The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-19

THE extraction at tue Salt Lake
ihcaicr next Friday aud
Saturday. with popular matt
nee. will nc the "Girl from
Toxic. in adaptation of Que Of the
most successful farccs Snown to the
German stage IN the past decade, IL
WAS originally from the pen of Robert
pobl. and run for over two hundred
nights mt the Court theater. Berlin.
The farce WAS adopted for The Amer
lean siayc bv Frank Taunehlll, Jr..
aud George W Barnum. During recent
times she German farce writer has
completely eclipsed his Psrison rival,
and ''Thc Girl from Toxic is gen
erallv considered as being the most
amusing farce that has come out of
Berlin, When the curtain rises we
lind Bartley Swift in a rather trying
circumstances: in point Of fact he is
in sea uf howidcrment and discom-
fturc year or so before his mar
riacc be had visited Toxic Japan,
whore nc had made the acquaintance
of an English actress Nancy Noycs.
\ rival had sprung up in Count Bo4n
lie Brissac who had succeeded IN suf~
passing him IN the affections Of the ac-
tress. His vlfc's father, Esmond
Miller. was merchant whose chief
there on . business trip he. too, had
met Nancy Moves, and by curious
turn Of affairs. had married her. He
did not however, long survive his sec
ord matrimonial venture. and so the
wife announced her coming TO America
TO settle his estate. Swift had kept
FROM his wife the fact that ne bad
ever known Nancy Noyes. now her
Stcp.mothcr. The reason for this was
that Mrs. Swift was obsesscd with the
notion that man could never love but
one woman. and had she known Of this
infatuston for her step-mothcr. she
would have been in despair With the
arrival Of Mrs Miller from Toxic
things get rather busy around the
household. The complication grows
more terrifying when upon her arrival
tle girl from Toxic is mistaken for
Esther Morgan. a young girl who had
bceU engaged as governess Tor Mrs.
Swift 5 youngest sister. As Nancy
Moves. now Mrs. Miller. had an old
score 10 paw with BARLEY Swift, she
enters elecfully INTO the mistake of
identity, with the result that poor
Swift is wbeluled into the depths
Of despair. His troubles become even
moro acute upon the arrival o. his
former rival, Count Boni de Brissac.
Then terror IS hcaped upon terror
vhen the real Esther Morgan arrives.
Yet BARLEY is saved from ever
lasting pcrditou by the girl from
TOXIC. the festive Nancy Moves Miller,
conserving 10 be led 30 the alrar by
rhc obstTcperous count According TO
all accounts there is enough fun in this
farce for n dozen evenings of diver
sion, II i AN admirable company that
the management has provided for
the presentation Of this deectable
comedy.
Bartley Swift will be imnersonatcd
hv Edmond Forde. an actor who made
his FIRST great success with Sir Henry
Irving in England. and Who has had
many successes on our stage, Julia
Morton, who appeared with rare dis.
tinctioD in n number of George Broad
hurst's farccs, but more notably In
Wha; Happened 10 Jones and
Why Smith Left Home will he
seen az Nancy Moves. the troublc-maI.
ing widow. Allan Brandor win i'm
nersonatc the French count Bopi de
Brissac: Adele Matthews will he seen
as Blanche Swift. and .Jaue Hanna rs
Esther Morgan. ihe eoVerncsS. Tho
y various other characters IN the play
viii be in equally capable hands