The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. MAY %. 1909

MY Partners Girl is Charles T.
Dazey's straining struggle 10 regain
some Of American melOdrama's lost
ground. I have written now and then
OF the slump in plays dubbed sensa-
tional, in which knives tab and bullets
! fly. ! have told you how thirteen New
York theatres formerly devoted to gun
pop plays. with their scenes stretched
/ from BOwery dives across the wild west
OF mines, ranches and wigwams TO the
Chinatown of San Francisco. have been
given over to stock companies, vaude-
Vile and motion pictures. Very seldom
do I mention managers, or pay any
heed to their business; but here I need
to say that Charles z. Blaney was the
most extensive operator of cut-rate the
aires with loud actors in dramas meant
to agitate the common people. A. II.
Woods was second to him and not far
behind. Blaney put together the stuff
that for awhile entertained the masses.
It was only when Theodore Kremer OF
a melodramatist of his type came along
with uneommonly good work that
Blaney or Woods would pay an authors
royalty.
These points are noted TO convince
you that when Bianey braced himself
to pay a percentage of receipts 10
Darcy for MY Partners Girl" spent
all the money requisite for pictorial
mounting, placed il in the most pros
porous of Brooklyn borough's low-price
houses. and assigned his bride. Cecil
Spooner. to enact its heroine, he felt
the necessity Of a nOw-0r-never vic
tory. In presenting first in Brooklyn
though, with Cecil SpOOneT Blaney ex-
plotted as its heroine, a part Of he ven
ture is not a normal test, but fore
gone conclusion.
Brooklyn is our borough of million
villagers, It cherished the courtIy Con-
ways stock company until Gotham
proper neglected the Wallack. DAILY and
Palmer organizations. IT sustained q
resident negro minstrel company long
after all other cities except Philadelphia
had thrown that form of diversion into
limbo. The Spooners took the place Of
the Conveys I'm Brooklyn. though on a
/ lower level. Cecil was the soUbrette of
/ the SpOOners; and I doubt il any ac-
tress on earth has more doting audi
ences than Brooklyn gives to Cecil. She
/ is so cute To them. so very cunnin' that
I her every wriggle brings screaming
laughter. every caper cutbursting hi
larity. every stunt a spell of parOxys-
mai delight. So, when Cecil depOrts
as my partners girl" and 1000 Brook
! iyn villagers have an ecstatic evening
with her, it means nothing one way or
/ t'Other as to the plays own prosperity.
Maybe my mind was muddied the
/ evening I spent with MY Partners
Girl" for I didn't keep close to the
plot; and the puTport seemed to be that
Iall Of masculine Pawhusl1a was mad
with love of Cecil SpoOner. Her choice
/ is the son Of her fathers partner; but
| she has no end of trouble saving him
D from Tv0cbpVg who think ne is 2 rob-
/ Der, and from the vengeance Of a man
whose chum h hasn't murdered, al
/ though he seems guilty. A second and
third sutton are good fellows a fourth
and fifth are as bad as they can be;
and with five lovers in active oklahoma
/ YOU may guess that something is being
! done all the time around and about
/ Cecil.
/ However Darcy was bound to leave