The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-22

With fresh scenery, faces, costumes,
electrical and stage effects, the "lsle
of Spice,'' II. II. Frazee's piquant mu-
sical mixture, comes TO the Salt Lake
theater Monday and Tuesday nights
is supposed to lie in the Sea
of Japan, somewhere between SAX
halin and Formosa, but 1t IS al
WAYS summer there, always merry
and tuneful, and the inhabitants live
their lives as do other folks, have their
love affairs, their joys, their sorrows,
and make their little laws. Hence the
plou of the play. King Bompopka takes
unto himself a wife every seven years;
4 wife, according TO q decree of
ihe king and his chief advisers, has
to undergo period of training In the
Tomb Of Silence for seven years. At
the end of this time shc is supposed
TO know enough to hold her tongue, so
she is released and married to the king.
Teresa, the hereditary owner Of one
half the spice fields IN the kingdom,
has been educated in America, and
while there meets q young officer OF
the United States marines, Lieutenant
Katchall. and there is mutual love
affair Upon her return to her native
isle, Teresa is selected by the king for
his next wife. Teresa, Of course, OBJ;
TO the king. kashon and konner IN
sist that Teresa go to the "tomb - in
order to conform TO the law, and to
further their OWE scheme to place AS
bena, their ally, on the throne. The
king epdeavors to have the "tomb' -
law set aside. This is opposed by ka-
shon and Konner, who are planning to
get Teresa put away for seven years,
so as to get possession Of her rich spice
Gelds This is the condition Of affairs
when Lieutenant Katchall lands on the
island with a detachment OF marines
from the United States gunboat Roose'
welt. Katchall meets Teresa, learns the
state OF things, and to prevent the
marriage places the island under the
flag Of the United States. TWO marines,
Mackinaw and o GRADY, are sent up IN
a balloon for practice, the balloon lands
on the island near the kings palace,
and the occupants are taken for mes
seugers from the sun, These men are
introduced TO the king by kashon, and
as a magician and an astrologer. The
king commands the astrologer to pro-
ducc money for him, and on his failure
to do so they are both sent to the Tomb
of Silence as a substitute for Teresa,
and then the king orders preparations
for his wedding, Tho lieutenant trains
the guns of his warship on the kings
palace. Teresa turns over the spice
fields to the king, the sailors are re-
leased, tho king marries the candidate
who has been in the ''tomb' (Asbena),
and there is happy understanding for
all The musical numbers in the Isle
Of Spice' have become famous and
consist Of "The Goo Goo Man.
"Peggy Brady" "SiIly Sailors"
"You and l." the gorgeous transfer,
nation finale, "The Star of Fate"
"The Broomstick Witches" "Uncle
Sam IS Marines" and others, which are
rendered by the great D. c. Whitney
American Beauty chorus. The cast
consists Of Sam Rose, Harry La Velle,
Harry B. Watson, Harry Williams,
Percy Bacon, Edwin Lang, Hoberta
Wilson, Marie Watson. Lorette Broad
well and others.
"The Alaskan,' q mighty good
story of the far north, set to music of
a high order, which was one of last
season IS musical successes in this city,
comes to the Salt Lake theater on
Wednesday next for an engagement of
four nights and Saturday matinee, with
special holiday matinee on Thursday,
Thanksgiving day, when it will be
given by John Cort s splendid company,
headed by Edward Martindel, Mr. Mar,
tindel struck the nail Of approval
squarely on the head last season in
the role OF "Totem Pole Pete and
had this opera contained no other song