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Show Pathos, comedy, satire, wit, mother lv. girlhood s fancies and adolescent youth's confidence are some of the color which J M Berrle ha used In painting a picture of human nature surh as none but master of thla moat delicate and complex of all subjects could paint when he wrote "Alice Blt-by-the-Flre." Equally great skin did the master show though with somewhat different materials when he wrote "The Twelve pound Ifok." And In choosing company with which to present these two gems of literature. It Is difficult to se how Charles Frohmsn couij have been much more successful than he waa in selecting the playera who appeared at the Salt Lake theatre lat night. Ethel Bsrrvmore heads the company, and la starred. It may eeem like preis agent' talk to say It. but It I true, that almoet every member of the company reachea practically the aame standard of excellence In the work he or she has to o as does Miss Barry more fait Lske theatregoers who know Miss Bsrrvmore know that means much. That Mtss Bsrrvmore haa many friends fn the ritv wss shown by the siss and character of the audience that welcomed hr last night, and the advance sales for the remainder of the engagement, which ends tomorrow night, and hss no matinee : tomorrow, must be preUv good, too. If one may judge bv expressions heard In Nge front of the box office last night. 0 And the production I certainly worth the attention given it. Nothing obtrusive about the scenery or the lighting, hut everything In keeping with the English - life or English bachelor apartmenta. And the same good taste waa shown practl- cally throughout in the acting. To attempt at-tempt La analyaa would be Lo. attempt to pick human nature to pieces. And after all human nature, though ao complex,. 1 a unit snd Indivisible. Miss Bsrrvmore Is rather more mature than when she appeared In Salt Lake City before, and her art shows all the finish and grace that comes with maturity In a woman. She seemed almoat Ideally cast for the pert of the mother, who has en-Joyed en-Joyed the life of a belle in English quarter In India, and who come horn to be tsught by her children's errors that she must give a reluctant leave to all that, and become an Alice 8lt-by-the-F1re, 1 with her one great and sufficient recompense recom-pense in the joys of "locking up." The d'tlcacv of the mot her" a art tn winning the love of her miataken children, and the strurrle In her of mother's love with the romping spirit of the society quean, are all admirably depicted often with a Ingle gesture. Chsrles Pal ton takes the part of Alloa' husband, and for the most part gives a true picture of an English gentleman, anxious father and general good fallow. Frank Goldsmith' work as Stephen Hollo. Is except Ions 11 y good and ha manages man-ages to get his character Into the most ridiculous situations without ever seem-1ng seem-1ng strained or unnsturai. Mr. Goldsmith's Gold-smith's work ranks well up with that of Miss Barry more. Louise urew has the girlish part of Amy Grey, the daughter, whose Ideals have been somewhst hastily formed after a week's attendance at problem plays. Miss Drew seems to lay stress on the the. atrlcal fever of the girl, to the exclualon of the fact that Amy Is still supposed to be a girt who just Imagines she Is a woman- Nevertheless her work last night drew forth considerable applause. In "The Twelve Found Look" Mlsa Bar-rvmore Bar-rvmore and Charles Dal ton sgaln appear and to equal advsntag. though In characters char-acters considerably differing from those they have to ensct In the first piece on the program. The third character In the rketc , Is taken by Mra. Sam Sot hern, who looks the part well, but rather overdoes over-does the cringing attitude of the wife, so that she appesrs more like an Imbecile slsve of her husband than like a woman who. at one time at least, had a mind and wit of her own. |