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MMMHiW ' H GOODWIN'S WEEKLY 11 H For the week to come Charles E. Evans and company, late of Evans and Hoey, heads the bill. The bathing girls will be here again with Glen wood White and Albertine Benson; Hilda Thomas and Lou Hall offering "The Substitute;" Cross and Josephine have a sketch called "Dying to Act;" Dorothy Kenton, .the girl with the banjo, and the L two Ahlbergs, acrobats, finish the bill. Y "DAVID HARUM." A week of rustic philosophy has piled up the gate receipts at the Garrick in a way that wouldn't have been considered at all bad in the good old days r William Crane's "Harum." The explanation by Homeville's banker and 'boss' trader of the facility with which a flsh hook may be inserted and the subsequent embarrasing difficulties attendant upon its removal are so (pertinently interesting locally in view of a few score varieties of conditions too numerous to ,"3 enumerate, that the fine old comedy is quite apt to take on a lot of life when given at any of our numerous playhouses. In reviving it at the Garrick, however, this week, Manager Emerson has dressed up the stage version of Edward Noyes Wescott's novel about as handsomely as we have ever had it played, and the members of the Garrlck's stock company are finishing a week's presentation of the production tonight that has done as much if not more than any other of their plays the past two months or so to convincingly demonstrate their versatility and ability. "David Harum" is beautifully put on and from Mr. Durkin's portrayal of the title role to the Pegleg Hopkins of Neil Pratt it is admirably played. Mr. Durkin's Harum is the first comedy part he has taken at the Garrick, and he is finely effective. Miss Pringle's Widow Cullom is aa enjoyable and artistic as anything the Garrick has ever offered and her perspective of the role is perfect. Both Miss Dills and Miss Wheatley are acceptable, though hardly more than that. Walter Seymour's Zeke Swinney is delicious, and this very clever "heavy" man is a pretty good section of the backbone of the Garrick's organ ization. Jack Held should feel rewarded for hi3 hard work the past few weeks in the unusually faithful and excellent Bill Montaige with which he enlivens the show. Mr. Herblin's Lenox is a good strong piece of work, while Henry Crosby's Dick Larabee is anything but creditable. The characterization is amateurish and tbe actor gives every indication of loafing through the part. Lewis Craig is too stilted as Gen. Wolsey and Wilson Day overdraws Chet Timson. The players as a whole get a lot of good "atmosphere" into their characterizations. "THE ARCADIANS." "The Arcadians," the best of all Charles Froh man's recent musical comedy productions, comes to the Salt Lake Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "The Arcadians" differ in all re spects from the ordinary musical comedies of the day;, perhaps its chief distinction is that it is par- FLORENCE ROBERTS AND THURLOW BERGEN In a scene from "The Nigger" at the Colonial beginning Thursday February, Oth. ticularly wanting in the old 'ordinary devices of H musical comedy, and is especially free from slap- H stick humor. H During its two years run in New York, "The H Arcadians" moved to three different theatres be- H fore the public would have enough of it. It is H said that Mr. rohman brings to this city not H only the orlgi l "The Arcadians" production, but H SCENE FROM "THE ROSE OP THE RANCHO" H David Belasco's splendid story of early California days H will be given at the Garrick theatre all next week. H the New York cast, costumes and all other acces- iM sories as well. If this is true, the writer can at- M test to the worth of the production. M Historically, the Arcadians lived in a beauti- M ful mountain-surrounded country in the heart of M Greece. The sin and sorrow of the outside world M never reached them. Their lives were simple, M happy, untroubled, like those of the people of the M Golden Age. The play begins when into this de- M lightful country dropped Mr. James Smith, a pro- M sale London restaurant keeper, with a passion M for aeroplanes and a complete ignorance of Greek M poetry. The charming shepherdesses appeal to M him at once and despite his strange attire, to-wit, M a business 3ult and mutton-chop whiskers, the M Arcadian ladies are charmed. In explaining- his M unintentional arrival, he tells a very natural so- M ciety fib. But untruth is one of the things the H Arcadians cannot tolerate, and are immediately M aware of. Consequently, they fall upon Smith, H indignantly crying: "Away with him to the Well M of Truth!" The Well of Truth happens to be jH nearby and James is popped in. He emerges pre- M sently, a wholly truthful man minus his business H suit and whiskers. He is then dressed in the sim- jH pie Grecian fashion of the country and is re- H christened SImpllcitas. What the Arcadians have jH learned from SImpllcitas Smith about London H makes them undertake a pilgrimage there with H the idea of establishing truth in England. Their H arrival in London causes a sensation. M "THE ROSE OF THE RANCHO." H Backed by such a company as the Garrick now H enjoys as a permanent organization, the an- H nouncement that the dlasco-Tully romance of H ante gringo days in California, "The Rose of the jBj Rancho," is to be given at that theatre the com- H (Continued on Page 15.) M