The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-17
IN THE THEATRES
FAVERSHAM LIKED IN 1.-THE
S0UAW MAN"
Newark Theatre Audience Applauds Him
Heartily-Irene Franklin's Pleas
ing Work at Proctor's.

Usually disgraced scions Of noble Eng
Ilsh fardl.es who fee to the Northwestern
Canada or to The great West OF our own
country TO begin life all over again do not
wind UP by marrying an Indian squaw and
settling down. Rather do they-so the
novels Of that character tell uS-make an
honest name for themselves, wed the
daughter of the nearby richest raneher, or.
forsooth. return 10 merry England with
the stain wiped out, "eady to walk in the
straight and narrow path aud claim the
girl o. their first love.
The experience OF Jim Carston,' erst-
while Captain James Wynnegate, cousin
of Henry Wynhegate. Lord of kerhill, was
the exception. as presented by William
F'aversham and a large company in Edwin
". rioSle's play 1.-The Squaw Man" at the
Newark Theatre last night.
Jim walked into a peck OF trouble with
his eyes open-as stage heroes often have
a way of doing-when he agreed to assume
the guilt of Sir Henry, who had embezzled
funds of the regiment to which Jim be-
logged. III order to save Diana, the lords
wife. whom Jim loved, from sharing in
her husbands disgrace. lie fled to this
country and became a cattle puneher out
In Wyoming. An Indian girl saved his life
b. shooting a bad man and subsequently
fHfti I Afai VAIN ~ i oiNNA CSEhih hih
from another dangerous adventure. He re-
warded her simple devotion and love by
marrying her. aud they had a boy to bind
them more closely together.
About six years later, while things
Looked bad for Jim on his ranch in
Utah. he was Informed through the ar
rival OF au English solicitor that his cousin
was dead aud that. ne had succeeded to
the title. But his squaw-wife and his child
sfood in the way Jim saw his duty. He
would send his boy back to be brought up
as the future lord and he would stick 1t
ont as a ssquaw man" AS hard as ii was
for him to give up his mother country,
sill harder was II for him to give up his
child. Much harder was it, then. for the
sdnaw mother. but she obeyed his com
nand. As the child was borne off. leaving
the father bowed in grief, the mother,
iisbtly clasping a revolver TO her breast.
silently stole away out upon the alkali
plains, and a shot in the distance told the
story Of tie end.
Such is the plot of the play. Mr.. Faver-
sham has revealed II to us before here.
Conventional end occasionally artificial
though It be, 1t is a good melodrama, eff
fectlye as a typical Western play and
strong in pathetic and sentimental interest.
The stage pictures it presents Of the West
are tinlc-nonored In character--though how
far from being true to nature those who
have Travelled or lived in Wyoming or
Utah know. The inside Of the Long Horn
saloon at Maverick. Wyoming. a court
room and water tank OH the Union
Pacific. is just like all the other wild.
Wild barrooms OF stageland. and its oc-
cupants are the customary pistol-laden
eow-puI1caers. bad men, etc. As usual,
FOO the head bad man "gets gay with
his gun and there is the customary fracas.
There is the dust Of the alkali over 1t
an.
The play rises a little out of the con-
in the third act, the cattle ranch
of Jim In Utah, and the dramatic
Interest IL stirred by the pathetic illusion
1t IL here that the Englishman
renounces his country for his squaw wife
and sacrifices himself for his child's future.
MI. Fayersham's impersonation OF the
character was at this point very effective.
He succeeded splendidly in setting forth
the bitterness of the mans fight with HIM
self. The setting of the soul struggle amid
the dreary, desolate alkali foothills at-
forded as effective a background as pos
siblc. Mr.. Faversham was heartily APP
at the end Of this act, and, after
several curtains, thanked the audience for
iq cordial reception of the play.
Mr.. F~avefSham's company was unusually
large and its principal members gave com
petent support TO him. Margaret Bourne
as Diana; Maud Hosford, as Lady Eliza
beth Wynnegate; Virginia Kline, as Nat
G-Hitch. the squaw wife; George Deyo, as
Big Bill, 'Jim's" foreman; Emmett
Schackleford. as Shorty, one of 'Jim's"
cowboys; Berton Churchill. ms Tabywana.
peace chief Of the Utes; Charles III. Males,
ns Cass Hawkins. the bad man whom
Nat-U-Ritch shot to save ''Jim,' and Will
Frederick, as Bud Hardy, sheriff Of
Coyote county. not TO mention little Loenle
Flugarth as Harold. ''Jim's'' son, were all
good in their respective parts. There were
many other minor characters. To sum 1t
All up, its a good show OF its kind and
well presented. The audience might have
been larger, but probably a good many OF
those who might have been there were out
buying Christmas presents.