The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-26
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 2s 1872

pie Of a period so acnemic as to
favor Barrie, Shaw and Galsworthy
with the good old fashioned punch.
And ''QuitS,' being designed for
vaudeville. lands good. swift
stageerer in the solar pIexus. Ye
gods, what lot can happen in
twenty minutesl Mr. Lackaye lust
drops in to dinner with a new-made e
friend. lie is Mr.. Morgan. though
not the Mr.. Morgan. beng, indeed
the Door man of the cast. 1t is in
fact Mr.. Benbam, the cap
ltalIst of the trio CON
cerned, who has invited him to dine.
When said Benham mentions the
coming guest to his wife she be
Beuham confcsses her terrible Sc
cret. Years ago Morgan endeav-
ored to seduce her. Mr.. Morgan
arrives. Benham "starts some.
thing without alcoholic cncour.
aeemeut. Having threatened ven
geance. he. grects his guest as cold
~ as Nav day of the 1912 va
Tlety. Finding themselves alone,
hate Benham and Morgan reveal
q Fery different state Of things,
III was she who dragged the man
down. She begs him to help her
ikeep the truth from her wealthy
husband, He refuses; no second
man shall suffer at her hands as
he has! Presently Morgan is left
alone with the husband He de-
nounces Mrs. Benham in her true
character, suggesting ruse TO
make her reveal herself. He nre-
tends to shoot Mr.. Benham. The
shot brings Kate on the run. Think
ing her husband dead and herself
ms helress, she convicts herself by
her own words. And ism u she the
woeful wife when the corpse s,,s
I'D and takes notice,
THERE is nothinn half So di-
l. rect about "The Ava.
lanche. - which Robert Hilliard
wrote for himself, in collaboration
with ": \. Dremayne. Perhaps the
best. thing to be said for "The
Avalanche - is that its title had
been substituted. on the very brink
Of presentation, for "The River of
Chance and Change - Like MIR.
Lackaye, Mr.. Ililliard "saw"
himself in the graceful. clawing
coils of sinful siren. How these
OBESE and aging actors do suffer
Iom Irom the ,wlles of the weaker SEX
fortunately, there was a gum.
chewing waif of the streets who
observed enough facts to turn up
with them, when it was time TO
end the play, and convince the un-
justly Jealous wife that "Mr. John
Malvern GREY of tho Stock Ex.
change was. in spite of appear.
ances, all wool and a ward wide.
Such little treasure S that girl
was, Though her mouth was full
Of slang and chewing gum, her
neart was of pure gold and beat as
FAITHFULLY for the highly-placed as
for the masses.
I USED the word "fortunateIv,,
Il IN connection with Little Sure.
Shots presence in the cast: but
that conveys a wrong idea. Moth.
ing In The Avalanche was there
by chance. One could always find
a reason-geDerally one found it
IN some precedent prevailing in
the days of such dramas as HThe
Lights o London and "The Sill.
yer King A safe, for instance.
stood IN one scene so that young
scientist, who wore wooden ri1mmed
sPectacles and distributed a set of
Jokes about beetles, could catch
the tail of his coat in il, and. in
that awkward attitude, stutter
through proposal of marriage.
This all happened in Wall street
office on day Of panic, ] should
think there would have been
PANEL Every woman in tho cast
dropped in for comfortable chat;
comic fat man suffered grotesaue
Mysteries over his losses in the
street; and stock in the Avalanche
mine nearly slid to Kingdom Come.
Through 1T all Mr., John Malvern
Grey (Mr. Hilliard, need 1 sayD
not only kept his head but kept
all his noble sentiments, as well.
With a loaded revolver he com
PEELED his scheming adversary to
save the market; and with tears
In his voicc-so much more manly
than I'm the eyes!--he carcssed his
baby's little shoe. And in the end
he folded his great, tender arms
about that over-jealous little wife,
who. throughout tho evening, had
crooned the Hold songs Of courting
days. with the most agonizing
persistency.
TN a way, "Hansel and Gretel'
l. comes to Broadway as nov.
city, inasmuch as it is now being
sung in English for practically the
first time out OF the Metropolitan
opera house, and, therefore, offer
ing itself to that much larger pub
lie which includes hundreds upon
hundreds OF playgoers who avoid
grand opera like the tax collector.
To be exact, the Humperdinck
operctta was sung for the first time
in New York October S, 1880 on
the historic stage Of Augustin
Days famous theater. to which
the late Augustus Harris brought a
London company for the purpose
of presenting it, Engelbert Hump.
erdinclc himself coming over 10
conduct the orchestra And not
the least amusing incident of the
evening was Sir Augustus long
and eulogistic speech which be ad.
dressed to the composer, whom he
repeatedly called Herr Humper-
dinckle.
TN the revival by the Aborn
Il Opera company we get the
chi1dren who wnre lost in the voode