The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-22


above her stately head, to light her
lover back to her.
A LII is very different with Pet
n er when we see him next.
IL is a whitening August night in
a dismal clearinghouse, in the
cosmopolitan turmoil Of the New
York tenderloin. He has saved
$4,000 from the wreckage. with
which to rehabilitate his fortune.
Miserable and lonely, he scrapes
acquaintance with a man and two
girls IN the same house. Two Of
them, back writer and stenog-
rapher, are pretty rough diamonds,
but Ruth Dix, now utterly disheart-
ened by repeated failures to secure
employment and cruelty barassed
by the landlady,' proved TO be
an intelligent, agreeable, compau-
ionable girl. Her father has left
her nothing but a patented machine
for automatically sewing ou but
tons; and Peter. immediately recog
nizlng the commercial possibilities
OF the invention. proposes to use
his $4,000 to launch it. sharing labor
and results with his now made
friends.
The enterprise is "toasted - in
Ice cream and lemonade at an i'm
promptn, iovial and hopeful little
party, which is terminated bv the
unpaid laudlady'' cutting off The
gas, abusing the inventor laugh-
ter, through the keyhole. for hay
ing n man in her room. and telling
her she Will be evicted iu the morn
ing.
Presently another curtain
falls on the departure of Peter
through the darkness, guided by
an alluring woman, holding n flick
ering light above her head; though
this castle is a hideous aud dingy
clearinghouse, the princess is a
shabby little strugGler. aud the
Italian lamp, an ordinary parlor-
match.
After the happily contrasted eli.
max. the charm Of the comedy
cvaporatcd rapidly. The next act.
three wears later. in the offices OF
the No-Sew company. of course
discovered our old friends in as
cending prosperity: but at glance
We could have told Peter and Ruth
what they ought 70 have bad sense
enough to see--that beneath the
gentle radiance of mutual endeavor
and success, n man-andwoman love
had blossomed in their hearts. And
it was hard TO excuse the erstwbile
dilettaute forgetfulucss Of his
promise TO the princess, who, in
deed. had been happily freed by
the death of her husband.
Presently the princess turns up
in New York, and marches Peter
back TO Italy with her; where we
find him, in the last act. bored
aud fretful with The peaceful mac
tivity he adored before circum.
stances forced him to "discover
America aud assimilate the Ameri-
can spirit. But there is nothing
very agreeable 10 be said about. the
last act, into the midst OF which
Ruth suddenly projects herself. re-
versiug the priucess's procedure
and carrying her "herop back to
the land of the free, Welcome TO
him and good riddance, say l.; but
the princess feels differently about
ipfimatos she will get her to nun
merry. This decision is especially
because Miss Miriam
Tlemcuts's embodiment OF the
princess is much tho best perform
,ncc in the play Mr.. knoblsucb
knows how TO create lady, which
many dramatists esteemed by the
mob do not; and Miss Clements,
london favortc but now seen for
nc first time 10 America, fills in
,is sketch with beauty Of face and
'orm. an unaffected dignity OF de.
neanor and an innate elegance OF
LECTION.
Miss Tiiheredge. in the other con
eauential rc'c. is detrimental to the
,lav, without being personally less
or charming than when
he deliohtcd rs with - a Butterfly
N the Wheel. She is so esseuti-
Illy English 10 every gesture,
rlaucc and cadence Of her pretty
,oice as to fail utterly in the i'm
of ap American work
ne girl, and. therefore, TO serious-
v unbalancc the scales of contrast
rhich constitute the raison j 'etre
nd very soul of Mr.. Knoblsuchb
able