Show last nights performance but a small number were present last night at the first appearance in ogden ot madeline cerii in that Beneat ional french drama A story of a kiss cerii was rather unfortunate in her selection for an ogden audience there was not enough fire and brimstone in the piece to enthuse there was too much silent acting too much left to the audience to drop on to for example quite a percentage of the number present were apparently ignorant of the effect of poisons of various kinds upon the human frame when administered internally ter nally when maurice the hero of the atory takes prussic acid and very cleverly falls dead in the twinkling of an ayo after swallowing two grains of the lightning poison instead of applauding alio clever work they laughed instead possibly if rat poison biad been used and maurice had taken fifteen minutes to havo followed paulines spirit to the other world those who laughed would have seen tho point enough of thia however the work was of a high class and miss merits support was good miss kent as suzanne especially ally making a favorable impression tho plot is one familiar to theatre goers A woman married to a man she does not love A friend of her husband falls in love lier in a fatal moment she reveals her love to him the result a murder the lovers are married and they find that tho knowledge of each others guilt has killed the love which had formerly existed this hatred and the fear of the guilt becoming known leads the husband to kill his wife and then take his own life aalph E cummings as the lover had a difficult part to sustain that of a man guilty of killing his friend to obtain that friends wife and yet a man not at all like the usual stage villian his work was good and a few of those present appeared to appreciate it miss cerii as pauline proved her powers as an actress of great merit in the third scene where ebe accuses maurice of killing her former husband and expresses her hatred for him although her work was clever the house was cold the evenings performance closed with a sparkling ono act comedy entitled the new professor there was much complaint about the beating of the opera house last evening the building was as cold as a barn and it was positively dangerous for one to sit through the performance there is nothing the management should exercise euch caro in as in the heating and ventilating of the theatre for people will not sit more than once or twice in a cold room to listen to the best show on earth |