The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Home Club Monday and
Tuesday.
he DAILY co. IN VACATION.
AFTER Dark-MusicaI Comedy-PrOt
Careless SOcietY-Latest Amuse-
ment Notes.

World, Lights O. London and Roman!
Rye order which the Home Dramatic
Club have yet attempted, holds tn,
boards tomorrow and Tuesday even.
lngs. The piece contains fourteen
scenes, two of which have been painted
entirely new by Lambourne for the oc
caslon, and relies for its success upoI
the earnest rapidity of its action. the
smooth working of the sets, anG
the correct portrayal of individual
characters by the actors. The story is
an interesting one, full of the breathless
situations which are notso moons stent
but that they enchain gallery and par
quette alike, and may be briefly out
lined as follows:
Old Tom (Mr. Spencer), is a broken
down inebrIate in the sire t. of London.
who has taken to drink TO drown MS
| sorrOws; his WIFI deserted him years
before to fy with one Richard Thorn
| leigh (Mr. Young, taking with her
Toms little daughter Fanny. Thorn
| leigh has been convicted of a crime and
transported to Van Dieman' 8 Land and
the guilty wife has died, the child hav-
ing been left by Tbornleigh with Dicey
Morris, Jew (Mr. Wells), who keeps a
gambling den and music hall. AL this
transpires before the action of the play
commences and the first act opens to find
doris explaining to ThornleIgh, who
has escaped and returned to England
that the girl Florence Edith ClaWson)
has grown up and been married TO
young man going by the name of Hay
ward Mr.. Cummings), but WHO'S really
Sir George Medhurst; he has taken an
assumed name owing to his having
forged his uncle's name by Morris per-
suesion, while ha drunk, years before.
Morris informs Thornleigh tnat Sir
Georges uncle had died forgiving him,
and that the young man is now heir to
his fortune, on the condition that he will
marry his cousin, Rose Egerton Birdie
Cummlng). The two plotters induce
Georges wife, Florence, to believe that
her husband wishes her to leave him, in
order that he may comply with his dead
uncle's will, and the girl in despair at
tempts to destroy herself by jumping
from Blackfriars Bridge. She
is rescued, however, by Oh
Tom. who, all unconscious of
hoVel and nurses her to recovery. In
the meantime, Sir George, believing his |
wife dead, is about to celebrate his |
nuptials with Rose; and Morris and |
Thornleigh are levying sys Jematic |
blackihan upon him by holding over
his head the forgery committed years |
ago. This is aScertained by Gordon |
(Mr. White), who is in love |
with Rose, and he recognizes Thorn !
leigh as an escaped convict he had |
once seen in Van Dieman's Land. He |
threatens to denOunce him if he does |
not give up the forged paper, and |
Thornlelgh agrees to deliver the docu-
nent that night at Morris Elysium.
Did Tom in the meantime has learned |
rom Chumley that Thornleigh, the |
destroyer of his peace, is in London,
md he accidentally stumbles upon
The knowledge that the girl he has
rescued from the water is his
OWN daughter. He determines not
20 reveal himself until he can
make himself worthy of his child,
and through Chumley he obtains her a
position as lady's maid to Rose Egerton,
he fancee of her husband. In bring !
ng his child to Roses home, Old Tom |
)verhears the conversation between
ChOrnleigh and Chumley, and the ap-
continent to meet at the Music Hall.
He arrives there first, and feigning to be
drunk, Is allowed to remain.
Jhumley enters and ThornIeigh and
Norris drug his drink, rendering him
nsensible. Tom attempts to interfere,
)ut is thrust into the cellar, from
,revice in which he sees the confeder-
ltes place the inanimate form of Chum-
ey upon the railroad IN a tunnel run
hing under the adjoining house. He
Freaks his way through the wall by
means of a crowbar found in the door,
Ind has only time to roll with his
riend's body off the rails, when the
midnight express dashes by. Next day
Chornleigh and Morris wait upon Sir
George to receive q sum of money,
when to their CONSERVATION they are
confronted with both Chumley and
Florence, whom they believed dead,
Tom, now reclaimed man, announces
himself as the father of Florence, and
he curtain descends upon the villains
liscomfted, and Sir George and Flor
lnce and Chumley and Rose happily
United. There are, of course, many
minor bits of character. and numerous
omedy situations not mentioned here.