The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-12

Ephouo girls equipmcuI-noNcl box of
| caRy, powder pun and hand mirror. and
ShH devoted just the requisite amount
CT attention 10 lhcm during the hnis IN
| tie telephone calls.
WHEN one of the characters has noth-
I ing else 10 do. he quite naturally drops
into a telephone booth and calls up a
friend presumably Oh some little mat
ter Of business.
JGst one word more as 10 detail. The
second and third acts take place In an
OF tie upper floors. Before each cha;ac-
ter appears ut the door OF the apartmrp;
The whirr OF the elevator as II asccnds
and dcSccuds is heard. Tho producer
might easily have permitted his audit
ence tp imagine that tho elevator WAS
iar enough away not 10 he heard. but he
believes this Illusion oi reality too yalra-
bic 80 be lost. aud he Is right.
The plot deals with the Vaccinations
of politicians who are seeking to pass
a blll that means money for a railroad
ono side is Tho Hon. John Blake" who
chcerfully admits he is a CRATER: the
capitalists who are trying 10 pass the
bill and some OF the congressman who
are seeking IN excuse TO vote for the
hiil, but are afraid OF their constituents
uutu the excuse Is found, on the other
side ls rcformer. The Hon Matthew
Siand'sh.' who Is fighting the battle or
Tho people. His record in politics has
been excellent his lie clear OF stain
ana his enemies admit THAI he cannot he
''h-i'i. nc ron. jim Bluke. who i~
the narty's leader and chief manipuator,
llhaIiN discovers that five years be
fore Standish registered at a hotel in a
small town In New York state with The
w oman. representing her TO be his |
VIE. Standlsh used an assumed name
on the rcgiGtcr
Here, is the scandal that the grafters
have been looking for with II They
hope 10 silence Standish ana pass their
OH winch lie has been successfully op- |
posing To triumph they must. OF |
course; have tho name OF the woman.
and Blake figures out a plan. He calls
Stsndish into the "Amen Corner and |
tells. him What he knows, frankly ad-
nitting that lac hasn't the name OF the |
II before midnight The bill must he !
passed before congress adiourns at an |
early hour in the morning The name
OF the woman must be obtained for use
IN me newspapers II Stanoish fails to
Blake rightly figures that standlsh
VIII Try to protect the woman and viii !
call her up by telephone as soon as the
Is ended. It will be a simple |
matter for Blake to get the number tiat
calls mp. He thinks he has ar
ranged this with Wanda Kelly. the tele-
phone girl who Is IN love with Tom Blake.
tho grafter's son.
s;andish looks in the telephone book
Tor The number. tells the operator TO call
fIala looo: New York. and then re-
guests her to remove the car piece from
her head
moment after Standish has left the
booth the Hon Mark Robertson. who Is
Blake's son-ln law, walks into the cor
rider and tells the telephone girl 10 call |
up his wife In New York. Plaza 1905"
This Is the dramatic close OF the first act
The telephone gin has the IS secret i',is and
she docldes 10 keep it. 20 protect "The
oman. The second and third acts re-
xolve around the attempts OF Biakc and
Robertson 10 find tic name OF "The
Woman and thereby BREAK Stand!sh
who Is Wiling TO do anything TO protect
ne. nsr except to permit The passage Of . bin
he expresses IL. He is not a melodra-
matte hero he is thinking or his own
career as well as OF the people. but he
Il quite as honorable and upright az
the average reformer we meet with in
political life.
AL efforts 10 wiring The name OF "Thc
Woman from the telephone operator
prove unava!ling. but IN the end 'The !
Woman" herself confesscs just as Blake
and Robertson are ready 10 release the
story for the newspapers without get
Ing the wonan's mans.
The characters. good. bad and me-
dunn are assumed with naturalncss
ana reserve power that is a growing /
merit OF the American stage. The COM 1
Dany which presented these characters
asst night mas scarcely n weak spot |
Perhaps more could he extra ctod rom
onc or two Of the situations but as a
whole the production is one OF the best
ihat has been seen here in several sea-
sons.
There are Only two feminine roles In /
the PLAY, Wanda. Kelly" and "The /
Woman" Marjorie Wood as Wanda"
and Marian Barney as THE Woman"
ire equally admirable. There arc ten or h
more men In the plot and all Of them
ire types that he who mixes at all in II
politics meets "A score OF times a day
during session OF congress or OF a state
egisla ture.