The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-23
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father with a crust on him that made
him seem like an ogre. Everybody
VINO saw Edwin Milton Royle
and his amended Friends last
hight left the Theatre with thai
satisfied feeling which can only
come through happy ending
Who does not ike a happy ending to
{ the play, whether it be real life, where
the actors are in earnest, or only the
! mirrored existence Of the stage?
Have Mr. Royle's changes in
/ Friends improved it? Decidedly,
4 joyously, sOulfully. yes. They undoubt-
edly have. IN the first place, John
Padden, Jr., (AIr ROyle) marries Mar
! guerita Otto (Mrs. Royle) and another
girl, wonderfully attractive and wor-
! thy young woman. is found for the gen
/ tleman who originally took unto him
self the girl who had been made for the
! Junior Padden. Really it never should
/ have happened any other way, especial
/ ~ With Christmas right here and ali of
US working our good cheer muscles
overtime.
Friends is worth an evening of
anybody's time. 1t is bright, clever,
natural. Better. it is in hands so COM
petent that nothing better could be de-
sired. Mr. Royle has grown into the
part of John Padden, jr He does it
so naturally. his humor is so spontane-
GUS his emotion so real, that one finds
oneself forgetting that, after all, it is
but play
Mrs Royle was more than pleasing as
Marguerite. Her great So was at
the close of the third act. in the apart
ments of Harold Huntington paul
Everton), a villain so detestabl that
the galleries paid him the unusual com
pliment. for the Theatre, of a round
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majority of actresses, would have over
done the part of the wronged woman
but Mrs. Royle omitted the lung-strain-
ing Mysteries and acted as most Of US
believe any well bred woman would
have acted under the circumstances.
The supporting company is capable
to far greater degree than the com
panies that surround the general run
o. stars. Particular credit is due to
II. B. Bradley, who appeared as John
Padden. ST. The role is rather diff
cult, that of d crusty. money-loving
man of the world who loves his son but
wants that son TO be the last man to
find 1t out. Miss Mable Dixey made
thoroughly acceptable Jennie Merri-
weather and Wright Kramer as Adrian
karje, the friend of young Padden
made splendid use of his opportuni-
ties
Friends" runs through Wednesday
night with a matinee tomorrow The
company and the play are entitled to
crowded houses at ali of these perform
ances. The fact that Mr. RoyIe is a
Utah boy who has won his laureIs on
hard-fought fields should entitie him
TO the recognition here at home that his
talent has won for him abroad-and
then some.
Down by the Sea" one of the pref
tlest romantic comedy dramas seen in
Salt Lake this season. was presented
10 the patrons of the Grand theatre
last evening. Unusual interest was
centered in the initial performance of
the piece because it is an American
lied edition of an English drama, writ
ten by Mortimer Murdoch, which en-
Joyed a remarkable run of twelve years
IN that country before it was brought
across the ocean. For presentation in
this country the story has been revised
and localized.
Down by the Sea" is in five acts.
The situations are so numerous that
the attention of the audience is held
by the series of surprising events
which closely follow one upon the 9TH
er until the final fall of the curtain
The characters are not overdrawn, al
though several of them are decidedly
original in conception. The story is
told in a clear and comprehensive man
ner, with here and there touches of
poetic beauty The situations are we'll
conceived and the climaxes thrilling
The piece contains every element for
pleasing the popular melOdramatic ap-
petite. and it is framed in an elabo-
rate scenic establishment.
Every actor in the cast seemed es-
pecially adapted to fill the require
ments Of his character. and the general
ensemble was most gratifying to the
large audience which witnessed the
first production of the piece in this
city. Foremost in the cast and de-
serving first praise was Miss Fannie
Curtis. a Boston girl, who is well
known to eastern theatre-goers. In the
role of the heroine Miss Curtis proved
herself an actress of decided ability
and illustrated a thorough apprecia-
ton of the possibilities of the charac-
ter. Walter H. Newman as Dixson
Dwight gave clear conception of the
latter-day Iago, and his villainy was
SO natural that few of the audience
would believe him to be a good fellow
off the stage. Adelbert Dexter. in the
leading juvenile role of the Parson.
looked the part and won the sympathy
of his audience from the first time he
appeared. Little Josephine Stevens
was the child in the play. This little
actress is but > years of age, but she
is one of the. brightest and prettiest
on the stage. The comedy of the play
is supplied by Edward Anderson as a
Jew sport and Miss Lillian Mayo as a
Other clever portrayaIs were
those of ]. NJ. Stevens as a fisherman;
Daniel Reed. an ex-sea captain: Joe
Nernotsky, an apprentice; Edward
Fielding, the light tender: George
Mansfield. a bOatman, and Josephine
Sutherland. a gOssiping neighbOr.
The scenic effects of Down by the
Sea" are in keeping with the piece. /
particularly the third act setting, IL
lustrating an electrical storm at sea-
A word of praise is due Jay Hunt for
the clever adaptation and the artistic
setting of the play. The piece will be
presented tonight, with the usual
Wednesday matinee and evening per-
Torrance.
The sale of seats for "A Little Out
east" begins at the Grand this morn
ing.
The sale for Foxy CUTLER opens at !
the Theatre today The engagement Z
begins Christmas day.
THE HAIR BRUSH.
Breeds Dandruff, Which Causes Fall I
ing Hair and Finally Badness.
Prof. Unna. Hamburg Germ any. Eu- I
-opean authority on skin diseases, SAYS
that dandruff is as contagious as any /
other maievolent disease, and that one /