The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-10

1.-THE Deep Purple, by Paul
Armstrong and Wilson Mis-
ner, which The Liehler COM
pany is to present at the
| Colonial theater for three davs com
mencing Thursday night, is heralded as
| an example of the new school of dra-
matte endeaVor that Is making its
way IN this country. Whatever name
this new school is ultimately to be
credited with, it's origin is said to lurk
in the realistic schools Of France and
the Teutonic countries. Yet its char
acter has been greatly modified by its
application TO things American. and
its submission to the requirements OF
American audiences.
The Deep Purple takes lis audi
ence into the haunts Of the American
criminal, not the petty crook or house
breaker, who works for big stakes
through his ANALYSIS of the human
weakness of those with whom he deals.
The setting throughout breathes re-
alsm. though there is no claim, for in
stance, that the boarding house scene,
located In the midst of New York s
tcnder)oin district, has been trans.
ported from a real boarding house TO
the stage. The effect Of true realism
Is prOuuceu through inc dcceHtuHllOn
of the essential and the subordlnation
Of detail
With the time of The action, the
present. and the place, New York, the
play opens in the basement parlor of
a cheap boarding house conducted by
Mrs. Fallon Frisco Kate), an eX-
thief who has turned square, but who,
of necessity. owing TO their knowledge
of few former lobs in which she has
been implicated is obliged to harbor a
coterie Of deni7ens Of the underworld.
One Of these is posing as a wealthy
mining man. Just returned from Buffa-
10, where he has met an unsophlsti-
Gated girl whom be induces to come to
New York, promising marriage on her
arrival, She is placed in the care of
land by name, intends to make the
trusting girl an innocent party to a
badger game which he and one of his
friends have framed up to blackmail
young and wealthy mining engineer
who is about to arrive from the west.
Also in the first act a western hold
UP man, Laylock by name, with price
on his head. is introduced. Leland
learns his identity aud with the as.
sistance of > shady hotel detective they
turn Laviock over TO the police until
tneN can prove VINO ne is and GET the
reward. The next scene, Il parlor in
New York hotel, introduces William
Lake, the mining engineer and intend
ed victim Of the blackmailing scheme.
He is approached by the girl, who has
been properly coached. She enlists his
sympathy and he consents to 90 to her
fiat to advise her mother OIL some busl-
ness. Before he goes he is warned by
Kate Fallon, and he gets the drop on
his mon and takes the girl back TO his
own. mother. He has great faith in
her and, despite the advice Of Inspector
Bruce Of the Metropolitan police, who
is his friend, he ultimately proves he is
right in his estimate.
The last act. the scene of which Is
laid in the basement of Kate Fallon 5
home. shows powerful scene between
Leland and Lsylock, who has been re-
leased through the efforts Of Mrs. Fal-
lon.
At the mead OF the company are Wal.
ter Edwards. long 4 favorite with local
stock companies and who has also been
leading mau for, some of America 3
greatest female stars; Anne Suthcr
land s last season featured in David BE.