The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-27

May Robson opened at the Salt Lake
thestcr last night in "a Night out and
a large audience OF first nighters will tell
their friends today that Miss Robson and
her latest comedy furnish one OF the few
real comedy treats OF tho season.
"A Night out is quite substantial.
lsughable and wholesome AS WAS The
Rejuvenation Of Aunt Mary" in which
Miss Robson was last seen In Salt Lake
Her coming is always signal FOR two
hours and half crammcd full Of laugh
ter, She Is the only woman on the
American stage who can make comedy
capital out of gray hairs and pencilled
wrinkles. Her humor Is OF the broad.
wholesome, turbulent kind not the off,
spring OF buresqued viraeo With stridu-
lous voice and rheumatic twitchings,
which is usually the comedy conception
Of feminine senility on the stage.
The keynote OF "a Night out Is ut
tered by Miss Robson in a short cpl
loeuc which Is the signal for the last
curtain. and which sends the audience
home with tho knowledge that what they
have socn and heard is brim full OF sim
pie truth. despite the fact that they
have laughed long and heartily. Meet
old age half way; welcome it with open
arms is the substance Of the closing
lines
Grannum (Miss Robson) has two
grandsons (Jack storey and Paul Deckcr.
both over the twenty-one mark and col
Iege graduates. yet their mother has Ger
tain fixed ideas regarding tho raising of
| children She insists that her boys be
In bed by 10 clock Grapmum knows
foil
| light hearted, nischieyous dispositlons OF
the boys, and through the play is worked
out her determination TO convince the
boys mother that she should unite her
apron strings and leave the boys more 10
thcir own resources.
Imagine sweet innocence and domestic
obedience IN the makeup Of a COLLEGE
graduate! The boys form the habit Of
to be in bed. They visit the Three
Lights g. questionable midnight resort.
Granmum hears rumors OF their nights
OUT and proposes-in order to find out
! for herself II the Three Lights is a
suitable place to spend an evening-that
| then take her with them the next time
| they visit the resort.
Granmum gets into the spirit OF tho
! place. and is highly enjoying herself over
| a glass Of claret lemonade when the po-
| lice raid the resort. bribc is passed
papers print facts and names, and scan
| dal is stirred up in the peighborhood. In
| cidentally II is discovered that a. ucgota
| BILE bond certificate Is missing from
Granmum's safety deposit vault. The
| fact that the boys have spent money law
| ishly at the Three Lights" points 90 the
| guilt of one or the other,
1t Is enough To say that the guilt is
| liked in an unexpected quarter. the sean :
| dal blows over, the mother has learned
| her lesson and Granmum finds happiness
| In the freedom and acccntuated love oil
''hor boys
1t is pretty story bubbIing with spon-
| taneous wit and bristlinG with coined y
| through every minute Of Its telling. The
| company Is Of the same standard of cX-
cellence that has marked Miss Robson
support on former occasions.
| The scenic effects are well done. The
| first act shows a view OF the Hudson be.
| low the Palisades. under the moonlight oi
| a summer night. The cloud and water
| effect in this scene has never oecn done
| better on a local stage
| Miss Robson Will repeat IA Nigh, Out
| tonight. Tomorrow afternoon and even
ing she will present THE Reiuvenatior
| of Aunt Mary