The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-10
BmMSemenfS.

OF course Soldiers Of Fortune" is an
absurdly impossible play, and Robert
EdesOn as Robert Cay IS an absuTdly
impossible hero. You said that after you
had read the book. and those of you who
saw the play said il after the play, after
the play. mind yOG. not during the play.
AS IL was with the book so it is with
the play. Before you had read the first
chapter in the book you were wildly IN
tereste0. Before you had seen all of the
first act of the play you We're wildly
interested. You finished the book You
viii stay through the play. Then YOU
viii say the thing is impossible, but you
viii see the play again the next time you
nave the opportunity, especially if q
company headed by Robert EdesOn is
We are often told that a play was
written for this actor or that actor just
as "a suit of clothes is made by a tailor
for this man OF that Sometimes the
play fits. sometimes the clothes fit but
not always. Soldiers of Fortune" was
made for Mr.. Edeson and he must have
tried il on a great many times before ne
wore it in public. for il fits him without
a Wriukle-COat. WaistCOat and trousers
Mr.. Edeson makes you forget what a III
diCulOusly out of the question hero Clay
is. He COmpels you TO believe that there
might have been such a man, that Dee
might have done exactly what the au-
[ thor and the dramatst make him DO.
IL Is hardly worth while 10 go into MI.
Blossoms scenes. in an eNhilarating glass
Of wine you cannot say one drop IS
more eXhilarating than another drop
You are tired; you drink; you are re-
freshed. If we had to choose-but We
don't have to chOOse-We might say Nj
Blossoms scenes with Hope LanghJm
Miss Ellen BURG were the fiEest. And
If we said that, we would be compelled
to mention the scene on the stairway
when Captain Stewart (MaCey Harlam)
IS killed, and then We would want 20
speak of the scene with General Mendoza
edwin Brandt in the first act. and that
all opens the way for more talk.
To Mr.. Blossoms company the slmile
of the wine is also applicable. IT SOUNDS
I like wild enthusiasm to say there ism {
a weak individual I'm ii, but if anything
less were said one would fall short of the
truth. The leading woman's part Is the
part of Hope Langham. and Miss BuTE
played IL I'm a way that could hardly ne
improved on. Girlish impulsive loving
Miss Burg is surely all the author liz
tended Hope L1ngnam to be. And when
she and Mr.. EdesOn are on the stage TO-
gether-wei, then it's time to sit up and
take notice.
The MacWHliams of Harry Harwood
is thoroughly deserving of favorable mem
| ton There were times when Mr. Har-
wood divided hOnOrs with the star, ana
I very properly. He Is MacWilliams 10
company is mentioned all should Ice
mentioned. for each did his part oS hers
/ to round out the perfect whole.
The play is beautifully mounted. From
the first YOU get the indefinabIe some
/ thing called atmosphere" the dt-
I mosphere of South America. Not much
/ imagination is required 10 make you be
/ ueve YOU are actually seeing a South
I American revolution, for some of the
. countries down there are not much big
/ ger than the stage Of the Salt Lake the
} aire. As MacWilliams so aplty put il
/ why L come from n state where they
put up bigger republics than this n
I cans.
Soldiers of Fortune viii be continued
/ tonight. tomorrow night and at a mat
inee tomorrow.