Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-09

an empire of dreams hts real empire
lay in a womau's heart, and, with his
head on her lap. he goes To- sleep.
You see, peer Gynt' really is a sreas
poem, but about as well fitted for stage
representation as the "IlIad."
For the first time in recent history Mr..
Mansfield has two or three really COM
petent people in his company. Emula
Dunn's performances OF Ase is exceed.
ingly fine, aud so. too, until she sings,
Is Adelaide Nowak's Solveis, MIR,
Mansfield himself Is AZ his best play
ing sincerely and correctly. but always
playing. This remarkable actor never
has been able 10 make me forget that
he is an actor. While he acts arm
everastingly remembering that he does
1t properly, that he can fence, Gance
sing and speak French and German
Perhaps that Is merely because / hava
been told it so Often Mr.. Mansfield
has made me admire him a hundred
times, but he never has ma lie me laugh
or cry i do either or both at the will
of David Wartield where fore my own
preference is for Warfield But it's all
a matter OF taste-pureup and simply
OF taste. n great many wiser folk than
! are agreed that the performance Mt
the New Amsterdam Is one long, lus-
cious upulloyed delight. and they may
be right.
Only N makes me SILVER to think
what John Corbin would have said OF
the play II / had been the author ~
Peer Gynt."
An extremely pleasant little play is
Louis Evan Shtpman~ ION Parole
drama Of 1865. presented under the d.
rectlon OF Henry Miller last Monday at
The Majestic. Had Mr. Shipman writ
ten as simply and as agreeably of any
thing in the world but our internal
combat 1t Is certain that he would have
had a success on his hands. One new
subject Is as good as another In the
making of plays, and war may always
be counted upon for vital situations.
but love across the bloody chasR' Is
NOT new subject, and this particular
war has been dramatized so often that
IL is getting to be rather hackneyed, II
must be a wonderfully clever piece tina
can make one forget the chestnutism %
the Blue and the Gray come dy-relief
sweethearts, the clatter Of horses hoofN
and the patter of bullets oft stage at
r." vet, excepting for few odd mo-
ments, this is the achievement OF 'On
Parole" The few odd moments come
when the Northern hero and the Soutb>
ern heroine launch into long dlscussork
regarding the justice OF this side cs
that. Even the util tarlan. Mr. Ship
man, can't make bearable extended ar
gument OF a question settled half GEN.
fury ago.
The convention that n play is never
produced until II reaches New York
gave us FIRST night last week at the
Grand, where TN the Bishops car
riage' was offered by a company In
Guiding Jessie Busley, already seen in
Salt Lake. This adaptation OF Marian
Miohelson's story has been acted In
England, Australia and most OF the
United States during the past two
years. and can be novelty only to
Broadway. 1T is a plain, unvarnished
nlelodrana, crude in spots, rarely
graceful and never subtle, but broadly
foroefu, rather witty. more OK less in
senious and decidedly interesting,
wrote It.
Miss Michelson's story has been fol-
lowed with a fair degree OF iidellty, ex-
cepting In that Mr.. l-atlmer Is made
the sweetheart OF Nance Olden, instead
OF Frederick Obermuller-
Miss Busley gives a charming and al
fectlng performance OF Nance, and her
supporting company numbers several
actors OF unusual ability. The local
press treated the performances kindly.
and it did an excellent business at the
Grand
During The week new stock COM
panles inausurated their seasons at the
Fifth Avenue theater and the Harlem
Opera House. ben Hur" was revived
at the Academy and 'ChaTley'5 Aunt
at the Lincoln Square, and ''Srewster's
Millions" crowded out OF the New Am
stordam, continued Its prosperous run