The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-06
PROMISE OF THE THEATRES
THE Lion and the Mouse"

'"Fhe Lion and the Mouse which
viii receive its first presentation in this
city on Tuesday. May 8, at the Salt
Lake theatre under the direction of
Henry 3. Harris, is from the pen of
charles Klein, the author of THE Mu-
sic Master THE Lion and the
Mouse has proved to be the greatest
dramatic success of the current sea-
son, and is voted the most absorbing
and intensely interesting play of the
period The author, Charles Klein. has
written u play in which there are a
great number of stirring scenes. clear
~ defined situations, which are pIaus-
IDLY brought about. and extremely con-
vincing in their genuineness. The CEN
trail figure is John Burkett Ryder.
Observation-Disclosures known in the
Street and to his financial associates
as Ready Money" Ryder. The story
tells of his great power. the power ex-
ercised so deplOrably upon American
politics of today, by the great colossal
financial octopus. /. e, the mOneved
interests Of the country. Judge Ross
more of the supreme court an honest
upright. and fearless exponent of JUS
lice, has rendered decision adverse to
ule corporate interests Of this country
and Ryder, as the recognized head of
these interests. has cOnSpired TO ruin
him. and sets about to have him i'm
peached.
Rossmore's daughter. Shirley, while
an pelN mas met ana Idllen IN love with
Ryder's son, jefferson. Upon her re-
turn she learns that her father. once
wealthy. hOnored and influential. is
ruined financially, and about to be dis
graced. She has long dabbled in Jour
naliSm, and from Jefferson's deScrin-
ton of his father, she has written
book, with Ryder as a central figure
Her discovery Of the condition of af-
fairs decides her TO produce two let
ters in Ryder's possession. which will
prove the innocence. beyond the oues-
ton of a doubt. of her father. When
her book is published, the name of Sa-
rah Green appears as its writer Rv-
der, actuated by curious interest in the
person who has thus used him as the
figure in her book sends for her and
is so captvated by her force of char
acter, that he commissions her to write
his autobiography She impresses the
entire household in the same way. and
Ryder discovers that where he has al
ways given commands, he now obeys
them.
On the question Of Rossmore. how
ever. he is ObduTate. He hates the
judge, and also his daughter, and de-
termlneS upon an alliance for his son
with the daughter of a United States
senator, Kate Roberts. Senator Rob
erts Is the man whom Ryder has en-
trusted to engineer through the senate
Judge ROssmore's Impeachment
Matters are about to reach the eli
max. when Shirley appeals to Ryder's
manhood to save her father. but Ryder
is imnOvabie. Perceiving that his son
viii not marry Kate Roberts, he asks
Shirley, whom he knows as Sarah
Green. the authoress. to marry his son.
jefferson. Shirley tells him the deceit
she has practiced on him in the aid of
her father, reveals her identity as the
daughter of Judge ROssmOre, the man
he, Ryder, hates, and upon whose ruin
he is determined. Ryder then in a pas
lsion orders her from the house. In a
kstrong scene she denounces him proud
" and tells him she will. go TO Wash
ingtOn and appeal TO each senator in
dividually, and failing in this, she Will
go To the president and unmask him,
as he really is. The following morning
as Shirley is about to take her leave,
having been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ryder while she was writing the for
mer's biography Ryder, who has
passed a sleepless night, brought about
by the unQuestiOnable truth of Shirley's
denunciation the night before, in re-
morse capitulates. He tells her he
wants her to marry Jefferson, and that
he viii so to Washington and save her