Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25


sented the appearance Of genuine old
SAT- capital piece OF acting was that
done By Francis SedgWlck as the
health officer and Brigham Royce
ought to apply for generalship IN one
OF the South or Central American arr
mics without further delay There
were but three women In the play aud
they We're all competent IN high de-
gree. The character work Of Louise
Allen as Sc. ora Juanita Arguilla was
almost superb In It's every detail
small wonder then that the company
was so enthusiastically welcomed by
the great audience that filled the build
ing in every part,
The story centets about Brooks TraV-
ers and his valet, who leave New York
under mysterious circumstances. They
drive direct 10 the New York Yacht
club wharf AT the pier they quarrel
with a cabmnn about the fare. Trayers
says that the oyercharge Is robbery
and that he WIFI not pay, whereupon he
Is assaulted by the cabman and strikes
back, delivering blow for blow. The
cQbman's head hits the ourbstone and
he Is picked up for dead. An excited
crowd calls 1t murder and on the adj
vice Of friends Travers boards a ship
bound for Central America. on arri-
val ut Porto Banos they find that
secret service detective has been or
dered from Porto Rico to intercept ana
arrest them, On the voyage TraYers
struck up an mountaineering with
Col. John Bowie, who Is en- route 90
Porto Banos as United states consul.
Travers and his valet are known on
board only as Mr., Steve and Mr.. Jim.
Bowie Is a card player and engages
Trayers IN several games, In which the
latter always wins. Travers tells the
colonel before arriving at port that no
is In trouble and wants TO be helped
out The colonel readily consents, say
ing that ne is the whole government
at Porto Banos, in fact "The Dlcta tor
OF the republic and can do anything
and everything for him. on arrival,
there Is trouble with the health officers
and talk about yellow fever and new
revolutions, which are made at the rate
Of one or more week, according to
necessity and the price. These fright
ened the colonel, who, as already stat
ed, has lost large sums of money to
Travers, who takes up the coloneps
/. O. us and pays him $4,000 IN addi-
ton for his consul credentials and
leaves the colonel and his young bride
on board and goes ashore, Once there,
the scenes shift rapidly In the exper-
fence OF Travers and his friends, The
meeting with President Santos Campos
Is such a one as could take place no.
whe'e ON earth except IN Central or
South American republic. There are
arrests, imprisonments, revolutions, de-
feats and victories at arms which
come with Kaleidoscope .rapidty amidst
humorous and impossible situations.
hsantffUI oil a
duslty sonora who has long loved and
wants to marry Bowie, who has been
consul at divers timec In contiguous
republics add much TO the romance OF
the plot. A wireless telegraph station
I'm the rooms OF the American consul,
and q startingly dramatic message for
aid from the United states navy. and
the reply that THE battleship oregon
IS now IN the harbOr and help Is being
sent out" contribute to the excitement
of the last act, In which United States
marines rush In and save the day, and
that Il IL now perfectly safe for Tray
ers and his valet to return to New
York, az the cabman Is alive and WE'LL
Explanations follow and Travers winds
up by declaring his love for one Of the
American girls, who recprocates ana
accepts. In the meantime the Rev.
Arthur Bostck and the sombre skinned
sonora have pledged themselves to be.
come man and wife, and Travers re-
signs his position as "The Dictator"
Of San Mama, and returns TO his home
and friends.
A large audience witnessed the mat
lnee production OF THE Dictator this
afternoon and tonight concludes the
engagement with prospects Of heavy
attendance.