Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-12-01


Orpheum-High class vaudeville,
matinee today, performance to night.
Lyric theatre-"Not Guilty." matt |
nee today, performance to night
Coming Attractions.
Salt Lake theatre-"The College
widow" Harry Beresford.
Lyric theatre-Popular melodrama.
One week beginning with tomorrow
night
Paul Armstrong, the author of THE
Heir to the Hoorah," Is writer whose
work we have seen before. 1t was
he who wrote 1.-THE Strength of the
Weak" for Florence Roberts-a play
which received its first presentation
on the stage of the Salt Lake theatre
1t was sickly problem play, full of
still more sickly situations. Notwith-
standing its many crudties and weak
nesses, the local press was loud in pro-
testing the genius of the author and
the strength of the play In this uni
versal song of praise / refused to join
Indeed, predicted failure. Not long
afterwards THE Strength of the
Weak" died through heart failure at
the boX-office. | mention this not for
the purpose of pluming myself as a
prophet, but for reason quite imper-
sonal to myself. The point intended
to be illustrated is comparative. And
while comparisons are odious, yet, as
between the Heir to the Hoorah" and
the unfortunate Roberts play, Paul
Armstrong the author of both dramas,
is now happily indicating himself be-
fore Salt Lake audience. His won I
derful New York success is easily ac-
counted for-the magic stage word
human" is written all over the Heir
to the Hoorah."
Piaygoers must take to this western
play, for in spite of some defects of
construction, many crudities and gross
caricatures of eastern characters,
there still remains so much that is hui |
man, original and refreshing The |
plot, also, is unique-in so far as any
dramatic story can be original. The |
hero, Joe Lacy, is rough westernei |
who owns the Hoorah mine. He has |
married an eastern girl-a frightful, |
little bit of dainty snobbery. And this |
character, ! am sorry to say, is one of
the most serious drawbacks to the |
heart-interest of the play. Because of
his Wlle SHODDeTy, DcCduoc VI Ills |
own rough ways, and because also she |
takes exception to the uncouth man.
ner of his western friends, Joe Lacy |
and his wife separate. He takes trip |
abroad returning considerably polish
ed in appearance and with more dis
erection as to when and how to wear
pair of gloves. 1t is the second act,
dealing with Lacy's return and i'm
provement in manners, which contain
the real comedy success of the play.
Seldom have l seen such sparkling
humor, or so much scintillation of
rough diamonds. Lacy's western
friends welcome him at swell dinner
in which a climax of absurdity is
reached by their assumption of man.
ner in action and dress. The humor
of the thing is prodigious. During the
dinner Lacy is informed that there is
an heir to the Hoorah-his wife has
become a mother.
The child, of course, brings the
father and mother to happy reconcil-
iation But the only thing to which l
can not reconcile myself, is the fact
of so sterling a chap as Lacy being
tied for life to the bonnet strings or a
bowling little metropolitan snob.
Guy Post, as Joe Lacy the big-heart-
ed rough westerner grips the role with
real wild and woolly" hands, Since
his famous delineation OF steve" In