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Show bOR PROF. S, H, CLARK nW5 GIVES "VANITY FAIR" ESS ;TS' Salt Lake, Feb 10. That the people ro : of Sail Lake apprcclato good dramatic reading was demonstrated Wednesday evening when the First Congregational Congregation-al church was filled to overflowing for the second of the series of readings being given by Professor H. S, Clark of the University of Chicago. The evening's entertainment -was taken from TliackerayJs "Vanity Fair," and Mr. Clark, by a-areful and scientific scien-tific method of selection, managud to condense the novel of two volumes Into a reading of two hours' length with apparently nothing left out so far as the sense and completeness of the story appears to the listener. "Vanity Fair," while not so deep as the drama. "Chantecler," 'given Tuesday evening, presents ample opportunity op-portunity for the reader to impersonate imperson-ate different characters and show the the great ability which Mr. Clark pos-j pos-j sesses in this direction. Rebecca Sharp, with her shrewd, deceitful na-I na-I turo, was well depicted by the read-. read-. er, and could only be made stronger by an actual dramatization of the story. In Sir Pitt Crawley, Captain Royden Crawley and Joseph Sedley, Mr. Clark was also afforded tne opportunity op-portunity to portray several characters, charac-ters, each with an entirely different personality |