The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-18

the grand old play will be the best ever
| given here. There is no doubt Of this.
as the company is the largest and best
equipped ever seen in the production.
All paraphernalia necessary for an adj
| equate ensemble is carried by the man
| agement in a specially constructed
train OF cars.
The last half of this week, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday evenings and a
| Saturday matinee, will be filled at the
| Salt Lake theatre by "The Sultan of
Sulu." This musical comedy is from
, the pen of George AIDE, Of Fables in
Slang" fame. and the music is by Al
! fred @. Wathall. Briefly the story Of
] this comic pOtentate is as follows:
/ Hiram (the sultan has recently in
Vaded the territory of one of his tribu-
! tary chieftans, or 'dattos' and cap
tured the eight beautiful nieces Of the
, "datto." whom he has added to his
! family of wives. The infpriated dat
to- has declared war on his sultan and
threatens to invade his territory. when
a shipload OF United States marines,
commercial travellers and soldiers,
headed by Jefferson Budd, an "Arkan-
saw politician, and commanded by
Lieutenant Hardy. L. S, A., appears IN
the harbor OF Sulu. Accompanying This
expedition is a delegation of Boston
Il
visaged spinSter. Pamela Jackson.
They are received with open arms by
ki-Ram. Colonel Budd proceeds to
initiate the willing monarch into the
uses and abuses Of the American cock
tail. to the influence OF which he be-
comes a hilarious victim.
While HIRAM is imbibing cocktails
the education of his wives in the art
of flirting with Uncle Sans blue jack
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age of the Boston school teachers. IN
spired by too frequent rotations of the
beverage to which he has just been in
troduced, kt-Ram proposes marriage to
the indignant Pamela Jackson. In or
der TO make Ki-Ram atone for the in
s'nlt of this polygamous proposal, Miss
Jackson inspires all of ki-Ram's wives
10 seek divorce. which, in her capacity
of judge advocate. she grants allow
ing each wife one-half Of the sultan's
income for alimony. Unable 10 pay the
amount demanded. the wetched poten-
tate is cast into Jail A series of novel
complications make things merry for
every one but the sultan. The unhappy
monarch is. however. released i'm the
last act. when everything is straight
ened out satisfactorily, and KHAN,
his guests. his court and his wives live
happy ever after I'm spite of their taste
of civilization.
PLAYS AND Players.
Otis Skinner is playing this season
The Harvester" Recently an appre-
citation of the quaint character which
Nj. Skinner plays was written by one
familiar with the play. 1t is worth re-
poating:
This fellow, brsnzed. debonair and
liSht=hearted, wears the gypsy ear
and has the blood of the strange, no.
madic tribe Of restless wanderers flow
ing in his veins. But he is not the
scamp and rogue Of his class. nor one
OF those sly fakirs whom George Bor-
row, Thomas Watts Dunton and
Charles Godfrey Leland have described |
i'm the pages of their interesting /
works. 1t is true that. in one of the /
most novel and strikingly odd scenes |
of the play, in order TO hoodwink !
niserly old lord of the domain Cor seig- !
neur) he does indulge in a colossal /
piece of gypsy magic. This mock nee !
romancy is, nevertheless, saved from 1
melodramatic and uncanny weirdness-l
like AlephistOpheles in the garden of /
Marguerte-by the fact that the gypsy 4
is al the lime laughing up his sleeve {
al the superstitious and badly fright
ened Old miser: which role. by the way.
is being played by that expert veteran /
of the famous Augustin DAILY stock. /
George Clarke. The vital value and /
significance OF this peculiar gypsy
character is the fact that he represents I
not the mere Romany type. but that !
he stands. in a high spirit of poetic
symbolism, for the universal wander (
spirit (wander-lusD in the breast of all 1
humanity.
In the play itself has been drama !
tiZed what Jack London describes as !
the call Of the Wild The gypsy hero
himself stands for that spirit OF ma
ture worship and Vagabond love of the /
unconventional life which must at
some time or other find a responsive /
chord in the mind and heart of every
dreamer"
William Winter, who was writing
well considered dramatic criticisms in 4
New York when Mrs. Gilbert began her
career with DAILY, told eloquently Of her
career in a recent article. the closing
paragraph of which is appended:
Mrs. Vernon was the best in this
line until Mrs. Gilbert came. and the =
period which has seen Mrs. judah, Mrs
Vincent. Mrs. Germon. Mary Carr.
Mrs. Chippendale. Mrs. Hind. Mrs.
Phillips, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Ellington
and Mnfe. Ponisi. has seen no superior
to Mrs. Gilbert in her special walk. Be
cause Of her proficiency in youth as a
beautiful dancer, her motions had I
Spontaneous ease and GRACE. She could +,
assume the fine lady without suggest
ing the parvenu she was equally
good. whether as the formal and severe
matron of starched domestic life. or
the genial old dame Of the pantry. She
could play Temerance in The Country
oh. II,
Jellahy. All varieties of the eccen-
trIcity of elderly women. whether Sc
rious or comic. were within her grasp.
Betsy Trotwood, embodied by her, be-
came a living reality: while, on the
other hand, she suffused with a SIMS
ter horror her furtive. stealthiy. Gid
ing. uncanny pereonation Of the dumb,
half insane Hester Dethridge. That
was the first great success that Mrs
Gilbert gained, under the management !
of Mr.. DAILY Her assumption of the
Marquise de 81. MauF was instinct with
Most of her later tri-
umphs were obtained as the formidable
lady who typifies the demSstic proprie-
ties and the Nemesis of respectability. |
tt was her refined but severely regular
presence that gave soul and wings 20
A Night OF From Miss Garth to Mrs.
is a far strentch of imita-
tive talent Tor The Interpretation of the
woman nature that everybody, from
down, has found it diff
cult 10 treat. Mrs. Gilbert always i'm
pressed her audience with clear cut.
brilliant Identification with every type
Of character that she assumed: but
also she devoted her own kind heart
and sweet and gentle yet never insipid.
JempeFament--the condition of sympa-
thy. graciousness and cheer which is
the flower Of a fine nature and q good
life. Certain scenes in which Mrs. Gil