTJ3 OF COMMERCE Tre. AUDITORIUM Roller BxAtlng. WABATCIX ECTK Roller Efcatln. .With an of her fautta and fralltiea, Sapho la more likeable character than tha Second Mrs. Tanqueray. if las Nethereole appeared last night, as' the last named character, tn the play of the same name. In proportion aa Sapho Is the more attractive attrac-tive personage, the French play with which the great artiste . opened' her en-gagement en-gagement here' was more generously re- ceived than . that which she ' used last night. But this Is by no means a fair standard by which to judge of a performance's perfor-mance's merits. Obviously, the more unpopular un-popular the role, the more difficult Its rendition in a maner satisfactory to art audience. And no one will deny, that Miss Nethereole appreciates fully the almost Hmitlees possibilities In the title of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray." Mrs. Tanqueray. like nearly. If not quite all. of the other characters which the famous artiste uses as vehicles for tbe display of her emotions. Is a woman with a past. Aubrey Tanqueray. reverses the usual rule by marrying her In the belief that he can lift her to a higher social level. But the chasm Is too wide for Paula to bridge. She has sunk too deeply In the mire to be lifted far above It. Snubbed by the women in her husband's circle, suspected, even by Tanqueray's own daughter, she becomes a vixenish creature a human tigress consumed with jealousy and" hatred. Ellean Tanqueray Tan-queray presents her fiance to her stepmother step-mother and Mrs. Tanqueray recognises In him a sweetheart of the old days. She reveals his Identity to her husband who. of course, forbid his daughter to receive re-ceive Capt. Ardale again. Tanqueray proposes a trip abroad with Paula, where the past may be forgotten In the happiness of the future. Then Paula soliloquises. There Is no happiness for her. She Is permeated, through and through, with the gross of her early life. She Is growing old. but the stigma of her shame Is still upon her. Her cup of bitterness bit-terness was filled when Ellean confessed that she had divined the secret the elder woman had guarded so i-arefully. Just as Ellean seeks Paula to beg forgiveness for the harsh words she has spoken. Psula ends her suffering In suicide. Frank Mills, as Tanqueray, appears to even better advantage than as Jean In "Sapho." Miss Rosalind Ivan, as Kllean. gives an adequate exhibition. William Clarke as in excellent Caylle Dnimmle and Miss Ira Goldsmith aa Mrs. Cortel-yon Cortel-yon and Julian Royce as Capt. Hugh Ardale. Ar-dale. are satisfactory. "Sapho" Is to be given Hgsln this afternoon after-noon and Adrienne Le-ouvreur" tonight. It fell to the good fortune of Olga Keth-ersole Keth-ersole to conceive the dramatic possibilities possibili-ties of Prosper MeHnee's powerful snd absorbing story. "Carmen.' as Bltet had years before coni-eived Its operatic possibilities possi-bilities and had turned them to such account ac-count as to earn for himself an Immortal name, though not. alas! until dath had claimed him. Henry Hamilton, the well-known well-known F.nglidh romantic playwright, adapted this story for Miss Nethersole and confined himself to the Incidents In the book, which, it may be remembered, contains all the essential dramatic qualifies. qual-ifies. The play, an does the opera, opens in the Spanish at Seville, showing the barracks directly facing the cigarette fac-torv fac-torv where Carmen, the gypsy. Is em- ploved. .lose and Carmen meet and the former aids the latter in making her escape es-cape of arrest from the murderous assault as-sault on a fellow worker In the factory. The second act is divided into scenes, the first of which shows Jose released from the Imprisonment he suffered for aiding Carmen to escape, and reduced to the ranks, mounted sentry over a breach in the cltv wall of Seville largely used by smugelers. Carmen tempts the unfortunate unfortu-nate soldier, now madly in love with the fiery gvpsy. to allow the smugglers to pasa Into the city, as a reward for which she promise her love and devotion. This scene, while In the book. Is not given In the opera The second scene shows the patio of Llllas Pastln. an Innkeeper, whose establishment Is patronised by smugglers and gypsle. Hither comes Jose to claim reward for his treachery only to find Carmen flirting and making love to lon Mancel. his superior officer. A furious quarrel culminates in a sword fight that results In the death of the officer offi-cer and Jose's final abandonment of civilisation civi-lisation to go with Carmen into the mountains and make his life with the smugglers. The scene of the third act is In the mountslns overlooking the Bay of Biscay, Bis-cay, (barmen has grown tired of Jose, his jealousv and constant bickering, her Indifference' being accelerated by her Interest In-terest in a handsome Matador Lucas Mendes, whom she has met on occasions at bull fights. News comes to the e -soldier of the Impending death of his mother and he hastens to his Basque home to see her before the end. Hardly has he set out than 'armen Is Joined bv the matador and together they go to Cordova, where he Is engaged in a bull tight on the following Sunday. The fourth and last act discloses the exterior of the bull ring and the citizens citi-zens en fete. There is the usual Impressive Im-pressive procession of mounted toreadors, torea-dors, matadors, plcadores. soldiers and populace fnto the bull ring accompanied by strep.ms of marshal music and the enthusiastic en-thusiastic snouts of the multitude. Carmen Car-men is there decked in the splendors of a new robe and trinkets, gifts from the matador. Last summer the distinguished artiste visited several cities in Spain for the purpose pur-pose of acquiring local color and to Invest In-vest the play with some clever touches of Spanish manners and customs. One of the direct results of this visit was the entire en-tire reeostumlng and redressing of the principal characters as to colors and materials, ma-terials, to say nothing of manners. The bill at the Orpheum this week, was It Is without a single weak number and has several strong or.y. i ili.iwin? Uie crowds in great shape. Last night there was a crowded hooe while the ma:ire was the biggest Tuesday affair since the theater opened. The Eight Vassar Girls. Howard and Howard. Wynne Winslow. Ieonard and Louie and the other good features are all getting the glad hand. A beautiful gold watch will be presented some woman attending the matinee performance per-formance at ths Grind of "L( st in New York" this aftern on. Th encagemen: closes with tonight -, performance. The big scenic production of "Qulncy Adams Sawver" in play form will be seen here three nights and Saturday matinee mat-inee starting Thursday at the Grand. This engagment will attract more than ordlnarv interest bcJ thi. famous novel of the same name, from which the play is taken, became recognised at once when It came out five years ago. aa "The best New England fry evr written. ' and has continued to be known ever since as one of the best selling books In the country'- "I-Ue father, like son." they say. And so like bcok, like dramatisation, drama-tisation, you can say in some cases. Critics are now saying of "Qulncy Adams 8awyer" In play form that It Is "The beet New England play ever written." |