The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-09

a ROAD company played "a Grain Of
n Dust in this city some months ago.
William J. Kelly and company played 1t
at the Colonial tneater last night. The
road company played in this city after
performances OF many weeks In the
east William ]. Kelly and his company
played the piece for the first time last
night There were number of persons
In the audience last night who had seen
the road company and universally the
| Colonial performance was pronounced Its
equal. except III n few of the minor de-
tails which will readily be eliminated be-
fore the weeks engagement has ended,
| Mr.. Kelly and his company have never
played anything better than "A Grain OF
Dust" David Graham Philips's famous
story seemed 10 grip the people who
portrayed It's several characters just as
firmly their portrayal aripped the
audience. And that was certainly some
gripping. The piece aboun6s with bril-
| liant lines, which afford rather unusual
opportunities for several members OF the
cast, None wasted single chance In
bringing out the points Mr. Kelly hlm-
self has absorbed all the vim and vigor
required Of the character OF Frederick
Norman. young and rising attorney.
Miss Florence Rockwell is Il rather un-
usual girl in a blond wig and plays her
unusual part in an unusually clever fash
ion. Phillips's character. Dorothea Hal
story was published in serial form Doro-
thea did unusual things She was pc
culiar. strange. seemingly unnatural All
Of her strangeness and peculiarly Is
brought out vlyidly in the work OF Miss
| Rockwell.
William Tetlow. was the jovial young
fellow friend OF everyone, happy go
lucky pal and sort Of Let George -do-it"
character In the original story. Arthur
Morse Moon has caught the spirit of the
part admirably. And incidentally he has
| here and there added a few lines which
help considerably
No small share of the success OF the
play last night is due TO the hard and
efficient work OF Leon McReynolds. who
| has the part Of Isaac Burroughs. rich,
greedy. ambitious and much feared man.
ipulator Of stocks, Burroughs was a
good fighter in the. mind OF Nj. Phillips
and he was no whit less a fighter In
the Characterization of Mr. McReynolds,
There are other parts well taken also.
There is Timson the servant by William
Burby, who smiles when she enters the
room and seems to light up the whole
place; James Galloway by j W. Pike;
Edward Lockyer by Harmon Weight and
Josephine Burroughs by Jane Grey.
| "a Grain of Dust" should be a big
favorite with Salt Lake. The piece was
applauded more last night than any first
night performance given by Mr., Kelly
for many weeks. And usually It is the
applause of a first night audience which
determines the success OF the week.
1t is pleasure to record such sweep
! Ing success was achieved last night
by the Utah theater stock company in
"The Deep Purple" 1t Is easy for the
is rather late and perfectly futile to at
tempt to lower the colors OF 1.-The Deep
Purple" 1t has been one of the most
decisive .triumphs in underworld melo-
! a nd al
tine" n and "officer ses." And this recalls
story. that is alluded to In the play.
A prisoner In jail told his story to
lawyer. who thereupon remarked, why.
| they can't put you In Jail for that :"
But I'm here" said the prisoner. In
quite as important sense The Deep
! OF the play are conspicuous SO, too, are
the reasons FOR it's success. 1t is pull
sating with red blood. To change the
meta phor from red corpusces to gaso-
line. 1t is speeding along constantly in
! the high gear
The triumph OF the. play, however. was
not as notable last night the indivld-
ual triumphs of the players. Brandon
| lyman modesty reserved for himself the
role Of the rich young man who was TO
unwittIngly played the part of the wife"
Mr. lyman. despite the fact that he sur
rendered TO others the intense roles. Won
| so gracefully the role of the gay. hand
some. generous and game civil engi-
neer.
Ada Dwyer, as Frisco Kate a role
which she created in the original com
| pany, was, Of course, thoroughly at
| home. In every act therefore her por-
| trayaI was sure. powerful and frequently
| thrilling
! But this Is only the beginning OF the
praise that was merited by the various
| players.
Richard Vivian and e. Forrest Taylor
were also In familiar roles the former
| taking the part Of Laylock. the bad man
from the west and the latter appea ring
as Harry Leland. the expert New York
criminal. II Is not too much Ia say that