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Show I v 'With the First ffighters. H ATTRACTIONS FOR WEEK OF FEB. 23RD. M Salt Lake Theatre. Monday, The Devil's Auc- H H Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Boston H Lyric Opera Company. H Friday and Saturday, H. Miller Kent in the H Cowboy and the Lady. H The Grand. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, H "The Fatal Wedding." Thursday, Friday and Sat- Q urday, "Ole Olson." H & & & H GILLETTE. H No coming theatrical event has created H more interest among theatre patrons here than the H approaching engagement at the Salt Lake Theatre H William Gillette in his celebrated play of M WILLIAM ;OILLETTE. Bi "Sherlock Holmes." It is said the production will H bo identically the same as was seen in New York H and London and the cast is the same, also. It is H safe prophecy to say that the capacity of the B theatre will be tested at every performance. The H sale of seats will begin next Thursday. H' "THE DEVIL'S AUCTION." m Charles H. Yale's "Everlasting Devil's Auction" H comes to the Theatre again next week. This is H the twenty-third year of this spectacular produc- tion, and while a number of the chorus have been playing with the the company since its Inception, there are many things to commend it for an evening's even-ing's entertainment. It is for the eye and ear entirely, en-tirely, and not the think tank. Berna De Vere, a graceful actress, will appear as "Madeline." Madge Torrence plays "Carlos," and John I. Guilmette will be seen as Pere Andoche. & & & "THE COWBOY AND THE LADY." S. Miller Kent, who will be seen in this city Friday and Saturday nights and matinee at the Salt Lake Theatre, in the Fitch-Goodwin play, "The Cowboy and the Lady," made his first stage appearance with Dion Boucicault. Soon after he joined James O'Neill to play Albert in "Monte Christo," which character he impersonated sue-cessfully sue-cessfully for three seasons. His advancement from that time on resulted in an engagement with Wilson Wil-son Barrett, playing Laertes in "Hamlet," his first engagement. w (V tv The return engagement of the brilliant emotional emo-tional actress, Miss Florence Roberts, to the theatre the-atre the week of March 9th, will again bring out the many theatre-goers who enjoyed her remarkable remark-able acting a few weeks ago. The repertoire for the week will consist of "Camille," "Magda," "The Adventures of Lade, Ursula" and "Zaza." i&fi tw "ARIZONA." "Why in the world does the Chinaman get such a hand," asked one of the other actors in the Arizona company, which appeared here a year ago. "He is on the stage only a moment at a time and Anybody Could Do It As Well." All of which goes to show that Mr. Actor knows very little of the subject under discussion. The Sam Wong of a year ago, had either seen the frontier Chinaman of the West, or his tutor had been raised on a ranch or in a mining camp. He made something of a part, which in itself was nothing. By comparison the work of John Ferris is totally stupid, and without character. Substitution has detracted and given attraction to the "Arizona" we have seen this week, but as a whole, if it were not a play that could ride unaided, un-aided, the effect would be a trifle dissapointing. Agnes Muir (Mrs. Farnum) is not at all suited to the part of Bonita, and is especially disappoint-(Continucd disappoint-(Continucd on page 7.) "Dramatic Continued, H fng by comparison with Grace Elliston, who made sk so much of the original role. She Is amateurish, .H and her voice is full of Rs, but she loves her jH handsome husband, Lieut. Denton, beautifully, too flk much, in fact, for the matinee girls who have lost H another idol. !f Farmim's part pf Denton is a finished perform- -H ance, and it is not a part that every actor could z take. Cope is perfection. His work is so thoroughly lIH artistic as Henry Canby that it is a pleasure to f listen to every word, and watch every action. John T. Burke's, Colonel Bonham is a vast improvement f over the previous Bonham, but Miss Lemmert's Estrella is particularly bad. Possibly the most no- Jl table improvement is in Leslie Matthew's work as fl Captain Hodgman. He does the villian well, in an H easy, natural, composed manner, without pose, or H rave, and entirely omits chewing any scenery. iH Big Ben Deane, is a splendid Dr. Fenlon, but he, too, is handicapped this seuson by Miss !9 Churchill, whose performance is positively innane. Charles Graham is a fair Sergeant Keller. The Lena of Miss Bradley could scarcely be improved $ upon. ul If the first shall be last well Campeau.'s per- IB formance is one of the cleverest pieces of char- ill acter acting ever seen. HI He is a great hit, and the part of Tony seems 91 to have been written for him. There Is more ex- ffi presslon in his cigarette than in a whole string of II words, and his interpretation of the difficult part I I is without a flaw. II Particularly noticeable was the perfect stage ill management of the production. "Arizona" will be If I a winner for many seasons yet. II |