The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-26
THE ROUNDUP
ROPES|N HEARTS
OF ITS HEARERS
Raply Holmes, as "Slim Hoover
Easily Carries Off High
est H0n0rs.
ZANE of the hardest things in
- theatrical life is to step into q
role mada famous hY another.

NNE of the nardeSt tnlngS IN
theatrical life is to step into b
role made famous by another.
and make good on ones own account.
When people heard that slim
Hoover Of Maclyn Arbuckle fame, in
1.-THE Roundup was to be played by
another there were many wagers to
the effect that said successor would
never be "just as good" But Raply
Holmes, the rotund. puffed his way
into Sims boots and proved to every
body's satisfaction that they fit very
well indeed. Members of the Newark
theatre audience last night, many OF
whom had seen he play before, ae-
corded him as full measure of chuckles
as was ever melted out to Maclyn.
Mr.. Holiness slim is big, lovable,
honest, with a code that is child-dke
in its simplicity, so full of good nature
that trouble slides from him like water
from a ducks back, thoroughly efficient
in his dealings with men, and s
lutely helpless in the presence OF
women. His quaint philosophy would
excite the risibilities of a stole, and the
generosity with which he gives UP the
girl he loves blends humor and pathos
into a most effective compound.
"W-elI," signs Slim, running his
hand through his unruly red hair. 1T
kind O. looks like we amt goin' to get
married this year.
MOO. Slim"
cor any other year. Oh. l know it's
because I'm too fat surveys his girth
sadly; beats all how l keep fat. But
never you mind worryin'. Hate you?
Why, bless your little heart, how could
j nate your hits himself vindictively
with his hat, "if only 1 wasn't SO fat,
I'd
Mr.. Holmes may be very, very sure
that people cannot say he is resting on
the laurels of another. Though In
many ways his Slim has to follow
the Slim of Mr.. Arbuckle, he has
given the role many touches that make
the Characterization his own.
Highly melodramatic in spots, and
containing much dialogue that could
never. never happen in real life-people
seldom go in for lengthy, flowery
speeches when they're ON the point of
death-"The Roundup" has a number
of excellent situations, two or three
good characters and a third act that is
a marvel in stage ingenuity and
realism. Those who have not seen that
third act will be foolish If they do not
seize this opportunity to experience n
of the greatest thrills the stage has
ever given. The setting is SO good and
the action so rapid that in spite of
himself one gets to believe h a it is
all true-and what greater tribute thar
that could a master Of stagecraft de-
mand?
I,OIa,, Csrann uitaQ an excellent DOR
trayal of the quarter-bred Cherokee,
Buck Mex ee, who goes about stirring
up trouble for the pleasure that ne
finds in it. He is a bad lot. is this
Buck. ana his death is thoroughly con-
sistent. Suffering agony from the
knife wound of an enemy be jeers to
the last, g~utterally haunting the
sheriff because he has been cheated out
of the pleasure of hanging him. Will
lam Conklin is a graceful, adequate
.'Sage-brush Charlie and Elmer
Grandin lends a quiet dignity to the
role of Jim Allen, the father of Echo.
Theodore Babcock, as the hero; Jo-
seph M. Lothian, as the friend he
wronged, and Eileen Enrol, as the
heroine, display "a tendency to lose
nothing of the 'meller-r-dr-ramatic" in
their interpretations of their roles. In
the desert scene, however, Mr.. Babcock
and Mr.. Lothian prove themselves able
to make the most of big moments, and
they rise easily to the difficult require
ments of the moment
The lighter scenes In which the cow
boys figure are full of fun and color"
whether they are like true Western
scenes or not. The bucking broncos
buck to the complete satisfaction of
a highly critical gallery, the dust of the
plains and the smoke of battle watt
their way into the nostrile of the au-
dience most realistically, and everyone
goes home fully satisfied n deter
mined to make all his friends see what
he saw.
ADELINE STANLEY CARRICK.