The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-08

er direction to terminate THE East
erner" on New York wharf. The girl
he loves is aboard a steamer about TO
sail. He pops the question to her while
he stands on a box and she at a port
hole. They join hands for an instant
by stretching arms, and then the start
ing of the ship parts them. But she's
worth waiting for. as she's the beau
teous Edna. Goodrich.
Does it irritate you when an author
has the beauty of his heroine talked of
and the actress put on the job is no such
thing? Emma Brooks in paid in Full
is the goods to justify the label. Emma
is a lovely young bride. inside and out
side. But Captain Williams is a de-
ceptive human package, correctly
branded as a rude and crude old bach
eior libertine. but with contents that
are surprising when he is opened. In
the next to last act of this new drama,
Emma is a midnight visitor to the Cap
tain's apartments. Stop-wait-don't
say poohI The writer of this thousandth
adventure of a wife in a bachelor
quarters makes it a variant from the
nine-ninety- For one original thing
this wife is sent by the husband to de-
liver herself to the bachelor; for an
other, she has no intention of being vi
ciOusly disposed of; for yet another, the
bachelor has no desire to do her any
harm; and so Eugene Walter, although
making the penultimate acts episode
the everlasting French one of a good
woman's nocturnal visit to a bad man,
he creates new and singular circum-
stances for the case
In the human nature of it's characters,
paid in FulF' is Ibsenian. They are
taken from the life of New York today.
Joe Brooks is one of those fellows who
won't wait patiently to earn prosperity.
The owners of a steamship company for
which he is a collector live luxuriously;
why should he be content with bare
comfort in a cheap fat? His wife
Emma, although he has married her out
of a rather fashionable family does the
Homework cheerily; but disgruntled Joe
complains and threatens like Nihilist
and when his employers refuse to raise
his wages, he lifts some money out of
his collections for them. He tells Emma
that his pay has been increased, and
bets on race horses to make good his
defalcation. But Captain Williams, his
boss, finds out that he is a thief, and
makes ready to expose him. Now we
get to the bold oddity of this drama.
girl behind me. Hot stuff" exclaimed
a mana bout-town beside me. Yet 1
hardly think it is deplorable. Joe is
a deterrent example. He is as sour in
poverty as Emma is sweet; he makes
the worst of an unlucky marriage and
she the best; and yet what happens
when arrest threatens him is quite pos
sible-even probable, / suppose-yet
very shocking. Joe decides to turn his
wife over TO the captain as payment in
full for the stolen money.
THE Old scOundrel is fond of You, -
he says to her; The wants you, and he'll
think you a bargain at the sixteen
thousand l have stolen from him. De-
tectives are on guard down stairs to ar
rest me in the morning. You must go
to him tonight. Oh. you've had your
share of the swag. Now it's up to you
to save me from Sing Sing
Il will go" says Emma, quietly.
AS the curtain closes in on this do
nestle scene, the husband is at the tel
ephone telling the libertine 10 expect
the wife, and she is putting on her hat
and cloak to go.