Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-19
rGMBERs Of the theatrical pro

" vote time and i. talents for ~ 7,
= an hcueRt OF others when callct
anon to do So !, Il is seldom that they
ask aid themselves, and when desarV-
ing. it should bo,freely granted. For
this reason tile performance OF by
Right of sword the members oil
the company whose salaries are I'M
paid should Eecciveta liberal patron
age The members of The stock COM
pany are sali ladies and gentlemen
and during their seiy in Salt Lake
have corhpprted themselves as such.
The finanGial5 troubles which have
come u,etij}4 ibe company have not
been of its making and IL has made
heroic efforts. tc, keep the organization
together Ii spite of then.
Besides tho, merit of the object, the
performance VIII he well worth the
money. Shy Right ofiSWord' IS ias-
cinatjng romantic play, and Win
pn1nh stuart In sthe role OF the cool
Young American hero, md full cast
of the Old faVorites &of the company,
should be most ctjoyable, Mr.. Stuart
is delaying his dcparture solely 10
give the company i1is assistance, aud
Contributes 8hise services and the play
90 help out his fellow members lie
has done much more than tiils.
Neither Mr.. Stuart nor anyone else put
The unpaid member; Of the company
lgill receive any part Of the proceeds
"Captain, S@ift.'' the bill with which
t5 Willard Mack viii open the summer
stock season Monday June 2 at the
Colonial. ris8pne OF the oldest and most
brilliant of modern society plays with
:. gentleman thief for its hero. Cap
tain swift was written 20 odd years
ago. but,it is played at least once a
wear by every reputable stoek COM
5pany in America Mr. Mack has se-t
lected it' as the bill with which 10
make his 9reappearnncet BECAUSE III mas
been generally conceded that 1t is one
Of the best roles in his repertoire.
The story OF the play is to the Older
thcatergoers who remember Maurice
Barrymore, Marie Burroughs. ana Az
mes Booth very familiar, but to the
Younger class the chances are 1t Is for
the most part q decided novelty. Mr..
Mack has selected n good list Of plays
for his summer season but none NJ
them are more entertaining than sae
story ofGthc Australian road assent
6"Captain Swift" He will be support
ed by Mrs. Annie A. Adams, Anna
Cleveland, James Rennie. Harry
Blanchard. T. N. Hebron and others.
some known and some strangers 70
Salt Lake thcatergoers. Captain
swift viii be followed by John
DrcW-s success christopher, Jr.
AS the next attraction at the Salt
lake Theatcr Frederic Thompson viii
present his elaborate scenic production
or ..Pollytof the Circus, /" which achieves
such a marked success In New York
. tItfa An
the Liberty theater. The play is by
Margaret Mayo One scene shows q
circus ring in full tilt with four special
ties going on at one time, and the other
gives a picture OF the circus leaving
town In wagons in the moonlight. Mt
THOMPSON hastselected a strong cast OF
well known players.
THE Servant in the House, which,
will be produced soon at the salt Lake
,rheatet. was written as a plea for uni
versal brotherhood, but certain passages
in the play have been picked out by the
Socialists as voicings of their creed.
In the second act, the Drain Man tells
the disguised butler the story OF MS
downfall. He has become a. drunkard
and a loafer when his wife died But
that was 10 years ago, and u man can
do a lot In Is years" he adds. We
dedicated mySelr since tneH, ne say .
No longer can the vote solicitors deceive
him with soft words and glittering gem
eralities Fifteen years ago, he eS-
claims, banging his fist on the table.
7...me and my kind didn't have no re-
ligion But, by Gawd, we've got one
now! Like TO hear what it IS? Social
ism. Funny. amt it," At every per-
formance during the long run in GhiciL-
go this speech elected a storm Of ap-
pIause from tho gallery. which would
be repeated when Manson, the SYM
ibolc representation of the Son of Man,
would quietly reply to the Drain Mans.
..Funny, amt it?''--''I don't think so.
Its mine too"