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Show III With the First fighters. vg i ' Attractions For Week of December IStli. i Suit Lake Tlieater Thursday, Friday and Sat- 1 1 I urday and Saturday matinee, David Wnrfleld in ; ! "The Auctioneer." H ' The Grand Thursday evening, Eugene Gowles ?i Concert company. j I "The Auctioneer." j - Humanity seen through a temperament. That pretty nearly describes the art of David Warfleld H ' in the character of Simon Levi in "The Auction- H ; eer." It isn't safe to predict what a performance I j will he. It is almost as risky as the trick of the B j It I lazy critic who gives his impressions of a play be- H HI ' fore he has seen it, but there is a time when there i If j p is no risk attached. That is, when the writer has H j I j seen the play, unless the writer happens to be ad-H ad-H j dieted to foolish powders. At any rate, listen. You H 1 ! h go to see "The Auctioneer," and if you don't like H it, you're a queer sort. It is one of the few really H V great things on the American stage today, and H .'' though the name is unpretentious and unattrac-B unattrac-B tive, the play contains more good comedy and B 1 gj pathos than anything you have seen for many a B f night. B M The name of David Warfleld should be enough, B but there is a guarantee goes with it another B f name David Belasco, the theatrical astronomer, B I 1 1. who has discovered more really bright stars than B tl any one of late years, the stage stickler who in- I" i : sists on detail and completeness in every produc- i tion, and there you are. His stars are not mere , It successes, they are much more, and the life in his m staging is wonderfully real. H ' m f The engagement of Warfleld should attract un- common interest. The star and the play are out h of the beaten path, and Belasco is a synonym for Ij excellence. Popular Marie Bates, whose character ' if work in "Chimmie Fadden" and "Zaza" made her f famous, is with the company, which includes Rob- 'l . ert Fischer, Marie Davis, Eugene Canfleld, Wil- ft i Ham Boag, Stokes Sullivan, Helena Phillips, Har- I ry Rogers, Charles Chapelle, Delias Tyler, Rachael j :' , McCausland, Herman Leclimer and Dorothy West Ifi Rogers. a? ,11! ; When Lew Dockstader quits doing stunts on the iM' minstrel stage, it is time to quit going to minstrel !S! j shows. He is the last, the best, the greatest of m funny end men, and he's got old wine skinned for- m i ty ways from the jack when it comes to improve- fi t ment with age. The Primrose, Dockstader min- ft strels conclude their engagement today, giving J r their clevr performance this afternoon and even- B S ; "Florodora." B H i Those who came to knock remained to roast. B jjlf ,' That seemed the case of the critics on the dailies, B yM and a lot of others who forgot that the first nov- H I'm, elty of "Florodora" had been worn away a year BwiH f ag0' and taat wuat ney wer to cast the eye criti- Bli 1 cal upon was each individual principal, and per- B Ifi 1 uaps "Tne Sextetto" An(1 as a whole, did the com- Bjlfi I pany compare so unfavorably with the people of Bl last season? Some were worse, but many were B1I ' better, and the production was full of dash and HI I color and old-time charm. Bifjlf 0f course, the Lady Holyrood of Cora Harris Bhw 1 was to tlie ad' t)ut Be was an un6rstudy sud- Bi ! denly forced into the place. The personality, B I he 1 grace and daintiness of Miss Dudley were greatly BllJi J missed, but for the others for instance, Dolores. Bli I Corlnno can sing, and the character of child of the bPH II island is ideal for her. Remember the bunch of Bjll obesity who essayed- the part before, and you'll Bli I realize what Corlnne made of the part. IHfift Hi Alf Wheelan's Tweedlepunch is entirely differ- HihS h ent from Pllil Ryley's, but both are funny and BwM Hi koth v00- Grace Hazard's Angela was a great EBB H improvement over the first seen here, and she was jHwfi n one of tue distinct hits of the play. And Doxe's jHHJRflHHi rBt SBh wm1' Mm HBBBtt KiB MJT Gilfain was infinitely superior to Carlton's. "The Sextette" did not contain as many attractions as the former one, but it didn't deserve what was said about it. Again, if I am not mistaken, I read a roar somewhere about the price $1.50 a greatly enlarged orchestra, a stage full of people, the best of everything, and then a wail for four bits. It is disgusting. Lord knows, there is little enough to see at night in Salt Lake, and if a fellow can get as much music as "Florodora" contains in one evening for $1.50, let him have it. In its criticism of "The Altar of Friendship," Nat Goodwin.s play, in which Julia Dean made her New York debut, the Mail and Express of that city says: "But the role of Florence Arbuthnot, played by Julia Dean, is almost as important as Miss Elliott's. El-liott's. The part is somewhat of an emotional one; at the moment the young people are leaving on their honeymoon the bride confesses to a previous flirtation, offering two letters to substantiate her self-accusation, in a hysterical manner that is laughable and at the same time a wee bit pathetic. In the last act Florence discovers that her husband, hus-band, and not her brother, is the man who has made Mary Pinner's life blank. This trying situation situa-tion Miss Dean interprets with much artistic feeling, feel-ing, and one realizes then how much better most women are in affairs of the heart than most men." |