Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-11-24

in Her Great Match" matinee today,
performance tonight.
Orpheum-IIigh class vaudeville,
matinee today, performance tonight.
Lyric theatre-"Falsely Accused"
matinee today, performance tonight.
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Coming Attractions
Salt Lake theatre-Louis James in
Merry Wives of Windsor" Novem-
Der 2G-2S; Heir to the Horrah."
Lyric-"Not Guilty" one week be-
ginning November 25th.
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And now comes the ravishing ORR.
entail beauty of Maxine Elliott VIM
ing a matrimonial prince-cup in Her
Great Match" Clyde Fitch, the au.
thor of the play, seems determined on
giving Miss Elliott an over supply of
stepmothers. Last season in the Fitch
rlay-"Iier Own Way"-Miss Elliott
you remember, was tied to the apron
strings of a mother-in-law. In He
Great Match" the mother-in-law reap
pears in a thunder cloud of melodra
ma AS villain she is an out-and
outer and would electrify the CALLER,
gods at the Grand. She furnishes mos
of the aXle-grease for the movement
of the play. Clyde Fitch has the pc
culiarly fatal habit of striking a dis
cordant note that spoils the promised
harmony of his plays. In The Girl
With Green Eyes" as | remember, it
was the maudlin pathos of the scene
in which the heroine mounted a chair
to turn on the gas, that she might die
amid genteel surroundings. In Her
Great Match" Fitch has laid the foun-
dations of a splendid society play, and |
capped it with melodramatic upper
works. But if Fitch turned out hur-
ried hodge-podge in Her Great |
Match" he had a strong incentive to |
do slop work. No shortcomings of the |
author can prevent Maxine Elliott |
from looking supremely beautiful from
end to end of the play. The fame of |
her beauty has gone forth so widely |
that unless she should be cast as the |
bag in the 1.-TWO Orphans"-or in |
some equally Disgusting role-audi- |
ences would gather at the shrine of |
her beauty regardless of everything
except her glorious personality and
winning graces. When personal charm |
and magnetism are united to beauty |
the conditional surrender of the |
public is assured Along those lines |
Maxine Elliott must win. whether her |
Match is a Great one. or only Little |
one--such as Clyde Fitch has written ]
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II is really too bad that Salt Lakers |
did not get to see Max Figman in THE |
Man on the PoX" Just to think that |
Figman was whirled on a special train |
from bingham to Ogden and Zion was
left out in the cold
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Charles Klein, the author of the |
Lion and The Mouse" is playwright
who has demonstrated his ability to |
find strong dramatic themes. Where |
others have failed signally to make J
strong theme the key note of a drama.
Klein has been more than half way
successful And besides this stroke
of genius in PLAY construction, Klein
has made plausible use of improbable
not to say impossible, situations.
These elements are skillfully mar
shalled in The Lion and the Mouse"
Even the most superficial can not fail |
to observe the cunningly contrived
contrast between strength and weak
nesses-the dramatic lights and
shades which appeal even to those in
whom the sense of proportion is al
most updeveloped. For, while the |
play abounds in crudities they are for
gotten-or at least hidden-in the de