American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1909-03-27
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valley Farm Will Be a Star
Attraction.
Our Imported Dramatic Critic Impair
TALLY Reviews the Play and Be-
stow. Praise Where 1t Will
Do the Most Good.

Farm" a mellow drama of rare and |
extreme type, will be presented at the
Auditorium by the Bachelor Girls !
Club and few fortunate gentlemen
friends. Lucky Jim" was mother
less orphan without friends or kin
when compared with the favored few
who have been permitted to invade the
exclusiveness with which this society
hedges its membership about, and make
love to them even in public. Should
any of the gentlemen become suddenly
ill, or overcome with stage fright, the
writer will be prepared to provide a
substitute in order that the play will
not be interrupted. There are couple
of young fellows in the cast who have
not had much experience in such mat
ters and an experienced substitute
might materially improve some of the
scenes that are billed to come off.
As an entertainment it is about the
only thing worth mentioning that our
people have been favored with this sea-
son. 1t will be distinctly an amateur
production. Mention of this important
fact is made at this time because it
may not be news next week. In the
cast are some of our most distinguished
people. T. E. st. John, in dapper attire
and with wealth of glossy hair; will
impersonate Harold Rutlege, blooded
New Yorker desperately in love with
country girl. Those who have seen
him at rehearsals say his acting is so
perfect as to be real, and nobody will
blame him if it is. He alone will be
worth the price of front seat ticket to
any young fellow looking for pointers.
He is neither young nor inexperienced
and plays the game like master. Mr..
st. John came here after the traces of
youth had begun to disappear and has
been here long time. At one time he
and Judge Oliver and the Indians owned
all the land between Rockland and Po-
catello. The Indians filed contest
against them, and sent notice by mes
senger that they would. be down early
next morning on scalping expedition.
Tradition says they failed to find Judge
Oliver. because he was seventy miles
away at sunrise and still going. st.
John refuses to discuss the mat
ter further than to say that it is no use
to argue with an Indian, so his treat
ment at their hands must be left to the
imagination.
R. B. Greenwood, as Perry Dean,
plays second fiddle in love affair full
of interesting situations, which meas
ures we'll up to his ability in affairs of
this kind in real life. In the first act
he imagines he is the whole thing and
in the second is hiding under an as
sumed name trying to forget himself.
Mr. Greenwood was not originally cho-
sen for this part, and would not have
been afforded this opportunity of graft
flying his vanity but for his money. 1t is
reported, on the best of authority, that
he hired the party to whom this role
was originally assigned to get so busy
he could not attend rehearsals and then
used influence to get the assignment.
Were it not for the fact that the high
price of vegetables would make the be-
stowal of them appear as an evidence
of appreciation he would accumulate
enough to start green grocery.
Arthur Smith, as David Hildreth, a
New York lawer, is probably in the
cast just to take up time while the
others are going off and coming on the
stage. 1t is hard to find anything good
to say of Mr.. Smith, desirable, for the
sake of the cause, as it may be. He
was born in Wyoming. He came here,
like Missourians used to emigrate
to the Black Hills, without bringing
any. letters of recommendation. His
past is shrouded in darkness and his fu-
tnresis cloudy If he should develop any
talent on the stage he should be en-
couraged to go on the road.
Silas Holcomb, a respectable, well-to-
do farmer, will get a long way the
worst of it in the delineation his char
acter will receive. He will also suffer
in the matter of personal appearance.
No feeling should be harbored against
him because his representative does
not rise to expectations. Professor
Thompson represents, or misrepresents,
this character He has had little ex-
perience as the father of a charming,
marriagable daughter, and at the end
of the first act where he gives his
daughter away should not act as if he