The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17

lbig production Of q HArizona' last weel
and audiences all through the wecl
have Infested the popularity of Miss
Douglas and their admiration for hel
acting. In ' Esmcralda' the star viii
have an unusually fine role rs the char,
acter is that of girl surrounded
through her early life by what was al.
most poverty and who in later years
WINS given all tho advantages of n
European education with wealth. posi-
tion and society ut her command. and
who. through the varying Vicissitudes
of those years remained true Mt heart
TO her sweetheart Of girlhood days and
! in tho end married him, despite the
I machinations Of ill-wishiug relatives
and supposed friends.
The Rogers are poor farmers in
| North Carolina, VINO have been strug-
Cling on through poverty for years an
| Til one day q clever stranger appears
at their cabin and offers them five hun
dred dollars for their little farm. Rog
ers IS about to take the offer and let
60 Of his home. when Dave Hardy, n
neighbor and Esmeralda p rustic sweet
heart. discovers that the stranger, a
Mr.. Drew. has discovered valuable ore
deposits on the Rogers farm, and that
the property is Of great value. He in
terferes in time TO save Rogers from
accepting Drew's offer OF five hundred
dollars and in tho end they receive
fortune for the property.
Esmeralda s mother, seeing a brilliant
career ahead OF her clever daughter
with all the money needed at her com
mand. prevails on Dave TO give up
Esmeralda, working on his generosity
of heart and appealing to his sense of
honor IN not keeping the girl he loves
from The advantages which are hers for
the asking. Dave agrees In his unself
ishness and gives her up for time that
she may have her European trip and
her schooling there.
The second act takes place in the
studio of Estabrook, an artist IN Paris. |
Dave has followed Esmeralda there to |
see if She is well and happy and, heart
broken, no discovers that she is to
marry titled foreigner. Misrepresen
.ations have been made to her regard
ng Dave and a wrong impression ere
lted in her mind Of his life and pros
1ects Estabrook. q good -natured artist,
assisted by Nora and Kate Desmond,
ind Dave in Paris and lend all their
horts to reunite Dave and Esmeralda
md outwit the latter's nagging mother.
dr. Rogers has remained true TO his
'oung neighbor despite his wealth, and
nd pleads with the Marquis himself
o give up all idea of marrying Esmer
Ida, telling him of her love for Dave
his the Marquis refuses TO do. In The
nd, however, the diplomacy of Dawes
rtist friend and his own courage tri-
mphs and in the face Of all opposi-
ion, Esmcralda returns to him and they
re happily married.
Miss Douglas will be seen rs Esmer- ,
Ida and, as has beer said, the role is 5
ne that is full of possibilities for emo
onal acting, tho yIvacity which char :
cteriZes all of Miss Douglas s efforts |
nd the display Of her charming stage
resence. The play viii be staged un-
er the personal direction Of Noel Trav-
IS, and that wellknown actor will be
zen as Dave Hardy, Esmeralda's s
Yeetheart. Elmer Booth Will play the
art of Mr.. Roberts and Verne Layton
i'll be seen rs Estabrook William
onovan has the role Of the titled
renchman and Arthur Matthews will
3 seen as the tricky Mr. Drew. Irene
uttrim is cast as Kate Desmond and
iss BrocEwell as Mrs. Rogers, Esmer- /
da 8 mother The usual matinees viii
: given during the week at the Bunga-
W, Wednesday and Saturday after
,ons, and the usual prices will prevail |
here is little question but that the
'oducion will prove one Of the features
the month at the popular stock house
I'd Manager Cox is spaTing no pains
stage the production handsomely.