| Show PLAYS OF THE WEEK It Is s no more than fair to say a good word for the Lyric Some people people peo peo- pie regard that little playhouse with 1 indifference but It has been making a bid for tor public fa favor faor or which deserves a better recognition than it is receiving recel ing and Irig-and and the houses are aro fairly well filled too But they ther might well be better The price is the chief handi handi- cap It Is so low Jow that some people seem to imagine the performances are low Jow too But they are not Mr Ir Lorch has been entertaining his friends at the Grand and has departed a little from his usual vehicles selecting select ing instead a new play pIa in which AfrIcan African African I can forests and the elemental passions of man are prominent factors All AU the power of the man is exerted In the strongly commanding lines and the people who people who have always thought well of him are are apparently satisfied with There have hare been two good at atthe the Orpheum and and that is a a. a pretty good gow record for a vaudeville show One was the man Gordon who closed the performance with a German mono mon r logue Seen in private the man talks like a German and looks like a n Jew On the stage he is far and aWa away the best artist arlist in monologue that has lias yet appeared in Salt Lake Just what is the secret o of his success no man can cantel tel tell But Dut he is successful He gets his bis audience at the very beginning and keeps leeps the laugh continuous yet et suppressed sup suppressed pressed through some fifteen minutes oC ot the very f funniest nonsense e that has bas been heard beard His ills best est feature Is the tact with which he dodges a word which he be cannot pronounce In the success success of his sentences he be is led to grow ambitious Then a word comes along that is be beyond ond his bis powers an and his bis naive nal apology a and d retreat are Inthe in Is inthe l the nature of at high art With him in the bill though bill though separated sepa rated and unrelated Is ed Is is Miss Violet Dale a n very ery handsome young woman with a perfect genius for entertain entertain- ment meat She has been here hero in previous seasons seasons and is b by no means the tho helpless helpless help help- less and undefended some of the young men of or the town lon have apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap thought her She is best hest In Inthe Inthe Inthe the coster songs bongs whore the modulations modula of the wonderful voice suggest the unconscious quality oC ot tragedy Inthe in inthe inthe the simplest affairs o of life Ufe The voice is 18 really a marvel it is ia so 80 rich and resourceful so 50 answering to th the d de tie- demands mantis mands of or every ery passion and emotion and so BO clearly sweet in the simple melody she sho essays The girl is 18 good and it is IB a pleasure to know she has succeeded At the Salt Lake Grace George has ha been playing to poorer houses than she deserves deserres and has been presenting some Bome phases of human life that are arc worth the study It Is the story stor- of oC a pretty young woman oman who has bas married a man much older than Ulan herself and who wal wakes es presently to the realization that she sho has missed something in life He does not nol court her with that ardor which nature teaches even eyen the girl to ex ex- Ho He Is all deference Ho He has bas passed his period of savagery and gives to his wife the tho tenderness to toI I which she is entitled but makes mattes no noI I assault on her fancy faner on her human code of or expectation And in the wa wavering wavering vering time of ot her life a military man comes along and she responds to his more violent courting She concludes she wants a divorce so she can marry the younger man And there is a n passage where she tells her mature husband the truth truth which which Is worthwhile worth worthwhile while listening to She tells him hlin he burned out his pis life Ufe with all sorts sorta ol ot excesses and aud then married for comfort com fort forgettIng fort forgetting that the thc same ele ele- i iI I ments of ot wildness are in the tue untried I and inexperienced woman he be has haa chosen to sit on the other side of his chimney corner It Ills Is a lesson leBson a good many men should learn The man Is very cry wise He lie le does not curb or rebuke her He gives given every aid to the proposed divorce arrange arrange- ment mont That makes her think he wants to get rid ot her There can be but butone butone butone one reason Another woman Then he contrives to let her see sec how undesirable unde undo I la is the military man and at the same time from the vantage ground of or his bigger experience lends leads the woman weman wo we- man to love e him And she sho does And it all ends 01 very happily All AU through the action there Is a wonderful development de of oC human na na- na- na ture This wo woman nn Js is awakening And the tho process is made very verr Interesting by the genius and the art of Grace George She doesn't seem to get old aId nor stout successful stout successful as she has been for years rears She Is still girlish in figure and in itt volatile expression lon And the moral prettily expressed Is the thc more convincing because of tho the charm of the tho woman One incident In the play will be rEmembered re remembered remembered re- re even b by husbands whose households are un menaced And that thatIs Is the value of the tho cafe scene B By Byway Byway wife that he Is Js wa way of proving to his dining with no other woman he dines with her her her-at at the best cafe in the city with all the privacy and all aU the expense expense ex expense ex- ex pense to be expected in the tho case of ot entertaining a charmer There is a quality quam in the meeting a consideration in the treatment which wins the wife more than a volume of logic could do It appeals to whatever er is royal rOjal m rn tier ner nature No woman can have better than she Is getting Here are all the accessories of the forbidden And for her She doesn't miss the convincing ing i quality of that thaL And he ho has a mighty good time there therein theren in n the private ate room of tho the cafe with his ils wife They cat eat and they drink and then she sits on th the arm of or his chair while they talk in the most intimate inti inU mate fashion She cannot she cannot she simply cannot cannot-be annot be jealous of or an any other w wo we- r man This man is all in the world to her ler And Aud he be Is rewarded wl with u a n delight de light he be never ne dreamed med of oi That Is one of the lessons of liD DI It is as much the obligation obliga obliga- lion tion as the tile interest of the husband to tomake tomake tomake make her know there isn't a Bidden jo joy in the world shared with other women and denied to her In some ways it has been a a. pretty good w This however should be better belter |
