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Show 'CAT AND CANARY' MERRYMYSTERY, PLEASES CROWD - Qever PUy Well Presented Holds Audience Spellbound tt the Salt Lake Theatre ' Opening Night y JACK VIVARTTAS. Marry myatarp from ona and to tha athar la "Tha Cat and Canary.' thraa aet play that opanad but al(ht at tha salt La It a thaatra for a four-nl1t four-nl1t and matlnaa ansadamant. That la, it waa mar myetary If ana ot e r ahlrarlnc from ona aoara bafora tha next one arrives, wnioa was alwaya tha case.' And. happily the kaugha far outnumbered tha shivery """the Cat and Canary" Is from the pen of a former Salt Lake man, John Wlllard, or. to give hla true name, Weeley Clawaon, son -of a well-known artlat of Utah. It la clever In II; llnee, the aettlng la aproprlata and the company presenting It la exceptionally excep-tionally competent. While no doubt Mr. Wlllard waa a Rait Laker soma tints, at tha lime he wrote hla comedy he had been ao-phlallcslrd ao-phlallcslrd In UtUs old New Tork long anougK to seek Its selling irsong the hills of mystery along ths right bank of tha Hudson which long he-fore he-fore had been Immortalised by lAseh-Ington lAseh-Ington Jrvlng with hla Hadlaa Horseman," and "Rip Van Winkle of twenty years of slumber fama. SPOOKY SUOQcmONS. - Just the mere mention of "motoring over from Tarrytown." by one of tha charactera who arrived late In the first act, suggeeled "Sleepy Hollow" Hol-low" and Its traditional spooks. And then ethereal anemlea aa well aa friends wore pushed prominently forward for-ward by tha fundamental terma of I the play, the reading of a will In the library of tba testator twenty years to tha day from the time of hla j Mij,Mit hour. tea. All that Is Intended to make, not the Hay but ths audience spooky, snd ft suooeeded to tha most fsstld-lous fsstld-lous queen's tests. Bo wsll rendered wera the lines that even the gallery gods understood svsrey word fully, quite to the least syllable. They, as well aa the rest of tha sudlence knew lust whsn to aspect tha most mischief mis-chief from tha epooka or at leaat they thought thsy did. but when they shrieked In helpless kerrur they usually "were mistaken. All went well during tha first two acts and not a slngls customer sought out Manager Pyper and demanded hla money back ae might hava beea done according to.theterms of ths adver. tlalng. Quite the contrary, most of them were so Intent on aaelng the solution of ths mystery aa wall as the making of more merriment that but few left their sesis for a smoke. CREAM OF HORROR. It wsa in ths third act. not mora than two minutes after ths curtain went up that the audience loot control con-trol of their nervee. Much of the mystsry of ths first acta dealt with a maniac that had eeoaped hla keepers In tba neighboring asylum and the description given of him had bean so complete tha folks in front of ths proscenium arch thought thsy knsw what thsy ware looking at when tt was nothing mora than tha Tillage doctor. '" Something simply had to happen along about that time. Folks who sit spellbound snd expectant have certain well defined limitations. It waa uncertain who started It. but there wee no uncertainly to the fact that down l the pit they forgot their two dollar dignity and Screamed right out loud Ilka a scream haa got to be to get across. True ii - mostly feminine but not all -but it wss the relesss of the aafsty vslve for loud peels of Isugkter that followed fol-lowed threatened to drown ths actors '"Snnsttv tt was finished, and ths ronrlualon waa so different from what everyone In ths house Just knew It had to be. tha laugh that ensued wss quits ths heartiest of the whole evening If that were possible- "? nbvtotie wss ths relief over tha fact that the Cat never ste tha Canary that foika aeemed In na grot hurry lVo Jingle aut Individual members of tha cast and comment were aa futile aa to attempt to determine which Is the most uuvrday of the week. The play waa wall presented pre-sented and well received. |