The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-17
ADJUSTMENTS.

els wilson as the twentieth century no
bleman for whom the clock is turned
back 200 years while he is given real
taste of the good old days he has
learned to despise is a most amusing
farce. The story is new to the stage, and
it is very cleverly told by Charles Mar
lowe. Sir Guy de We're has just come
into the title and estates. He is a young
man of effervescing spirits, wholly lack
ing in the dignity with which his adored
one thinks he should be clothed, fond of
rollicking pranks and with a vocabulary
that is more than spiced with the slang
of the day.
At the eno of the first act he goes
to sleep on couch drawn up before the
fire in the great baroniai hall. When
the second act begins the reverse lever
has been applied and the wheels of time
have whirled backward through seven
centuries. Everything is changed except
Sir Guy, who appears in the dinner coat
and dressing gown in which ne has gone
to sleep. That second act is perhaps the
most amusing of the play, although the
fun is sprinkled as thickly through the
three of them as plums in a Christmas
pudding.
Sir Guy finds plenty of people he thinks
he knows, but they happen TO be the an
ceStOrS. 100 years removed of the people
he really does know. They believe their
lord has been cast under the spell of a
wicked magician and the ensuing COM
plicatiOns are altogether mirth-prOvOking.
with Sir Brian Ballymote, when, finding
himself sadly handicapped by the weight
of his armOr, he disencumbers himself
and pounds the everlasting stuffing out of
Sir Brian, finally pushing him over and
holding him down.
In the third act the dream is over,
but Sir Guy pretends that he is still
under its SPELL Assuming violent lunaCy
he shows that the modern Sir Brian is
a coward and an all-around sneak, takes
the girl they have been quarreling over
away from him, and ends happily the
play, a play that has been happy all the
way through.
BY his work last night Mr.. Wilson con-
fiTmed his reputation as one of the best
American comedians. Not so restrained in
his methods as some of his cOntempor-
aries, he, nevertheless, gets the fun out
over the f0otlights without so obviously
endeavoring to do so. Certainly last
nights audience was much of the time
in the throes of uproarious laughter. At
the close of the SeScOnd act the demon
stration was so prolonged that Mr.. VIII
son made characteristic little apprecia-
tive talk.
The support Charles Frohman has sent
out with Mr.. Wilson lis typical of that
producer. That is to say, the company
is an admirable one. Even those mem
bers of il who have very little to do
do that little so well that they make
themselves necessary to the rounding out
of the production. Several character
studies, notably the Rev. Peter Pottle-
berry of Clarence HandySides, and the
Barker of Joseph Allen, are admirable
Campbell Gollan. as Sir Brian, is a fine
figure of man, both in evening clothes
and in armOr, and he acts the unlovely
part well.
The leading woman's part is that of
Lady Rowena Eggington, in the hands of
Miss Mary BOland. Miss BOland amply
fulfilled the requirements Attractive.
too, was the Miss Isaacson of Miss Mar
garet Gordon Also the small bit of the
arxe III AIDE
laide Wilson, a daughter, by the way, or
the star. People in the audience VINO
thought they detected genuine enjoyment
in the really truly kissing scene between
Alice and Sir Guy in the second act VIII
now know the reason why.
The engagement of when knights
Bold runs through tomorrow evening,
with a matinee tomorrow. 1t is well
worth anybody's time and money, for a
good laugh is a precious possession ana
a blessed memory Mr.. Wilson and when
knights Were Bold provide great many
of them.
Tonight Montaville Flowers, the great
est impersonatOr of character in America.
will appear at the First Congregational
church, This is the eighth number in
the University of Utah lecture course and
promises to be the greatest treat yet
given. In Dickens "A Christmas Carol
Mr.. Flowers is at his happiest.
A current offering worthy of more than
passing note is underlined for an appear
ance at the Salt Lake theatre. 1t is
from the pen of Langdon Mccormick, and
is said to be a comedy creation and an
sWers to the title of The Burglar and
the Lady" While the play, a cOmbina-
ton bill introducing two stage heroes who
have establishes a large following, Ned
DanVers and Sherlock Holmes, promises
well itself it will be made doubly in
terestins locally by the knowledge that
James J. Corbett, in the part of Danvers,
is the burglar-gentieman The engage
ment opens Easter Monday at the Salt
Lake theatre. The sale of seats begins to-
day.
The altogether delightful bill at the Or
pheum is being given to big audiences
daily. Many of the Orpheum's regular
patrons regard this weeks bill as the best
ever presented in that house.
Big audiences are turning out to wit
ness the closing performances of kid
naped for Revenge" at the Grand. The
scenes of the play have proven among
the most sensational ever attempted at
the Grand. Sunday night Mr.. Torch will
omen his engagement in the Factory
Girl" by Charles E. Blaney-
Little Nadine ST. Clair continues to get
much applause for the dainty way in
which she sings and dances in "A Night
in Morocco" running at the Lyric. This
is the last week of the engagement of
Of no T,Uri