The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-23
PREss AeENTs, PRoMIsE.

The Theatre Will remain closed until
Wednesday night, when Martha is
to be heard for the last time as a ben
eft to Miss Arvilla Clark
On Thursday evening and for the re-
mainder of the week occurs the first
hearing in this city of the tremendous
! success, Arizona" New York, Phil
adelphia, Boston and London had an
earlier opportunity than Salt Lake for
J passing upon the merits of Augustus
/ Thomas new drama. New York said
/ it was the best American play Of re-
/ cent production. 1t ran for $50 nights
| at the Herald Square theatre with
| Sag HarbOr, "A ROYAL Family"
/ The Adventures of Marsac," Lady
! HUntworth's Experiment" san Toy"
! Richard Carvel, "All on Account of
! Eliza Her Majesty" and Rogers
| Brothers in Central Park" as its prin-
/ cipal competitors for popular favor.
/ Mr.. Thomas play Outrap them all eX-
! cept. 'FlorodOra' in point of time, and
| drew crowded houses even with the
awful opposition of Maude Adams and
! Sarah Bernhard in the two rival pro-
! ductiOn of "LAiglOn." This first years
1 triumph was repeated when Arizona"
| opened the Academy of Music last
August and played another record
/
! teen weeks almost within the year. 1t
was a notable triumph for an Ameri
| can dramatist and American actors.
Chicago and Boston subsequently APP
| proved New York'S verdict of Mr..
Thomas new play, and Philadelphia
endorsed it with an embarrassment of
kind words and from weeks Of crowded
houses. 1t is now setting London wild.
1t is, primarily, according to expert
testimony, the best play Thomas has
I written, and is infinitely better than
the other neighboring dramas of Ala
| bama" and ''MizzOura." The main
posture of circumstances is far from
new-the assumption of repute for
! guilt by a man in order TO save the
| fair name of a woman who has been
| tempted and was on the brink of the
precipice of disgrace and Ostracism.
Affected by this posture are the rela-
| tons of the woman and her proud
| hard headed husband; the love affair
| of the self-sacrifcing man and his
| fiancee. the sister of the tempted WO-
man; the attitude toward the morally
justified husband of the wife's honest.
frank, but blinded parents; the per-
sonal. social and military reputation Of
the man who assumes the guilt, and
the vengeance sought on the tempter
by the lover of girl whom the former
had ruined before turning his atten-
tons to his wife.
TO all of this there is a politically
just denouement; for husband and wife
are reunited in the discovery of her
love for him: the lovers find mutual
ha ppinesS in the explanation that
clears the youth of all guilt and dis
honor in the eyes of his sweetheart
her parents, his comrades and the
world: and the tempter is killed by the
lover of his victim, the instrument OF
revenge obtaining immunity from pun
ishment through the operation of the
unwritten statutes that are termed
Arizona justice.
| Mr.. Thomas has handled this posture
and the attendant circumstances with
a great deal Of technical skill. a. has
been successful in imparting to his
play a quality of atmosphere that is
intrinsic. and not at all dependent
upon the material assistance TO be oh
tanned from the expert utilization of
the mechanical appliances Of the the
atre.
Arizona" will be given at the Salt
Lake theatre with all the advantages
of the original metropolitan produc-
ton The superb scenes by Walter
/ Burridge and Charles Ritter (frOn
sketches by Remington will mount the
piece. and the cast will include Grace
ElliStOn Dustin FarnUm, Grace
Thorne, Frazer Coulter, Alma Bradley
Frank Campeau and other well-knOwr
\ players.
An advance notice says: The polite
comedy. To Rich to Marry" which
+ Will be seen al the Grand theatre three
nights. starting Monday, is the hui
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