Arizona republican., 1908-11-10
KlAW AND ERLANGER SHOWS,

KLAW AND ERLANGER SHOWS.
 "A Kentucgy Boy" by Pauline Phelps end Marion Short, will be Klaw and Erlanger's next production The play is now in rehearsal. In this drama the authors open a new field for stage purposes, although one cul- tivated carefully by the novelist. Cut off from the world by mountain ridges and lack of access. by railroads the dramatic student is likely to find stirring plots and strong characters in the territory which the women playwrights now invade
 "A Kentucky Boy" is a welcome play, typical of the land and the men and women who dwell therein. Its scenes are laid in the mountains of Kentucky, the Big Sandy region and in New Orleans. Primarily the plot deals with the development and cli- max of a feud. The mountains of Kentucky were largely settled by Scotch pioneer families. who imported from their native lands, with their families and consciences. ancient quarrels and their own rather deadly methods of settling disagreements. The present feuds are only survivals of the warning of the clans of the Scotland of Queen Marys days. In the feud of the play the authors have worked out to dramatic and logical conclusions, situations which culmi- nate in a baby grandson, the last of his race. being arrayed against his grandfather The baby looks prOmis- ing Its action is absorbing in in terest and the authors have written their dialogue in a crisp. incisive style.
 Master Donald Gallagher nine years old. is cast for the leading part, the grandson. In his brief stage career of six years he has played many parts. He made his stage debut with Sol Smith Russell in "A Poor Relation" Later he joined Annie Russell as Prince Charles Ferdinand in "A Royal Family" After that he played sue cessively with Annie ONeil in Sweet and Twenty and in "The Wilderness" and The Twin Sisters" He played leading man with Millie James in 'The Little Princess Clyde Fitch wrote a special part for him in Her own Way and later gave him another Tommy Means. in ''The Girl who Has Everything with Eleanor Robson. He also appeared with Miss Robson in "Salomy Jane"
 Other members of the cast are Edna May Spooner. Lucille La. Verne. How ard Kyle, Frank Craven. Richard Queilton. C. w. Goodrich, Morgan Bishop. Austin Webb, Lila Vane and Lillian Wright.
 The Round Up" a great drama of the Arizona desert, has repeated in Boston the success which it achieved there last year After filling engage ments in and near New York city. the play will be sent into western terri tory. where it is bound to be a great success. The battle scene, with the ride of the mounted Indians down the trail which creeps along the canon walls, thrills the most phlegnatic of theater-goers. Maclyn Arbuckle, as the fat sheriff whom nobody loves was never more happily cast than he is in the role of "Slim" Hoover.
 "The Right of Way" a splendid pro- duction of Eugene Presbrey's dramati- zatiOn of Sir Gilbert Parker's famous novel, has made such a good impress sion on the theater-goers of the west that it becomes necessary for the firm to revise the tour of the company and book The Right of Way" for a trip to the Pacific coast and the sOuth- west. To the student of the develop ment of the American peoplel this change is a topic for reflection. The Right of Way" is study in phychOl- ogy, a delineation of the mental and normal growth of two men in different environments. The characters are portrayed by those sterling players, Guy Standing and Theodore Roberts. In the east "The Right of Way" was received with that polite attention which neither condemns nor approves with enthusiasm; but in the west the play has gripped audiences in a way that shows that the people of this part of the country have grasped the point at which the playwright and the ac- tors are driving. An inference to be drawn is that theater-goers of the west think more deeply while at the playhouse than their eastern cousins. One Ot the cleVereSt DltS or nulllor in the English language is Lewis Car rolls Hunting of the Shark It created more laughter than any com position written in the last century.
 The best stories of the same sort told in the present decade are the hunting tales spun by Joseph cawthorn, Billy
 B. Van and Harry Kelley in the Klaw and Erlanger production. of Little 1 Nomo' at the New Amsterdam thea ter. New York These three comedi- ans play the respective roles of Dr. Pill, Flip and the Dancing Mission ary. They the cast away on the Can- nibal islands The Dancing Mission ary tells how he captured montima- | niack. Flip. not the be outdone, de-
 scribes his capture of a peninsula Dr. | Pill announces that he, too, is a great | hunter of big game. Prove it. ask his companions. "I don't have to-" he | answers. T admit it." Then he tells the story of the turing of the whiffen- poof from his lair, which is one of the | funniest yarns ever spun.
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 | William A Brady the theatrical