The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-10-14
The Drama

Peggy From Paris" with her COM
pany of funmakers appeared at the
Salt Lake theatre Thursday night and
entertained a Good-szed AUDIENCE The
scene laid in Illinois furnished album
dant opportunity to George AIDE for q
combina ton of comedy and satire that
is quite pleasing. In fact, the amusing
comedy and the bright slang with the
unexpected novelties furnish the at
tractiveness of the production.
In the cast there appear such well
trained professionals as E. H. O'Con-
nor. 7. H. Burton, Julia West. Clara
| Martin, Arthur DEACON, Olivette
Haynes and others. Taking solos and
fetching chorus numbers. combined
With the bright setting and attractive
costumes, were quite pleasing. Auto
crat Girls "Henny," The Upper
Ten" and Birdie" were among the ia
vorite selections.
Peggy From Paris will be repeated
tonight CTriday) and Saturday night,
with Saturday matinee.
John S. Lindsay, the old-time actor,
has produced a book of 172 pages with
the title of 1.-The Mormons and the
Theatre" 1t covers the exploitation OF
theatricals in Utah. and running
through its pages are many Teminis-
cences of the early stage periods. The
theatre is so popular among the Nor
mon people that in almost every town
and settlement throughout their do
mains an amateur dramatic company
may be found. Salt Lake has the en-
viable distinction of being the best
show town of its population in the
United States, says Mr.. Lindsay. and
Salt Lake spends more money per cap
tia in the theatre than any city in oul
country. Mr.. Lindsay says this PEE
culiar social condition is the result OF
Brigham Young's fondness for the
dance and the theatre. He could
shake j leg" with the best of them.
AS & contribution TO local literature
MI Lindsay's book is not without
value. The composition is easy, as all
storytelling should be.
Wilton Lackaye and company of 200
people in William A. Brady's produc-
ton of THE Pit will be the attraction
at the Salt Lake theatre next Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday. The play
is an adoption of Frank Norris famous
novel made for Mr. Lackaye by Cham
ming Pollock.
In The Pit" Mr.. Norris has built up
his story around deal in the Chica-
go wheat pit. If The Pit is fiction, ii
is also information. One is made IA
miliar with the board of trade as lola
has made his readers familiar with the
dramshops and markets of Paris. The
possession of so exhaustive a knowl-
edge has given Mr.. Norris description
of the Chicago wheat pit more than the
power that comes from accurate grasp
of technicality; it has liberated his i'm
agination. and the result is a work
really tempered with special sugges-
ton. One may eXemplify by a passage,
describing the entrance Of Jadwin, the
great wheat king, on a momentous day,
when a deal was to take place in
volving countless millions of dollars
and the whole immense fortune of Jad-
win himself. THE roar was appalling,
the whirlpool was again unclaimed, the
maelstrom was again unleashed." And
during the briefest of seconds he could
fancy that the familiar below of its
swirling had taken on another pitch |
Out OF that hideous turmoil, he mag
med, there. issued a strange, unwonted |
note: as it were, the first rasp and
grind of a new avalanche just begin |
ming to stir, a diapason more profound !
than any he had yet known, hollow |
distant bourbon. as of the slipping and |
sliding of some almighty and chaotic |
power
ut was the wheat the wheat" Ii |
vas on the move again. From the |
farms of Illinois and lows, from the |
'anches of Kansas and Nebraska, from |
all the ranches of the middle west. the |
wheat, like d tidal wave, was rising, |
rising. Almighty blood brother to the !
earthquake, coeyal with the volcano !
and the whirlwind. that gigantic world |
'oree, that colossal billow, nourisher /
IF the nations was swelling and adj |
rancing.