The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
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The attraction at the Colonial the
first half of this week, opening Mon
day night promises to bo one of the
most noteworthy Of the season, for in
his new Cleveland Moifett play 1.-The
Battle,' which he will present here,
Wilton Lackaye has found the most
reer In it he assumes the part OF
John j, Hagglcton, power among imam
ciers, whose search for long lost son
brings him to point from which he
deems it expedient to start life over
again. penniless and in notoriously i'll
kept tenement district, Here Mr.. Mof-
felt cleverly maintains his proposition
that TO have attained his previous emi-
nence, Hagglcton must have been made
of the stuff that will succeed under any
circumstances, and naturally q man of
his brains and ability is not 4al ced to
remain at the bottom for any length of
time. Haggleton, Of course, succeeds
IN his interesting attempt to ''make
good' for the second time, and. tries
to prove some theories that last sea-
son did not seem to meet with entire
approval from the New York socialists
Incidentally, he RECEIVERS his son, and
ssBi5ts in Strengthening out that young
man s tangled love affairs, and finally
delivers himself of a good many catchy
little eplgrams, some of which claim
no less person than John D. Rockefel-
that these few lines in the part of
Haggleton are the famous Standard OIL
magnatae s first and only Contribution
to our native drama.
When Henrietta Crosman. the popu-
lar star who is to appear at the Salt
Lake theatcr three days beginning
L.. i. Al
the special train on which she and her
company arc to make their trip TO the
Pacific coast has been named, by the
railroad officials, "The Anti -Matrimony
Special she was very much dis
pleased. IT seemed almost unbearable
that Miss Crosman, who is happily mar
ried, and the members of her company,
the majority of whom are also blessed
with happy and contented husbands or
wives, should be compelled to travel
for three months in a hotel-on wheels
bearing such a Reno-sounding name,
Just because the play which they are
presenting-a comedy by Percy Mae
Kaye, is called "Anti ntiMatrimony
The railroad folks had taken the title
of the play entirely too seriously. for
in spite of its name it is the jolliest
of comedies. But it was too late to
mend matters, for the itineraries pro-
viding for the movement of the special
car had already been sent out along the
road from Chicago to San Francisco
and back again But that did not pre-
vent the merry-hearted star and her
company from starting on n campaign
of reconstruction, in an effort to coun-
teract, if possible, any wrong impress
sions that might develop from too
literal translation On the part of any
chance visitor to the "Anti- Matri-
mony Special'
Miss Crosman made the first move
in the battle of retaliation by decorat-
ing the door to her drawing room with
a handsomely, painted panel bearing the
words. "Gretna Green" Next came
Albert Brown, leading man of the COM
pany, whose young wife, though well
known actress, has no part in the play
but is travelling with her husband on
his Pacific trip. Over the door Of his
stateroom he placed a card on which
are the words, "Darby and Joan"
Gordon Johnstone, who, in the play, is