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Show I Dramatic. j Corianton. One daily paper said: "A fashionable first night audience bowed down at the shrine of a Utah author." au-thor." If it did. that audience bowed down to ' Mr. B. H. Roberts, for everything of worth in the wording of "Corianton" came from his pen, and without clever people, beautiful costumes, gorgeous gor-geous scenery and the spectacular features, the production of the play would be a dismal failure p ! instead of a notable success. There is strength HRp J ! and power and interest in "Corianton," but there KBg ' I would bo no crowding if put in three acts, and VKKi 11 if numerous boring dialogues were eliminated. BHm ; In fact, they must be stricken out entirely if it ! I ',' is the intention to try the Mormon play on a city iflw I audience. JBlfJ!1 ;: Clumsy, long sentences, without a breathing raN&j, spell and void of a single line that is worth re- Hk ', i ' membering, tedious waits with an empty" stage fffi;! J when maddening songs are interpolated, old ideas, jHwj 1 I some not even redressed: these are some of the RI('f I 4 many things to be sacrified upon the altar of BfiM 11 jj But not by the vealy Bean, he from that lite-JaBiill lite-JaBiill I rarv center. Richfield, Sevier. flvfi! J From a literary standpoint, the play is unpar-HDI3i unpar-HDI3i i ; donable, and the old ideas and late rehashings imll' ' J , from modern productions should not be gone over Hffij 1 lightly. Think of having to listen again to the K; 1 1 shopworn cry, "It cuts no ice what a gent does, Hfln ji I but when a lady trifles it's all off." m "Corianton" is well acted it is distinctly a jBi il Utah production, and when it is trimmed to the flH ! proper size, we will be proud to send it out to HHj ii ask for the criticsm of the play-going public in Hra ' other cities. The asinine trick of Bean's in his HK i l childish criticism has done no harm except to Haw ii J You Bean, and if he wants to turn against the flHwiijij hands that feed. him, what's the difference? He wU'fi t writes like a baby, but without the dignity of h m J one, and every member of the company is justly Jpplf 1 treating him like a stepchild. Poor j-oung fool, 9Hm ill' tno people aren't at fault, they have made some-WStf some-WStf i li thing out of frail foundation, and to them he owes Vflw f $ all gratitude rather than condemnation. jVna' 1 air- Haworth is splendid. His work is artistic, Hm$ I J I magnetic and intellectual, and his only fault is Infill jl in tne first act ln his mannerism of shaking his ; 1 , I shoulders as he leaves the stage. Miss Lane has IH1 i Mi not the Carmen eye, but her Zoan ze Isabel is MB Si i : very acceptable. The Korihor of Mr. Lewis was HHi in gi'eat, and the climax of the first act, where he BUS; J; defies God, is one of the best scenes in the play. rar '1 Thomas Coleman's work as Seantum was striking RmHR J! and finished. He was forceful in his interpreta-i, interpreta-i, 3j tions, and strong in every scene. Walter St. Clair fijn ill as Bastol, the jester, made a great deal of the HS fi ! f Part, and some of the keenest lines in the play HI H I were his. Bowers did not make enough of Shib-jHlll Shib-jHlll i I Ion; he was too calmly beautiful and not earnest iIIm! ii enough, but his work was acceptable. Miss Main Ma-in (Fill grane, Miss Draci and Messrs. Lindsay, Young, HI w 'I I Swenson and the others were conscientious and mrnl'Jl no serous fault can be found with any member Blr ml II ie comPany. HI w II To Ir' Lews ancl Mr. Haworth and every one B&lylsi ' connected with the production, with the exception Hfll II of Bean is (luo tue C1edit that hard work is en- HPrf i titled to. HSI Plsl '' Hi j-HI The intimation of Bean in his brilliant criti- M ! ljl cism on the music shows what an ass he is. He HI i yffll takes one line and writes, "Music? ? ?" It could Hi' pjIS nt have been in better taste, and Mr. Shepherd Hi! kill is to be congratulated. l ' HrFi Big Hffl Jones & Hammer, the popular publishers, have M S'l J a niost attractive programme this season. HHHHiSii HHHSEIi Tuo Grand is a beautiful little house this sea- BHRf B0B Tue Paul Hammers, Sr. and Jr., have been at work all summer, and haVe made the interior of the play-house a gem. |