Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-27

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poses OF this play II was imperative
that the child should practically be IN
swaddling clothes for tue poor little
youngster hadn't been born when the
curtain Tell on the first act, aud as me
second scene was laid little snort OF
two years later. It can be ind lTNOod
that there wasn't much leewny ior thr
child IN the matter OF age. what MI
Miller really should have done IN or
der 70 Insure success OF his play on tne
first night was to have snapper MS
fingers at the authorities for tia mo-
ment and used bona-hde baby at the
first performances. The mayor would
probably have forbidden the child's APP
pearance on the following day, but
even that ediet could not have pre-
vented the first performance from pos
sessing the necessary amount ~ ~
fantlle realism. However, wishing to
be perfectly above board IN the matter
and falling TO see why 1t could be aty
more harmful for q baby % leave us
mothers arms for possibly 10 minulea
IN the course Of an evening, than for
children OF or years older growth
to play through an entire performance,
MIR. Miller laid the whole matter be-
fore Mayor Mcclellan and asked his
consent. The mayor said he was very
sorry, but II he allowed this particular
baby to appear there would be glut
OF infants on the theatrical market.
He refused, And Mr., Miller reduced TO
Hobson's choice was Obliged to cast
a mechanical doll for this most import
ant part The audisnce never saw the
dolls face. but from what they did see
OF the Wit OF it3 bonnet, II could scarce
~ have possessed a larger Uranium II
Il had been the head pieces OF Kaiser
Wilhelm and Richard Mansfield COM
bined. In one scene, IA the doting fos-
ter father-he had married the child's
mother In order TO shield her from dis
grace--was obliged 10 recite This little
pig went to the market" Ia one OF the
mechanical dolls most mechanical get
OF myers The result was 50 ludlcrous
that the'audienoe Uttered and though
the actor. never played with more sim
certify and earnestness. the effec, OF
the whole scene was ruined. That
there Is a strong tlnge OF Ibsen IN this
play can be seen from this brief synop-
sis. The action passes In u Hat house
at Chelsea. Pamela Kean. the laugh
tel OF an old sea captain, has loved
Capt. Aynesley Murray. a married man.
lot wisely but very much too well, finds
herself IN desperate situation. Her
lover has been sent suddenly to india
with his regiment and knows nothing
of her plight Two other men, who
live In the Hat house. are desperately
In love with Pamela. One OF these Is a
crazy young Yiollnist, who has lost his
hand In railway accident, and the
other IL old Jim Grierson, a man quite
ancient enough to be Pamela's father.
Grierson, on learning OF her situation,
offers to save the girl by marrying her
He promises To take her away from
England for a couple OF years so that
no one VIII know that the expected
baby, when 1t arrives IL not his. Pa
mela accepts him. The next act, two
years later, finds the baby in the center
or the stage. He Is an even greater
tyrant III the Chelsea apartment house
than the tanitor himself. Pa
melas lover, during these two years
has written her many letters, but she
has not opened one OF them. Now. on
her return to England she hands the
letters to her husband, and begs him
to burn them He leaves the task TO
her, however and Just as she is about
TO put the last letter OF all into the fire
Capt. Murray enters the room. He is
a widower now and his first thought on
his release has been to come home and
marry Pamela. He finds the woman
with his unopened letter In her hand.
Explanations follow, and finally she
tells him that she is married. The
baby Is brought In. and he plays with
II, quite unconscious Of the fact that il
is his own child. The crippled violin
list has overheard the Interview between
the lovers, and going to old Grierson
tells him that the only decent thing
that he can do Is to make away with
himself. According to his idea II is the
only way to make Pamela faithful to
him. He hands the old man a vial OF
poison, and going off the stage, Grier-
son Kills himself Pamela, when she
finds him lying dead, rushes upon the
stage to be confronted by Murray But
IN the first shock OF the tragedy, she
recoils from him. and turns towards
the dead man. crying Historically, Jim,
my jim" That's the end OF the play It
Is easy 10 understand why with all its
fine characterizations and impressive
scenes II failed TO enhance the gayety
OF this particular nation. Miss Rebec-
ca Warren. In the most unsympathetic
role OF the heroine. won real sue
cess by performance which had both
originality and power,
But II "Grierson's Way" proved lugu-
brioug, no one can ever consider Red
ford's Hope" tho new automobile melo-
drama at the Fourteenth street as a
promoter OF melanchola. Quite unex-
pectedly this new play OF Lincoln ].
Carriers has caught the town. II prom
ises TO prove one Of the greatest melo-
dramatic successes of many seasons.
The thrilling race between an express
train. carrying the villain IA excess
baggage and an automobile In which
the lovely heroine Is Fastening across
the had lands of Montana 20 save both
her lovers honor and life. carries one
back to the old days Of Blue Jeans"
and THE Stlll Alarm those halcyon
days when the good old Fourteenth
Street was the Original mandatory OF
all sorts OF stage shocks and thrills,
Put In all It's long career Of thrlllers,
the Fourteenth street has never shell
tered so thrilling thrill as this one,
1t knocks all the other race scenes into
q cooked hat, az the same moment that