The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-09
HmHSemenfS.


That Buried at Sea" show is a scream
or. II opened at the Grand last night and
VIII run through Saturday night with
matinee. Those who are fond of the real
thing in the melodrama line-and most
or vs. Ike TO see one OCCasiOnatiy-are aG-
viSed not to miss Buried at Sea. 10
Is a long time before the burial is actually
pulled OF. but there are lots of thrills
d" the meanwhile for the play is action,
action. action. The action doesn't make
SO much difference but some of the peO-
ole IN the company are very clever
The star performer is unquesuonably
Mrs. Louis Belmour. who has the char
acter part that of Mrs krummbaach,
German hOusekeCDer and later house
Keeper cor Elma GOclet Miss Charlotte
Burtonl. Mrs. BclmOur has considerable
talent. Her nart is what is known as a
rat one. She has "a good deal 10 DO
and she does it ali very well The other
prominent parts arc taken by Ora
Humphrey as Walter Allen. Louis +.
Howard as Gilmore Taylor. Raymond
D. Aldrich as Lord Archibald Spencer,
Louis BelmOur as James Scott and Miss
Evelyn WYNN as Clementne Prescott
Mr.. Howard and Miss Wynn are the
villain and villainess respectively. and
they make "A thoroughly detcstablc pair.
OF all the deVilish plotting that an au-
dience was ever let i'm on their plotting Is
about he most deVilish I'm only one
particular do they fan down hard. That
is where they calmly announce that they
are DOinsOning the hero slowly-slowly,
mind vou-wtth cyanide of potassium
Think of it. Childrent An infinltesimat
dose OF cyanide of potassium Is enough
To make the strongest mans heart stop
beating almost instantly.
We strongly advise people off the stage
who contemplate a slow poisoning stunt
to let cyanide of potassium severely
alone. However. il worked all right last
night uD to certain point When the
sentlemanN villain thought his work
was finished it wasn't finished at ALL
The cyanide Of potassium only threw his
intended victim into a trace When the
aforesaid victim was ulUnked into the
water the bath revived him TO such an
extent that he was able TO swim TO a
beer key. innOCentlv thrown out by the
villain lust before the funeral ceremony,
and so he was rescued
The last act brings confusion 10 the
plOtters and JOY to the innocent as should
ALWAYS be the case i'm well regulated
melOdrama. A big audience saw the show
last night and the further performance
will doubtless be given to good business
Because of the blowing out of fuse the
Grand was in darkness for fifteen min
utes inst after the curtain rose on the
first act, but the people patiently waited
for an electrician TO get in his work and
then everything moved along with the
greatest smoothness.
"A Texas Steer" which has been called
the best play the late Charles HOyt ever
wrote. comes to the Theatre tonight with
n first-class company for an engag ement
OF three performances.
A popular musical comedy viii be the
offering at the Salt Lake Theatre next
Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday, matt
nee and nights This will be the clever
organization presenting the successful
operate comedy THE ChaperOns." which
has been seen in the leading cities for
the past two seasons. The company is
one of unusual strength and numbers
some of the best known names in the
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be John G. Sparks Mabel Hite. Genevieve
Dav. Harry Ladeil. Thomas Whiffen,
Nav BOlev. W. Y. Strunz, Mae Stebbins,
Arthur Earnest and Oscar Ragland.
There is a chorus of forty and a distin-
guished cOterie Of chic show girls. The
sale Of seats opens this morning.