Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-23
YOU CAN'T BUT
LOVE THE GIRL OF
THE GOLDEN WEST
Heroine at the Newark May
Lack Cultures Veneer, but,
Oh, Her Heart!
PARTISAN APACHES ARE
FEATURE AT PROCTOR'S
Policy Change Banishes Bald
heads from One House-Fun
Is Keynote

THE golden Girl of the Golden
West" bringing with her the
freshness and breeze of the land
of promise, where human nature
sloughs off a coat of it's civilized veneer
and stalks about unwilling and un-
afraid, has been revived from her state
of suspended animation and is enliven-
ing the boards at the Newark Theatre
this week. Thanks for her appearance
are du~ to Corse ytol and his stock
company, who nave come to spend the
summer with us.
The girl Is not versed in the punctilio
and would-be %politeness of her effete
sister of the East, nor has she her airs
and graces and boarding-school style
of culture. Her language is marked
rather by it's %luridness than any pro-
pensity for Latin quotations or gems
from the hundred best"
But her heart is, oh, so white, her
mind is so l.een for tho essentials, she
is SO buoyant, SO spontaneous, so gen.
uine, n withal healthy, that we, too,
all of us. fa., victims to her charms
and cheerfully would tag along whittier
she might lead the way,
1t is small wonder that she was
chosen as the theme for the first
American opera, for she typi1es, ele-
mentally, the ideal of strong, pioneer
American womanhood.
Its Rough-and-Rcady Makes II Vital.
1t is the character drawing of the
lJugh and ready Westerners hat
makes the play SO vital. And the
story is simple, but the action is swift
and there ara plenty Of thrills. 1t is
the story of a girl without father or
other, who is enthusias site over her
housekeeping a saloon and tending
the bar, and, on the side, teaching the
boys how to read nj assimilate
culture. They are all in love with her,
from Nick, who helps about the bar,
to Jack Rance, the gambler-sheriff, but
she laughs at them and goes serenely
on her joyous way until a stranger
comes along-not quite a stranger, for
she had met him on a train going dow
to Monterey-and she capitulates.
Not until a posse of the boys appear
in the night at her cabin, searching
for him. does she discover that he Is
one of the despised road agents who
has come to her saloon, not knowing
her proprietorship, to rob 1t. Her de-
votion to the boys, and her explana-
ton of that devotion, win protection
for him, and, in return, procure her
his love.
The knowledge of his business brings
a revulsion of feeling, and she sends
him Che had come to call at the cabin
n was forced to stay because of a
bad storm away. after having hidden
him from the posse.
She Shelters Him Again.
Hardly has he gone out when he is
shot, and once more she shelters him,
nursing his wounds. And the sheriff,
discovering him, protects him, too,
from the others, y-ho would hang him.
But he is eventually brought to light,
and the rope is prepared, when Nick
presents the strongest plea for mercy
the sight of their beloved teacher bid
ding him farewell. So all ends hap
PLY.
The performance of last night moved
with plenty of dash and minus the
bitches commonly incident to the first
night of a new production.
The play could be cut to advantage.
and would be fully as effective with
out the last scene. 1t is superfiuous,
and lengthens a long evening.
Miss Mabel Brownell, In the title
role, earned the honors with her spirit
ed Interpretation of the girl. Succeed
ing as she did Miss Blanche Bates in
the original production, she brings to
the part the intimate acquaintance of
long experience. Added to this is a
naturally magnetic personality that
completes a ~pleasurable entertain
ment.
Entirely satisfactory in figure and
dignity was Clifford Stork as the road
agent lover. He was at all times
forceful and convincing and danger
ously attractive. But why, please tell
us, is the poor sheriff, Jack Rance,
doomed to so CHASTITY a makeup? Col
orless he has a right to be, but not