The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04

white, his hat and summer suit are
white, and almost white is his pale
face. Recent usage keeps the stage
rather dark during serious, passages.
and so the whitened Norris contrives
to stand out more distinctly than his
bigger companions in their dark cloth
ing. However, that doesn't qualify
Norris, who has been a dapper,i alert,
active comedian, to act divertingly q
quiet, apathetic, motionless but Ioqua-
cious old village oracle. What Den
man Thompson might do with Father
and Son. is left TO be guessed at. 1t
is withdrawn at the end of its first
week.
Next 1.-The Offenders" Klif King,
it would seem, was just as firmly set
on q moral regeneration lin four acts
and a halo) as Owen Conway, whom
in. the person of Arnold Daily and in
the play of 1.-The Regeneration"
ovens cousin in type is Robert Eide
son as Klif, personally handsome and
histrionically admirable. even before he
scrapes off the WOeful but not unpiC-
turesQue prison CRIME in which he first
appears in the drawing room of very
noble charity worker married to very
ignoble political boss. That is, we are
Assured of their extremes of virtue and
vice. but we see little of either. That
is the popularity. to use kind word,
of THE Offenders" written with more
of good promise than accomplishment
by a new dramatist. Elmer Blaney
Harris The evils of child labor pro-
vide his large and political subject:
but he makes the mistake of keeping It
until the last act. all in the actors
mouths instead of in the audiences
view. Klif dashes into a darkened
drawing room, slugs a Japanese butler
to Inconsistencies and is discovered
by a charitable lady of the house. That
is a iiffy-quick start for the drama.
Judging by her Immediately compass
sionate actions, this Helen North
Street is at heart the ennobiing Mamie
Rose of THE Regeneration" For il
appears that in a socialistic melodra-
ma. a Mamie Rose by any other name
would act as sweet. She returns to
Klif the revolver he has robbed her of.
taking her money during the scuffle,
and defends him from his captors
when he is revealed as an escaped con-
Wet. This inevitably leads to Klif's
regeneration. as persistently if hardly
as lucid. as owens further down the
street of theatres.
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After thousands of words. our first
actual experience with the child labor
problem, the avowed purpose of the
play. comes in the third act Klif
King brings a young girl to notO-
rious restaurant to use her as an eX-
ample of the abuse of young girls emf
played daytimes in factories Klif, now
regenerated, is careful TO convey the
right idea about this Maudie, and has
her loosen her hair, for the look OF
youth, and even remove her Ions
skirts, to be more convincing in
short petticOat. Then he hides with
her in an adjoining room. and bOres a
peekhoIe in the door to spy on the
wicked political boss. Who comes in
with the child-employirg mill owner
and his wife. A little of refined-repar-
tee ensues touching on the wife's in
terest in cocktails and other spurious
drinks. Unfortunately, the wicked
politician pays for this refreshment,
for with his change he receives two
thousand dollar bills. a bride to pro-
tect the resort in its harboring Of girls
under age. The spying Klif breaks in
and accuses him. And from then the