Show THEY SHOULD HAVE A NEW PLAY Through the first half of or the tho present week the play called Checkers has leenon eenon enon en on at the Salt Lake theater It has lies been hero two or three times predo previously pre pre- vio do sl sly and our people have bave liked it Probably tho the play Is as well presented as for formerly rh for tho the principal prin cipal actors are very conscientious and able But the audience did not appear flatteringly lal large e. e On the tho last night the lower floor was less than half hall full fuU and there thero was room to rent in each of or the tho upper sections Hans Roberts and Dave Davo Braham havo o had the advantage of or a good vehicle of or course They have made Checkers Their acting has been admirable from the first But they have ha given four or five years ears of their lives JIves to repetition And they have done as all much for Checkers as a's is possible Ev Even n they can n not much longer prolong Its life It will have bave to be abandoned They should have hae a new play pIny With another vehicle as clever as fitted for them as Is this they could go on and go higher They seem to belong together so that their new pIa play should include their Joint effort There is 18 better fortune for tor or them thew certainly than they can get b by sticking longer with witha a play which has haa served its usefulness and which which- however howe pleasing has pleasing has lived Jived its life There Is abundant material A clever clover playwright I should find some situation In city or country where types as distinctive as that of Push Miller as inter Inter- as Checkers could be seized and al about out which a drama of intense interest and striking effects I could be built It will vIll be e a misfortune to reflect that this two who have havo added to tho the happiness of to 50 o many shall shaU drop droll from sight or be submerged as us minor characters in soma somo conventional comedy Where here is the author who can malta mako hI his bid fortune and add to their own |