The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12
"Griff and George" at the orpheum all this week

and once more after mere taste Of power
has become the hard-luck Georgia negro.
PunctUating this story at frequent in
tervals are musical numbers rendered by
individual members of the company, re-
infOrCed by as capable a chorus as ever
pointed a toe. That chorus gains distinc-
ton with the rise of the first curtain, Tor
at the very outset comes The American
Monte Carlo" sung and danced at sixty
horsepower rate
other excellent numbers are Il Would
Like to Correspond With You" Come,
Toddle Along" Goodbye, Miss Liberty
and Romeo and Juliet" the whistling
number.
Among the players the most noteworthy
Of the cast except the stars IS Julian
Rose. Marion Stanley Adele Rowland,
Mabel Sealby, Fletcher Norton, Toby
Lyons and John II. Pratt sustain the high
standard set by the producers
Another winner is THE Circus Man.
with Maclyn Arbuckle in the title role.
The play is now running in McVicker's
theatre, Chicago. Eugene Presbrey has
taken Holman Days stories and knit
them into a strong, Virile dramatic offer
ing, full of homely wit and gripping sit
uatiOns. 1t is the best role Mr.. Arbuckle
has ever had assigned to him, and he
makes the most of his opportunities. Es
Their Lyons as a widow and Frank CurrieT
in the part of a country banker scored
with Mr.. Arbuckle. The only member of
the cast Of whom the management had
any doubt was Miss ImOgene, the only ele-
plant sOUbrette in captivity. It was
feared that the adulatiOns Of the big au-
diences might turn her head. However
she is playing her part most creditably and
peacefully, although the day before her
first appearance on any stage she almost
wrecked the lobby of a Chicago hotel just
because a mOtOrman attempted to acCel-
crate her speed by giving her a shove.
The spectacular features Of the play are
the entrance of the remnants of the circus
in the first act and its triumphal depart
fore the fall of the curtain. The big act
ing act is the fourth. The play is booked
for an early opening on Broadway.
Joseph Brooks will bring out a play
that is destined to attract more than pass
ing attention. 1t is the first dramatic
utilization Of the San Francisco earh-
quake and fire. Against this BACKGROUND
Gertrude Andrews has put forth a power
ful story called Through a Window"
1t is q play of the hour i'm three acts and
will introduce Miss Mary Bertrand a
western actress of note. I'm a role that Is
a departure in stage characterization.
Miss Andrews has adrOitly woven the
tense tragedy of the stirring happenings
during the earthquake and fire into fab
ric that covers phase of the graft prose-
cutiOns there which takes up a new angle
of this highly interesting economic ques-
ton. The persOnages of the story typify
men and motives that have been very
much in the public eye as related to re-
cent history in San Francisco.
INC IOllDMlHB lell6Es written GX former
President Roosevelt and mailed at Nom
hasa, British East Africa, has Just been
received by Henry Beach Needham. au-
thor of the new play. Senator West"
which will be produced early this season:
"On Safari. July J. 1909.
Dear Needham-I am genuinely pleased
to hear that your play is to appear. It
appeals to me peculiarly, for it deals with
real politics, as I know them, and it deals
with them truthfully and with knowledge.
It is an admirable American political
play, and I greatly ike it, from every
standpoint. Always faithfully yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Mr.. Needham wrote to former President
Roosevelt, sending the Letter to Africa. Al
though absorbed with new scenes and en-
Toying to the full his vacation in the jun
gle, Mr.. Roosevelt wrote back without de-
lay.
Lillian Russell opens her season at
Springfield. Mass, Sept 10 in Edmund
Days comedy of modern finance, The
Widows Might" After two performances
out Of town. the new piece comes to the
Liberty theatre. New York. The comedy
is now in its final rehearsals. It is
story of finance and love and while
great part of the action takes place with
in the busy surroundings adjacent to the
financial mart known as Wall street, its
reflections show human side to the great
game played there that has never been
dealt with before.
The interest centers IN widow who is
admired and cared for by four old chums
Of her late husband. Unknown to her
they keep UP the widows resources and
allow her to live in luxury, though her
husband at the time Of his death was a
bankrupt. An uncle of the widow, for
motives Of revenge, makes her believe the
men are endeavoring to rob her, and with
his secret assistance she plunges into the
market and nearly upsets their well laid
plans for the completion of a big railway
deal.
A touch Of humor is given to the piece
in that each Of the four men is trying to
win the widows love though protesting
to his associates all the time that his
motive is most disinterested one.
Fannie Ward will arrive in America this
week. She will be seen in new play. as