The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-20
icisnl and Comment
on New Plays
In Iheater and Concert Hall East

,up, have had so many successes that
forget my failures'' '"
Increase in Thoater Receipts.
IN spite of the talk OF theatrical de-
S,.n'iI prGSnion INC statements OF The theatrical
sSnulcatc Tor the season show an in
vrehse ot moro than ~ per cent over last
Nehr- Ihat Is an interesting paragraph
IN a statement issued yesterday from tho
oilces oil Messrs. klaw & Eranger, II
also was announced that on the eve OF
charles Frohman leaving for F,,rope CON
tracts renewing the agreements OF the
syndicate for n long term of years. fol
lowing the expiration OF the present con-
tracts, which sun have another year to
suh. were signed by MIR Frohman.
MesSrs. Iilaw I;rlfslger. Messrs. NeiNon
~ ~ zimmerman INN and Al liayman. The
throughout the country have been fur-
niShed the very best attractions. and all
INC local managers now represented have
mace long renewals Of thcir contracts.
A. l.. Erlangcr continues the executive
head OF the syndicate.
About the Barrier.
w: y, C"BarD Masterson. a survivor Of
Irpnuer days, who knows the west bet
Ter than any living man and the people
OF That section speaking OF klaw 4 Err
lnnsers - production OF '.The Barrier a
dramatiZation OF Rex Beach's thrilling
novel by Eugene Presbrcy. saws: 1.-The
Barrier Is one OF the cleverest meIo-
dramas | have ever witnessed Usually
those western meiodramas arc loaded
down with lot OF swsshbucklcr fca-
lures that were never known in the west
lhe primary object or the dramatist of
onS OF these western stories. in which
lethal weapons are introduced I'm lavish
fashion. appears 10 he To surround the
play with as many thrilling incidents as
INC imagination can conceive without re-
Spect 10 reality. Mr.. PrcSbrey omitted
doing this in his construction OF The
BARRIER His conception of the western
character as well as Incidents that were
real In the life or frontier settlement
show perfect knowledge OF frontiers
fuliy left Out all those fiamboyant, un-
real features. which tho general run
OF writer's Of western Action deal in al
none Of those blood and thunder aud
notches-on the pistol incidents which the
Ned Bum,lines and other writer's Of lurid
western tales told In eNtravagant detail
n generation ago. The Barrier is a
clear-cut story. admirably portrayed by
as strong a cast as ever essayed west
ern melodrama. The plot of the piece is
laid at F1nmbeau on the Yukon river In
Alaska. and the curtain goes up in the
first act at Gales trading post. which Is
far from civilization. The part OF Dan
Stark by w. :. Hart seems 10 have been
made 10 order for that clever imporsona-
tor OF western characters. Any one fa-
miliar with the char5 cter OF the cool. cal
culatng and daring desperate. whose
presenc" was part OF frontier life a
In Mr.. Hart true type of that reck-
less nomad who flourished on the border
when the siN-shooter was the final
bitter OF all disputes between man and
man. Mr.. Hart looks the part. dresses
the part and acts IL as II be were the
real Dan Stark and had stepped out OF
the book upon the stage. He INDUCES In
none Of that sort Of bluff and buster
which was characteristic Of the tender
foot who went west to establish q record
and was usually buried Immediately after