The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-04

> Blanche Bates as Cigarette, ,
= Monday. Tuesday and Wednes- =
> dav and Wednesday matinee. =
= SALT PALACE-Wilbur-K =
:, win company in burIesque all =
, week. =
= NEW GRAND THEATRE =
= Dark. =
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= ALT LAKE win have the privilege
tomorrow evening of welcoming
- one whom she almost claims as
daughter. Needless to say, after the
Iond-heraIding Of Under Two Flags, %
it is Blanche Bates who is referred TO.
This popular young actress, like a
dozen of her colleagues, viii ever be
one Of lions near relatives because
she was a member of the Old stock
compary at the Grand theatre, an asso-
citation out of which sprang some of
the most popularity known people in
the stagecraft OF America today.
Miss Bates played in the initial pro-
ductiOn of Moths" If the memory is
not at fault her role was that Of the
American girl. She continued to play
second and third parts on the female
side Of the cast until the company left
Salt Lake, and then she took with her
the most kindly feelings and best wish
es of her local acQualntances. Later
she returned as Leading lady Of the
Frawley company, and the plea surable
acquaintance of before became faster
as friendship.
With a reputation which literally
glistens with praises shOWered by
critics east and west, Miss Bates now
returns to Salt Lake as the featured
duo ion 10
which cost a stupendous amount before
ever the curtain was raised on It. The
role which she portrays is Of her own
Individual creation. and to one who has
read Ouida's stirring novel no name
TITS more snUgly into the imaginatiOns
Cigarette wiki all its requirements,
than that of Blanche Bates.
As a scenic production, Under Two
Flags viii amaze. As a play, it is
melodramaucin the extreme and full Of
thrilling situations. It's story is IA
miliar, but VIII bear repea ting, if only
for the sake OF comparing the novel
with the play.
The scenes are laid in France and
in Algeria, and the first act disclOses
the plot laid by RaOul, Marquis of
ChateaurOy, a colonel of French cav
airy, 10 defraUd his cousin. BERTHE Cecil,
an English guaTdsman member Of the
same regiment, and owner OF an eS-
tate in ROuen. The opening act shows
She blic-a-brac shop OF Barcnl, a crafty
old dealer in antiques. who aids the
Marquis of ChateaUrOy, nick-named
THE Black Hawk in his designs
against Cecil. Here a forged viii is
manufactured. which bequeathes Ce-
ellis estate TO ChateaurOy. Two years
eiapse and the scene shifts to Algiers,
where the Chasseurs d'AfriQue are
gathered about in a wine shop. Here
is q mixed assembly, composed or
Turks, Spahis. Partisan COcOttes, and
EriSly veterans of the army of Africa;
and here Cigarette. the Friend of the
Flag." appears and, TO crafty the sol
diers, she dances in her own semi
barbaric fashion, dance without cul-
ture, yet the embodiment Of grace.
Into the scene OF gaiety arIiye the
Earl of Rockingham. Cecil and Cha
IeauTOy, aid Cigarette quickly loses her
heart to Cecil, the beauty of the
guards" The young soldier is indif-
ferent. and Cigarette, piqued at his
cOldness shows all too plainly her
preference. Il is in vain, however, for
the soldiers heart is already given to
Lady Nenetia LyOnnesse, of whom
Cigarette becomes madly jealous. Lady
Nenetia arrives at Algeria, and then
begin the intricacies and lntrigU IS
which involve the principal characters
and eliminate in the final sacrifice and
death of Che heroine. The tableaux, Of
slveiy, the bTic-a-t-rac shop, the winter
garden AT ROueu, the wine shop at
Algiers, and in the third act, the eta
del of AlgIers, where the Bedouins
have schemed to seize the military gov
srnor. then there is the castle of Cigar
cite, a Moorish garnet; then the villa
Aiyussa. the place of rendezvous
agreed upon between Cecil and his
sweetheart, the Lady Neneua- the fort
= the desert ana Chellala Gorge, a
towering cliff with lurking Bedouins
hidden in the rocky edges; here Cigar
cite is surrounded by Arabs and es-
C8Des only by Ieapius upon her horse
and dashing madly up the mountain
The last scene of all shows again
Cigarette S garnet. into which she is
carried by soldiers. having. TO protest
her beloved. thrown herself in front
OF him and received the rifle shots in
tended for him. Wounded unto death
the vivandiere is borne tenderly to hel
home. where Cecil arrives in time tc
hold In his arms the dying girl. Thus
the drama ends
The piece comes direct from New
York where It has been running tbs
entire winter and spring, and il is t
BE repeated here with the same cas-
and scenery intact. There are i've acts
and nine tableauE that are perhaps TIT
heaviest in respect to scenery that VII
have been witnessed here. More tina.
ton. The prod elton is the first on'
1lr FrOhman has dispatched 10 tn
coast in several seasons. and il is TIT
pioneer of others 10 follow. notably TIT
Empire Theatre stock company. il
s'1Irs. Danes Defense and Annie Rus
sell in "A Royal Family"
over in san Francisco. where tn
papers have sunfloWer hue, an
where little June Mathis is TO max
her debSt at the OrDheum tomorrow
uight, @ half page is devoted TO Sal
Lakes child actress and her jewelr
adornme,lt by the Examiner The stors
In part. follows;
The mystic spell of the king of Be
GUMS snake ring has been brokel
The diamonds no longer glitter wit
q sinister light that fascinated. eve
when their balefuI influence blighIe
all tie f0ndest hopes c. the unluck
we3rer OF this imperial jewel. The
now sparkle wsth a new iuster. for III
kiu.s of Belgium's snake ring is no
the talisman of dainty little Mias Jun
Mathis the child actress.
And thereby hangs a tale Of im
periaa eXtrave gance and royal poVert,
OF old world superstition and new worl
faith. for while there have been a SCOT
Of people more or less closely allied
the reigning family in Belgium VII
svOw shat they have worn the snaR
ring and its companion Jewel. the die
rnond lOcl1et WITH tragic results. lit
inspire ton and power and that witt
out these rich gems she can do noti
inE.
Indeed. Il is because of her faith
che mystic spell ef the snake ring tha
soc is going upon The stage, though