Show BOOTH AS HAMLET A Perfect Performance Before a Large Audience High prices adverse criticisms and all the Fates together availed nothing last night against the throng of people who crowded themselves within the walls of the Salt Lake Theatre to witness the immortal Booth in his great interpretation of Hamlet The star was given even a greater reception than he received on the opening night and when the play was over all felt that their tribute had not been great enough that they had gotten something for nothing noth-ing ingBooths Booths Hamlet is conceded the world over to be the greatest and remembering re-membering the grand interpretations of lesser lights what more need be said The play is so full of good things rich lines solid logic and pretty thoughts that one is entirely wrapped up in it seeing Hamlet the Dane and entirely forgetting Booth the actor In fact had the support sup-port been better had we been shown a realistic Queen a true King a better Laertes and a more natural Polonius tho charm would have been perfect 1 Il U 7 > = = = 1 4 and the audience would have had a hard time in coming down to the realization of the real life of today As it was there were few indeed who did not feel spell bound andfwho were not obliged to rouse themselves a little at the close of each act To point out special features would be useless It was all one grand special feature from the rendition of the sublh est passage to the pronunciation pronun-ciation of the least important word Booth is truly great was the expression which but feebly conveyed the idea of the verdict of last nights audience Miss Vaders redeemed herself completely com-pletely not that she needed much redemption re-demption but two or three faults observed ob-served in her part of Julia were completely com-pletely overlooked when the lady showed what she could do as Ophelia There is i no use trying to deny the fact that the male support is not up to the standard and though some of them do creditable work they by no means sustain sus-tain the great actor properly The Fools Revenge goes tonight |