The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-24

Special To The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Again thc
best play in New York is by Augustus
Thomas. In '.Thc Harvest Moon AT
the Garrick thcatcr, he has made
play finer and moro powerful than
HThc Wtching Hour Dora Fullct-
ton. an unusually attractive and TAI
cntcd girl Of eighteen, Is determined 10
become IN actress. She obtains AN IN.
ydg2mcnt for the ngcnuinc part In Il
play which is about 10 he produced III
New York. II is the author 5 FIRST .iav.
Dora ia Is i'm love with him She has
previously engaged herself TO '.raham
Winthrop Her family oppose her ;li".
ai,I"al smbitious. They continually re
mind her that she iS = v3cillatlDg. nm.
brclla character. certain only oi coming
10 some SorrowfUl ord, rs her mother dld,
She docs NOT know what her mother : end
had been. and she is reared in The be
lief Thai Professor Fullerton. OF Harry
ard. is her father. This is easily be-
lievcd. because Professor Fullerton was
Eor mother s husband The girl ,!nrS
noi know that her mother bad run a''av.
Nor docs Fullerton know that his cr:ant
wife Was subsequently married 10
Dora : fathcr. lhc Monsieur NaViu. u
famous PaIisian dramatiSt. a hrillIIn1,
delightful, sympathetic, almost a pro.
found, parsonage, hv all odds the dom
mating figure in The comedy. Now the
story of tho play sets forth thc IN
;no nee upon Dora s life of the rei:or-
aled suggestions about her general M
Iltncss for bringing happiness to my
one herself included. II is shown bow
tcr mother had bccu similarly bcS"i by
= couccyt of diScoucCrtIng suggcS, 'O0,
which had bceu hrokCu hy his persistent
Influence The Girl is headed in the
same direction. She cannot uudcrs and
herself nor any oHe else. She changes
her mind i dozen timoS day about
her family, her profession and her low
err First she Will and then she wou 4,
Then she leaves il, and then she goes
back again. She Is blown about by
every breeze of opinion Navin, who IS
a psychologist 30 some purpose. takes
her in hand and teaches her 10 exercise
her own Will and bv and by reveals 30
her. and 10 all, his parental relation.
Everything takes y happy iurn at he
end. Nayin takes in hand even The
young playwright. 1iolcomb, and mis-
play, and by the rehearsal of scene
brings the flcdelin2 dramatisL and the
girl 10 IN understanding of themselves.
Tie insists upon certain effects, Instructs
them i'm the influence of color upon the
emotions Holcomb, who is very raw
i'll mis- self confidence, considers these
arts ''tao theatrical. - Navin reminds
him how F'theatrical' nature is. The
harvest moon upon world smiling with
vntages and filled with the drdors
of young love. the moon which nj the
harvest time changes It's habit and for
three nights RISES AT the same hour
upon the radiant romance OF this
rever.youug earth. Miss Adclaidc No
wax has, in Dora, a difficult part She
plays it delicately, sympathctically aud
with adequate comprehension. George
Nash. as Navin, is admirable. John
Savillc, as Judge Elliott, is very good
And so is Miss Eustace in the part OF
Mrs, Winthrop.
Miss Cecil Spooner and company were
seen at the Lincoln Square theatcr in
"Thc Little Terror comedy by
Amelia Weed Holbrook. Miss Spooncr
was versatile in the part of a white
topsv, who ''grcw up IN Poverty
Gnlch, n. NJ. and was adoptcd by the
foster son of Roswell De Wolf Brom-
ley, Drank Pcters). who later proved
TO be her father, Her play was a CON
tinuation Of impossible situations
crudcly conceived. Augustus Phipps
had the leading man : part, and PLAYED
il with sincerity. but not with much
force. Lord and Lady Darlington,
Orchard Purdon and Miss Belle Gail
ney). were natural In the parts OF
Impoverished relatives Of the Bromlevs.
Miss Rettn Nillcrs was effective as the