The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-17

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the others, Miss Belle Archer and
| PhoSa McAllister Are best known here,
the former as a leading actress in
! SalVinis company, and Miss McAllis-
ter. who for some years led her own
company. The production is under the
! direction of Mr. S. Daniel Frawley, the
! well known actor who win play Ed
| ward Seabury, making his first ap-
pearance in two weeks, when an ar
| tlstlc rendering of a sympathetic role
may be looked for. Mr.. Blakemore
has character in the Colonel that
suits his ready llumor immensely.
Mr.. King is equally happy as Israel
| Cohen, a characterization from which
much may be expected in the hands
OF this actor. A part to arouse a great
deal of local interest viii be Mr.. Pen
dleton, played by Mr.. Phil Margetts,
who has been specially engaged, and
whose abilities are too well known in
Salt Lake to need much mention.
After Miss Remarks delightful
Vera" it is not too much to say that
as Agnes Rodn1an she win imperson.
ate the character in that peculiarly
sweet and sympathetic manner that
belongs to her. Miss Bates. in the
light comedy part of Kate DeIaield,
and Miss Coye as Dora, have parts in
1
add much to performance that in
careful arrangement, stage setting and
detail can compare faVorably with q
great many of the handsome produc-
tons that have been seen in Salt
Lake. The entire cast in t'Men and
Women has been. given in a previous
issue.
The first production in this city of
Charles II. Hoyt's "a Temperance
Town will be given at the Salt Lake
theatre, three nights and matinee COM
mencing Thursday evening, Feb q. The
title Immediately suggests that the
play has to do with the curious work
ings of prohibition" in the land OF
the PUritanS. at least. the sort of pro-
hIbItion that Hoyt discovered while in
| a remote Vermont village, where he
! was paying a visit to some old college
chumS a few years ago. Knowing
| HoytS capacity for representing things
as he finds them, with dramatic Ii
cenSe for elaboration, it is safe to as
| sumo that "A Temperance Town will
prove as refreshing as other plays
| Which have originated in the fertile
brain Of this bright writer.
| The mounting of ga Temperance
| Town is elaborate, the four sets of
scenery used in the play having been
!
! inal settings viii be brought here, and
| the production will be as good in every
/ Way as when the piece was given in
! New York and Boston. The story of
| a Temperance Town" relates the eff
forts Of few Prohibitionists to sup
press the sale of intoxicants. There is
I a minister in the town who has lost a
son in the war and who is continually
decrying the Illegal sale Of liquor be-
cause the boy was a drunkard before
ne enlisted. He is assisted by a doctor
| a drug store keeper and a lawyer, all
Of whom have personal ends in view
particularly the druggist. The minis
| ter'S daughter is in love with a young
man from the city. who spends a great
| deal of time in the bar-room of the vii
lage, and his niece, who has lately
! come to his home to live, forms q
| strong attachment for the son of the
| town drunhard. This town drunkard
| is the main character of the play.
namely, '.NIfnk' Jones. The temper
ance crowd secures evidence against
the saloonkeeper by means of subter-
! fuge, and his place is raided, the pro-
! prietor arrested, tried and convicted of
some ia offenseS against the LIQUOR
| law, and sentenced to a fine of sc. OOC
or SO years in prison.
He is too poor to pay the fine and
has about made up his mind to spend
the balance of his days in prison when
| the minister's son, who has been given
up as lost, puts in an appearance and
recognizes the one-armed rum seller as
the person who saved his life while in
The army. He agrees to pay the fine
and the Saloonkeeper IS liberated
! There is an underCurrent of romance
running through the story. in which
the druggist. who has been refused by
| Ruth Hartman, the minister's daugh-
| ter. tells how she sent a letter to the
SaloOnkeeper warning him of the pro-
! posed raid. Her father turns her out
| for this crime against good morals, but
she bears the sorrows braVely and
eventually returns to the paternal roof,
/ to be forgiven, when it is explained
! that she. sent the note because the
| saloonkeeper was a Union soldier and
had lost one arm fighting for his
! country.
! George KEENAN,. the we'll known
Russian and Siberian traveller, writer
the Russian Political ExfleS" and
Sketches of Personal Adventures in
! Siberia" at the salt Lake theatre,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings
Feb. q and %. Mr.. KEENAN, is spIen-
didly equipped for the lecture platform,
His pictures are as clear as his enUn-
/ citation of the words in which they are
presented. He is dramatic, and dra-
madcally discriminating, introducing
nothing that will not force itself on the
! attention Of his hearers and maintain
that attention from scene to scene. till
| in well rounded close his story is
iended. His exploration Of the Caucasus
| was brilliant and daring exploit ac-
COmplished with no companions of his
own race, but under the guidance OF
Xmas DJordjadZi, and train of his
mountaineers.
Mr.. KEENAN, dons the mountaineers
costume, which adds to the dramatic
interest Of his monologue. Besides the
narration of his own adventures, Mr.
KEENAN, gives a splendid description OF
the Caucasus, of its inhabitants. their
origin, their history, their manners
and customs, and their music He re-
cites transactions of their poetry and
sings the songs as he has heard them
improviSed. His recital OF how
Shamyl, the mountain leader, held the
peak of GOonib against the Russians
and how the mountain was finally
Stormed, the little garrison annihiiated
and Shamyl captured, is a battle story
equal to any ever told by the occurring
war correspondents.
L NV 4COLttAC OIA AIOSoiedn
lEXiles" is illustrated with lantern slices
and is replete with thrilling stories of
the work and sufferings Of the protest.
ing party in Russia, and of the wrongs
inflicted by the car upon the unfor-
tunate political exiles.
The usual Sunday concert viii be
held at the Opera house this evening,
when another musical treat may be
expected. The programme is up to its