The sun., 1907-08-27
ENOCH ARDEN SET TO GUERIRE
"THE ROtNDUI"' rs Just THAT
KIND or a PLAY.

INo Acts Are Far From llkabie. but q
Third Rather mepays the onIOokers "A
western Play, Set for Arizona, with An
the Csaai Aeceutrsment ef the same.
The Roundup" drama in blank car
ridges by Edmund Day. was shown at the
New Amsterdam Theatre last night and
for two acts was tolerated by a good ma
rired house third act. howeve shot its
way into favor and by the aid of a eating
gun and the Regular army. besides several
score cowboys and Apaches and a whole
uowder magazine. brought cheers from
The audience. which we're quite evidently
-inoere. II was. indeed a noble noise
The Roundup takes place in Arizona,
which has become. since Mr.. Thomas dis
covered 1t, centre OF thespisn activity
The story OF the melodrarna (for such IL
lrankly is and should perhaps be exhibited
bit nearer FourteeDth street) 10 a varia-
ton on the old Enoch Arden theme, set to
Clntre. only in this case Enoch dick Ldae)
was merely engaged 10 Echo Allen, and
when the Apaches knocked him out 30 that
he forgot his name for two years the other
fellow proposed and Echo. thinking Enoch
tDtck) was dead, did not answer "No."
But then surgeon got hold Of Dick
and fixed him up, and he wrote all unwary
~ the other fellow to break the glad news
20 Echo. Did Jack Pdyson break the news?
oh, no. he loved the girl too we'll He
went right ahead and married her, and
ck came back to the door as the knot
was being tied and looked in and then went
back, just as Tennyson would have wished
20 the desert. Echo's father helped, for
instead Of being inside giving away his
daughter he was outside giving away the
plot.
But melodrama will out Echo discovers
he deception and also that she still loves
Dick, SO she sends jack out to the desert to
lind him. After jock has gone she dis
covers that it is Jack she loves after all
Thus we touch for a moment the drama
Of Psychology.
Act III. is the desert and in this act the
popularity of the piece will depend. Purple
rocks rise up abruptly, Apsches on horse.
back file down from the very roof Of the
theatre. Dick enters dying for water and
carries Jack after him 10 save his life with
his own last drop of fluid, and TO offer him
the chance to return TO the girl. while he
himself remained to die. Orne Caidara,
who played jack. made of this offer Cso
easily obvisted by a trip to Dskota) a sin
cere monochrome might say the sincere
moment-of the play. But while the two
men were my y-desr-Alphonsing over
which should 60 back the Apsches attacked
them.
They fought back desperately. knowing
that the stock Of bank cartridges in the
properly room might run short. But as the
Redskins were about to overwhelm them
The Regulars appeared ON the rocks above
and a gstling gun got into action, while
the cowboys came up to support the stage
eft wing. For five minutes the battle
paged and the Society for the Prevention
Of Noise took TO the cyclone cellar. The
act ended with the audience cheering for
very ecstscy Of din. and both lovers ap-
oareptly dead on the stsge-whieh obviously
made fourth act necessary.
This fourth act 10 much too long, and
much Of il is irrelevant. Suffice it TO say
that II is Jack, not Enoch, who comes back
Thus. though Sim Hoover, the Sheriff. said
that the moral Of the prodigal son parable
zee the blameless one get the wrong end Of
the deal. Can il be that melodrama is be-
coming false TO it's traditions?
Maolyn Arbuckle was prominent in the
EAST as Slim Hoover. the good natured
sheriff. who was called Slim because he
wasn't. Mr.. Arbuckle fitted the part in
every way. Harold Hsrtsell played an
logical villain villainously, therefore we'll
For the rest the acting calls for little COM
rnent The cslibre Of the play is ~ and
the action demanded is Of the rapid fire
variety.