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Show j? "EVERY MAN." A remarkable feature of the public performance perform-ance of "Everyman" which the Ben Greet company com-pany will act at the Salt Lake Theatre next Thursday, Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday, with Saturday matlnep is the large number of enthusiastic endorsements which it has received, quite unsolicited, from clergymen, scholars, and others of authority who do not customarily devote attention to the stage Edward Everett Hale wrote, in the Christian Register: Reg-ister: "The performance of a miracle play by an English Eng-lish company in our different cities suggests a great deal to those interested in religious education. educa-tion. The performance is dignified, serious, and fits the real purpose of those leaders of the people who contrived such performances In the "Dark Ages." Like the recent revivals of Ben Johnson for instance, the miracle play of "Everyman" might now be studied to advantage by one who was only a virtuoso or dilettante, to learn how thejr did things five centuries ago. But I doubt if any person who attends with that poor virtuoso notion does not come away with the serious question ques-tion whether the play can not teach us all what is good for us, and whether It can not show us how we can teach those who are In our charge. The' attendants at these performances are better men and better women for attending. & tv iv For the week following "Everyman" Manager Pyper has something for every night, and among the events one notable attraction Willie Collier in "The Dictator." The Mantilli Opera Company appears Monday and Tuesday; on Wednesday and j Thursday the Jefferson brothers will be seen In "The Rivals," and Collier comes on Friday and Saturday. A special announcement made the latter part jfl of the week, and one which will bring exceeding H joy to lovers of the spectacular, was that of the ' coining of Mother Goose with a couple of hun- S drod people, headed by the inimitable Joe Caw- iB thorne, and having among other principals Neva Aymar, Oorinne, Wm. Macart, Harry Kellay, Edith I St. Clair, Edith Hutchihs, Clifton Crawford, Allen B Ramsey and Walter Stanton. B Mother Goose is one of the most stupendous B and pretentious of spectacular undertakings, and B coming as it does. with the brand of "Drury Lane" B it may be depended upon as an extraordinary B stage presentment. B It will "be seen here the first week in March, B and it is said such other productions will fdllow B that we will be recompensed for a season that B has been none too brilliant, though ours has been B the same experience as other cities have suffered. B & & & B Ida Conquest closes a chapter in the history B of the New York stage by opening as a star B actress in the new play of "The Money-Makers," says a New York writer. Don't imagine that the metropolis is turned topsy-turvy because of a change in the size of the type to bill her suggestive sugges-tive name of Conquest. Ten years ago, more or less, five girls, Maude, Ethel, Clara, May and Ida, lived together in a boarding house and were known to the public as coming actresses. One by one they arrived at theatrical fame, and now the public is familiarly aware of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Clara Bloodgood, May Robson and Ida Conquest. In a way Miss Conquest takes a backward step in being starred, for she has played far better bet-ter leading parts with John Drew, Richard Mansfield Mans-field and William Gillette than the one she takes up now In "Tho Money-Makers." This farce is of the English type that kept us laughing for years at "Jane," and Has put us to sleep in some of its other examples. In it Ida is a nice but impecunious impecu-nious girl, with a sweetheart who hasn't the money mon-ey to marry her; so she and a similarly situated chum decide to become tipsters on horse races, selling advice through the mails and basing it at random on a horse entered for the next day's event. By a mischance their selection is so worthless that the horse is scratched, and the girls are besieged be-sieged by their angry dipes. The tipsters' utter Ignorance Ig-norance of the turf and the predicament that their temerity gets them into are shown in Jpci-dents Jpci-dents of violent farcicality, so that the quietly refined re-fined manner of the actress doesn't count for much in the measurable success which the piece by itself is likely to gain. |