The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-21
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sui which will be seen at the Metro
politan tonight has splendid cast
headed by Harry Short in the role of
Abijah Booze, the American consul.
The supporting company contains
such talented artists as VIM. v.
Strunz, L. B. Jefferson, Charles Jack
lin, James Brennan, Olga Kalneg, Isa-
bel Carroll, Elaine Won Theile, Mar
garet Flavin and others. The scenic
investure is magnificent
The Heir to the HOoral.
''The Heir to the Hoorah" ANNOUNCE
ed as an American comedy by Paul
Armstrong will be seen at the Metro
politan on Wednesday. The new play
comes from the Hudson theatre New
York, where it had a long and sue
cessful season, extending from early
Lent until the petals blew away in
mid-July, and later engagements at
the Hollis street theatre, Boston, and
Powers theatre, Chicago.
The title which has a bit of mys-
terry for the uninitiated is explained
in the fact that the "Hoorah' is an
immensely rich gold mine and the
"Heir" a male infant. Around the in
FAINT, husband, wife, mother-in
law, a Japanese valet, some miners,
COW puncher, widow and maiden
aunt, Mr.. Armstrong is said to have
woven very pretty story.
Joe Lacy, rough diamond of a
man and part owner of the Hoorah
mine, has just married an eastern
society girl named Geraldine Kent.
The marriage is one of convenience
and has been arranged by a schem-
ing mother-in-law who has executed a
wedding settlement of hundred thou
sand dollars. This kindly disposed
dame by her continual criticisms of
the miners crudities of speech and
manner, and by her attempted in
trigue between her daughter and a
former eastern sweetheart, has sue
ceeded in separating the man and the
girl. So Joe leaves the new palace
in the little mining town in charge
of his wife and mother-in-law and
starts off TO Europe. He returns to
hear some stories of his wife and her
former sweetheart, which, to his
credit, he does not believe. But while
the man and wife are still at odds,
a boy is born which is toasted by the
miners as the "Heir to the Hoorah."
Of course the baby brings about a
reconciliation on it's christening day
when the friends of the father pre-
sent it with "a cradle, one piece
carved from the trunk of a redwood
tree, by hands that need not have
toiled.
The scene of the christening brings
about couple of other little roman
ces to the happy issue also. The rich
widow bestows her heart, her hand
and her mine on a Harvard man who
went west to recOup, as a mine fore
man, the fortunes he had lost in that
famous little crooked street in New
York, I" at one end of which is a
grave yard, and at the other river"
Also the christening sees Bud Young
reconciled to his fate as the fiance
of the maiden aunt who has been the
nightmare of his dreams until he
meets the lady and finds her a pretty
young girl just escaped from "the
genius tutelary" of Wellesley. Kirke
LaShelle who has given to the stage
so many good American plays in ad-
eQuate investiture and with singular
ly happy cast, made the production
of 'The Heir to the Hoorah" just a
few weeks before his untimely death.
He chose Guy Bates Post who will be
remembered best as Steve in 1.-THE
Virginian," to create the leading role,
Joe Lacy, and completed the remain
ing Characterization with more than
his usual happy faculty Of getting the
actor to fit the part. The cast also
includes Ernest Lamson, Janet
Beecher. Ben S. Higgins, Cassius
Quinby, Helen Lackaye, Ralph Dean,
Gertrude Dalton, Frank Monroe, Hor-
ace Newman, Ada Nevil, Louis Nor
rell, H. S. Hashida, Henry Rich and
Fred Roberts.