Show Salt Lake's Great Stock Company Mack-Leone Weighed in the Balance by Wanda The closing of the Mack-Leone Stock company for one week at the Bungalow to reopen Sunday night at the Orpheum will give the better class of Salt Lake theater-goers a chance to catch their as it and while munching and sipping or dining effulgently at the various society functions planned for this week they will no doubt discuss at length this high class' and popular a and his queenly There is no social gathering too no social rendezvous too no literary organization engaged in a research so that it can truthfully admit of any condescension in dissecting and analyzing the work of this actor man and We have in our midst plenty of rag-time actors with their thirty years' skilled and drilled in everything except artistic interpretation and you know the kind I the man who refers to David Belasco as his and Charles as but whether he has ever been east of Chicago is always a subject of conjecture this proverbial type has produced or played in every drama under the sun has had the public at his feet at some period of his and is invariably on the verge of making an immense fortune with something he has his which is' too sacred to boldly speak of in the garish light of day and is only occasionally referred to with bated breath and a stage whisper or unintelligible grotesque grimaces but he never fails to make audible the which is ever and ever the that it is a He has a nasal twang to his speech and his conversation quite frequently evinces evidences of not too much early training in and and we are forced reluctantly to read between the lines that with all the knowledge gained by thirty years' keen observance in the he has' not been keen enough to have recognized and di- a little much needed and which some of his spasmodic associates must have Is culture and a sense of the fitness of things Not but the desire to acquire them Last week dropped into the Bungalow theater and saw the last two acts of While there a conviction struck me and I have not been able to shake it off that Willard Mack is the greatest stock producer I have ever Theatrical folk in every nook and cranny the city are gasping out their wonderment and men and women in other walks of life must simultaneously be making an effort to give I have been on where productions are rehearsed from six to sixteen and then I was often compelled to labor excruciatingly to grasp the points I had paid my money to and frequently going away the while building up new hopes that elsewhere I would recognize that evasive little who had been conspicuous by his absence on this that flame is mentally before us like the the and we continue to Belasco has shown us what subtlety and ideality can be materialized with the strict attention paid to the minutest but could Belasco do more than Willard Mack has done in one The played some time and recently Morals of the all have shown in a hundred different ways Willard Mack's remarkable capabilities as a stock to say nothing of his elegant Mack and Miss Leone are supported by an excellent but somehow these joint performers always surprise us when under Mack's The opening of the Mack-Leone company in at the Orpheum theater on Sunday night may be expected to equal and probably surpass the Dustin Farnum And why Mack has the the the refinement and the culture that gives him the quality of interpreting and the power of manipulating his material to his own Maude Leone has if superiors in Her personality is so refreshingly unlike any other actress I have ever seen her distinct enunciation soothes and her appearance is magnificent her gowns are revelations and her magnetism grasps and k I shall never rest until I see Miss Leone as or in Zor-aya's denunciation oi the priests in the after which the Father Superior will be burned after An atmosphere of gentility cannot fail to pervade theater that Mack and Miss Leone appear That is why they attract the Last when no other theater contained more than a this popular pair played to a crowded |