The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-29

Topeka IS to get the road company
lppearing in Edwin Hilton hoyie :
iour-act play. The SqLaw Man. when
has been declared to be one OF the real
sensations Of the past few years
As the title indicates. the story has to
DO with the life Of the west, where,
when a white man takes an Indian Wo-
man for his bride. he becomes IN local
pariance. "a sQuaW man" In this
particular instance, the sQuaW man IS
an Englishman. and the play opens IN
that country. There the audience Is in
rroduced to the hero. and his relatives
among them the Earl of Kerhil who IS
the head OF his family To save the
earl from punishment for eTnbeZzleTnrEt
OF regimental funds, and the eaTls Vile
whom he loves. from disgrace. the nero
allows the suspicion of the crime TO rest
upon himself. and disappears.
The audience next finds the hero,
now known as Jim CarstOn, in the
role Of a cattle ranchman in Wyoming
The scene is the Long Horn saloon at
Maverick. a COW town and water tank
OF the Union Raclnc, and with all the
usual appurtenances Of bar and gamb-
ling tables. The earl and his wife, who
are part of a large touring party. step
them from an unpleasant predlcameut
He Is at first unrecOgnized. but the
earls wife penetrates his changed per
eonality. and thanks him privately just
as the train pulls out In the excite
ment attendant upon the departure OF
the train, Bash Hawkins. a desperado
who has a grievance against Carston,
gets the drop upon him and IS about to
shoot him down in cold blood. when
Nar-u-ritch the daughter of Tab-y-
wanna ar Indian chief. shoots him from
ambush. Carston is at first accused Of
the crime. but manages to prove his IN
nocence. and the curtain drops with the
Indian girls revelation Of herself as the
murderess.
In the next act which shows Cars
tons ranch on the Green river, and IS
six years later. we find that the ranCher
has married the Indian girl and is IN
the possession Of a SON News comes
that the earl is dead. and that Carston
IS now the head of the family. and the
possessOr of the title Feeling that he
cannot desert his wife, he decides to
renounce his claim to the title. and
send the boy off to England with the
family lawyer. to be educated and I.t-
pared for the position he is 10 hold The
Indian mother tries 10 dfssuade her has-
band from separating her from the
child. and when she finds that her
pieadings are Of no avail. she wanders
out to the desert and shoots herself
The remOTal of this obstacle to his hap
pineSS. brings she curtain TO the hero.
Mr.. Royle has made his hero one Of
those manly. courageous, Iovable. good
looking Englishman and the sympathy
OF the audience is inevitably attracted
20 him MelOdraTlatic as the story may
sound. II is far from that in reality
and the story is Just q clean, clever.
good. well constructed story OF human
emo eAcAAS- ~ cry SlLy- mas Deen mdue
to give production that will compare
favora big with the best that has hither-
to been put upon the stage one of the
many realistic touches is the use OF the
Ute langr age. by the Indian chief Tao
y-wana- Not one spoken word of Eng
fish does this character utter but
through the Interpreter, who by the way
IS 4 full blooded Ute himself and a
graduate Of Carlisle. he carries on an
extended conversation, speaking strict
" and solely in the Ute language, and
the use Of much Of the sign language
as it Is used BY this tribe