Show PLAYS OF THE WEEK Nothing either new or especially espedal impressive e has come como to tho the life o of local theaters in the past week eele and andI I yet et there has been n a variety of entertainment entertainment enter enter- of the pleasing sort sorl After Arter I a season of or varying types the tho Salt Lake on Friday evening e lifted the curtain to a delightful melange of music and mirth mirth and and to the tho apotheosis sis sin of or the tho laugh Laud Land of Nod Is simply pleasant t. t It is as delightful as asa asa asa a summer afternoon as pleasing as asa asa asa a good story as entertaining as ns a picture picture pic pie ture described by one ono you Olf knew Jon long ago and have never ceased to love JO and remember And the laugh of the tile young oung woman Ursula March March or of whom much has hns been heard heard is is a thing to linger In the memory If IC that girl had never before heard the tho jokes of the Fool Jool and the Rarebit R. she could not have laughed an any more heartily at them It was a a. contagious laugh And Andin Andin in n looking at ather her apparent enjoyment very very likely the thc perfection of or acting ono one ono could not but hut remember what a famous infidel once said of or creation If U r I had made the world I would have made good health contagious in stead of disease Here was a girl who made laughter contagious Is Js there thero a finer fate in all the range of human possibility I Two things at the Orpheum were worth while One Ono of oC the character impersonations of Mr air Royce the theother theother theother other was the appearance in Salt Lake o of Miss Viola Gillette and amI Mr i lane Mr Royce is quite out oC or the ordinary lie is is wonderfully Rifted gifted in inthe inthe the ability to borrow tho youth or age of or pedagogue or d of oC I lawyer lawer pleading for tor a client client or or of just a voiced musically man standing In his own proper person before the tho people and reciting for tor them some verses erses instinct with life and sentiment senti senU ment His characterizations were good His direct recitation as an encore encore encore en en- core Is vastly better hetter Of l 1 Miss ss Gillette there w od a variety of commont comment It has bas been said she Is in poor voice that her vehicle for the tile present appearance is is no credit to her that she must have deteriorated or she would not hot be In vaudeville Taking the last first it is easy to find that she probably gets better pay and and makes it vast vastly easier now now now- than she or an any other like v. v woman oman could COUll in ill comic opera Vaudeville may seem common because now and then common people bu buy tickets and go in But Bul vaudeville is making fortunes for stars stars and and will probably continue doing eo to As to the vehicle there can be variety of or opinion in that of course It is not Intended as a a. new creation Musical Nonsense the tho name selected select select- ed Is for the tile most moat part taken talen from other compositions There is a little o of The Girl and the Bandit and it itIs itis itis is good We Ve do not find Miss Gillette is losing voice It seemed on three of her appearances at least that her ber singing was rather finer than it eyer ever before had bad been in Salt Lake The womans woman's voice has gained in resonant quality in breadth in impressiveness since her previous visit to her home city And there is ono one big reason why all aU should be glad of It Wherever she goes Viola Gillette declares herself She is from Salt Lake She is from Utah and she calls caBs that her home and she Is going back there with delight de de- de- de light May I a she never have bave cause to complain of th welcome she receives here It would be difficult to match the excellence of Mr McFarlane's voice The man is a master He Ho studies He works And as a result of it he lie is a aking Icing king among Besides being a singer he be is an actor and every ery possibility of the composition is expressed ex cx- pressed in his song Salt Lake Lab has been very glad to see and to hear all these capable people |