The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-28
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| Ever since the rival original American
productions of THE Devil stirred the
theatrical world. managers have been bus
| Ter than busy, and as result, within a
| few months, more Devils have been
turned loose on the theatre-going public
than were ever cast out in the Biblical
1 era. There have been all kind of versions.
mostly pirated and poor. and all kinds of
actors in the various companies, mostly
extremely bad Some of the pirated and
extremely badly acted productions have
| hitherto reached Salt Lake In fact. all
over the country. cities and towns have
been surfeited with Devils of this
stripe. until they are in no mood to APP
preciate any production which might real
~ have merit
The Colonial last evening offered the
Henry w. Savage version. which is
translation from the original authorized
by Frank Molnar. the Hungarian author.
1t therefore has authenticity to recon-
mend it at the start The play should
be interpreted by thoroughly fine COM
pany. Unfortunately. there is little to be
said i'm favor of the company which
played it last evening, except that they
did not absolutely destroy the powerful
troupe is probably the best which will
ever be seen here in this play. Conse-
queltly. it behOOves all persons who wish
to see this sensation of the year to go to
the Colonial this week. for this is prob
ably the best chance they will have in the
west.
THE Devil is an intellectual play. 1t
is an aIlegory, somewhat along the vein
of most of Ibsens writings, but without
any of IbSen's hideous grotesqueness, and
generally superior in character drawing,
conception of situations. working out of
plot. and in lines. THE Devil" while
devilishly devilish is almost real and
the whole drama is natural in the depic-
ton of the emotions.
The story of the play has been told so
many times recently that repetition seems
me- vii n
an unmarried man and a married woman
of their struggles to crush the passion
and be honorable, and of the Satanic Or
Miller" who creates situations and in
fluences their minds so that they give
themselves up to the fullest selfish en-
joyment of their Illicit love The story
properly understood, is far from being
prurient. and IS told delicately in spite
of the nature Of the subject. 1t is a tale
OF a struggle which is going on today
the world over with different principals
struggle which is won or lost in pro-
portion to the strength shown by the
various principals in resisting the tempter.
1t is all worked out brilliantly. and calls
for the best talent available to give an
adequate Interpretation.
The company now playing at the Co
lonial is headed by Ramsey Wallace Ap-
parently, he follows Henry E. Dixey's
handling of the role. and gets along much
better than if he had taken poorer mod
ell 1t would be the easiest thing in the
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and this Mr.. Wallace does not do He
does well enough so that one is inspired
with desire to see really splendid actor
in the title role supported by a strong cast
As for the rest of the company. the
greatest kindness to them is to refrain
from detailed comments.
The play runs the rest Of the week.
Two thoroughly enjoyable features of
the Orpheum bill which will be presented
for the remainder of the week were the
Millman trio and Mack and Marcus. The
remainder of the bill was trifle mediocre
week. but presented some attractive fea-
lures.
Bird MiIlman is not only marvellous
wire dancer but she is . remarkably beau
tiful woman and her performance is done
with a certainty, an abandon and 1.-the
grace which was pleasing TO a degree.
Apparently as much at home upon the in
secure footing as upon terra firma her
mainder of the troupe were adequate prop
erly to set off her performance.
While the performance was no surprise
to those who have been familiar with
their ability, Mack & Marcus in "Evolu-
ton were a surprise to the audience.
which was kept in a gale of delighted
laughter over their clever and artistic
drawings The scene for their act shows
a garden wall with seven blank spaces
upon it These blank spaces are rapidly
TRANSFORMS into clever pictures under the
deft crayOns of the artists and these pic
lures in turn by a few lightning strokes
are changed to represent something en-
tirely different. The audience leaned for
ward eagerly TO see and predict what the
next evolution would be, and its glsesses
were usually at fault The act is an alb
solutely novel one
Last nights performance was the first
given by Mack and Marcus on the Or
pheum circuit, but all who saw the act
predict that it will be a universal hit
wherever il is billed.
Fonda. Dell and Fonda opened the bill
with their wonderful club swinging act
The trio perform the most intricate and
difficult evoiutiOns with apparent ease,
and Miss Mabelle Fonda's performance
is really remarkable
Clivette, aided by tall person with a