The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-25
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Not only words. but deeds.

Not only words but deeds
| This is the idea which thrusts itself
upon the mind after spending three hours
of an evening with Paid in Full" which
opened at the Salt Lake theatre last even
ing. Some explanation is necessary TO
prevent the remark being uisconstrued.
~ means that the acts. the suggestions.
| the business" OF the production told as
! much, if not more, than the lines Half
/ the time not word is said. The story
| is told by suggestion, by little mods of
the head, by motions of the hand or
body. by signs.
1t is a great play the people are real
and seldom on the stage of the Salt Lake
theatre has there been seen such gener-
ally perfect acting on the part of an en-
tire company
The story deals with real people. real
situations, and real action Joseph
Brooks is weak man. who is a failure
largely because he cannot command re-
spect and confidence. He has won in
marriage a woman who takes him pTin-
cipally because of family influences. In
stead of blaming himself for his fail
ure, he rails against society and begins
to steal Discovered, he seeks to buy
freedom from Jail by endeavoring to sell
his wife She looms strongly as a loyal
vet honorable woman. Her former suit
or shows up also as possessed of chivalry
and nobility The rough old sea cap
tain, employer of the husband, weighs
the woman as she is. and treats her
pleadlngS as her worth demands. giving
her the husbands freedom without de-
handing the sacrifice of honor the hus-
band was willing she should make. 1t is
hard to realize there are such poltroons
as the husband is pitilesSly portrayed to
be. Yet people knowing we'll the world
must understand that there are such
men. althOugh-thank heaveni-they are
comparatively few.
The telling of the story by suggestion
began with the rise of the first cur
tain. There is the Harlem flat. with
the husband wiping dishes and conversing
he ruifa THrI rrrrl, lvff
Never was a more natural scene al
though the rest of the play did not fall
behind in naturalness. The same power
full relation of thought by suggestion
continued throughout, until the curtain
fell on CHASTITY, shivering deserted cow
ara who did not say word but leaned
Imply against the door-jamb, head
S si' forward. arms hanging down,
the picture of a despicable human cur
Columns might be written about this
thoroughly human. we'll told story of to-
day. Yet ii would all come TO the con- !
clusion that this is one OF the hest
dramas in years 1t would be uniust to
PICK out any one person in the cast for
special praise, for all are superb Sara
Perry as the wife rises TO climaxes with
out shrfekinS vooiferation. and shows
wonderful restraint and natural methods |
Albert Brown is perfect as 'tJimsy''
smith. the Old-time sutton and present. |
day knight Scott Siggins is an actual |
old bluff sea captain who has risen in |
life. William l. Gibson plays the thank /
less part of the thieving husband with
exceptional discretion while even tbe
bits are in splendid hands
on the whole il may be stated that
AL those who wish to see practically
model of intellectual. powerful, human. |
natural modern drama. put on with
scarcely a flaw in staging or acting
should visit the Salt Lake theatre before
the engagement of Paid in FulT' closes
Saturday evening
:, There will be special matinees in all
the theatres today.