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Show I ; The Drama "Peggy From Paris" with her company com-pany of funmakers appeared at the, Salt Lake theatre Thursday night and entertained a good-sized audience. The j scene laid in Illinois furnished abun-: abun-: dant opportunity to George Ade for a ! combination of comedy and satire that I is quite pleasing. In fact, the amusing comedy and the bright slang with .the i unexpected novelties furnish the at-' at-' tractiveness of the production. In the cast there appear such well trained professionals as E. H. O'Connor. O'Con-nor. T. H. Burton, Julia West. Clara Martin. Arthur Deagon, Olivette Haynes and others. Taking solos and fetching chorus numbers, combined With the bright setting and attractive costumes, were quite pleasing. "Autocrat "Auto-crat Girls." "Henny," "The Upper Ten" and "Birdie" were among the favorite fa-vorite selections. "Peggy From Paris" will be repeated tonight (Friday) and Saturday night, with Saturday matinee. I John S. Lindsay, the old-time actor, j has produced a book of 172 pages with the title of "The Mormons and tlx-. Theatre." It covers the exploitation of I theatricals in Utah, and running through its pages are many reminis-j reminis-j cences of the early stage periods. The theatre is so popular among the Mormon Mor-mon people that in almost every town and settlement throughout their domains do-mains an amateur dramatic company may be found. Salt Lake has the en-, j viable distinction of being the best I show town of its population in the I United States, says Mr. Lindsay, and Salt Lake spends more money per cap-j cap-j ita in the theatre than any city in out I count! y. Mr. Lindsay says this peculiar pe-culiar social condition is the lesult'of Brigham Young's fondness for the dance and the theatre. He could "shake a leg" with the best of them. As a contribution to local literature. Mr. Lindsay's book is not without value. The composition is easy, as all story-telling should be. 4 Wilton Lackaye and a company of 200 people in William A. Brady's production produc-tion nf "TT-io T!t" n-ill , thia iltpooti.-ill at the Salt Lake theatre next Thursday. Thurs-day. Friday and Saturday. The play ! is an adaption of Frank Xorris' famous novel made for Mr. Lackaye by Chan- i ning Pollock. In "The Pit" Mr. Xorris has built tip his story around a "deal" in the Chicago Chica-go wheal pit. If "The Pit" is fiction, it is also information. One is made familiar fa-miliar with the board of trade as Zola has made his readers familiar with the dramshops and markets of Paris. Tho possession of so exhaustive a knowledge knowl-edge has given Mr. Xorris' description of the Chicago wheat pit more than the j power that comes from accurate grasp of technicality: it has liberated his imagination, im-agination, and the result is a work really tempered with special suggestion. sugges-tion. One may exemplify by a passage, describing the entrance of Jadw in, the great wheat king, on a momentous day, when a "deal" was to take place involving in-volving countless mililons of dollars and the whole immense fortune of Jadwin Jad-win himself. "The roar was appalling, the whirlpool was again unchained, the maelstrom was again unleashed." "And during the briefest of seconds he could fancy that the familiar bellow of its swirling had taken on another pitch. Out of that hideous turmoil,, he imagined, imag-ined, there, issued a strange, unwonted note: as it were, the first rasp, and grind of a new avalanche just beginning begin-ning to stir, a diapason more profound than any he had yet known, a hollow distant bourbon, as of the slipping and sliding of some almighty and chaotic power. "It was the wheat, the wheat:" It was on the move again. From the farms of Illinois and Iowa, from the ranches of Kansas and Nebraska from all the ranches of the. middle west, the .wheat, : like a tidal wave, was .rising, rising. Almighty blood-brother to the earthquake, coeval with the volcano and the whirlwind, that gigantic world-force,, world-force,, that colossal billow, . nourisher of the nations, was swelling and advancing. |