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Show Hj " Beaucaire." HLr The dramatic event of the year comes to the Hi Salt Lake theater May 29, 30, 31, when Richard H Mansfield presents "Monsieur Beaucaire." Evelyn Bp Greenleaf Sutherland and Booth Tarkington, have W' written a five act comedy on the latter's story of the 9J barber-gambler-prince, and Mansfield is playing it as B only Mansfield can. To these., two American writers H belongs the distinction of having supplied Mr. Mans- H field with his most delightful comedy success since B the days when Beau Brummel and Prince Karl first H delighted his audiences. The happy hit has more of H the quality of permanency than anything Mansfield B has done. This is because Beaucaire gives Mansfield Bf something on which to fasten his art. It is charac- B ter in" a fascinating story, not a puppet in a poem. The Prince, who was mistaken for a barber by the smart set of Bath when Beau Nash was imperator, gives a wide play for humor, wit, repartee, and sentiment. senti-ment. The jest is on Beaucaire's lip, but the perfume of Lady Mary's red, red rose fills his heart and intoxicates in-toxicates him with a love that fashions a romance which has delighted all who have read it. Mansfield is said to have devoted anew his unique gifts for portraying por-traying the royalty of a prince, the consciousness of a swell, and the romance of a lover. "Beaucaire" is, as they say, a play of manners. The scene is the celebrated English watering place, Bath, during the social sway of Beau Nash. It is a fascinating period for a comedy of wits. The first act discloses the Pump Room, whither the blades and belles come for the waters. The second act shows Beaucaire's lodging the night he caught Win-tersett Win-tersett cheating. The third is Lady Mary Carlisle's ball room on the occasion of the introduction of the Duke of Chateaurien to Bath's beauties. A portion of the garden of Mr. Bantison's country house on the roadway near the statue of Diana is the locale of act four; and the last act of all is the superb assembly room on the occasion of Bath's learning from the Marquis de Mirepois, ambassador from the Tuil-leries, Tuil-leries, who is the visitor it has harbored as barber, gambler and Duke of Castle Nowhere. As might well be expected the period and locale have been Mansfield's inspiration for a delicacy and coloring of scene and costume in which he has surpassed sur-passed himself. The prices will be higher than usual they ought to be, argument or no argument. There is a possibility of two matinees, or five performances per-formances in all, and the engagement will be a notable nota-ble one. |