The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-25
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action of the play commences. As the
curtain rises Il bed in an upstairs room
OF cheap boarding house Is disclosed \
screen llid"s Il part Of the bed so that the
audience cannot see the occupant The
preliminary nlonologuc. however. ac-
quainis tho audience with The fact that
the counts wife is sick and that she
Is waiting anNlOuSlY for her husba nd =
return. As she tosscs from side TO side
IN the bed she overturns the screen and
the audiencc4ooIs upon the face of Mar
Joric Rambeau.
Al this point tic "Count' enters cvi-
IDENTIFY asltatcd and with Il dark fromp
mantling his more OF less manly brow.
lie informs his wife that Red his Old
iord' has been caught by tho police and
IS liable 10 confess. The Count" fears
mat Chick" Fogarty. who has been
blnckmaiiinS him making him kick In
as the Ncrnacular goes, viii use the ar
rest of Red to- force more money from
hm-money that ig sorcly needed for food
and for the sick wife.
Mrs GilliSan. who runs the boarding
IlpuSt, Is Lillian Burnett, mother OF Miss
i9alnpean. and she appears apparently for
tlic sole purpose of adding Il comedy
iouch and uSherlnc in Chick 1'oGarty,
the matchmaking detective. Fogartv Is
roundly denounced by the sick wife I'm
her ircnzy at the thought that her hus-
band is TO he taken from her and placed
IN prlson-,and then. too, she is thinking
of the child that is TO be Togarty
swcars vengeance. lie will lialc the
Count away 10 Jail at once. Mean
une th@ Count, Infuriatcd at Fogar
~ conduct toward the sicS wife, fran
tiealIy declares that lie Will not he ar
rested. There Is fierce struggle in
which the detective manages To affiX the
hnndcufs and make the Count pris-
oncr.
This is all very well II affords some
Of the necessary thrills bu, so far the
play has arrived nowhere. In the strug-
gle table is overturned ana articles OF
=
swapping the handouts on the counts
wrist the dctectivc-who has been de-
scilhcd rs considerably worse in The
scale OF humanity than Lieutenant Beck
or or New YORK ipiamy-sccs the baby
ciothes on the floor, understands the
situation at once and undcreoes n most
marvellous change Of heart in an instant.
tlc unlockS the handouts and tells the
Count, he is free man, As many "A
Young lady has said ln q momentuus
crisis, ''lt is 80 sudden"
The denouement Is reminiscent Of n
scene in Jimmy Valentine but In that
PLAY the detective has been constantly
before the audience and he has been n
pretty good fellow, all the time, There
torc when he (orglves and agrees To for
get; there is nothing unnatural about it,
Nj. Mack has won considerable credit
Tor himself in the writing OF plays, and
it Is to be regretted that he has not
chosen more convincing ,n-uc for his
vaudeville venture. on Thursday. how
ever. at the matinee. lie will present an
otncr httla drama entitled, "Play Cards"
1t Is "A story Of the Canadian north woods
ana there VIII be special scenery and
effects.
One of the most attractive singing and
mopoloSuc acts presented at the Or
phcum this season Is the artistic creation
ol II Winsomc Soung woman who is desg-
mated on tie programme as "Mary Eliza
beth. comedienne." All Of her songs and
stories are new and every one OF them
makes hit 1Icr manner is graceful
and charming. as is beGtting in an at
that is at once refined and delightfully."-
witty.
The children this week will enjoy the
animated Toyshop." 1t is grcut IDEA
The scenery is painted TO represent a vast
'oyshop with all kinds OF wonderful toy
creations crowding the shelves and alslcg
ON the stage itself. which is supposed To
be Il corner OF the shop, are hobby horses
on rockers. The rockers are merely wood
and at first the horses seem 10 bc. but
one by one they Jump from the rockers
and turn out 10 be handsome Shetland
ponies. The entire act is taken up with
the toy stunts Of ponies and dogs.
Ponies and dogs are the toys Of Cod,
and the most marvellous toymalecr who
ever lived on this globe could not make
such TOYS these.
Mile Domlnn Marini and Marccl Broski
arc ihe star dancers in IN ella boratc claS-
slcal ballet which met with much favor.
The dancing Is Of The poetic and sym
holistIc order that has come into this
from Russia and other Euro
pcan countries within the last few years.
Locthart and Loddy appear IN an nc
robatic act. ono of the team is just
acrobat. Tho other is n comedian who
seems To be always on the point oil break
Ing 4 leg or an arm or even his neck.
He evoked many laughs by his odd falls
and tumbcs
Charles Olcott Is n comedian who chat
tcrs pleasantly and presents II clever
travcsty on comic opcra with tho aid of Il
submissive piano.
An act In which local talent shines earn
ed much approval. The Clarke sisters
arc three. One Of them Is only six or
seven years Of ugc and IL is she who gets
tho act across the fouilGhts She is Il
dainty raGtlme comcdIcnnc and has all
the poisc OF q star of the first magni-
tuIp