Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-04
DEsERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY JUNE 1910

reize upon the opportunity to present
one or two dramas Of their own.
I'm the choice OF his plays Arthur
Bourchier has not been particularly
fortunate II late. He confidently eN-
pected that Somerset Maugham's The
Tenth Man" would beat all records -
and It's run scarcely extended beyond
so performance. Then Ftohman
brought him 'The Honor OF the Fam
iiy." or, as u was renamed for English
use. Parasites" and although every
EFFORT has been made 10 bolster UP the
piece IL. TOO Is 10 enjoy but a brief
career II Is quite two or three years
ago that Frohman spoke To me of The
Honor OF tho Family stoutly declar-
ing that II could not possibly fail. All
this serves merely To point the moral
that IL o. always dangerous TO prophecy
unless you know. AZ an alternative
Bourchier has Just put into rehearsal
at the Globe an English version OF Paul
HerVieus threc-act play "Connais-Tot'
originally done at the Coincide Fran
caise Ia March. 1903 From reading
Of the piece | should hardly judge that
It's chances are great In London but
a. Bernard Shaw says You never can
tell" Bourchier viii. Of course. APP
pear I'm Iye Bargy's role OF Gen. dc 81
beran. an elderly French officer ana
strict martinez, with nSed ideas on the
subject Of wlfcly duty. As Violet van
brough (Mrs BourchicD II Mt present
free / assume that she will undertake
the opposite role Of Clarisse de siberian
who suddenly falls "A victim to a con-
Stunning passion for ono or her nus
bands subdterns
Conan Doyle IS busy rehearsins at
the Adelphf new play from ms own
non I have previously mentioned thlt
short stories. and that both sherlock
Holmes and his ndus Achates. Or. wat
son. would make their temperance IN
H. The story / have since ledrhri
bears the title OF The speckled bahu
and is concerned with the diabolical DO
inEs of an unprincipled physician bt
Grlmsby Rnylett, who seeks To accom-
pllsh the death OF his niece ana SO
uossess himself OF her fortune inc
means ne chooses 20 erect his putIns9
are fairly novel. Her bedroom ~ rl,u-
ated next 10 his Through a ventilatoT
placed In the wall separating the w
chambers Roylett introduces a polS"h'
ous snake which slides down con
yenicnt bcll-rope until II reaches the
siri's he'd Fortunately Sherlock Holmes
arrives on the spot just IN the nlcH o.
time To drive back the destroying ahdeu
which In the end turns upon its owner
and stings him to death. Altogether
a, IL a creepy tale and Conan Doyle
tells me he will spare us none OF l's
horrors. even down to the appearah..
ON the scene Of the deadly snake itsCU
Iyn Harding has been engaged 10 pay
Tho part OF Or Roylott while n y
saintsbury. sound and capable actor
ls 10 he Sherlock Holmes. a part ne
has for some time successfully sustain
od in the provinces In William GiHette'S
drama OF that name
In less than fortnight from now
.,rhe Rivals" will have disappeared
from the Lyric bill and IFS place pee'
taken by Lewis walters revival OF
"Don Caesar de Bazan." The adapta,
,ion ~ the piece was done by Gerald
du Mauricr, who has been touchlng !,
up for the present occasion ana Va
originally given at the Coronet under
the title OF "a Royal RIVAL In May
1901. and thence transferred TO inc
Duke OF York's in August of the same
wear. No great measure OF popularity
attended its performance. but the piece
NAV prove serviceable in helping wall
or IN bridge over the interval between
now and the end Of the season.