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Show TRUTH dramatic setting it gives Miss Buck-le- y the opportunity for which she yearns and an atmosphere which she makes bright with winsome personTTlakTthra ality. I could not, however, take Miss and tonight. Buckley seriously, though I made the iTpilbv matinee today toBand in good faiih. Miss Buckley, in effort d'B THKATBE.-HelMilitary gkasd her to impress us with domestic desire morrow evening. candor and sincerity, falls into an afCOMING ATTRACTIONS. fectation of dialogue and action one -- Nat Goodwin, sees the defects, however, not as a SALT Lake Theathe. exhibition, but veiled beneath Military Band, vulgar wAKTBBATBE.-Held- 'B of face and figure. Altogether, charms ' however, Miss Buckley's work in April 20th. Blue Jeans can be treasured for a excellent comMr. Frawley and his time as a dramatic souvenir of long a most prosperous enfreshness and blushing modesty, pany are ending girlish has ft A gagement. The liberal patronage Mr. and deserved Frawley, Service is Frawleys strong Secret been most forof card. People may say they have tired whatever he may have thought leave us this of the military drama and I have con cannot mer experiences, the best of feeltime with other than regarded Danings. We have always of a local draiel Frawley as a kind matic product, with more sentiment it myself but the fessed amusements. 3 at the box office tally-shee- ts continue to be elo- quent with persuasive figures. Of late nearly every playwriter has paid tribute to brass buttons and Blioulder straps, until it seems that there is a positive danger of converting the stage into a parade ground of waving plumes and shining helmets. After Secret Service, teeming with military situations, and Brother Officers breathing smokeless powder, Mr. Frawley did us a positive kindness in confining to the guard house his threatened production of The Girl I Left Behind Me. 1 really believe we would have court martialed Mr. Frawley with empty benches, if he had gone any farther. 1. , which has been a healthy and proper appreciation legacy of just for the best efforts of the stage. The ideals, which inspired Frawley in those old day s, were imparted, in. a measure, to us and we are the better for them. It was said that Frawley, when at the head of the stock comwas a great stickpany at the Grand, ler for stage settings and scenic accesdesories, always insisting that every tail should be a matter of importance. In this respect he was then, and is still more today, as autocratic as Mansfield, whom he never imitates or follows, because he is distinctly and always fine Frawley. Have you not seen the hand of Frawley in all the wondrous stage details and settings the past week? Every ;play .in Mr. Frawleys reptertoire reposes in an atmosphere of realism. There is a positive charm in the inanimate side of a Frawley proof criticism . . f with.which . Talt Lae Theatre is the Frawley has surrounded himself, Lake. to Salt best he has yet brought Indeed Mr. Frawley has. made liis selections with unusnal care and discrimination there is a weakness here, and there, but, on the whole, his cast of players is strong in all consideration of In Mizzoura, the dramatic unity. opening drama of the Frawley engagement, failed to impress me with much favor the rearrangement of the cast 3 Nights Secret was. and still is, the strongest drama in the Frawley repertoire. There are other dramas which more strongly feature the dramatic individuality of this or that member of the company, but there is no other play of the repertoire in which every member bf the cast so. charmingly finds his level and becomes an integral part of Blue Jeans is symmetrical acting. a gem more rural than rustic, but there is as much gilt as, gold cin the Thursday Manager. eason Miss Maxine Mr.'N. C. In Their Greatest American and London Successes Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights. 1 ising singer, 'yet there are others. Incipient stars start out of the amateur sky and shine upon the local horizon with such frequency as to excite comft ment. When it became noised about that certain prominent members of the Salt Lake Opera company were to leave an apprehension to the organization seized us that lyric productions would cease to be given upon the local stages. But recent developments have shown that our fears were groundless. Not only has The Chimes of Normandy through the enterprise of Mr. Hammer, shown how utterly mistaken we were, but it is being further shown in the latest operatic venture, The Prince and the Peasant While these recent operatic organizations are making use of much lyric material from the original Salt Lake Opera company, yet to a surprising extent, new voices and faces have been employed. There never will be a time when Salt Lake can not pro- - i ELLIOTT GOODWIN When We Were 21 Saturday Matinee, Only Time. An American Citizen Prices, 25c to $2.00. V Matinee, 25c to $1.50. ft ft The'Cliimes of Normandy which closed its engagement early in tbe week has passed into theatric history as an accepted local operatic triumph. It has also gone to show that the lyric field here in Salt Lake, is so rich in promising material, that, although we may lose every now and then a prom- ceo. s. j9yvEH. April 17th The Fashionable EOent This was unfortunate, though unavoidable, while the piece itself struck me as a series of almost rude rustic exaggerations. It is a difficult thing for the mark the Missourian; confer- Lake. NAT C. GOODWIN. . Service night, - groupings, which appeal to us in the simplicity of reality. The., present Mr. dramatist to properly create a Missouri character he is neither eastern, western, northern, nor southern, but, like liis state, a geographic composite of all four. Nearly every actor and actress in the company struggled hopelessly against the divergent characteristics winch g played before its house. A large contingent of band splendid opportunity for grand, swelling climaxes. Mr. Bakers trombone solo, The Song That Beached My Heart, received hearty applause. Mr. Leslie was given an ovation in his cornet solo, the Diploma Polka, and responded to an encore with My Little Georgia Bose. Dudley Bucks beautiful song, The Sunset, was charmingly rendered by Miss Edna Dwyer, whose splendid contralto voice carried the sentiment of tbe words with warmth and feeling. Helds Military Band seized- its opportunity last Sunday evening and made for itself a reputation far beyond the limits of Salt iMdtMlIIMUIMivaa1 duction a freedom from unnatural effects and an artistic appreciation of company of. players last Sunday Held's Band, ence people added to Mr. Helds regular patrons filled the auditorium of the Grand. To our country friends Held's Band was a .revelation. They have generally regarded Salt Lake as a musical tbwn, but they did not know before that we have a band of forty mem-jer- s such as Mr. Held revealed to them ast Sunday evening. The program consisted largely of light, airy music which appealed to our country friends, who, in their enthusiasm, applauded with a vigor which was certainly a lesson of appreciation to city people. The caprices, Le Colibri and Alabama Dance, were rendered with that easy, almost careless, dash and swing with which the band tosses off music of this kind, Bossini's ballet music from William Tell was almost a musical vision of graceful, moving, poetic motion. Wagners spirited Pilgrim's Chorus from Tanlieuser gave the years dramatic ina memory, awakened the stincts of the town as never before, an element and, in a measure, imported . ft ft record-breakin- because when than reason, however, had ache first came to us he already and he quired wide stage experience still has extended this experience But the further since leaving us. months that Frawley tarried with us more than ago, though scarcely ; However, I always did like Secret Service. It and Arizona move in the same vigorous dramatic atmosphere of impetuous dialogue and spirited action melodramatic to a degree, but consistently thrilling and logically climaxed. Frawley has been most happy in the selection of the drama with which to close liis engagement. Trilby, which will be rendered at todays matinee and tonight, created a most favorable impression when last produced here. It is a drama of intense interest and powerful situations a weird element of fascination is developed in the unwinding of the plot. Admirers of Miss Van Buren will find her greatest opportunities in Trilby. |
