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Show TRUTH. a new record in the snow storm scene nothing more vividly real could so thoroughly disguise itself in the wondrous arts of imitation: It is a spec tacle alone worth the price of admission. Way Down East is interpreted day and tonight. Mexico a today by company collectively capable and Grand Theatre "Man From well balanced. The engagement closes tomorrow evening. Band Heldi and tonight. a matinee and the performance with COMING ATTRACTIONS this evening. Jnveniie Opera Co. f Feb. of me, an undertaker who is naturally grave from the frequent trips he makes to the cemetery but his gravity went all to pieces and he roared just like the rest of us. The average farce comedy is an empty mixture of absurd horse play and frothy nonsense, at which we are forced to laugh through a kind of pity we have for the comedians, whom ft ft Salt Lake Theatre we know are struggling against fate 18th and -17th Geisha; A Gaiety Girl, Feb. runMan now The from Mexico and the stupidity of the play writer. in La maiinee: Blanche Waish, Feb. There is a positive relief when the curmaticomis a the at Meredith Grand ning light, airy Madeleine; Feb. 22, Janice A tain falls upon the final act and the edy and a sure cure for the blues. nee and evening, long deferred opertunity arrives for Valley Forge", week be- whiff of its breezy atmosphere will kill Grand Theatre-- At reaching the front, door. There is far matinees Wednesday and in too the much of this kind of comedy, and ginning Feb. 17th, mi;robe sysmelancholy every 23rd. Saturday. Helds Band, Feb. tem. Last night there sat, just in front far too little of the Man from Mexico amusements 19-2- 1, Way Down East will, today and run at the night, close its memorable Salt Lake Theatre.. The prosperous run of the play last .year was a surprise, to- but the surprise this week greater still. It is, in fact, two' weeks we have had of Way Down EdstJ the year between the engagements counts for little. The play itself, so far as. words and dialogue are concerned, are without special pire: tense or ambition, and were they alone to measure the standard of the drama, Way Down East. would fall of its own Its strength lies in its meakness. tenquiet, restful charm and the artful derness with which it presses the weary soul upon the breast of nature. There is a positive, joy in escaping from the stony streets and noises of city life to the country, with its green and quiet, such as one sees and feels in this pastoral drama. Man loves nature. .We know, too, that nature broods, withlov-in- g wings, over the fields and streams, while her face is hidden from the tired eyes of the city. We therefore welcome a glance at the country, even if it comes to us second hand, through the arts of scenery, with painted fields of waving corn and imitation trees that reach their mimic arms of green into a painted sky a delightful intoxication of the unreal. In this happy suggest-ivenes- s lies the potent, restful charm of I can draw as Way Down East. much pleasure from the inanimate side of the drama as from the players and I their rustic heroics. The plot of Way Down East is interesting, because natural and simple it breathes the very air of captivating sympathy and earnestness. Its unfolding is anticipated with the charming zeal of expectation and the added pleasure of realization. We know from the first, that the bluff, old New England farmer is stern and will not submit to a fancied wrong and that his sternness will take just the course it does. That the poor, unfortunate girl, who is trying to bury her past, will find a home under the roof of the quaint old farmhouse, only to have the past called back again and the stem old farmer turn her from his fireside. We know, also, that this girl, maddened to desperation and frenzied with despair, will do just as she does do not only admit, but confirm the story learned by the farmer, proclaim the deceptions of outraged innocence, and, like a high spirited girl, prefer Uie pitiless storm rather than ask for mercy where she had a right to demand justice. Lottie Blair in writing Way Down East, either by design or accident, has touched her dramatic Btory, here and there, with some of the mirth Homestead and some of the pathos of Hazel Kirk the suggestion, however, is more fancied than lor there is too much originalityreal, in Way Down East to invite the suspicion of plagiarism. . The scenery and settings of the drama are as near as the stage can get to the heart of nature without turning art into the things of lit y . Stage realism has established r ", f 4v v .A?. ' V ii' - ! , . A fl ht the order of Elks. The Eleventh Hour, however, means, dramatically speaking, that1 villianly shall be defeated and virtue triumph just before the dramatic clock strikes twelve in the lastact. Mr. Carter has pinned his faith to melodrama as a drawing card. Vaudeville may come and go, farce comedy be successful for a time, but melodrama, Mr. Carter affirms, is the brook of eternal flow, carrying with it a stream of silver dollars. Judged by the standard of success, Mr. Carter is certainly justified in his partiality to the melodrama. It made him rich and through it his fortune is still growing like an inverted pyramid. Some years ago Lincoln J . Carter, now a theatrical rince of Chicago, was a poor Salt Lake y with dreams in his head and pockets bulging with empty burdens. Those dreams of his youth have been given a a few prolific habitation and a name; a midas become often has erratic, yet of the melodrama. No wonder Lincoln I ; 6 ts. er, . r ! M foot-ligh- to-nig- ht. i, v I dont brand, behind the wonder that Willie Collier, in The Man from Mexico, caught the full inspiration of the comedy and with it made his reputation. The fact of the comedy follows the conventional idea of mistaken identity, but is happily free from the insipid mists which too often obscure the brightness of the theme. The story of the comedy gives rise to misunderstandings and complications, bursting with dynamic absurdity,, while the smoke from the explosion is blown away by the breezy action of the play.. i Everything considered, the Man from Mexico now running at the Grand is one of the best farce comedies of the season. The company is on the whole, in thorough dramatic sympathy with the comedy and render a satisfactory production. The Man from Mexico will be repeated today . and ft ft Lincoln J. Carters latest melodrama, The Eleventh Hour, fully sustains bis penchant for thrilling climaxes and lurid atmospheric effects. If one were to judge from the title alone he might be led to believe that the Chicago play-writin his latest effort, was trying to make some foot-ligconcession to I J. Carter, with the ambitions of youth realized, his dreams of boyhood turned to gold, can say, without a trace of vanity, that the melodrama, like (the brook, shall flow on forever. Let it flow. For one, I like the modramatic , lit.' POLLARD'S AUSTRALIAN JUVENILE OPERA CO. Tali LaKe Theatre s Monday i 1 UCOUAI and February 17th and 18th. " wmhii AMD TUKBDAY MATIHKK THE SENSATION OP THE AGE. - JCVENILE OPERA CO. $ 50 -- CHILDREN Monday, The Geisha. X Prices 25, 50, 75, $1. - 50 Tuesday Matinee and Night, The Gaity Girl." SSSS&'a.jk.. Seats now selling. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday X X BLANCHE WALSH "la Madeleine Satuaday Matinee and Jsvcnlng SEAT SALE. MONDAY' i 'JANICE MEREDITH BLANCHE WALSH. stream with all its thrilling flight; foaming haste, maddening cataracts of sweet little maiden villainy and the saved from its ' watery depths by the big strong arms of her sweetheart, just as the curtain drops and the galleries ' ring with admiration for the hero. ft ft. are People just beginning to appreciate the fact that bandmaster 'John . . |