The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-09

/ with thc milk Of human kindness She
/ is the owner of Bitter Root farm on the
, New Jersey coast. and though getting
/ along III years has been too busy at
| thought needed her attention TO make
money. She is growing old, and one
night. while lonely and sad. Il terrible
| storm causes the wreck Of Il vessel al
| most at her door. \ child is saved from
! the wreck and brought to her home by
| one of the hfcsavcrs Aunt Jerusha
| takes the child in aud soon learns to
! love il rs though it were her own. As
| the child grows TO girlhopd the foster
mother decides that she shall not be de-
med the education which has been de-
| nlcd her, In order to secure money to
| provide for the education of her foster.
! daughter Aunt JeruSha mortgages Bit
ter Root farm. As the girl approaches
Womanhood man appears and au-
| nonnccs that he is her uncle, and wishes
| to take her to his home in New York
! City. He proves his claim. hui the girl
| is 10th 10 leave her foster.mothcr, and
only does so on the promise from the
uncle that he viii pay off the mortgage
on the farm. One of the most beautiful
climaXes in any play is that OF the first
act. when TrIxcy. as the girl has been
named by her foster mother, leaves the
| old farm believing that she is helping
| Aunt Jcrusha
| The play is unique in that there is
no villain and no love story, except
that of Aunt Jerusha for the waif
picked up from the wreck, Just story
| of human life that makes the world
akin, Throughout the play there is
| plenty of comedy to keen the audience
in good humor The part of Aunt Jer.
usha will be played by Miss Alice De
Lane, The supporting company is
|
TO be one of the most successful of the
present season at the Grand.
The famous English comedy drama,
GA Message From Mars, - will be the
attraction at the Colonial thcater for
| one week. commencing this Sunday
! night This play has a remarkable his
| tory. 1t was originally produced by
| Charles Hawtrcy at the Duke Of York Is
theater. London, in the fall of 1901. Mr..
! uawtrey then brought the play to New
York. where 1T remained 800 nights at
| the Garrick thcatcr. It has had four
| highly successful road seasons and
is this year making its last tour of
| the United States. Although business
| is fully up to the high average Of other
seasons the present producing company
will next season place ga Message
! From Mars on view in Australia. Four
weeks each vii he played in Sydney
| and Melbourne, tewnty-fve weeks in
| the provinces and four weeks in New
| Zealand. "a Message From Mars has
| been known for eight years as "Thc
! Play Beautiful aud has always lie
! served the title. 1T il being presented
! this season by notable special com
pany, including the famous English
| comedian, Bercsford Lovett. The scenic
iuyestiturc is elaborate. This play has
been. seen in Salt Lake City on two
previous occasions and has always
| played to capacity houses. Indications
point to a big week IS business
|
| john Drew. who comes To the Salt
! Lake theater next week has added an
other to his long list of successes IN
"Ja1k Straw comedy, by w. Som
ersct Margham. There have been more
subtle plays than this one of Mr..
Maugham but ii would be difficult
to find one that is more thoroughly en-
tcrtainiug. Mr., Vaughan is evidently
a keen and close observer of human ma
| turc and IL writes about real persons
! and events such as all have seen our
sclyes-aud those after all are the per-
! sons and events most of us like best
! 10 see on the stage. His plot is very
! light and airy but perhaps IT is all
! the more entertaining for that very
! reason. His situations are ingenious
! ana WnlmSlcal ana his dialogue is bright
| and witty. His satire is kindly, never
| the bitter kind, the kind that makes
I even those whom it touches most deeply
smile, Mr., Vaughan evidently wrote
'Jack Straw to amuse, and he sue
ceeded in his purpose admirably.
! Prof. Carl Hauptmann, German
! critic of note, and n brother of Ger.
hardt Hauptmann, Europe s most fa-
/ nous dramatist, after witnessing per
| formance Of "'Salvation Nell" which
| is to appear at the Grand theatcr soon,
had this to say of the unique drama:
q want TO thank you for the extraor-
dinary impression I carried away from
your, theater was completely en-
thralled throughout by the stage pic
lures before my eyes. Strength and
truth TO the last gesture, all nature
and all soul. I do not speak of the
title role. / did not know it was a
role and your role. ] only know that
a human boing and Fate stood before
me from beginning to end, such n mas
terpiece was the picture. But I shall
not speak of individual things, because
all the individualities combined to form
a memorable whole. The children play
ing in the streets, the persons who drift
In and out and mingle in the barroom,
or the fight in the streets, are life it
self, even to the house-tops. But this
is not stage management-the divine
touch is surely upon the things mani