The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-15

oPd suite, which includes ",Ingrid s
Plaint,' "Solveig S Song and
peer S Homecoming. Curlously,
this suite is rarely heard, except In the
repcrtoire Of great orchcstras, even II
its beauties are no less consplcuous than
It's earlier companion. Mr.. James IN
summoning every sympathetic and intel
lgent attribute to enhance this poetic
comedy has naturally utilized all the
Grieg music. This is supplemented by
other Grieg compositions and Norwe-
gian folk music, which furnishes the
tonal background of the performance.
Equally discriminative has been Mr.
James III the selection of his supporting
company. Aphie James. who has been
his chief support for several seasons,
plays Solveig, the faithful sweet
! heart, who for a Lifetime patiently
Miss James IS said to invest the charac-
ter with charm of wistfu! tenderness
that makes her a splendid antltbesis to
| the Dragging and arrogant Peer
! Gynt. The cast-chorus, auXiliaries,
musicians and stage mechanics. aggre"
gate nearly eighty people. The comedy
| is revealed In five acts and eleven
I scenes, necessitating the musical prelude
! to commence at $40 O'Clock each
| night and the last curtain falls at IL
y o clock, or q few minutes after If the
/ stage managers are not familiar with
| the compleXties OF the production.
| The role OF Peer Gynt is one which
requires an actor who is a comedian as
well as a tragedian, for ii compasses
every phase OF human existence and
| emotion, from buoYart, careless youth,
through the cynical, worldly wiseness OF
middle life, to life-sbrivep old age: L.
lustratine the optimistic theme Of un-
selfishness it tells a story founded on
the realities OF life, but embroidered as
poetic license permits with fairy and
other supernatural characters and
phases, which tells an optimistic story
Of the necessity OF self-conquest and the
resurrection of the human soul in the
bath of pure love. Mr.. James IN this
protean character is said to have made
The hit of his career, and, coupled to
this. having obtained the original pro-
duction, he is thus enabled 20 clotbe his
artistic success in the scenic environ
mcnt that added so materially TO the
Mansfield triumph.
In presenting ga Cowboys Girl, -
which is to be at the Grand tonight. it
is with every confidence in its ability
10 please. The attraction has been be.
fore the public for five seasons and dur
ing that time has toured the entire
continent q number OF times, each sea-
son returning TO larger attendance The
production this season IS new throughout
be secured. "A Cowboys Girl' is not
a society drama, whose scenes are laid
in the handsome drawing rooms of some
millionaire palace, but story of the
"Lone Star State, with its scenes laid
unde the bright canopy of heaven
which stretches away in the distance as
far as the eye can see and then rolls
on unbroken 70 the utmost ends of the
world. It is under this blue vaulted
dome on the Wild prairies that they
raise such men as "A Cowboys Girl ;.
tells about, meT whose daring deeds
and bravery in the face of almost GER
tain death have caused the whole world
10 revere their name and memory. We
have only to turn TO the pages of his
tory, there TO see enrolled with the
heroes now past and gone, the names OF
Huston. Crockett and the long list who
per;shed in the Alamo. 1t is OF sucl
men as these that ga Cowboy s Girl
tells about, younger perhaps, but bear
ing the same stamp OF chivalry and
hercism that their ancestors bore wher
they first crossed the PLAINS to wrestlt
from the Mexican and Indian what /!
now the state Of Texas,
What IS said 10 be one of the mos
novel and original plays which has beer
seen in years and bearing the striking
title Of "Why Girls Leave Home will
be seen at the Grand theater thre,
o nights and Saturday matinee, starting
on Thursday evening, November l9