The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-02

and when 1t was presented by Los
Angeles stock company. plainly ana
cheaply, all that made the AUDIENCES
/ think it amounted to much was It's 10
cal theme. Its story was that. "neh
the states took California from Mexico
families who had lived on the land Tor
| generations, but failed to acquire legal
titles. were ousted by invaders; mat
the spanish American daughter of sucn
1 a family. betrothed to a Spaniaro, out
| loving an American, was caught ana
ground between her resentment and
her passion: that the American, al
though seemingly inimical TO ner ram
| ily's rights, really was deVoted 10 pro-
tecting them, and that in the END all
turned ont well for the sweethearts and
the land owners.
One wear later "The Rose Of the Ran
cho" is produced here in New York as
| a play by David Pelasco anc hlcharo
Walton Tully" and that is no lie, 1or IT
the meantime Belasco has handed J.
over and over, and l don't DOUBT thae
there is as much of him as there IS c1
TulIy in the text. / am as sure that
their combined writing hasn't maze
pIay which. if dependent on its mat
ter and deprived of its manner would
be very effectuai But as 1t is, win
everything Belascan that can De zone
to render it sentimental and iliusory,
it makes an appeal which re" VIII Try
to resist. :.
Relasco is more than an adept at
stage tricks; he is a dramatic impress
eionirt know his processes. and can
ne sure that, in making Tuilys play
sensuous with lull of Spanish laXlness'
opposed by an American hustle OF as
turbance. he has been originative ana
!. creative. Moreover. he felt while 2t
work as though the place was actuai,
the people in it were alive ana ne was
among them This David beiasco Sar-
dou Irving Rarnum is an ooa ooihposi.e
"a money-getting commerclanst anu
money wasting visionary-as manager
wide awake and schemiDg, ana as
dramatist fast asleep and dreaminS-at
once the most practical of showmen anu
, the most idealistic of artists
An increase of passenger traffic on the
RAILWAYS % southern California may De
by-product of The Rose OF the Kan
cho" Tourists may, after seeing the
mission garden in the play. go to seek
If where the program says it is. They
will find the adobe walls crunlbled, win
l no tropical flowers Frightening their
= dun: and no such gaiiy clothed people
within them as Belasco assemblies III Il
fete. And it is two-thirds of Il century
since any Mexican family spent hight
{ on the roof of California ranch house
:, getting possession. while hope becomes
forloln in waiting from lantern light 10
davbreak for defenders 10 come.
, Rancho Roses vigil is as ATMOSPHERIC
, &c ReIasco made Cho-Cho Sans watch
for her faithless husband in Madam
butterfly" and has some o. n ate zen
n MONS terror of suspense in the stock
: ade tragedy of 1.-The Girl te1t ne
o hind Me" The overhead but Invisible
| enemies arc not Indians in quest of the
3 girls self, but merely rapacious land
f grahbers: and her lover doesn't bring
f cavalry 20 rescue her IRON 1eroclous
: savages, but only a document 70 save
her land from sooners: yet like the othel
hero. his night ride serves 30 refute .
: charge of perfidy, and TO make mn
" mighty ponular with the girl and the
audience Belasco has never illustrat-
: ed a story with DREAMER loveliness thar
g this one of lethargy awaked by passion
: r. If were book you might probably
G skin or skim portions of the narrative
To give more attention to the pictures
e but as il is a drama, with people Wnf
it move in the painted sceEes, ana reclt'
= the tale, you can't help adnirine BE
: lasco's newest theatrical Snow aieo
a gether.
= Seldom does fact provide material TO
fiction so effectually as in Josephln'
Terranova's killing of her uncle III &C
I tual life and the imitation or 1t o.
lie Eleanor Robson in "A Tenement 1raS
" edv-" 7 don't know IL Clotilde Graves
the English novelist, got the idea
dramatizing it from reading a newspa
J. per report. or if Miss Robson, DESIRING
% IL, venture as a tragedienne, offered IN
10 lob to Miss Graves. josephine wa
reared by her Italian uncle and aun
l. in part of New York as foreign
N though it were in Rome. The uncle Wa
d bestial. the aunt pandered to him, an
- the girl was too ignorant to know ina
~ the uncle's relations with her were nor
e. ribIa At II. she married a young ltal
ct ian The uncle, mad with jealousy q
p losing her. told the truth to the hus
- hand on the bridal day, so that he mlgh
= send her back to her infamy. Ihe nus
l. hand did as the uncle expected him &c
hut the spurned little wife didn't return
f. 10 the monster: she wandered miser
: ably in the streets several DAYS, an
" then, lying in wait for him. snot a Dui
d LET through the place where he shout
,e have had a heart. A court did not con
80 denim her to death. nor yet acuuit he
unde, the "unwritten law but sen
&c fenced her to reformatory for an in
H. definite time.
re- weI-nigh literal transcription Q
nc that homicide makes grisiy yet fascl
rating play Tor MISS fIODSOfl 10 uSe
A. the same bill with d merry comedy In
make-beiieve tragedy is located in ~Eor
IN don. The uncle and aunt remain tia
a. ian, but the girl is an adopted Englis
:" waif. and the bridegroom is A Londone
es of the coster type. Miss Graves ha
Id created n valuable dramatic characte
m too. a blind and pious mother to u
!. bridegroom. This woman reads tf
% bible with her fingers in lieu Of eye
lie nv feeling the raised letters; and whe
of she is minded to drive the pitiably ID
., fled bride from the home Of virtue
which the unsuspecting son mas brougl
Ut her. she saws: "ODen the good Doc
o. ANA gard, an the varse Oh Dlices n
ev finger on shall be me goide.
~ With a suggestion of divine prov
nc dence. the verse thus chosen is Christ
ty admonition to the accusers OF the Ma
,st daIene: "He that is without sin, /
ed him cast the first stone" The audien'
is delighted and wipes away the tea
which Miss Robson's plaintive voieii
nd - +ha xvoahapone girls plea has 8