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Show TRUTH. Bmueements. u Taije Theatre Today and tonight, BtonoMWsll,-'lMMerelI1U-- " ' end Theatre "At Valley Forge" today eyetomorrow Bend JJJJU Held'. Military ning COMING ATTRACTIONS. Salt Lake Theatre Arizona Teh. Theatre "Too Rich to Marry, Feh. Minstrels, Feb. ; Great Barlow March 2nd. Band, Held's Military Bprand th iBt- - new In La Madeleine, the storm-tosse- d creature of fitful fortune and adds fretful circumstances, Miss Walsh another portrait to the dramatic galwhich already peered the lery from Camille, faces of Zaza, and too many others. Sapho, This latest dramatic picture drawn by Mr. Dam has, in its treatment, some new combinations of colors while the darkbackground is the same somber ness upon which womans stormy heart is painted in the vivid colors of passion The theme of the play and emotion. is as old as womans frailty and mans imperfection it is only in the atmoshas varied phere of detail that Mr. Dam the lights and shades which make his heroine individually distinct from the heroines of Dumas and Belasco. It is idle to speculate upon the moral of the French drama it thrives upon the intear-stain- while not exactly disappointing, yet fails to satisfy. One instinctively thinks of Camile with a new light upon her face, even as she dies, and of Zaza pursuing paths which promise the excitement of applause dramatic terminations which still keep a hole above the heads of the heroines. In La Madeleine there is no such satisfaction to mark the dramatic end. Our sympathy, which lovingly clings to the reformed woman in La Madeleine, becomes rudely shocked with her suicide. The attempt to throw an odor of sanctity over the closing incidents of the play by the artful introduction of a cathedral and a religious ceremonial is most unfortunate in its gruesome contrasts. It matters not whether this last act is in keeping with the facts upon which the play is founded. Art in the drama should not be always subservient to the realities of life. Life is always real, but not always artistic the drama should always be artistic. Surrounding Miss Walsh is a company of players remarkably well balanced and apparently selected with a careful regard for peculiar fitness to fill the various roles. The costumes and scenic effects of the play have been supplied regardless of expenditure and are in perfect accord with the stage demands of the Madeleine, ed vectives of the pulpit and the denunciations of the press. Indeed, the more explosive the invectives become, the the public at is not the dramatic more clamorous becomes It the should be blamed which profession the fault lies with the demand, which box-offic- e. the law between supply and demandwhich then becomes is insistent, and One can no more consistinevitable. ently cry out against the morals of Camille, Zaza, or La Madeleine than he can against that fire of curiosity with'which nature herself burns us. La From the dramatic standpoint Madeleine follows the conventional lines ofitheiFrench drama. Mr. Dam, however, seems to follow, as much from choice as design, the dramatic motives and incentives of Dumas rather than Belasco. In the last two acts he strikes'out with refreshing originality. climax of La Madeleine is reacliec when she is forced to give up her love and the new world it opened to her. It marks the point where the ordinary actress simply tears passion to tatters, and, by plucking her heart from her bosom, simply disgusts us with an exhibition of clumsy theatric surgery. In all its difficult requirements Miss Walsh rose with the most convincing proofs of artistic conception and ex of the audi pression the ene ran to hersympathy in response to something deeply felt, though, perhaps, bu half understood, The last act of La lass, has won the hearts of the Grand instill into those little craniums so audiences from the firBt. She has a much. To see this kiudergarden agcaptivating personality, while her act- gregation of youngsters assuming the ing is marked by conscientious refine- importance and demeanor of a duet ment and intelligent interpretation. professionals was a spectacle really There is just enough dash and spirit beyond the ordinary. One can not in her work to faithfully portray the truly appreciate the saying with all character in hand. The Maj. Carlton the confidence of youth, unless he has of Mr. Monroe is fully satisfying in seen and heard those lyric tots from conception and execution, without in far Australia. ft- ft any way overdrawing the stormy English officer. Mr. Lewis, as the fussy Last Sunday evenings attendance at old doctor, injects a lot of wholesome Held's Band concert almost reached comedy into the drama and receives standing room only proportions. It merited applause for his clever work. Running through the drama are a num- was a large and appreciative audiance ber of climaxes which thrill and keep which showed how popular the band has grown. If, through some circumstance, Salt Lake should become deprived of these Sunday concerts there would be a wide spread regret many a man who now looks forward to a pleasant Sunday evening would without Held's Hand concert, find his Sunday evening rather dull. The band, as usual, rendered its program with musical confidence and surprising ease. It has been one of the very pleasing features of these concerts that there are no hitches or irritating waits. The program last Sunday was no exception to the rule. Much enjoyment was derived from the performance of the band in the Irish airs as arranged by drama. and the delightful airy melody Godfrey For todays matinee and the performfound in Herberts Singing Girl ance tonight Miss Walsh will appear both were executed with the precision as Janice Meredith. However odious of attack and finish for which the comparisons may be. they will natural hand is acquiring a reputation. Miss y arise in making a comparison Forrest, of the Wilbur-Kirwi- n Opera the work of Miss Walsh and Miss had many admirers in the company bannering in their interpretations of audience. Her sweet soprano voice Mr. Ford 8 heroine. dashed like a musical stream in the ft ft liquid cadences of Mue lers Statacto Polka and was sympathetically warm THORNE. GRACE Valley Forge, now running at the The Sweetest Story Ever Told. As in Estella," In "Arlzoniv." Grand, is by 'far the most ambitious we all know, John Held is at home on :iistoric drama yet seen on the stage up the natural excitement of the play. the cornet. I never before, however, of that popular play house. Just to While Valley Forge contains inciheard him play Alice Where Art resemble which and characters dents Thou? with more beautiful tone color what limits of productiveness the in Janice Meredith it is unfair and shading than he did last Sunday those listoric drama will run must remain to It is a simple little ballad charge the writer of Valley Forge with the forbearance of the public and with plagiarism the dramatic simil- evening. with latent beauties, which are undisthe varying capacity of the covered, until a musician, like Mr. arity is more accidental than intenrebe will tional. Forge Valley Held, revealed them to the ear. American patriosm, however, seems and ft ft able to absorb all the foot-ligstarry peated ft ft Next week at the Salt Lake Theatre banners which the playwiter has thus Pollard's Juvenile Opera company beginning Thursday, February 27th, far been able to unfurl and there was in every way a lyric surprise. and running through the week with seems to be a gaining interest in watchladautions which had Saturday matinee, Mr. Pyper will preing every new flight of dramatic eagles. From the press Arizona is from the Valley Forge has done a spleudid been showered upon the little people sent Arizona. business during its run at the Grand, we had a right to expect much, but it pen of Augustus Thomas and lias been and it has the same strong hold upon to be one of those rare cases one of the greatest dramatic successes the public now as it had early in the proved exceeded anticipation, Nobody of the season. The play deals with week. The story of the play deals which with love, war and intrigue. Miss can properly appreciate the amount of western life and customs and presents Clare who takes the part of the colonial time and patience it has require to jjerestlug1 pictures of the frontier. Kirke La Slielle and F. R. Hamlin are the managers of Arizona, which insures a finished production both as to & players and scenic effects. The piece is full of bright color con(ft trasts as the changing combinations of ft a kaleidoscope, ltfairly pulses with ft fresh, vigorous, active life of the young Thursday, Friday and Saturday, m West. It has a love story as tender and almost as tragic as that of Romeo AND SATURDAY MATINEE. $ and Juliet, and it has a relief work of ft KIRKE LaSHELLE ....AND.... FRED R. HAMLIN humor as ripe and unctuous as that in be-.we- box-offic- - en e. to-d- ay to-nig- ht. ht i in her latest dramatic creation, enters into the conception of her part with evident sincerity and artistic appreciation qualities, which, it is pleasing to record. Miss Walsh has developed in a marked degree si nee Salt Lake last saw her. We all knew Miss Walsh to be a highly emotional actress, though in former productions, there was a tendency to overdraw the stormy passions. Against these ex cesses Miss Walsh has schooled herself. This overdoing of the emotional are ft the dramatic shoals which have ft ( wrecked many promising careers. a Blanche Walsh narrowly escaped their tf m dangers in the stormy Sardou dramas, a but in La Madeleine she rides the a wave tossed scenes with a confidence a & that forces admiration. The emotional Miss Walsh, 3 'alt LaKe Theatre PRESENT AUGUSTUS THOMASS PEERLESS r iz q n a ft ft ft ft .285 Times In New York. It Holds the Record of Two Seasons. (ft Best a Generation. Play Seen on Broadway in a New York World. Celebrated New York Cast and Magnificent Scenic Production Intact. Order Carriages for 10:45. Seats on Sale for Entire Engagemenf. which Mr. Thomas has previously shown in Alabama and In Mizzou-r- a. That Arizona will be richly staged and excellently well acted is guaranteed. The decorations, costumes and accoutrements were all chosen and arranged by that eminent authority on Western life and customs, Frederick Remington, the artist of The Man and the Horse. ft ft Mr. Hammer presents at the Grand next week a double bill comedy and minstrelsy. The comedy Too Rich to Marry is not only startling in its title, but in its theme, which makes wealth an obstacle to matrimony. Funny isnt it, that millions should stand in the path which leads to the altar, yet such is the case in the comedy, Too Rich to Marry. The comedy deafa |