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Show ;! W7fZf the First Nighters b '''ft ilB ' NETHERS0LEa B' ! H !rlfflB l!1 tlie llvos of a11 men 911(1 womon t,ier0 13 B ' 1 M '!1B' ' more or less drama, a realization of which prances B 'ill 'Iflt along the heartstrings at the Nethorsolo portrayal B ' ; '&1B of tlie varlous roIes ln which that talented his- B ' f '?i vlSm trionical artist has appeared during the week. It B' ' M - i realism, or Nethersolism in the interpretation, B 1 1 I'lrl ' fBBr that gIves a llistinctly individual version of the Wm UBI every character the lady has undertaken to pic- iB ' $BI I ture- Tlmt renllsm5 that closeness to nature has Til Fiifl ever D0en tlle 001(1 o Nethersole success, as' B ' ' ' lUB 1 wel1 as tllG lmrp Upon wh,cn under tne suise of B 1 i-fIB 1 laclc of taste, ner opponents have played their B ' iffB dissensions. B il 1 Nethersolo's "Sapho" is all her own, so far as B iaM ' Iocal Productlon of the Piece is concerned. The B j WM real "Sapho," through which Miss Notheraole Bl ' '1 I ' holds the sympathies of her audiences in the long 3 ! :l !i A j drawn out silences as in the denunciatory and B ' ' 1 6 ' pleading climaxes, magnifying her marvelous tal- B I'll I Si , ent. The "Sapho" story is not an unlifting ono, B r M 1 W ' but ratner tllG layin 1)111,(3 of the seamy side or B vwf f 1 1If' tllQ pressuro tnat ovorlastingly weighs down B 1 '! n m upon the feminine transgressor, and the dramatic B ' -m i a heights to which our star ascends In her portrayal B 'Iff If of tne title cliaractor gives some estimate of her Hl ! Ir The scenes of "Sapho" are festive and beautl- B ' 1s!il fu1, very touch of environment is seemingly B i I i ' H H . charmed with that quantity referred to as Neth- B ' JK fflffi ersolo realism. B ' ,1 'iMm ' JIiss Nethorsolo depends not on the power of B 'iHlc Br' contrast with those who surround her to demon- B I 'tills flB strato her tremendousness. To the contrary siio B; , mB i carries a company capable of supporting her. Mr. B' -! ! l''l w! Frank Mills, as tlio leading man in each play, B ' carrIes ff honors worthy of the actor that he is. B ' '"ijf w'ljt ' In "Th Second Mrs. Tanqueray" Miss Nother- B 8ole is ner own "Fauia!" as is llor interpretation B ; ;h ! J' ()f tle title role of "Adrienne Lecoureur" and her B '''m wl' "Carmen" is the natural rough, coarse "Carmen," B ': ''M Wii 1:11 0 true actlnS of tno Part. B 4 ' 'IfS 111 The varied repertoire in which Nethersole an I B S.jSS- , her talented company have appeared, has given Bv ''H'lw'B local Piaysoers an opportunity to view romark- Bi '-'W: mSt ' l1jle scope of lier alj,llty' and tnQ forc f omotion- ' T'w hB i allsm for which she is noted. I I'llffi W&m ' Two l)erformances of "Sapho" today will tin 'H 1 ' F'-ln flB ' isn tl10 most successful run at high prices the iB t Salt Lak nas witnessed in many a moon. Wm ' ' 'fw BB Thanks to Mr. G. Pyper, a long list of Metro IB ' , j BB politan productions is on the way. The lively halt B h im WBm of aoason llus ust commenced and there will B . ;,! If bo no dearth of good things during the next half B , B dozen weeks. B CRESTON CLARKE. B j rffl;yp;' lt was not an easy task for Manager Jules B ' . ;J. Murray to find a role for his clovdr star, Creston . M M Clarke, that would fit him so perfectly as did B ''iiBB tlie tltl t0le In "MonsIeur Beaucaire." In The HBBr Ragged Messenger, however, which will be the . ' : ttlBk attraction at the Salt Lake Theatre for the nights B ; l wWffi and niatinee beginning next Monday eveningj . ' j,j Manager Murray has secured a notable successor iB ' '''liBII t0 "MonsIeur Beaucaire" the character of John H i KKi' Morton, the clergyman, seemingly having been iH ' i Ir HB" written for Mr. Clarke. "The Ragged Messenger" iB ''' ' ill PBt' 18 a modern emotioiial drama, tolling the story of ' VKI the ambItIons' temptations and triumphs of one iB l iliR 0f Go(i s nol)Ienieni whose work in the slums of B -S' SB k NeW Yrk CIty' without any hoP of reward for B h' Wtm himself, has earned for him the title of "the mad B ' tIihWI ' parson," which soubriquet seems to be well mer- B ' p" It6d by ll,S 8Ul,SO1U0nt actlon In Sing away the immense fortune to which he falls heir. The clergyman, in fact, is comewhat of a dreamer, until suddenly his whole nature is awakened by a great, all conquering love, when It is seen that he is a man with the same primal passions as his fellow men. "The Ragged Messenger" is intensely intense-ly dramatic, and in the role of its principal character char-acter Mr. Clarke has added another great triumph tri-umph to his already long list. & & The story of "Susan In Search of a HUsband," the new play in which Miss Isabel Irving will be seen at the Salt Lake Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, is a distinctly quaint little lit-tle story of a totally different type from that usually found upon a slage. To begin with, the scene is laid in WaleB, at an old fashioned inn known as "The Dovecot." The play is full of quaint characters that move in and about through the plot and in many respects it is an ideal type of the drama. The story, while simple in the extreme, ex-treme, is yet full to repletion of boundless complications. com-plications. Briefly it is this. Susan Gambett, a young American girl of good family has been Isabel Irving in "Sussan In Search of a Husband." married at a period seven years prior to the beginning be-ginning of the story to a young British naval man whoso ship had visited New York. Unfortunately Unfor-tunately the young man had mysteriously disappeared disap-peared on the night of his marriage, and during the intervening period Susan had prosecuted a search for her young man. She had recently been attending a school in France, and there she had formed the acquaintance of an American heiress, Miss Robyna Pennlcuique. Finally, her money having come to an end, Susan answers an advertisement from a little inn in Wales to labor as a chambermaid, and on her arrival there she meels Mins Pennlcuique who has run away from her chaperon. The heiress recounts a flirtation she has had with a young man, and it is then discovered that the flirtoe, so to speak id-on his way to the inu. Robyna believes he has followed her there, and with a view to discovering whether wheth-er he loves her for herself alone, or for her money, it is arranged that the two girls shall change places. Lord Rathbone arrives and Immediately Imme-diately recognizes the supposed chambermaid as the young woman he had met on the steamer a day or two previously. He is astonished to find her in her position, and then he discovers the supposed heiress. There is something vaguely familiar about her, and he begins to fall deeply in love. Robyna the real Robyna views this with alarm, and then the real Susan tells her that Lord Rathbone is her long missing husband. It is Susan's idea to .discoves if her husband is making love serious love to another woman and forgetting he has a wife, for she has learn-that learn-that he has no idea who she Is, and with ,uis idea in mind she leads him on, hoping against hope that he will remain true to the little woman wo-man he married years ago. She explains this situation to Miss Pennlcuique, and together they agree to stand by each other. Lord Rathbone, It is discovered, labors under the impression that the chambermaid is his wife, and he explains that he has followed her down into Wales to see if she will suit his altered financial circumstances. circum-stances. In the midst of these things, the cham bermaid is accused of theft, and Lord Rathbone immediately comes to her rescue and announces that she is his wife. This state of affairs brings in the law, and it is only by the veriest accident that It is finally discovered which of the two girls is the rightful Lady Rathbone. Miss Penn icuique in the meantime has fallen in love with Horace Greenleaf, a young lawyer to whom sbo was partially engaged at this very inn three years before, and In whose company she spent what she terms, "the three happiest days of her life" Unfortunately he has become engaged to Lord Rathbone's elderly sister, and it Is necessary to break this off which causes further complications. In the end the real thief in the establishment turns out to be a hooded crow who has stolon the silver spoons, and Robyna, unable longer to control her passion, reveals the entire circumstances circum-stances to Lord Rathbone, who is only too glad to retain Ills long lost wife with whom he has fallen desperately in love all over again, unaware that sho is his wife. The play has been acclaimed by the New York critics as one of the cleanest, most wholesome and satisfying productions of the metropolitan season. d$ t & THE ORPHEUM. A uniformly good bill has failed of appreciation apprecia-tion at the little playhouse this week, perhaps by the magnitude of counter attraction, which would seem to be a demonstration of the contention of some theatrical managers, that vaudeville has its effect only upon shows of the mediocre order and has only a helpful bearing upon the "legitimate stage. There is one lemon on this week's card and that one is this chap Jimmie Lucas, with his bunch of alleged impersonations, which should rightfully be termed libelous misfits. His acclaimed ac-claimed dialects was left at the post when the Hebrew He-brew messenger boy came on the boards. The head and hand balancing acts by Leonard and Louie were clover and near enough to the sensational I to make them appreciable. "A Little Co-Ed," by Marie Yuill and Mr. Boyd is a breezy bit of a playlet play-let with Orpheum qualifications. Winsome Wynne Winslow is always good, being the possessor of a voice and a dashing manner that would make good on any kind of a stage. The Howards were there with some entertainment worth waiting for, especially espe-cially the stunts of the messenger boy, who must have been an understudy of Ben Welsh. The "Vassar Girls," eight of them, depended not altogether alto-gether on their good looks for success, but rather displayed "the advantage ;of a college education," I in rather stupendous fashfon with the aid of a rather extravagant showing of lights and shadows in elaborate electrical effects. .We will take another an-other bill of the same class if the powers that bo . have no objection. We really would not balk at the addition of a headlinei or two as an accompaniment. accom-paniment. "A Texas Ranger" will be the .attraction at the Grand four nights commecing Sunday evening even-ing February 17th. The play is a lifelike production pro-duction of western life, possessing all the breezy characteristics of that free and interesting country coun-try as it was before the advent of the railroads. Special attention has been given to the correct costuming of the characters, and the details of the scenic and electrical effects. Humor, pathos and tragedy are so closely interwoven as to carry car-ry the listener from tears to laughter with scarcely scarce-ly a pause. Beautiful in sentiment and artistically artistical-ly portrayed it Is one of the most intensely interesting in-teresting plays ever written. A true Yankee story, presented as an interesting in-teresting Yankee play, portrayed by real New England actors, piloted by a veteran manager from the Green Mountain state, are the promises . held forth by XL. D. Newell, who will present for the first time in this city at the Grand, three nights and Saturday "matinee, starting Thursday evening, February 21st, his sensational comedy drama, "A Jolly Amorican Tramp." In this play the author, B. B. Kidder who wrote "A Poor Relation," Re-lation," and "Peaceful Valley," for Sol Smith Russell, is said to have outdone himself, for in this ipiece ho gives us deft character delineations that, we are told, almost rank co-equal with Charles Dickens' creations, so true to nature are they said to be. t t & The offering at the Lyric for the week starting Sunday, February 17, will be the well known sensational sen-sational drama, "The Octoroon," and in the hands of the capable stock company of this house will mean a good presentation. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday. & & Miss Nance O'Neil, the tall, beautiful tragedienne, trage-dienne, will be presented at the Salt Lake Theater The-ater soon by her managers, Ira W. Jackson and William D. Reed, in a magnificent production of Voc Victorien Sardou's great spectacular drama of the Inquisition, "The Sorceress." Miss O'Neil is said to have the best company that she has ever been surrounded with, and In the role of Zoraya, the Moorish woman, a part well suited " to her noble talents. Scenlcally the production is described as a beautiful series of eye-pleasing pictures lavish with colorings, delightful to the critical play-goer. In the first act of "The Sorceress," which takes place on the heights overlooking the Tagus River, Riv-er, at Toledo, Spain, in 1507, Don Palacios, Captain Cap-tain of the City Archers, encounters by chance and incidentally becomes enamored of Zoraya, a beautiful and rich Moorish woman, who is sus- . pected of sorcery, because she has effected some wonderful cures by means of mesmerism and the us of simple medicines. In those days it was death for a Christian to love a Moor. The second sec-ond act shows the interior of Zoraya's home, and finds Don Bnriquez completely .enslaved by his love for Zoraya, and nightly risking his life in order to be with her. The third act. the scene of which is the patio of the Governor's palace in Toledo, Don Bnriquez becomes, unwillingly, but for state reasons, the husband of the Governor's daughter, Joana. Zoraya learns of the marriage, gains admittance to the chamber and places the girl in a hypnotic sleep from which she alone can rouse her. Meeting Don Bnriquez while she is in the house rouses all his old pasion for her. In the midst of their Interview they are discovered by Cardenos, an agent of the Inquisition. To escape the consequences, Palacois kills the agent. His outcries are heard, and Zoraya and he are captured. The fourth act is the strong act of ' the play, and brings the hero and heroine before the Tribunal of the Inquisition. Zoraya protests her Innocence of witchcraft until it is revealed to her that if sho is found guilty Don Bnriquez will be judged a victim of her sorcery and will be freed. Therefore she confesses to a lie and is condemned to the stake. The fifth act in Sardou's Sar-dou's masterly way, finishes a dramatic story, which is said to be one of the best things that the great French playwright has ever, constructed. |