Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-21

representation of an arbiter elegant
iarum. III, indeed his popularity III
New York's most exclusive clubs does
not make him SO in reality.
Jack Straw aims TO expose the.
absurd Impression that the nobility in
Saught excel the middle classes. and.
B incidentally to ridicule connt-hunting
by the American mamma. Mrs. Park
or Jennings, wife Of the millionaire,
offendsf With cruel franliness a lady
Of good breeding; and the lattel's
friends, in order to avenge the insult.
decide to Introduce Jack Straw, Il
naughty London waiter. to her as
8travagant sycophancy, the Jennings
family fall quickly into the trap, and
give q princely entertainment at their
country mansion for the archduke,
who, i'll the meantime, insratiates him
self with the daughter The impostures
is exposed; Mrs. Jennings is frantic
III her own coarse way when 10. Jack
Straw is found really to be the arch.
duke, whom even his designing ac-
completes had not thought him 10 be!
The daughter is won.
Hs Much as we must admire the tried
Illistrionic art OF John Drew. the chief
honorS last night were earned by Rose
ECoghlan as the unrefined. wealthy,
designing. count-hunting mother, Mrs.
Parker Jennings. l her delineation of
this difficult part scarcely flaw could
4 be found. In a twinkle her deneanour
would change from audacitS, snobbsh-
ness and presumption to the most
ridiculous faWring and subserfiency.
every expression and gesture assisting
faithfully the trying depictment. Much
of the amusement of the evening
came from her Sludicrous apeing OF the
beau monde.
AS Jack Straw, John Drew was not
ff
course he was usually the center Of
interest. When Ethel Jennings, in the
last act complacently accepts 81 his
sproffer of marriage, one wonders how
she could do it. his love making hay
ing been so self-confident, so abrupt,
so mechanical that It could have
reached only the intellect not the
heart. Then again. when connecting
the imposture scheme, the same me-
lcllanical attitude shaded DR.. DreW's
delincation. The scenoS lacked fresh
ness, vigor, Interest," one could not
help trying to guess the number of
times Mr. Drew said those lines. Be-
Mr.. Drew can scarcely be expected to
have the convincing personality that
he had in the days when he played
Alexander Sprinkle in An Arabian
Night" the days of ~. Many times
.inmthe course of the play. Mr.. Drew.
aNe,AliOWGNGI,M ttLupltt5SSlaSilSC1 VI LIE
real merit behind his reputation as the
hest living actor of Society plays.
AS Ambrose Holland. Edgar L. DAY.
export did excellent work and Frank
Goldsmith, in voice and person. play
ed we'll the part of Lord Serio, the
young stupid lord, seeking an heiress.
His love making was filled with more
real feeling and appeal than that of
Mr. Drew: and vet Ethel chose the
ArchdulSe Sebastian! AS Count Adrian
Won Erremer, Mario Majeroni was
quite the mast polished gentleman on
tho stage; and in every sense of the
word enacted his part we'll. Mr.. e.
Soldene Powell as Mr.. Parker Jen-
nings, the millionaire, was excellent,
though Edward Nicander as Vincent,
his son, was little too asinine for an
American boy who had had the oppor-
tunity OF oxford. Mr.. Walter Solder
ling as Rev Lewis Abbott, Adelaide
Prince as Lady Wanley, Carlotta DotS