The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-31

' OK IHE coming two weeks. be
~ ginning Monday evening Of this
week, the Garrick players Will
be taken over to the Salt Lake
theater and present there two of the
finest dramas this city has seen in the
past SIX or seven years Alias Jimmy
Valentine, Paul Armstrong 9 thrilling
story of the reformation OF n safe.
blower; and " Salvation Nell, - in which
Mrs. tlske appeared here three years
ago under her husband s manag cement
and drama hat is accredited with be-
ing one OF the most tragic and fascinat.
ing productions Of its nature ever
staged in this country
The combination Of the Garrict play
crs and the Salt Lake theater. together
with such plays as have been chosen,
assures IN advance for the company and
house Il patronage that will make the
move success. 1t is an association
Of playhouse and players that is seldom
attempted and il was not until the de.
mand for a revival OF "Alias Jimmy
Valentine by the Garrick players had
reached point where the management
could no longer ignore the requests that
were pouring in on it, that the matter
was taken up. As soon as it was ascer-
tanned that the house would be avail
able for the ensuing fortnight, prepara-
Garrick players there for two weeks
and this arrangement goes into effect
Monday evening Regular Garrick
prices viii prevail for the engagement.
The Garrick company gives ono extra
performance of a Woman S Way' at
the Garrick tonight
Alias Jimmy Valentino was first
presented in New York last year with
H. b. Warner in the title role, and
n hn
sent this year on It's first tour of the
country. The attraction was one Of the
chief events of the early season at the
Colonial here. Every reviewer in Salt
Lake declared the piece one of the
greatest efforts Paul Armstrong has
ever given to the American stage and
Il theme so skilIfullv handled as 10 place
the drama at the head OF its class and
to have set new standard for realism
on the present.day stage.
When the curtain at the Salt Lake
theater Monday goes up on Alias
Jimmy Valentine, it rises on the
highest priced stock production ever
gwen in Salt Lake
Jimmy Valentine. at the opening of
the play, IS convict in Sing Sing
prison accused of robbery. He has
ally smart one and he is far above the
average bank robber in mentality The
ends Of Valentine 5 fingers were super
sensitive and he could, by sandpapering
the tips until they bled press them on
The exterior of the vault door near the
combination knobs and, as he turned the
latter. feel with his other hand the
tumblers Of the lock rise and fall until
the combination had been solved and
the vault opened. For years he and
his gang had been the terror of the
police o. the eastern cities and finally
they had ''iobbed' - him into Sing Sing
where he is confined at the opening of
the story,
The warden has little love for him,
and he has rough usage. The lieutenant
governor and his niece come to the
pcnitent9ry to inspect the prison and
get glimpse of the everyday life of
the prisoners. They have the impress
sion that there are manv men in prison
who ere there unlawfully and who are
innocent Of the charges against them.
To show his visitors Just how badly
mistaken they are and how dangerous
the confined crooks are, the warden
sends for three or four, has them
brought into his office and before the
locks, raise checks and do three or four
other tricks that seem marvellous in
their cunning and dexterity.
The warden tells them Of Jimmy Val
entine and his ability 10 open safes by
the sense OF touch. He is sent for and
the moment he faces the party Rose
Lane recognizes in him the man who
few months before, had saved her
from brutal attack by ruffian.
From the moment his eyes rest on her.
Valentines change begins. He is par
doned through her efforts
Rose 5 father gives him position in
his bank in the middle west and he
works mp TO the position of cashier.
Then in the very noonday of his hap.
piness comes DOYLE. the New York
detective. 70 arrest him for A bank
robbery which belongs to his past. De
termined that his happiness shall not
he wrecked, Valentine digs up the
memory OF cousin who went 10 Alaska
and disappeared, and inserts picture
Of himself among those at banquet by
double negative process. tells clever
story prepared for tho occnsion and
apparently deceives the detective
The bank has had q new safe in.
stalled and the combination had been
DELAYED. As the detective AL but closes
the door behind him, he hears the bank
watchmaD. a former pal Of Valentine in
his crook DAYS. rush into the office and
frantically tell Jimmy that Rose s lit
tie sister is in the new vault with the
door shut and locked upon her. facing
snffocation.
Then ensues one Of the most dramatic
scenes ever evolved in An American
dramatic darkened basement OF the
bank; Valentine with his finger TIPS
sandpapered to the quick. whirliug the
combination in the glare Of flicker
ing matches held by 4" Red - turning
the knob and waiting for those sc'.
tive fingers to tell him of dropping
tumblers, until they fall and the two
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