The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-06
PROMISE OF THE THEATRES.
Florence Roberts.


There has been a surfeit of musical
comedy a the Salt Lake theatre for the
past month, and the coming of the at
traction which will hold the boards for
the first four nights of the week at that
house will be in the nature of a relief.
There is little that can be said that has
not already been written of the charm
ing star. Florence Roberts, who, with
her new company, will be the attraction
I'm two plays divided equally for the
stay. Her annual engagement is looked
forward to with much pleasure always
by the following her clever work has
tablished locally, and there will be an
added interest this time for she has in
the past year entered the eastern dra-
matte field. and if the press of New
York. where she made her metropolitan
debut is to be relied upon, made an
equal Impression i'm that avowed home
OF emotional drama. The piece that
she will offer for the first two nights
and Wednesday matinee is the work
Of two western women, and was the
play that she used on her first visit
cast. 1t is an intensely dramatic story
of college life in one OF the big female
institutions of learning patroniZed by
the rich I'm the east. and while it has
not been all satisfying that the women
Cramatists can create male characters,
ST must Of needs be obvious that they
are qualifie1 10 cope with the woman's
side Of life in school. and the result Of
their efforts aside from it's dramatic
worth comes in the nature of an innO-
Walton, for we have not until now had
y Z stage picture OF girls on the hunt for
filSgwledge. while Of late there has been
any number of dramas and comedies
with the boys side of life i'm the big
schools as the central theme. The part
Of Pauline Darcy (Miss Roberts) is one
of wide range. and affords the star
much opportunity to display the talents
that have made her one. if not the fore
most. woman of emotional drama.
The second hall Of the engage
ment will witness the presenta-
ton OF Maria Rosa" a piece de-
scribed in the advance notices as Il
modern prose play of Spain and. i'm fact,
is the work Of Angel Guimera, the fore
most dramatist of Spain, who wrote a
former success in this country. Marta
OF the Lowlands." and received it's
translation into English by Wallace
fitzpatrick and Guido Marburg. 1t deals
with an interesting and somewhat prim-
five people, the wine pressers of Cat
alma. Spain. telling q strong tale of
love and hate wherein a wrongly ac-
Cused man dies in prison. where he has
been thrust for the crime OF another,
widow and the real murderer and the
sequel TO the tale is furnished on the
night OF the marriage when the groom
in his cups drops remarks that reveal
10 the Mortified woman that he is the
real culDrit. and she coaXes the truth
from him when the guests have depart
cd, and i'm the end avenges the untime-
~ death of her beloved husband with
the murderer's own knife. There is
much opportunity for local color in the
Offering. We are to believe that the
scenic equipment is from models CUR
nished of the identical district by the
author who is an artist. The cOstum-
inS affords chance for much that is
picturesque and the entire wardrobe is
the work If Antonio Escanero, cos
tuner of the Theatre Heidelga. City OF
+, Mexico The Strength of the Weak"
will be given Monday and Tuesday
nights and Wednesday matinee. with
Maria Rosa" Wednesday and Thurs
day nights