Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-31
IN NEW YORKS THEATERS
(By Acton Davies.

and Hooker. to change ita course and
| save II.
The third act contains the great
| scene OF the play. Ii IL the presl-
dents office at night and storm Is
| raging outside. The news comes That
| the supply train has been captured
by treachery, and Blxby is arrested
and brought In by Stanton as SPY
through the Vaccinations of Major
| Flood, lie Is sentenced to die, but
! LINCOLN sends for him after "A scene
! with his sweetheart, hears hia avowal
that he Is loyal 20 the Union cause ana
| gives him another chance to find the
| real traitor. outside delegations walt
seeking to destroy Lincoln.
| Just as the morning breaks, Stanton
| and Hooker rush In with kilograms
| from Grant and Rosecreps, and finally
| one from Meade telling that Gettysburg
| has been won.
Il knew Grant would keep his word
| says Lincoln, as he sinks In his chair,
| and finally when he hears the full sto-
| ~ OF Gettysburg he weeps. As the
| curtain went down the audience stood
| on their feet, while THE Star Span
| gled Banner was played. There were
| numerous calls for a speech from Mr..
| Chaplin. but he declined with sue
| cession OF bows.
In the last act the president and Mrs.
| Lincoln are shown, dressed To go To
| Ford's theater Bixby returns with
| the former slave of Major Flood, who
| carried the latter's message that en-
| abled Stewart to capture the baggage
train. and Miss Morris and Bixby are
| reunited before the president.
Fruncis McGinn took the part OF Ed
| win stanton. Maude Granger was
Mrs. Lincoln and Daisy Lowering, her
| niece. Master George Clark acted
Tad" Lincoln well enough TO get his
share Of the applause
| Admiral Coghlan with part OF his
| staff was present In box, ana led III
] much of the applause, which Mr. cha
| pins efforts received.
| When the diving horses made their
| reappearance AZ the Hippodrome on
| Wednesday night. a young woman rode
| one of the horses, AT the first dress
rehearsal of this act, the other night,
! after the regular performance, tho
| young equestrenne was thrown from
| her horse and into the tank before her
| time
| Among the few spectators who were
| Watching this act from the edge OF the
| stage was a man I'm evening dress,
| whom nobody seemed to know. The
instant the accident happened he
| plunged into the tank to assist the
! beauty In distress. quite oblivlous OF
| the fact that he couldn't swim stroke.
| The girl had kept her head, however,
| and reversed the general order OF
things by pulling him out by the back
| OF his neck The man was taken down
stairs to furnace room for dry-out,
and In one OF his pockets was found
n btua roll of $40 hills
| These bills were laid out 20 dry In
| front of the furnace door, and while
two OF the stage hands were wringing
out his clothes, the man himself
| mounted guard over his drenched
! greenbacks. So assiduously did he
watch them that when he came to
dress again he discovered that some
kind friend had made Off with his
shoes. He was obliged to go home In
a pair of carpet slippers which he bor-
rowed from an elephant trainer.
with the advent of Mi-Careme. the
theatrical business IN all parts Of the
town took on new squirt From the
managerial point of view this has
proved the most profitable Lenten sea-
son which the town has known In
many years. ACTON DAVIES,