The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-17
Milton Mobiles.

On Tuesday, Milton Mobiles and
lis company will open an engage
nent for three nights, at the Salt
Lake Theatre, with "The Phoenix"
in which Mr.. MOBILES has made such |
a success Of his speciality character,
Carol Graves. This play is we'll
known and liked here, it having
been received with such unbounded
at its former presentation.
The American comedy of "Inter-
views" will be played duringthe en-
gagement. Of this latter play the
Brooklyn Eagle says
To say the play is success but family
expresses its many excellencies. 1t is
without doubt the best production Of the
kind ever given i'll this city. From be-
ginning to end it eparkles with wit snd
overhoWs with exhu5erant humor. The
dialogue is fresh, bright and breezy, and
many Of the situations very funny. It IS
truly an American play, for in no place
outside of America is the newspaper in
teryiewer known in his native purity.
There are reporters in these United States
who would interview Queen Victoria
upon the cost Of her private jewels, En-
peror William On his love Of France, or
the Russisn despot on the question Of Ju-
disc OutrSges. Such character
Mr.. Mobiles portrayed last eve
ming SO Quilford Driverton, famiil-
iarly known as Quill-driver. That
Mr.. Mobiles has more than once
seen the inside of editorial and reportorial
rooms in practical way is made mani
fest by the technical manner in which
the play, which he so cleverly presents,
treats the subject matter. Mr. Mobiles is
an author as we'll as an actor, and writes
his own drama. Quilford Driverton is a
born Bohemian Of the most approved
and advanced type. He is imaginative,
impudent and imperturbable devoid of
self-conciousness, natural and honorable.
In the first act his interview with Potter
Afford (Ar. Mortimer) the banker-can-
didate for Congress, is fine bit of char
acier acting. That it is not cverdrRwn
cen be testified to by any newspaper man
vi experience. In this role Mr.. Mobiles
has made for himself q new sphere which
he fills up so completely that he leaves
no room for competitors.
Theplot OF the play is neither involved
nOr mysterious. The action goes Rleng
naturally and without hitch or strain,
the incidents being strung upon the chain
Of congressional campaign which is
successfully conducted by Quill fer Pot
ter Afford. The necessary oye-naking
is threwn IN to fill up the place allotted
to sush matters in all dramas. At AL
tord9s house Quill meets and becomes
ono-nnRaH IF Rl4rnaoa WAl-~C,Ea~ fnAA,n
Nobles)T who is Affords niece. The
affection, is of course reciprocated
but Quill hesitates to speak, although he
'1s gwen every encouragement because he
is q poor Bohemian with no fortune bat
his pen and his fertile brain, while she is
heiIess to quarter of million. SAL
ford desires to have Sylvester, his adopted
SOD, marry Florence, but of course lie
is in love with another gil, Jesse Cray
ton, tMiss Mortimer) who is Alfred's
ward. In the third act Quill wins the
applause Of the audience by acknowledge
ing as mis- father in the parlor of the Al
ford country residence, the drunken
sailor, JOB DriVerton, besun Of the ship
Southern Gross. Next day the sailor
calls a. the Afford house to make his
apologies, and remorsefuJIy in forms Quill
that he (QuilD is the son of Potter Al
ford and not OF job Driverton. The way
in which the Bohemian had lost his
identity was by shipwreck twenty-on
years before, when his mother was lost
and he was separated from his father.
The sailor had reared tie boy as his own
son, and had failed in his duty in not
telling him Of his parentsge, because he
had learned to love SO much the Waif he
had saved from tina wreck that he could
not bring himself to the task of giving
him up. After this revelation Quill
nobly resolved not to be instrumental
in disturbing the existing happy re-
lations Of family in which The
coould scarcely realize he had right to
claim membership. But he is forestalled
in this design, for while he is thinking
over the question the ancient mariner
tells the whole story to his real father,
Potter Afford. Previously, however,
Quill had obtained the consent of Afford
to the match between Sylvester and Jes-
sic. He then declares his love to Flor
ence. and is accepted; father and son en-
brace, everything is explained, and all
are happy. Mrs. Mobiles is q charming
little actress and won the hearts of all by
her artistic hsndling of the character of
Florence Wolverton. The editorial
sanctum scene was sufficiently energetic
to please even the gods of the gallery, and
was marked by the characteristic SUCCESS
that editors enjoy in exterminating small
politicians and other bores who come
around looking for retrsctions and fibgts.