Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-10

Nevs kindly inform % 'e
40 he ,wo flags come IN, .,h ~
n b Bates plny'' writes
M :. that about the only
y ra al,, they figure, is the s,, ,,,,e,
y % WIZ, ra ladies' holding a ui'o US
yard ", sane subject, between ',, ,ne
% ine 81, night. and the opinion, mon
De o'D,' at was that the 1.-TWO We
y .ri'' a.terence to those of AZ
,si haa ,ne later acts of the plas
4 'D,'I france r in whose army 'ns
81 anu nlaee. They were wrols'
| % ''S 4. auditor is supposed to be
@'F' u, finder Two Flags" Is de-
er ua' oa,da's story, and also 10
~" advance that the English
y y whom so much OF the
tiers Inter-, we're originally in the
& guy, INV and that after Cecils dis
~ ' ,be story he left his native
~ ~ . very different reason from
Kan exiled him in the play ne
me French army. The Two
~ - therefore, have reference t.
# England and France
I ~ we're to stop to Question all
S,,.oogruIties and improbaeilitieS
'r.. Bates play it is to be feared
Ma find he had undertaken a
.,,sa contract. As the News
.'.,.5y observed, the play would
.,,.sa as a lurld melodrama' not
>, removed from the Lincoln j.
| -, ,ype. II It were not for MISS
y. work In the character OF
,,,sp and for the undoubten
'rsss of the stage effects. Miss
Ia and the storm in the gorge save
net. make It admirable. Viewed
be standpoints Of consistency
,,obability. II Is so full of gaps and
4, mat the traditional carriage ana
oould be driven through 1t with
an exertion. One hardly
,n at which TO marvel most
asy readiness with which
H. hands over his estate
!, ascally cousin without so much
rIiylng the forged Will, or the
I,,frg lightning change act Of the
ysnetia in transferring her plight
r,,h from the old love. the penniless
/, "a the new. the successor to his
,yty Bret Harte, In a burlesqus
Dumas pictures the distracted hero
\, Me- ladys window. 1T must be
,a,sen feet above the ground" he
vu-vr would that / could find a
Asy at that his foot struck
a asct lying on the ground. lie
ggs and, to his JOY, discovered a
IN just eighteen feet long" This
ng circumstance is scarcely moro
s.aous than the fate Of Cigarette,
surrounded by Bedoulns, in des-
Il being able to escape, cries for
u and finds that the one among
y tibs who is told off to shoot her,
4 ee whom she had saved from a
mndng in one Of the earlier acts,
Ttn the audience had forgotten all
oct BY the way-and who obllglngly
{. cuts the cords that tie her to her
Nv, and then shoots over her head as
zhare bears her away up the gorge.
Z subsequent fate at the hands OF his
w Is not detailed. Almost equally
Aay Was the opportunity given "Cig-
rvfs' to save the life Of the generals
eia and thus obtain the reprieve hs
~ previously denied her.
la'fe are many such painfully pal.
tli places in Under Two Flags"
q: that Miss Bates acting, and the
h''nsn mounting, are able to cause
w audiences to be totally oblivious
asn until they get away from the
N'l'r and think 1t all over, forms
W u the strongest evidences tina,
w Be furnished Of the actress
Ias and the stage managers skill.
't Theatre people are feeling enor-
tt-il Pleased over the results of the
s s-ashe Bates engagement. After all
=, =. are paid, II is safe to say that in
~ - a The fact that every expense
~ 10 me house had TO be trebled to
~ NE requirements OF Under Two
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,