| Show AT r THE SALT LAKE When an artist draws a a. picture of ot a a. ainan inan th the subject is made ridiculous or not liot depending on whether the picture is isa a a. cartoon or a a. true picture That is usually the case for tor caricaturing is most difficult without so exaggerating the peculiar features or characteristics that everything e. but the ridiculous is sup sup- pressed The artist wh wrote the play Potash hp d f J and l I drew a a. word cartoon r but he drew it in such a manner that It ItIs Itis itis Is a true picture and at the same time I Is funny tunny without holding the cartooned up p to ridicule That is the principal merit of or the play founded on onIon Montague Mon Ion tague Glass' Glass famous stories in the Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- Evening Post which opened last night at st the Salt alt Lake theatre at it was Thomas a Carlyle I who In his re review review re- re lu oh dl v view v of Burns Burns' poetry o pointed out that i true depiction of ot the things we know about lh the things that are usually considered considered considered con con- commonplace and ordinary Is Ismore ismore ismore more truly art Utah than stories or poems of ot faraway tarawa places and people things people things we clothe with b beauty lut and poetic attributes merely mereb because they are unknown t I Carlyle Carlle would probably wax enthusiastic a arid and d wordy indeed if he could see Potash II and tid because it fulfills his idea of the highest art the art the accurate description of the commonplace so that It It no longer becomes commonplace but moves noves to laughter and tears t Laughter e Is good for r the large c crowd that I rua saw the I opening I st show aft last night f fh sw swept pt with i Intermittent storms of daughter h Pt that only ebbed tT in violence r ft in tithe time to permit more comedy to be heard and start the merriment a all l over again As to tears tears wen well there ar are places in the piece where some fine dramatic and human human hunan hu hu- hu- hu man nan Interest situations arise end and nd had the tlc audience not been so accustomed to tol l laughing at the characters there might have been a few handkerchiefs damp damp- amp amp- ened But in every case the sublime is js 1 followed by some rich fun and the tension ten tent sion is broken and the Uie fun prevails ft rl Jn attendance tt oJ c the geu show o last fite night t suffered suf stif tiered none at all for having baving been here herek i k In before in before in fact many of those first Blighters had undoubtedly seen the play ast aBt year It is ie one that you want wait to toBee see Bee again and again The production is isell well ell played by the revised company J The best feature of ot the show is the work of ot Jules Jordan as Potash He Heds Heis ds is most typical a and i in n no way does he a. egr egra exaggerate the part t of t the l Hebrew so hat it is s anything but artistic Once orrt V or r a twice c tl the dialect of Lew Welsh e seemed to get across the line into the theT T vell ei known 0 dialect l io of Greek e bootblacks r l hut but most of ot the time his Yiddish was enough and he took the part of ot in a capable enough way to MAC ilease 4 |
