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

wrapped in a cloth. That makes the
picture have described.
4 have played fourteen queens in
my day, says the veteran actress in
'TrelawRy OF the Wells" and adds
rehectively, not one Of them was
worth tinker's damn"
James X. Hackett hasn't had a like
experience with kings. He found a
good one at the outset of his career. in
The Prisoner of Zenda. and now he
has hit on another which, although
not comparable for value with the
composite of real and bogus monarch
IN that drama, still is worth tinker's
or any other mans damn. Hackett's
new king is that Scotch Charlie Stuart
who had hard time getting TO BE-
Charles the Second of England.
Imaginary incidents have been at
tached to the historic fact of his night
to France, after the defeat of his army
by the Roundheads at Worcester, as
represented in The Fortune of the
King" Mrs. Charles A. Doremus and
Leonidas Westervelt-who write plays
for fame, as both have plenty of
mOney-have created out of their fancy
a Jane Lane, in whose home at Bos-
cObel the royal fugitive hides during a
Economically adventurous fortnight.
The girl doesn't know who or what he
is. further than that he is a gallant
gentleman, and that is all she cares to
be sure of before taking him to her
heart. And he as readily develops
reckless desire 20 mate with her The
cOurtship ends IN betrothal, after she
has unwittingly got him into peril and
devOtedly helped him cut OF ii. He
promises to make her a queen when he
becomes a king and that is the last
we hear of them.
There isn't a more fit actor than
James X. Hackett, in my opinion, 10
hurtle swashbuckler along to the
extreme of sober possibility without
quite-though almost-proiecting him
into ridiculous absurdity. A sense of
humor saves him from that disaster
II he didn't quietly guy his exaggera-
tive heroes his audience might do 1t
openly. He makes them serio-comic:
If he tried TO make them altogether
serious they might be altogether
comic. He is the heir of a comedian
being son of that James H. Hackett
who was a famous Falstaff so long
ago that very few who go TO theatres
now ever saw him. Yet James X. is
young yet. His mother was a girl wife
when his father was an old man.
Bonnie King Charlie has beer written
with blended pleasantly and romanti-
cism in the DOremus- WesterVelt drama
He smiles like a Cherub at his sweet
heart and frowns like a demon at his
enemies. He is invincible alike in lore
and war. Some men say 'Boshr in
disdain, but more women say Lovely"
in admiration, and women outvote men
in the choice of stage favorites. SO
guess Hackett's new king is elected
TO reign for a season OF course, he
is a swOrdsman. A better or braver
fighter never was. Don Caesar de
Bazan isn't in his class. The Three
Guardsmen all at once couldn't match
him. He has a desperate encounter
with a husky captain and a company
of soldiers After fighting them to a
standStin he jOVially bids them go TO
hades and disappears through a picture
that is a secret door.
You know Annie Russell of the low
voice and demure manner. She is not
content to be like that. She believes in
herself as an emotional actress, who.
with the opportunity, would surprise
every one except Annie Russell with a
dramatic display of passion. 1 recall
an experiment which she made at a
charity matinee with a short but in
tense play The result was not such
as to convince any manager that she
was a Clara Norris, and was kept in
ingenious roles of sweet sentiment and
gentle humOr. Now, in Brother
Jacques" however. her sugar is spiced
in way that flavors it piquantly. The