The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-27

full, even voice, two attributes that
possess real marketable valhe on the
! dramatic stage because they are potent
factors in attracting an audience.
Although Miss Dryers abilities are
somewhat severely taxed in the role
of Claire, they are not found wanting
She is a bright, talented actress. whose
! sympathetic manner and clear enun-
citation are not among the least of her
/ charms. Her dressing indicates rare
I taste and a cogniZance of the good eff
feet produced on an audience by a
] handsome gown
For the week beginning Wednesday,
October so, the Lyceum players, still
including Mr. Richman and Miss
4 Dwyer, will present one of the great
est dramatic successes of modern times
{ Jim the Penman'' is the piece selected
for the third production at Salt Lakes
/ newest theatre Its original presenta-
ton in this country by A. NJ. Palmer's
company was met with instant and
continued enthusiasm on the part of
! the immense audiences who nightly
crowded Palmer's theatre during it's
/ long New York run 1t afterwards
/ toured the country under the direction
/ of A. N. Palmer and, wherever seen,
( 10 New 1OIh triumph was repeated.
! It has been some years since the Pal
mer company played it at the Salt Lake
/ theatre, but the impression left upon
/ the public mind has been of the strong
est and most enduring character. The
story of the play is equalled by very
few for it's intense dramatic interest.
and sustained power. The central
figure is James RalstOn, a wonderfully
clever forger, who has grown rich and
} great by criminal practices During
his early life he had separated a pair
of lovers by inditfng forged letters
from one to the other. He married the
girl who supposed herself deserted and
ruined the man by forging a check,
through which all of his funds. de-
posted in a certain bank, were sud-
denly withdrawn. At the period of the
play twenty years after these occur
rences. the two men and the woman
meet again, and the manner in which
the old lovers find how they had both
been deceived by friend and husband,
makes the action of the play Mr.
Richman will be seen as Louis PEREZ
val, the former lover of Mrs. Ralston,
the wife of the forger. His part was
originally played in this country by
Maurice Barrymore.
In the very strong part of Mrs. Rails
ton, Miss Dwyer ought to appear to
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company this character was assigned
to Agnes Booth. James Ralston, lin
the Penman.' will find a good exponent
in the person of Mortimer Snow 1t is
part which he has played before-at
the Baldwin theatre, San Francisco
and his rendition there is said to have
met with great favor from the San
Francisco press and public. Agnes, the
daughter Of the Ralstons, will be in
/ tho hands nf u
that they are capable hands, goes with
out saying, when the work which she
/ is doing sf present IN 1.-THE Ironma 81 err
is taken into consideration. Mr. Kelly
win play Redwood, the detective, one
of the best parts in the play Mr..
Brewer will also have one of the best
] characters ever seen on the stage-that
of Baron Hartfeldt. and the proper
portrayal Of the heavy Baron will tax
this young actors powers to the ut
most
Jim the Penman" ought to prove q
highly popular and successful bill for
the Lyceum.
/ The ladies' minstrel show will be pre-
scented at the Salt Lake theatre on the
evenings of November Is and IS, under
the auspices of the Womans exchange.
] / uc lduleS VI llldl society nave De2n
negotiating the past two months with
MIR. W. L. Haskell, who has so sue
I cessfully managed the lady minstrels
in many eastern cities. His services
nave been engaged and sixty prominent
society ladies will take part, which
facts. in connection with the worthy
object for which the enterprise is
undertaken. deserves patronage and
insures success.
For the coming week the manage
ment of the Grand opera house have
4 decided to produce BARLEY Campbels
/ famous Galley Slave" This is play
familiar to almost every habitue of
! the theatre, and is so full of dramatic
force and power that it never fails to
! draw crowded houses. The scenes of
/ the play are laid principally in Rome
/ and Florence. The heroine, Cecily
/ Blaine, is an American heiress residing
at the Italian capital. Cecily has two
/ suitors for her hand. one a poor Eng
/ lish artist, whose love she reciprocates,
] the other a French baron, who has an
/ eye to the main chance. The latter, a
! gay Lothario. already possesses one
WIFE whom he has deserted, a, fact
I unknown to the girl whose hand he
seeks. The real baroness has been Of
! fered large sums of money to keep the
marriage a secret, but, in moment of
! pique and smarting under the wrongs
/ she has suffered. she concludes to re-
veal to the heroine the true state of
/ affairs; but, unfortunately. she makes
! herself misunderstood by Cecily, who
/ becomes imbued with the impression
that it is the artist and not the
I Frenchman who is husband to the
baroness.
In the second act an exciting scene
occurs in the apartments of Cecily,
who is now the wife of the baron, by
the advent Of the former lover, who,
in desperate unhappiness, seeks an ex-