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Show TRUTH NO LIQUOR AT SALT AIR. that there is It which the Mormon one thing upon of church authorities and the ministers churches are united. the evangelical Beach com- The directors of the Saltair deference to the wishes of pany in determined president Joseph F. Smith, shall not be that intoxicating liquors summer and the sold at the beach this indorsed action has been most heartily Not only that, but by the ministers. resolution adthe ministers adopted a Hmusements. ia refreshing to find ) Salt Lake Theathe Mr. N. C. Goodwin and Miss Maxine Elliott in An American Citizen" at todays matinee; "When We Were Twenty-on- e tonight. Grand Theatre Held's Military Rand to- morrow evening. COMING ATTRACTIONS. Salt Lake Theatre Charles B. Hanford In "The Taming of the Shrew, April "When Reuben Comes to Town," April Grand Theatre-Hel- ds Military Band. April 27th . 21-2- 23-2- 4. 2. 3 Those of us who have been fortunate enough to see Nat Goodwin and his beautiful wife, Maxine Elliott, in that sparkling absurdity, When We Were Twenty-onare breathing the ozone of careless youth. The atmosphere of the play steals over the footltghts, fragrant with flowers, which for most of us are withered, yet bloom again in the mimic gardens of stage-lanIt has been played by Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott so long that their blood is still red with youth and their faces actually saucy with youthful confidence. e, d. schools and vising the churches, Sunday other organizations to show their apnew policy by holding proval of the their summer outings at Saltair. Whether or not this new departure will prove a financial success remains to be seen. Truth hopes that it will, but fears that it will not. People who wine on othhardly ever drink beer or er occasions do so after indulging m the luxury of a bath in the Great Salt Lake, and if they are deprived of the with them to luxury or have to carry it the resort, numbers who would otherwise go to the lake will probably go elsewhere on pleasure trips. Then the habitual users of intoxicants will eschew Saltair. It is however, up to the temperance people. They fican make Saltair, without liquor, a nancial success if they will. Their numbers and their influence is sufficient to enable them to do so and if they mean half of what they preach and adun-doubt- ly vocate they will do it. The responsibility is now placed squarely on them. If Saltair fails to be run at a reasonable profit this season the blame will be upon them. The sincerity of their professions on behalf of temperance and their advocacy of the cause will, if the beach is not well patronized, be open to much doubt, and their work in the community will receive a severe blow in consequence. Furthermore if the experiment proves a financial failure this season the chances are that it will not be tried by the owners of the resort again and that in the future Saltair will be run as a wide open resort. The )ermanent success or the failure of the )lan rests entirely with the temperance eople of all churches or of no church. Let them realize that they have been put squarely on their mettle and let them rise to the occasion. This is not an advertisement for Saltair beach. Nobody connected with the beach knows that it is being written or that any reference to the resort is being made in Truth. It is a plain straightforward statement of the situation. The public will await the result of the new plan with interest. J. E. Langford, the new- manager of the beach is a capable business man and it is believed that nothing on his part will be lacking to make the season a successful one. The talk about establishing a saloon at or near Saltair Beachfloating is aU nonsense. In the first wouldn't it place pay owing to the difficulty in reaching it and in the second place it would be disapproved as an attempt to force the Saltair beach company to permit the - f liquor at the beach its wui. The company has a against right to either allow the sale of perfector liquor not on its premises and effort to force drink upon it should any be frowned down. . It is a melancholy subject upon which to joke, but for the life of us we cannot see how a morning paper can reconcile t e statement it makes now concerning an when it says: We were spent .year80,her in 8011 and ,!or ?er only ehdd, when the son has been dead for some time nimself. goe, Salt Lake Theatre ft & ft II Mr. James M Manager. B. Delcher Co., present the eminent Shakespearian star Miss Helen Mr Chas. B In Supported ..By.. GRANTLY an Elaborate Revival of Tke Tamiivg of ike Skrew Wednesday and Tknrsd&y Eveninjjs, . j 1 v. ryTETt. 2 Nights, TMu"drd April 21 and 22. i HANFOR.D ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft CEO. The Big Musical Comedy When Reuben Comes fo Town. Pretty Girls. Sprklin Music. Parisian Costumes. . There is no need of fabulous fountains, with waters which defy the years, so long as the actor and actress keep drinking the fairy wine which sparkles through the four acts of their delightful comedy. A man is as young as ho feels, rather than as old as he looks, is the wordy hammock of assurance in which Mr. Goodwin may Hwing himself for many years. Above him the birds of time may sing their careworn songs, but the actors ears will hear them not. Nat Goodwin is a star the fixed star among legitimate comedians. The dramatic sky of late has been luminous with firefly genius. Goodwin has seen the horizon flaming with imitations of his brightness, but they fell again, after a few explosions of temporary success. Henry Dixey had some of Goodwins delicacy of touch and refinement, but he failed to keep them free from horseplay; Pete Dailey, is, like Goodwin, sparkling and electric, yet he obscures the fire with impetuous smoke. Collier, more than any other, has caught some of Goodwins star dust, which he keeps 8hiningby intelligent adaptation. But one and all have been forced to pay their tribute to Goodwins superiority in the endeavors they have made to adopt, with more or less indifferent success, his peculiarity of rapid drollery and spontaneous humor. Goodwin is positively charming in his careless freedom and unconventional methods which often make him indifferent to certain restrains of dialogue and action. He has a peculiar wav of anticipating even himself and in the recovery reveals, with charming impudence, the blade of a joke before he attempts to cut. Francis Wilson often employs the same methods in his humor, but with him it is an evidence of affectation with Goodwin it is something which nature can not suppress, and forms the safety valve to his pent humor. Whenever wit sparkles in up its own brightness, or humor is quaint with candor and laughter runs in a stream of unrestraint, Goodwin can always carry his audience on a crest of enthusiasm. The comedy itself must have been constructed from Goodwins own specifications. He told just what he wanted and the play writer wrote according to the plans submitted. It gives the actor every he could ask in dialogue opportunity and action almost adapting itself to his manner isms. The action is spirited, often suggestive of undue haste, yet withal thoroughly captivating in robust ac- tivity. Verbal brightness sparkles in every spoken word and language is made to show how it can become tl when it carries the sharp keen edges of wit w and repartee. By a skillful arrangeaa ment tne theme of the play is made to aw carry charming little counterplots of and love. Mr. Goodwin has a sentiment had the third which contained the aa much talked ofact,supper scene, entirely w rewritten, on the theory, no doubt, that w clinking glass and popping corks are by a no means essential to teach a moral pft or adorn a tale. Moral surgery is w often necessary in cases of dramatic aa w aa w . appendicitis. Outside of Goodwins brillancy the attention, by a kind of fascination, is absorbed by Miss Elliott, whose beauty has been 9ung in two worlds. Though her rendition of Phyllis Ericson is on th3 whole satisfactory, yet a kind of overconfidence in herself imposes a self denial in the sincerity she feels rather w than expresses. Her voice is musically w though almost colorless a expressive, when color is most needed to paint language with conviction. Miss Elliott is indeed a beautiful woman. Few women of the stage can better afford a display of vanity, yet few actresses are less, and poetic in every a vain. Graceful movement, statue like in repose, still are but the careless gifts of a a thesewhich left its greatest legacy to her face and form. Out of her billowed s s f I na-tu- re |