The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-28

A FTER Peter Grimm the sunshine.
That is to say, "Little Miss
Brown has come to town to Danish
the ghost away. From tragedy mixed
with metaphysics we turn to farce
comedy. In real life the complications
Of 'fLittle Miss Brown would be de-
cidedly serious, but on the stage they
are familiar laugh producers. Not that
this comedy is hackneyed in It's man.
ncr; on the contrary, it is as sparkling
and refreshing az a spring gushing out
into the summer sun; but its basis is
the jealous wife who discovers her hus-
band in a tangled web he can't ex~
plain, "Little Miss Brown" being the
web. She is perfectly innocent web,
Of course, but there is no getting away
from the fact that she is in an awful
tangle.
"Little Miss Brown" was one Of the
most popular New York successes, and
it deserves the approval it met with in
the metropolis. 1t is especially effec-
tive in tangling the web and somewhat
unsatisfactory when the time comes for
the untangling. Fortunately for the
spectators the author performs the lat
ter task quickly. He just slashes the
web with butcher knife, so to speak,
aud seems to be saying to his audience:
"That is one way OF doing it. and if
you don't like it, invent something
better
The fun, therefore, lies IN the process
OF making the complications as intricate
as possible and in supplying characters
that viii fit the complications. In de-
visinG his characters. the playwright has
given us some yeracious American types
and the members OF the company which
presented the comedy last night were in
every way worthy Interpreters.
All the scenes are in a city hotel, The
first act shows the hotel LOBBY, and all
the other scenes have to do with room
507
Little Miss Brown, arriving from the
country. has lost her handbag In which
reposes the city address Of her flauce.
She knows his business address. but that
Is OF no use at night She goes 10 no.
tel where she is refused a room by
the sepulchral day clerk, who is also the
hons. detective. 1t happens that a
business man, Philip Dennison, has wired
engaging rooms for himself and wife.
The wife Is TO arrive from Chicago carly
In the evening and the husband from
New York the next morning. The wife
N liz to arrive and Little Miss Brown
nv a ruse Is ushered 10 the hotel apart
mcnt reserved for tho Dennisons. The
scene shows o suite of three connectins
rooms. Tho center room is the parlor
and on either side is a bedroom.
Little Miss Brown occupies one OF tne
and dropping her handkerchief The UNI
expected Mr.. Denpison arrives late al
night and retires. In the morning "Llttle
Miss Brown and he meet. and Just then
the wife arrives This is all that need
he said OF the plot. although the com
pllca tions only begin at this point.
some OF the characters of the Play
.rc the day clerk, who is AS CHEEKY as
- funeral director. telephone girl. who
is IN To the minute (not In answering
felephore calls but In everything eise)
tbe belIb0y. who Is boyish and tmpudsnt
Philip Dennison, a hu6tlng business man
who is thoroughly respectful ble' -lhltl'
( Miss Brown who is demure, Weep
| sonnewhat kittenish and endowed with
| baiov stare, and Mrs. Richard Dennison
5a sizing, hot-tempered and Jealous. There
| arc other characters and all OF them arc
| acted with most gratifying etnclehcF.
| The comedy II one that aftord3 mos
| excellent menu OF merriment TOT an en-
| tire evening.