Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-17

a sneeze awakens great expectations,
A sneeze OF that particular sort at tnat
especial time may mean that Napoleon
Is to leave Fontainebleau In a balloon
and drop down torpedoes 10 drive the
Allies out OF Paris.
The play begins in the niess-room OF
the Hussars OF Contains. capt. Gerard,
who has Joined the regiment, Is so ful
OF his exploits that his comrades make
game of him. He promised to fight
each OF them, doubtless recalling his
feat in "a Gentleman OF France" but
IL sent away by Napoleon. who wants
to get certain papers out OF the Gluten
es of Talleyrand, These papers have
been stolen by the Comtesse de Rogue.
laurc who is to give them to Gerard,
and would do so but for the fact that
at the critical moment, that gentleman
Is walking In the park opposite, waiting
TO see lamp In a window. Talley-
rand's agents secure the documents,
and the third act Is IN "Talleyrand's
private saoon"--beg pardon, salon
where the captain, in quest or the
package. is bound and locked In a cab
met 10 be returned to Bonaparte. He
gets out and locks In Talleyrand.
Gerard must have got this idea from
one OF the original 'Rafftes" stories,
though there Is something like II in
"The Arabian Nights In the end.
Napoleon gets the papers. Gerard gets
the Comtesse. and the auditor gets a
well-earned rest.
Mr.. Belew did what he could with
the title role. employing a sense of hui
NOR without which the performance
would have been still more dreadful
A. q. Poulton played a fat Napoleon
with a Della Fox curl, Ida Conquest was
a colorless Comtesse. and Henry Har-
mons 1aleyrand looked so much like
the landlord in an Irish drama that l
kept expecting to hear him say: Il
want me rint." There were lot of
others. including a Mameluke whose
makeup gave him q startling resem-
blance to cigarette advertisement
The scenery and costumes were all
right.
Mrs. Wilson, That's All" ought to DC
called May Irwin, That's Enough
1t is-more than enough.
George " Hobart wrote the comedy
In which Miss Irwin is In at the Bljou
theater. ! should be telling an absolute
truth II, instead Of observing that Miss
Irwin IL In the comedy. | said that the
comedy was In Miss Irwin. She Is the
beginning and end OF the whole enter
tainment and no one who sees her sup
porting company will regret the fact.
In former years the stout star used 10
have with her such people as John
Rice, Joseph Sparks, Raymond Hitch
cock. Ned Wayburn. Ignacio Martinetti,
Jacques Cruger Ada Lewis, Sally
Cohen. Clara Palmer. and Jane Burby
The only familiar name in the cast this
season Is Russell Sage, and that name
Is prefixed by c. ] would advise you
not TO.
The story Of Mrs. WILSON, Is more
or less the story OF Turned Up" the
farce made famous by Nat Goodwin.
Mrs. Wilson's husband has been away
nearly seven years, and she believes
him dead She marries Col. Andrews,
and then two old friends of Wilson
appear with what Mrs. Andrews fears
will be news OF that gentleman's SUR
ylval. Whether he survived or not,
can't tell you. didn't walt for the
last act
There Is a little bright talk In the
play, and there are two good ideas. but
they do not save the entertainment.
Even Miss Irwin couldn't do that. and
her unctuous personality and remark
able sense OF hum0r were ON view as
constantly as ever She sang her coon"
songs az well, too, but they were even