The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-01
ATWELL AMBLES
IN ALTERATIONS
Beaming Benny Bursts Bounds
Of BOmbastiC Buster.
YEllS YELPS FOR YOUNGER
PERPETRATES PARALYZING
PROSPECTUS.

Coming sooni Sue! The Monarch
OF All Melodramatic Achievements.
Transcending IN sumptuous Magnih-
cence Anything Yet Attempted In the
Field OF Sensational Stage Produc-
tionl
"a Powerful, Ponderous, Pyrotechnie
and Pathetic Production, Portraying
Truthfuuy a Forgotten Page in Stir
ring American History!
"A Startling. Sensational. satisfying.
6tupendous, Sublime and Soul-inspirlng
Sermoni
Great! Grand!l Graphlc!i! Cor
geousiiil Gutteringllil Glganticili!ii
AN Epitome OF Exhaustless Energy,
Enterprise. Experience. Extravaganza,
Elegance and Excellence!
Combining, I'm Colossal Proportions,
Mirth and Tears. Every Moment from
the Rise of the Curtain is "a Long,
Loud Laugh or a Genuine Thrill
Sensational iu Startling RealismT
Rich in Clean HumOrl Elaborate In
Mounting StupendOus I'm Mechanical
Enectst Absorbing i'm Human INTEREST,"
Sympathetic and Moral I'm Thought
Gorgeous i'm Ensemble! Magnificent In
Detail
"A Tremendous. Tempestuous Tri-
umph OF Tenacious. Trancendent
TRUTH
"Ten Thousand Dollars Reward for
Information and Conviction Of Play
Pirates Attempting TO Steal this Melo-
drama"
Maybe You Know Him.
No. gentle reader. do not be alarmed.
The foregoing is not an essay writ
ten by a University of Utah student
I'm Professor Marshalrs class of lit
erary expression. Tt is merely an ex-
tract from a handbill and prospectus
OF the Younger Brothers, Bank Rob
bers." a play written by Ben II. At
we'll well known an salt Lake as
newspaper man and playwright, In
conjunction with Ernest Stout. a Chi
cago newspaper man.
The company which is producing the
Younger Brothers play is far, far
away, touring the state of Indiana, re-
falling 60 HOosier hayseeds its stock
OF ailiteratiVe adverbs and adJecttves.
The handbIl from which the fOregO-
ing is taken announces that THE
ApotheOsls Of Outlaw Plays viii be
produced az the Grand opera house
I'm Terre Haute next Thursday. The
presence Of the handful in this city
is due 20 an indiscreuon on the part Of
the guileless author. Mr.. Atwel, who
iunOcently sent DC TO a salt Lake cor
respondent with strict injunction that
St be kept a secret.
When Mr.. Atwell wrote his play 30
was with the expectation that Cole
Younger. the pardOned outlaw. would
star I'm it, The contract had been
signed ln anticipation Of 4Oungers re-
lease from Minnesota boundaries, but
at the last moment the ambitions of
the eRterprising dramatists were frus-
trated by the unkind board of pardOus,
which stipulated in the eX-bandits re-
lease that he was 20 exhibit himself on
no stage under penalty of revocation of
his pardon.
Atwell's Artful Art!
Pictures accompanying the pros
pecJus are no less startling than the
array of ALTERATION reproduced above.
One shows the Mortified bank rob
berry m an its horrors of smoke and
blood and another presents Cole
Younger hanging on the edge of a cliff
with one hRgernah. while fourteen vii
lains are shooting. clubbing and knit
ing him from above. A few others
present hOld-ups, hangings and ven
dettas. while GA the front page is a
graphic presentation of YOuuger's Ian
gushing ga prison after many years. %
The dodger winds up with an iniunC-
ton to the reader that he must see the
cruel assassination of Cole Youngeri
MurderOus assault upon Milford. the
railroad telegraph OPERATOR Wild flight
of the fast Missouri express, Hand
to-hand encounter at che brink Of a
fnghtful preciplcei Pitched battle at
the gorge bridge! Marvellous explosion
scenei Lynch law trial! Georgia's TO-
mantle devotion 10 her outlaw loveri
And thirty or forty other equally
blood-curdling and hairbreadth hap
penings