The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-20

| SAIL LalNE THEAGRE-Davld Proctor in
"a Message from Mars" play in three acts
| py Richard Ganthony
| "a Message from Mars gives its audience
great moral lesson. And yet 1t is extremely
| entertaining. For the moral dose is spIceI
| with wit and originality You oro raodc to
/ laugh whilc you being Impressed With the
| desirability OF unscnshness
Inc plot includes unique application OF the
dream Idea In literature. Horace Parker q
"eaithy young man after showing extreme
seInshness In his treatment Of his aunt and
tho young woman no IL to marry. falls asleep.
ana MS reformation comes through n dream
which has its nightmare features and which
Is enacted In the play. a visitor from Mars
appears TO Parker and tells him he has come
10 cure him OF his sNlhshncss. The MartIan
leads the wealthy young fellow through a
series or unhappy experiences. reducing him
at last 10 poverty in which his nature is on
trely changed. Then Parker wakcs up and
stays cured. He bcgno a career of generous
ing his friends.
This moral scheme Is worked out with the
utmost cleyernese odd as II H. It is devel-
oped plausibly The basis for tho appearance
OF the man from Mars for instance is laid
when Parker, who Is astronomer falls
asleep while wondering II Mars is Inhabited.
Not only ls the theory OF the thing persuasive
but the construction is admirably effective
Tho dialogue sparklcs, and the display OF
moods ls exquisite.
David Proctor in the part OF Parker reyeoIa
inc unreasonable. selfish phases OF the young
felloNs dispoEiuon with great clcycTncss and
In exhibiting the changed condition docs excel
lent playing. Henry J. Hadheld as the mes
Eengcr from Mars. ip entirely effective in voIc.
and methods Elizabeth Valentine In tho mart
OF the sweetheart Ia graceful and girllsh And
good character work is done by a number of
the players,
Three more performances viii be given to-
night and tomorrow afternoon and night The
audience last night was OF good size.
Miss Georgin Harper and her supporting COM
pany arc playing 10 splendid business in
'Laza' ut the New Grand thcuter and tomor-
rows matinee will be a record breaker as pro
dicted ~ the beginning. Tho business has i'm
proved very much. and deServcdIy go as Miss
Harper and Joseph Dctrick, her leading sup
port, are giving one OF the best productions
ever seen In this city at popular prices Tho
general verdict OF all who have sctn Miss
Harper in this splendid play ls that it Is
among her bcst creations. She acts and dresses |
the part OF Zozn in faultlcss manner. |
Miss New York, Jr.. :" closes a successful |
week at the Lyric tonight Commencing to- !
morrow afternoon a real treat VIII DO offered |
the patrons OF this house when the Empire |
Comedy company the show that reIgns su- |
prcmc, Will begin weeks engagement This !
attraction offers radical change from the |
attractions OF thls school who 90 along In tho |
Gamc beaten path. The Empire Comedy COM /
pany is twentieth century production and |
fairly bubbles over with sparkling comedy |
amusing scenes and incidente and interspersed
with frst-class, refined spocialtics. There are
more pretty girls In the company than is usu-
ally found In an extravaganza company and
the way they sing, march, dance and enact
their pnrts IL partly the Of the big hit
which this company makes everywhere