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Show H jw The Theatres md Resorts I 1 i flsH Tlle CamIlle of Edna Ellsmere and the Armand I i"S Iff ' o Herscnel Mayall formed a combination reveal- ' ll Sffi ng continual pleasant surprises, and the wonder is mm tliat tnese two I)ePle wno Save tlie remarkable ll IB performance seen at the Salt Lake theatre on "M fili Thursday were allowed only a matinee at a ridic- '''$$ Wm ulously low price instead of a few evenings at f Wa least, in order to show a critical public what they if f HB There have been many better Camilles than , V& SI Miss Ellsmere, the role of Armand Duval has been il Ml played by many more capable actors than Mr. MS Mayall, but Camillo as they played it was splen- I ) mm'' GSPecIaHy when one takes into consideration 1 1 HI the attendant difllculties necessary to produce this ' 1 Oi 1)lay- smoothly in tne meantime rehearsing an- ,t H other drama and giving a nightly performance gi Bit Both Miss Ellsmere and Mr. Mayall were at 'm An tlieIr ljest' aml gave by far tlle most artIstIc per" I'M Wm formance of "Camille" ever seen here In stock, fill' Tno Dumas drama is more exacting than any- : W&L thing the Mayall people liave attempted, but the .J lip way it was played left little to be desired all ' . 3p There was fire and life, and beauty in the ' llfi scenes between these lovers in the story we have II tffi 80 often heard, and the climaxes which might be ' 'vh Hw easily overdone were beautiful. H Miss Ellsmere and Mr. Mayall really played 1 filBl "Camille." It is nice to be able to say so. DS , fnHE Just what happened to the stock company at HH i'rJHIBB tuo theatre the past week is hard to discover, mmm to19h hut one tlling ls certain, it seemed like a different Hh 'imffl The production of "Men and Women" was so BH l inH much better than that of "The WIf0" oE th0 pre wn : thHk vious week, that there was no comparison. Mr. ni ' $ UnHl Mayall as Wra. Prescott. was at his best, that HS HjnW clever chap Dan Gilfeather, as Israel Cohen, was Hwl lUSHr perfect, there was a lot of dash in the work of H I HHB Gus Mortimer, an(l even Scott Robertson was good ni wHl Tll IadlGS too made things interesting, Edna m i j IffiiS Ellsmere, Ethel Sturgiss and Mabel Florence con-H con-H ' r IfflH tributing liberally to the pleasure of the perform-hV perform-hV "HIhB ance, and clever Elsie Gresham, who had some-mmBb some-mmBb Xmmm thing better suited to her as Mrs. Delafield, en-Hi en-Hi ! HB livened the proceedings immensely. H 'rwmm rllG stoclc company will close the season here HI if ffifsi tonight, and will leave a gooi impression of what He IimB 1Gy d y ie WrlC U "aion an(l omen" hi ' IsD Ever since Zinn and his merry company lett H wmm Casino Park the public has been asking for rau- KO Ittfll slcal comedy again, and the management has been HI ' i alH fortunate enough to secure, the Cassidy Comio mWB i JBB Opera company, which will open at the Casino h JnH next Monday for a period of 'four or five weeks, wi f'flH tlie 1)111 changing every Monday night. The Sffi I WBn opening show is called "The Meadow Larks" and biH 'taBi 1s sald to 1)6 rePlte with new songs and good Dmj . IJH 0ne of tl)0 bost Matures of the performance Hm iirViV ls tlie Bluo Ribbon chorus, consisting of fourteen IHj jHj Pretty girls similar to the pony ballet in the Zinn Hot 'V'ijH Manager Guiney says they can really sing and H f '9HB dance, and ho ought to know. mm 'llHB Ths Casill wI11 1)6 tlie only tnoatre Pn ln mWi ' IotHI tlie clty next weelc- Tllls sliould insure Immense Bffil qrowds at evory performance. WHY MANSFIELD PLAYS GLOOMY ROLES. Richfield Mansfield says he selects gloomy, and revolting roles because they give his art more opportunity. op-portunity. He explains this in an Interview in the Theatre Magazine for July by saying: "The public will generally credit a player with having a personality similar to that of the roles he creates or plays. It has been so in my own case. Do not think that I find personal joy or refreshment refresh-ment in all the gloomy, depressing and often revolting re-volting roles which I play. They are generally abhorrent to my personal nature. The public sees me constantly as Baron Chevrial, or Richard III., or Shylock, the Tsar, or in some equally cruel and cynical part, and straightway the public invests in-vests me personally with the characteristics of those stage people; and, of course, I lose thereby a certain amount of personal good will. But a player must steel himself against these things and be willing to make the sacrifice, if he wishes to leave behind him something of permanent beneilt to the stage. If one permits himself to bo lured hither and beckoned thither away from a straight line, he will never reach the goal on which he first fastened his eyes." Mr. Mansfield went on to say that he cared nothing for those light and blithesome, happy, and loveable roles which give a player a reputation for benignity and brotherly love, but seldom for depth of insight or artistic ability. It is a singular fact, he said, that the greatest roles are melancholy melan-choly or tragic and often repulsive in their sentiment senti-ment and character. "I tcannot cheapen my ideals or toy with my highest ambitions merely to gain a valueless reputation repu-tation for charm of personality or evenness of temperament." a i i W y c BERNHARDT'S CONDESCENSION. At last Bernhardt likes us, and this condescension condescen-sion upon her part, though it has taken twenty-five twenty-five years to gain her friendship, comes better late than never. For if she had gone away, after this, her farewell tour, still with bitterness in her heart, and the great American double eagles in her pocket, how should we have survived. In Appleton's Magazine the divine Sarah tells us what she thought in the Eighties and her change of heart since then. She says: "When I came to America for the first time" twenty-five years ago, I had some dilliculty in accustoming ac-customing myself to the methods and manners of the New World. The early morning noises in the hotels were frightful to me. I could not bear the 'American plan,' and I stayed an entire month in New York without eating anything, existing only on the cholocate prepared for me by my maid. 5 "The streets without carriages seemed to me inelegant. The New York women wore far too many diamonds and fine feathers when they went' out early in the morning. "I found the women pretty, but the men seemed to mo lacking in polish, although intending politeness. polite-ness. "As to the country, it already stupefied me with the beauty of its avenues, its wide Btretchos, its gigantic trees, its curious flowers. This was my first visit. "I have returned every five years, and I can attest the marvelous progress of this great people who are destined no matter what one says, no matter what one doos alas to become the first nation of the earth. "This yoar I find that the giants have redoubled redou-bled their energy. I find New York still larger, much beautified. Here are magnificent' hotels, in which one may be served a l'Europeenne. Great I shops have arisen in a few years, on a firm and I ; progressive basis some of which are more nn- I portant than our Magazin du Louvre and in some 1 of the larger department stores one can find laces and cats, ball gowns and poultry. "Fifth avenue, which I still remember as it was twenty-five years ago, is three times its former length; it must be at least three miles long, and it is lined with magnificent dwellings, some of which are of a real beauty. |