Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-04
THE PLAY IN NEW YORK.
BY CLAIMING POLLOCK

wedding party. Conner. the villyun.
catches ono of the bridal roses tossed
carelessly by Ona to one OF her brides
maids. He kisses her. She shrinks.
Curtain.
Act two is is months later and
seems longer Jurgis and Oua and
their family including property
baby, are as Jurgis In Lithuanian
slang expresses himself "up against
it." At midnight they are evicted.
Conner, the villyun, appears. "All will
De we'll If You take this key to Lou
Henderson's apartment (she runs II
can-painting factory and come there
tonight" lpleadingly) 1t is only one
hight up. NO. no" says Ona, with
vlrtuous Indignation. Conner, the
vlllyun, leaves with sardonic smile
Jurgis enters--''Al Is lost" including
his job. Il am going TO get drink II
! have to kill someone to get IT,"
tThts causes quite a restless stir in
the audience). He goes out. Ona
tai es the fateful key. She sobs. Cur
tain.
The third day. decorated in bright
Chauncey Olcott green. is located in
the apartment Of Lou Henderson. the
canpainting lady. and on the program
Is politely known as a place" Lou
Is clad in princess dress end seems
70 be doing nicely, as do the other
ladies' of the can-painting factory.
TWO ladies In bright red and blue, who
actually drink champagne, do not,
however. match the scenery. There
Is a merry party. with pleaty of stase
laughter. One enters with Connor's
latch key. She goes into another
room. Conner, the yillyun, IS waiting.
He Is pleased she is scared, and. COM
ing back hides behind pink curtain,
which very nearly matches her wig.
Conner disappeared. Jurgis enters,
discovers his wife--'Ah, ha, YOU
here" He gently overturns chair
and violently smdshes a plaster cast on
the mantle. with n speech of many
words Curtain.
Act four is laid at a farm in Avon,
Ill. and Il number of persons in the
audience seem 10 recognize II. Il Is
five years later. Jursis and Ona's
baby is alive and looks four years old.
Jurgis. tramping along. pauses for a
drink OF well water. The child says
she has losed her papa, One enters.
She sees Jurgis; each calls the other
by name. Curtain.
There are several other characters
with unpronounceable Lithuanian
names. who work hard, particularly
one gentleman made up as Mansfield
as Mr.. Hyde, who has an insane laugh
and Is known as Crazy Adams IN the
first act. AS he doesn't appear there
after. he may not be as crazy as he
seems.
Mr. Cecil Owen plays Jureis in
bovine way and speaks with a fine
English accent of grawft and ohawnce
Ona Is impersonated by Miss Henrietta
Browne who. as she is quite good
looking, very healthy and rather
plump. can't possibly arouse SYM
pathy as q starved. abused Packing
town girl. Mr.. Wilson Melrose, as
the villyun, is quite villyun In a
villainy sort Of way He isn't like a
boss of a killing bed in Packingtown,
though | have personally never been
in PackinEtown--stil the gentleman
next to me had been and he is my
authority.
Four men in the gallery applauded
loudly when Jurgis said. you can't
beat the union" and ono woman in
the third row on the right aisle APP
plauded everybody, She was an ac-
tress herself Otherwise the hit OF the
play was made by two sisters who
played banjos between the first and
second acts
After Ave years absence. with no
more worlds to conquer" Buffalo Bills
Wild west returned to Madison Square
garden last Tuesday, where II daily
spills more gunpowder than the
Twelve Years war, II is the same old