The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11

play right at the outset, and she likes
TO make long evening of thrills for
the audience. So she gets into and
out of perilous predicaments wondrouS-
~ These adventures come to her de-
| termination to make the sybarite
marry her wrOnged sister For that
purpose she goes with him on a motor
ride and fights him for her honor in
all corners and the middle of a room
OF Wayside inn. Londoners were eX-
cited when in The Sporting Duchess
nDerune pursued girl in a steeple-
chase over chase, around tables and
through portieres, but New Workers
are calm when, IN a similar struggle,
the girl throws a lamp at the man,
ana in the darkness he crying. "Ill
find you by searchlight," he fires his
pistol i'm ali directions till a flash ex-
poses her. Next she visits him in his
apartments and is thrown on bed
winch, Wnen he turns a wheel, holds
her fast and stretches her rackingly,
as though ii were an antique tOrturing
machine from Spanish inquisition.
She gets away again unhurt, and
comes back at him with a smile that
ca1oles him into marrying mood. He
takes her to the Little Church Around
! the Corner, where, in the middle of the
ceremony, she substitutes her sister as
the yelled bride. That rouses the sy-
bar1te to fierce activity. He is mad
through and through and all the way
round. He swears dreadfully that he
VIII carry off on a honeymoon trip
TO Europe the Carroll girl he desires,
which is Grace, and leave behind the
one he has had enough of, which is
Kate
He abducts Grace once more. and
has her logged to the steamer in a
basket; Abut by a blunder she is slowed
away among the freight in the hold:
and while he is bribing steward TO
/ deliver her in his room the lister is
slipped into 1t by John Baird. Haven't
| mentioned John? Good chap. John
q millionaire miner from Goldfield
who loves the chorus girl requitedly
and would shield her from all harm if
she would but take a minute off from
her troubles to tell him what's the
matter. But that would end them, and
! the play mustn't stop before IL SO
! John is kept bewildered by the vary
| ing luck of the chorus girl. However
he is on deck 10 save her life, and her
sisters, to, at the explosive climax The
| sybarite, when he learns that he can't
get Grace, nor get rid of Kate. would
rather Ole 4 bachelor than live an un-
willing husband of his baby chiIds
mother. Give me the second Carroll
! girl of my choice, or give ne death"
is his ultimatun. He gets death, while
both the Carroll girls live oil, Kate as
his lawfully righted widow. and Grace
to become 4 rich Mrs. Baird. \ rat
Ting and banging ne!Odrama is this
one.
Two other new meiodramatic out
breaks, Convict 999'' and From Sing
/ Sing to Liberty" have convicts for
their heroes, and their exploits are Of
Jail breaking. Two more theatres are
TeOpened with last years The Out
laws Christmas" and ''The Kid Ban
dit" In each of these four plays the
hero defies and defeats the aw. Of
course. the dramatiSt sees TO it that
they are innocent sufferers from the
5iabolism Of scoundreIIy- enemies: but
all the same. they show how a jdilbirt
may dy out of his cage, and who
knows what boy up in the gallery, see
ing a stage hero pick locks, saw bars
and escape from a prison, may be III
spired with an ambition to peat the
law similarly? Two of The actors,
Haslam and Cunning, are specialists
i'm getting loose where Ordinary men
would be held fast. Cunning takes off
handouts as readily as gloves. OPENS
his cell door as though he had a night
key. and. when the warden Of Sing
Sing puts him into a steel cage. walks
out when he feSireS i change If lOdC
ing. The other hero, as represented by
Haslam, is put into Il straiSht-jacket,
and then into a bag. which i tied up.
human form IL a white bag, vrig
Cling and struggling or the floor, is a
weird, ghostly sort of sight. bur in a
minute the man is out of jacket and
bag. He is placed in a long tube of a
calibre to barely let him squeeze
through with his arms close 70 mis-
sides He is in evening dress. shoes
and all. when he enters the tube, and
i'm pink f1eshings only when he energies
at the other end. There are holes at
intervals through which the spectat
ors get glimpses of him oil his way
and from them he drops his articles az
discarded clothing. Again Ira a
straightjacket. he gets into a glass tank
and wriggles out of the jacket in plain
view under water Are HackettS AMI
Sotherns no more TO slash and thrust
with romantic swords. and by muscu-
lar Valor clear their paths of besetting
outlaws? Are Haslams and Cummings
to poDularize a new manner of escape
by melodratmatic heroes from their
enemies?
No !nncvatory experiments are
rislIed in "A Pace Across the Cont
nent. A girl sarts from the KIOndike,
where she has gone fortune hunting IN
vain. to reach New York on a certain
dav and get an inherited million. A
scoundrel tries to kill her in Jh= snow
of a Dawson trail. in the ice of Chill
kOote pass. at a post house on Jke way
to Nome. i'm a railway station at Seat
tie. in a street, a hotel room and on a
roof i'm Chicago. ana in New York
thieves den, with a desperate ninth at
tempt on her life at the bank where
she arrives just in time to expose mis-
bogus claimant of the million I SuS-
pect that she wears a steel collar
against choking. and an adamant cor
set against shooting and stabbing. else
she couldn't survive the vicissitudes of
her Journey She has a devoted lover
for a travelling companion, but the au-
thor puts him aside at most of the