| Show SALT LAKE THEATRES Charity Hall hull at nt the lie Tt It Is difficult to approach In ht a properly properly prop prop- erl erly calm t temper a a. report of the thc Or- Or Burn company and It Its presentation of The uTh Charity Charily Balls Ball last night Last week the work worl of the tho company compan lacked smoothness and labored under with a l play Ilia far from fron cas easy But er e every nl night ht the members of the company company company com com- pany found them themselves es cl nearer perfection perfection tion ion In what In outdoor sports would be called team earn work And Ami last latt night when the cm curtain tain went up for the opening scene of Charity Charlt B Ball II there was teas a surprisingly perfected company compan ready with a charming unity and coherence co co- co- co horence and the tho pleasing Impression never was lo lost t for a nio moment The Orpheum Orpheum Or- Or company Is certain certainly proving proving- Itself worth worthy of the best commendation that can call be pronounced upon It Individually In In- In It Is strong And even en In Inthe Inthe inthe the Initial performance the Ow unit unity unit of Its action Is remarkable The Time cast follows follows follows fol fol- lows John Van Yan Buren DUren ncr Mayall Mayal Dick Van Iran Buren P P. G MacLean 1 Judge Peter Petel Gurney Roach Hunch Franklin Cruger Scot Robertson AJ Alec c Robinson on Gus Mortimer Mr 11 Belts 4 Luke Cosgrove Phylls J Lee Leu Elsie Gresham Mrs Mis Van Buren Grace Johnson Bess Dess Van Buren Mabel Florence Mrs l De Do P stel Pearl Snyder Sophie Ethel Ethul Sturgis Ann Arum Cruger Julia Stuart The story Is a simple ono one and the play has probably been seen een by readers readers read read- ers of this review rc John Jahn and Dick Van Buren Boren brothers are different as their calling preacher calling preacher and amid stock smelt broker broker- would Indicate At the home of or their blind mother the charity charily ball I Is given Into Inte this home John has brought the girl for fOI whom ho ha has conceived an affection affection af af- the line girl trusted to his care caro b by her hea dying father It happens that she sho Is the girl whom his brother should have married And there I Is a little litte jar jarIn jarIn In the movement mO of oC a well constructed scheme when she accepts th the attentions of or John Dick without knowing that his brother has hns asked for her heart has abandoned her hel and has sought to win as Ills his wife Ann Kruger daughter of the tine master of Wall street Ann who has all her life lov loved d John rises with the demand l upon her hel and tries to help J John hn win twin the love lo of Phylls Lee not not knowing there was a reason why she should not b- b hl his wife It Is after the ball when Phylls goes to the home of John to toll tell him hint what her heart hearl has forced her to disclose that that that she can not be he his wi wife fl Anti And Ann Kruger follows follo and finds her lien there then It I is i In III Inthis this room that thal John quarrels with his money mad brother brothel and denounces him for his treatment of the girl And It ft is the time of their blind mothers mother's s voice calling calling- from her hc bedchamber In Inthe inthe the tin gray ra of the early arly morning that keeps the two men from a fratricidal strife Dick marries Phylls as 11 he should And Anti Johns John's heart does lInes not nut break as ashe ashe he thought for fo a 1 time lime it would He Hc waited wailed the year yea I a year car In which Dick DIk with whir his mone money getting doe docs Then Ann comes back Iak anI and like the two severed e rays of a star stal they hey two iwo are again united There If Ix is too the love match of Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson and Bess DeR Van Buren Duren of anI and the thc union of Judge Knox and Mrs hs De It Is not easy to give especial commendation to any of the company In the presentation ol of this fine play Of course Mr 11 Mayan Mayal i is capital both hoth as a minster minister and as a aloer lover lo but Mr Roach Honell as the judge willbe willbe will wll be Instant Instantly accepted by the theatregoing theatregoing theatre- theatre going public Mr r. Mortimer Mortiner gains steadily in hn favor and his work In Charity Ball will advance him great great- I ly The he women are all good Miss Johnson is almost always too true In Inthe Inthe the Part U of blind woman though at nt tines times rather lather too aware of the location location loca Inca tion of ot doors Bessie's ps les le's ball vall dress s is a trine trifle too short anti and It may 1 be she would be le more true to the probable Ifon If on her hel return to the lie study on the nl night ht after aftel the ball she wore bedroom slippers slip pets pers instead of her hel dancing shoes She has been In bed and trying to lo sleep And Anel her het appearance is In a nightgown The shoes are a bit of a n puzzle puzzle for for forso so clever er a gh girl h 1 Miss Gresham wilt win the tho hearts of the public lie She i iVel Is Vel very beautiful and possesses decided talent But it is of Miss Stuart that thai one thinks when the last curtain falls Miss 1 Miss Stuart who has brought the character of Ann Kruger Krugel so near th the brain and the heart of her hr pooped and who follows s one home with th tine the tender tender- est cst of joy that the mimic woman of the Ilia play has won to the arms of the theman man she loved lovell You will be pleased with the Orpheum Orpheum Or- Or company's rendition of The Charity Ball Dal |
