Show PLAYS OF THE WEEK The Thc world js hardly yet adjusted c. c j The T hoUda holiday week reek threw things out of or r gear Wo Wre will all n have to get back to the normal the to as gave iJ hi his Is title title title-by by degrees is the s Salt Jt ii Lake LaliC theater with a company pulling f. f full fuJI houses every performance and andi i quitting Quitting- Friday ni night ht Absolutely cur cur- to maJ make o more money e here hen than thant t T 2 they thoy can n b by an any mo e and aUlI yet t the they l stop before Satur Saturday a night You can cnn IJ piove that no company will do that S But they did diLl 1 ff r h f And as to that company There is no consistency no continuity contin apparent 1 in the play And yet et when all the zip and swing swing- and mental acrobatics are arc f rj over o.-er one comes conies to sue bee that George Cohan reaf really meant something somethIng- It Is Isa Isa 0 a a. patriotic play play play-a a spur to the sentiment sentiment senti senti- ment ment oC or nationalism If you rou will remember rc re- S o member the wicked senator is In the first act getting ready to quit the tho countr country country- He lie is almost boastfully tin tin- t t. L American merIcan meri an And b by the end or of th Ila play par l e Is Intensely patriotic so much so I 1 i rin J. J 11 reo o. o Y C 7 J tn the year and aU all that sort or of thing i It Is the conversion of the man by b ii Ids his boy 0 j. And that is a pretty touch too A Aboy f boy always awas awa's knows more than hie his J father of course and is more noble 3 and aUll more splendid So that when he I Ir r reforms his father Either an and 1 fixes things s S so the curtain can go down in tho the last act without t a cringing cringing- and defeated de de- 1 villain with nothing but heroes heroes heroes he he- roes and heroines from the tho footlights to o the back drop that drop that Is the desirable desire desira ble ble thing And w can an all aU sing Grand Old Flag with feeling because that W is the he ke key to to which the play as a aS S whole Is written written when when you ou come to lo look jook at it from a distance George Georget t c. c Cohan ha has done a goo good 1 work In George Georbe Washington jr I y I Tho Grand has bas pr presented rather a good thing tIling in The Tho Girl and the Stampede lampe e. e The book hooI is far better belter T S than the average a of or melodramas It reads reads well Evidently E the conception of or the author was right It seems to I e suffered a little in the staging taging r The The people have havo been better than the the cl the eme-the the star In particular being being- an in exceedingly pretty and effective actor There is no reason wh why The Themi mi Girl and the Stampede should not become be become come ome one or of the plays that will wUl last It would hardly bo ho fair to class a achurch achurch church with the theater and yet the tile E public pay entertainment of the week that made appeal to best lest culture 5 of t the cit city was that at the Methodist church the church tho music of Jan Kubelik and his 1116 company It is gratifying gratifying grat grato to know kno that the church was ft I If ever Kubelik comes again to S. S Salt Jt it Lake Lale that auditorium will not contain his hearers bearers The mans man's methI meth- meth I are aro entirely his own There Is 5 nothing just like that approach to t the e grotesques of or violin playing rc and jet et the clear avoidance of it iL Just Justa a step farther and Kubelik would be beI I classed classe with the charlatans of or the fiddic fid lid dic die dle How he avoids it It while hUe revealing reveal I f. in ing ig so c curiously sl that perfect mastery master I 1 of t strings Mid and bow is a mystery illard fv Weihe was asked ed at theS the S Kubelik concert Is he lie artist or or- or Oh oi artist artist-artist artist exclaimed tb the 1 big i director and aud violinist I 1 Films can hardly b be r reckoned with wHo theatricals either And yet et the electric elec dec 5 show has so taken possession of 2 the country that one one ne ma may not escape 0 Its e or tho message message of or its Its' characteristics Films are new things rhe They come in with Jho lio recent years rears but they are here bere And thousands of people In Salt Lake every week attend at at- tend the shows where films compose the tho whole of or the entertainment And they get bet their moneys money's worth tooF too F For r example there thore was the was vas the Paul Paulis I is at the Revere Reyero succession of pictures which the tho Herald so Justly complimented It was done In an e i. i tO torl lh too and was such an nn improvement improve improve- ment meat political editorials of or that tho the of or that paper t. t message film was was-lJ It was another influence in In- fluence along the line lino of George Washington Ji Of course over every one has read the tho the aul uJ ui Revere ere poem and thoro there wore were of people in the tho audience through week who repeated repeated re re- re- re the stirring lines hines mutely thrilling the tho while the fervor lof of it it as picture repeated tho Q splendor of or ancient story One Is 1 better hetter for this closer of Paul Path Revere Rl And there thieve was another film to f quite a different character at the Mn theater in First South street l rep resented scenes In which Indians and aul td Mexicans figured An Indian is ca a lured b by br tho the Mexicans and Is whipped by a lea leader header er of or that race lie He returns return I to his tribe and rallies rames his fellows to lieu help him hini in revenge Tho They wn waylay Ja the coach In III which the Mexican is sending sending- his wife and child on a journe jour- jour ne ney A dog riding with the woman escapes and runs funs gack to his master and the pursuit is organized Tho The chase the lie fight the tho victory victors of or the Mexicans the thc rescue rescue all all these things aro are won wonderfully well shown One is amazed reflecting at tho the s that were required d at tho thio cost of them the ingenuity and tho the enterprise dis dis- dis pla played c 1 Some company compan is or organized to get g-et all these various scenes and the films and to rent them to showmen in lii many cities And it is a vivid ami anil novel slIe 01 or entertainment But Dut it has hit bit tho the popular favor People want it ft Wherefore the plays of the week weel are ate not very Impressive It Is expected expected ex ex- ex- ex that some strong dramatic I work will wil yet ot be seen here her this sea sea- son But for the present theio has been little to attract tho the interest or I furnish food foo for thought I |