The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28

is set handsomely. while for the
rest of the programme il is so
genuinely old that one canvas fell
forward in its frame, as fhosph
from weakness, into the arms of
the folks in. the front rows. The
hnalitY is a gathering of the com.
pany with makeup off, to sing as
chorus in ''Auld Lang Syne,"
and TO crafty curiosity as to how
they look when they are them.
selves.
Clouds" a Wet Blanket.
Mr. Hoppe advertised that
Clouds WASH t for gapes of
tedlum nor grins of amusement,
but for culture in sociology. Every
summer, when a theater may be
had al ha!ved rental. Mr.. Hoppe
produces play 10 teach lesson.
This time he has had a novel by
hemian, shaped into an English
drama. Nineteen twentietbs of
the first audience sat in a silence
that may have been either apa-
thetIc or attentive as Clouds
rolled by The other five in
hundred. having been warned Of
the profuDdity of the play, should
have stayed away if they didn't
mean to keep scdate at everything
and laugh at nothing.
The theme Of "Clouds' is the
duty of a young man to enter tho
Roman Catholic priesthood. for
which he is in his final year of
preparation, although he has as
yet made no VOW of celibacy in
holy service to the church, and
would like to marry the young
woman of his childhood love. She
returns TO their village after a
long absence, a beautiful actress.
TO make husband of him. She
can do it, TOO, for she is strong,
healthy, dominating creature,
while he. weak of purpose and
easily fascinated, yields to her will
with scarcely any resistance. lie
ISM conscience stricken at break
ing his unsworn vet positive prom
isc to live ill death holy
bachelor Nor is he greatly moved
by his pious mother s almost
killing isappointment at his
abandonment of religious career.
II Is the actress who compels him
TO be loyal 10 the church. After
wooing and Turing him into Il be-
trothnl. she discusses the question
with her lover IS priestly uncle
and a wise physician, and decides
thar he shall bid her adleu. return
TO a theological seminary, and
make ready TO conduct his first
mass,
Fatal Error in Play.
How easier it is to see an
error afterward than beforehand.
In The novel the young man was
endowed with good mind III
poor body. He was an intellectual
stalwart and corporeal wcakllug.
Now, what did Mr.. Hoppe do but
have him a thin, paie, spirltless
acior-so ludicrous contrast to
the robust actress-t hat the
per cent Of humor in the audience
broke out when, like termagant
AmaZonian warrior IN unTcslslcd
control of pitlful little ilfer IN
her band, she ordered blm TO souse
the dim glim of his braIn and take
his illumination from her bril-
with much verbosity, she told HIM
to mass right along into the priest
hood ssClouds' didu { create any
storm-cxcept of ridicule.
Two of The short pieces IN the
Lambs gambol may be dovetailcd
into full-length PLAYS, if they were
not acts taken out of already
complete works and shaped down
for trial. That is done sometimes
at the Lambs. 50 Honor Among
Thieves is satirical If not
sinister problem play. 1T teaches
the safety Of thinking every one
= thief until he proves his honesty,
and then 10 keep on doubling, him.
Two chums in lodging house
don t know each other TO- be a
burglar. They chat till midnight
when they have separate house,
breaking Jobs TO 90 out on; ana
they say good night, Just then
third burglar, stranger OF
rourh type. comes in through IL
window. He has stolen .Slo.OoV
from house near by, and Is evad-
inc pursuit. The polished thieves
lake the swag from him. Ot
course they win turn him and the