The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21

girls, catchy songs and pretty singing,
is the principal figure. Elsie Davis, the
cashier, is part that is especially suit
ed TO pretty little Dorothy Maynard,
who makes the character full Of careless
gayety. The slang and the girls are the
charm Of "The Girl Question: There
is an excellent sensible plot in it, good
getic chorus, aud bunch Of whistliug
tunes that age will not wither. The
homely truth spoken by the Chicago res
taurant manager, Con Ryan. who is the
center of interest strikes the bullseye
invariably. ''The only way to win is
TO buy n slot machine and play it your
self" "Stop your beefing, there are
day. "Breathe like a gentleman; :"
"That plumber makes sixty-cents an
hour sleeping under aebath tub and
similar bits makes You listen. In one
scene Con asks Joe Forster (Helen Nc
Gowan) to assist him in plot to pro
pose 10 the pretty cashier. The plan is
TO put white carnation on tho cash
register if the cashier answer is
"Yes;n red, if "No.' Joe, whose heart
is wrung. is strongly tempted to place
the red one there. but she controls her
self and her anguish makes climax
for the second act. A lively chorus
furnishes diversion. Their hit is the
eddie Foy Girls imitation stunt, in
which the Broilers arc made up in ex-
aggerated ugly costumes, and the boys
in the George M. Cohan'' number are
always sure Of hearty applause and sew
eral encores
IT is the usual thing to refer TO
play that has achieved any sort Of en-
couragemcnt in these days as a 'stu-
pendous success and this may or may
- 1n IN hn g
license adopted by the management, Yet
all plays cannot be successes. and ia
nous manager has stated openly that If
he can produce two successes out of five
attempts at production, he is perfectly
satisfied, 1t has also been stated that n
play is the most Internally complicated
bit Of mechanism in the world today,
and those who incline TO psychological
spcculations, are fully aware that half
dozen facts must fall in line before a
play can become success. The play
must in the first place be of big theme;
it must be of sympathetic nature: il
must hold n remarkable interest; it must
be well played; it must be temperament
ally correct, and lastly the audience
must be In attune with the conditions
If any one OF these fall out Of line,
the play. fails.
More than 100000 persons have wit
messed the production Of "The Man
From Home,' which ran 342 consecu
tive performances in Chicago and for an
entire year at the Astor Theater, New
York, and which is TO be seen here at
the new Shubert theater, and some few
Of these may have grasped the essential
fact that is making the play n real sue.
cess. 1t is the Great Spirit Of True
AmericaDism that pervades it like a
Western breeze; the feeling that makes
every man, woman and child that wit
nesses it, glad on coming out Of the
tbeater that no or she is an American
with the great big heritage Of freedom
and ability to draw upon if. It is this
quality that stands out like star
against the dull background of European
facts and environment, and is made all
the more prominent by virtue of con
trast. The homely American humor is
twice as effective when thrown against
the blank wall of foreign idiom, and the
play wins its greatest appeal on this
ground alone. From the moment the
curtain rises, the American that is
known and loved stands forth TO do
battle for the right. "Thc Man From
Home will be mt the Shubcrt four
nights, starting Wednesday, November