The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-15
HmuSemenfS.

The mOst-there's a superlative, but, in
the parlance 1T gOes''-amusing comedy
that has been seen in the Salt Lake the
atre this season is His Absent Boy
with Harry COrs6n Clarke as the star.
Mr.. Clarke has a part that fits MIN as II
he had spent years growing into It. the
part Of Mr.. Pennie. an elderly. hen-pecked
gentleman with sporty inclinauOns- Mr..
Clarke's Interpretation of the part makes
il perfectly clear that Mr. Pennie would
wife.
He is so afraid of her that he doesn't
dare claim proprietary interest IN MS
own soul and his schemes for Outw1tting
her form the basis of a play that has
laugh in every line. 1t is hard TO under
stand that Mr.. Clarke is a young man
In makeup, IN mannerlSnS, IN all the
subtieties that go to fill in what actors
call business, he is Mr., Pennie. gen
tieman of some fifty-fiEe summers and
approximately that many winters.
In order to win pin money from MS
wife, whom he has married, apparently,
for her money he 'cOnfesSeS' to her that
prior to their marriage he had contracted
a matrimonial alliance with an adven-
turess- One child. boy according 10
the confession, was the result OF the
union, and il is for the care of this
wholly imaginary boy that he wheeoles
an allowance out OF his VIE me COM
plicatiOns that are possible are apparent
Mr. Clarke has surrounded himself by
an able company Especially capable Is
Miss Margaret Dale Owen as Mrs. rem
ME. She seems q decade or so too young
to be the wife of such a man as Pennle.
and she is altogether too good looking
for the role, but in spite of these handi-
caps-if they may he called handiCapS-
she played the part admirably. George
II. Rowe was good as Jack Mackaye ana
Verdi Emrie made a hat in the small part
Of Maggie.
His Absent Boy is worth seeing The
engagement runs through the balance of
the week. with a Saturday matinee
Charles d. Herman gave patrons of the
Grand another opportunity to Judge or
he
deafness loVe story OF Romeo and Ju-
uet." Although "a times Mr. Herman
worked perhaps a shade too much Of
sJreuuOusuess into the part, ne gave a
careful and competent reading Besides,
Shakespeare describes the lover as sigh
ing like a furnace" so why should not
Mr.. Herman make Romeo sighZ
Surely there never was such a lover be
fore his time nor since In the balcony
scene the 81 enc that has been done on
SO many stages by 50 many people since
Shakespeare'S day. Mr. Herman showed
TO exceptional advantage. and there he
divided hOnOrs with Juliet miss Anna
Roberts, Miss Roberts, by the way,
heightenfng the favorable impression Gre
ated by her earlier work here
An interesting feature of the perform
ance and one that was not on the bills.
consisted in the fact that a Salt Lake
strong part of Friar Lawrence francis
MCGinn. VINO was to have taken the char
acter. was called away on W ednesday on
account of illness Mr. roster mad mad
some experience in Romeo and Juliet"
although he had never played Friar Law
renee.
The notice was short. but he accepted
the offer of Manager WaTde and mas
tered the lines. Last night nobody in the
audience knew that the change had been
made. Mr. Foster played the part au-
mirably. being as much at ease in II as
though he had done nothing else all sea
son He viii appear as FriaT Lawrence
again tonight and at the matinee tOmOr-
row Tomorrow night he plays Macduff
10 Mr.. Herman's Macbeth
Preparations for fine musical enter
tafnn1ent are being made by All HallOws
COLLEGE to celebrate the closing exercises
of the school and the opening of the new
hall The exercises will be held in the
Tabernacle. The big feature of the event
viii be the appearance in this city Of j.
Lewis Browne. the celebrated OrganlSt.
The college music will be one of the
pleasures and there viii be Salt Lake ia
VOrites on the programme The date of
the concert has been fixed for June 15--