The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-06
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, over his foes face. startling him into
attention. You can't shoot me-" he
says. You can't pull that trigger.
You can't even hold that gun" The
gun falls with a crash 10 the floor. I'D
ike 10 know how in hell Won did
that" says the daZed Hardmuth as
the curtain falls.
The light, which was from an cleo
trict chandelier, had been tried earlier
in the act ana found TO be in work.
ing order. but at the critical moment
It failed, much 10 AIR, MasOn's chaerin.
who felt that il spoiled the great
climax OF the piece That is a touch
OF melOdrama that the people love.
mel0drama modernized and toned
down" said Mr.. Mason, "and / regret
that the first night audience did not
get the fun effect"
Mr.. Mason said further that he has
played with five leading women in The
Wltehing Hour" and that he cOnsid-
ers Grace Reals the best of them.
Russ Whytal. who played Justice
Prentice for three years with Mr.. Ma
son, was in Europe last summer. and
1t was impossible to secure him. SO
that Harry Leighton of the No. COM
pany was substituted
Spending Honeymoon.
An interesting little person at the
Orpheum the past week was Miss Jes-
Sic Brown, wife of Bert Kalmar. with
whom she does a novelty dancing act.
IEey are spending their honeymoon
ln salt Lake, having been married in
Los Angeles the last of September.
The great aunt of the young woman
Is celebrated in The Relief of Luck
now a poem by Robert Lowell. from
which the following stanzas are TAX
en-:
There Jessie Brown stood listening
TIN a sudden gladness broke
All over her face, and she caught my
And drew me near as she spoke:
'' The Hielanders. oh, dinna We hear
The slogan Tar AVA
The McGreg0rs? Oh ! ken il weeI;
It's the grandest O. them a!
~ God bless the bonny Hielanders.
We're saved, we're saved" she cried.
And fell on her knees; and thanks TO
Flowed forth like a fun flood-tide.
Along the battery-line her cry
Had fallen among the men,
And they started back-they were
there 10 die
But was life so near them then2
They listened for life; the rafting fire
Far of ana the far-off roar,
Were all, and the colonel shook his
And they turned to their guns once
more.
But Jessie said. The slogans done:
But Wilma ye hear il moo.
The Campbells are coming It's nae
dream;
our succors hae broken through"
The wen-remembered incident hap
pened in the summer of 1857. when
the British garrison at Lucknow was
10 peTilOus straits. The great
aunt has been a heroine in the fam
lily, and there mas always been a Jessie
Brown until this day. The little
Scotch girls dancing OF the Highland
ding in costume takes on an added in
terest from her connection with this
story
1t is also OF local interest TO know
that Miss Brown was formerly with the
linn company for more than a year at
the Lyric theatre and Utahna park in
Salt Lake, shortly after the San Fran
cisco disaster. when she and her
mother lost all they had in the fire.
She was then only II years OF age, and
a popular little dancer.
Scouts the Supernatural.
Rameses. the Egyptian wonder
worker, who is one OF the Orpheum
headliners this week, is a native Eng
lishman, whose home is in London,
and his real name is Albert Rameses.
or his work. he has this TO say:
Il do not believe in the supernat-
ural. To me there is no such power.
Certainly there is none Of II in the
practice OF magic, for magic is prac-
tical-a matter Of study, science. care
full practice and judicious application.
Being a magician does not mean that
you have been given a gift. II means,