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Show V j Squire Thompkin's Daughter. T " A 81(1on opportunity has fallon to J ' tho lot of tbo scoloty editor this 1 issue. Tbo ploasuro of oritiolBing the thoatrioal productions Is a sweet 1 morsol that tho editor in oholf has ordinarily reserved for himself, along wih tho uomplimontary tlokots; but this is whoro ho gets what is coming to him, and a long.sufforlng community as well as a long lino of aspiring and orost-fallon aotors, who I have gono down beforo his unpitying t criticism, wll enjoy seeing tho limo t$-ttlhth.od upon his impersonation of uJtn 'M'CSSptffKh'B rote. K APirst, ns to tho play Itself. It is tho liveliest whloh baa appeared on ) tho boards this winter. It bad a snap and sparklo that some of tho othors have laoked, aud was not wanting in drnmatlo episodo. Too I oftou, however, the snap was allowed L to pfforvosco boforo tho audionoo got flk the benoQt of it, bocauso tho actors B$ wero slow in remomborlng thoir K linos, or too tamo in scones requiring h ij intonsity. For instance, in tho last I I soono whoro Mlllio'a lover, Flynn, I takes poison nnd falls dead, tho ft ffi assembled company not about as muoh H concerned as thoy would at tho sight H 1. 0'0U overturned wool saok, and tho H i faoility with which tho horolno f1, transferred her nflfootions from tho dead mnn to hor admirer Bunny was enough to mako tho most bardoned flirt in Utah gasp. Another error was oommittod whloh must bo charged against overy porformanuot pro-sontod pro-sontod this winter, thoro was a too gonoroua display of red light. At best, oolor tableaux nro an artloQial moans of inducing quivers, and unless un-less tho nudlenoo is alroady wrought up, aro liable to strike it as melodramatic melodra-matic and sometimes oven ludicrous. Whou color olfeots aro used, especially especial-ly whoro but ono or two notors hold ho stago, tho tableaux should bo given with cortain expedition nnd llnishod with n quick ourtnin. "It wero easior to toll twouty men I what thoy ought to do, than to be one of tho twonty to follow your own udvioo." Oh, Mr. Editor, charity hideth n multltudo oT imporfoutlons, but In splto of your bonovolout motlvos (of whloh tho rest of tho i ataif aro justly proud) in taking pnrt iu the porformanoo wo must oonfess ' to a convlotion that you will mako a moro shining mark in tho world as n orltio of plays than as n dolinoator ', of thotn. Your gestures wore ginger ly, your spoeohos too calm and dollborato for tho hoavy villain. If you wiil go on tho stago, don't try tho heavies nuy moro ; don't attompt Hamlot, but bauk on your sonso of humor and go in for aomody. ; Lafo AloConnoll, in tho ahaiaotor of tho ubiquitous Irishman, co'vored himself with glory. Ho kopt tho house in a roar, and was on tho wholo the boat character in tho piny. Tho notors un uwholo did prohaps as welifnfCtho ordinary run of nmatours, without profoauioual uoaohlng. Nopo ofjth'oin however, woro threatened j wlthiftpetiYrcin of tho San Francisco I ' w58':or ftB n rP8U atontorian "otorata of applnuso. But whatever orltiolsm may bo offered on tho acting, nothing derogatory deroga-tory can bo said against tho spirit whloh prompted tho production of tho piny. And whether or not tho publio admirod tbier Individual efforts seems to concern tho players far loss than tho fact thnt tho vonturo proved successful from n material standpoint. After nil expenses hnd been met thoro remained &7C to bo applied on tho mortgngo that hangs ovor Mrs. Ahlstorm's property, nnd tbo committoo has Jhad tbo pleasuro of soolug tbo amount endorsod on tho document. In bohnlf of Mrs. Ablstrom tho plnyors wish to thank tho generous publio of Cedar City for thoir patronage |