Show PLAYS Or OP TIlE THE WEEK VEEl If Ie there thero ever ovel had been a doubt of ot Salt SaIl Lakes Lake's preeminence preeminence pre pre- eminence as ns a show town it certainly would have been dissolved b by a view of ot the crowds crows attending the various theatrical performances on Friday evening There were more than two thousand people in the Salt Lake theatre Tho Orpheum was sold soll out and ond there was vas a Do line of oC s against the rear roar wall Tho The Grand was well vall filled d and the Lyric and the Electric theatres were both bothIn bothIn bothIn In the rec receipt of oC good business Of OC course the event of oC the week was the appearance In her homo home town of oC Miss Maude Adams The rhe fact that f she he presented Peter Pan a new and a justly famous n new w pIa play became a n secondary consideration The Tho im- im thing was that the people wanted to express their JO Joy In welcoming back to Salt Lake tho the little girl who ho was born Lorn h here re who spent silent her childhood years ears here and who has won In tho the big battlo battle with the worl world The They I InsIst upon personal meetings welcome as these would have been But the they did want Miss lIss Adams to understand that the tho city was glad Jad to see seo her glad to ex express cx- cx press approval at the Judgment of oC the critics glad to have her happy After that lint they were very velOY charmingly ly entertained by the pIa play But the Impressive e event Inthe in inthe inthe the engagement seems to io have been leen a n. personal equation Peter Pan Is not a pla play It is simply a few C Cleaves leaves out of or the lives hives of oC some healthy health normal children And and and boy and amI girl understood every man woman eve every I the whimsical plot 1101 The language the thoughts the devices de devices de- de e- e vices the explanations explanations nfl all were perfectly lo logical cal to the child mind And tl tIle c strong lesson in the entire event has been the fact that people like hile to see pure puro things There has never been a play in which the absolute innocence inno Inno- cence an and joy of oC childhood held so largo large a part pait And never has there been a play here which for fOl six hive tl engagements has filled the Salt Lake theatre to the doors doers You ma may dwell on the drawing powers of the salacious drama all you ou like But Dul the taste table of or the public Is Js for Cor clean things And AmI they paid moro more than than- ten thousand dollars to see ee ft it I If the engagement could have been continued over o Saturday Saturday afternoon an and evening there Js Jg not a n doubt four thousand more people would have come come and and that the thc receipts would have approximated five thousand more dollars There Is the logic of or tho the situation At t the Orpheum the tho company has been presenting Girl usually t goo good Qu f. f c 1 I. I h la I or oil n ot or tho the authors author's S. capable several of ot c c. c i I T h strong Possibly the they lack tn the lomes ies with wh longer lons-er association In tn tho II cOhel Jt l team work But Dul it seems that baseball J. J fine points are missed missed and and The Dancing s 5 SOnIo nio dependent upon atmo atmosphere atmosphere-as as as Is Isa ir iia 11 a or Alabama r At the Grand Tho The Hearts of oC the Blue Ridge has I f been pleasing good au le ces throughout tho the week The company is capable and has worn away whatever lack lacle of adjustment might have existed at tho beginning The principals are ure all allen very ery clever and anti have been working cO conscientiously 1 for Cor tho the success of or the enterprise Tho rhe L Lyric has lJ been en crowded to the doors a number of ot limes ines The bill Dill Is not esp especially attractive but hut the crowd crowl seems to rei rely confidently on a gool good entertainment I. I nn and ani tho they h hive have not been It Is vaudeville a 11 m the hJ popular taste for this cJ clat class ss s of or amusement la Is b by ho rio means dulled N Moving gloving Iovin pictures have alone s succeeded in winning public pub puL- lie lic ie favor ta at tho the Electric theatre in State street Some of the views Jews are rather out of or the ordinary and the In Ingenuity In- In null displayed in getting them has been matched by bythe the the fidelity with which scenes from life have ha been transferred trans trans- Cr cd to the dark curtain t Those nose Coghlan last night presented the much mo mooted tc M Mrs Warrens Warren's Profession lon but a review rc of ol U thai l will ilI be found Cound In another co column It ma may be s said I In conclusion that the week Just closed has been Deen one ono oCth of oC th this big weeks In local theatrical history Wo We doubt If IC at t l any ny time In tho the past Post a n greater number of or people have assembled In tn the tho pTa playhouses houses of oC Salt Lake In a a- a week and It is hs quite certain that never before has so much money been spent for or dramatic entertainment |