The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01

her name TO Mrs. FlN-Jt. IN the emo,
of course. SIZE reunitcs the headstrong
men. hui no, until the boy and the
girl he loves have messed things with
an elopement which sends his par
ents on y chase TO overtake them
The comedy should serve May Rob-
son very well. if she lives up TO its
latest title and Is clever enough
woman not To take II where the tango
is more popular than a clomb3ke.
And think she Is, Miss Robson has
climbed up 10 a place among the stars
and kept II without ever gaining much
praise in New York for her acting
and less for her plays, She has never
made money here, bpt she knows the
names of cities-and of the railroads
that run Into them-where her OBJ
vious, broad style and ingenious form
OF play are popular. 7 believe she
though she has 10 travel a lot to
make It, Good luck. May,
NF late years. Chauncey olcott
W has attacked the metropolis
from the west. coming no nearer to
Broadway than the stately. old Grand
opera house, In old but thoroughly
pnstately Eighth avenue. Annually.
he spends the last four weeks before
Lent in that vast PLAYHOUSE. which.
at al other times. changes its bill
August in Saratoga. is called "Sha-
meen Dhu." and is by Rida Johnson
Young, who is an obliging suthoress,
ready at 3. word TO write an Irish
drama or an Oriental romance. a
piece about lot Of prankish Harvard
boys. the late Lord Byron, a modern
American baseball league, or the Pat
terson young woman who became the
wife of Napoleon's brother, and to
do II with a genial smile and without
hnI ar
has staged the piece, supplying seen
cry OF such picturesque beauty as 10
be astounding. had he not accus-
toned us TO seeing Mr., Olcott In such
frames
Having failed to write about "Sha-
meen Dhu" within ten hours after
seeing IT,, am forgetting the plot so
apidly that l don't know whether I
can tell 1t, But if the story 1 re-
count to you is not that Of "shaneen
play. What's the difference Chaun-
cey OF the Ballads is an Irish dare
devil and poet-his name, IN fact. is
Dare O'Donnell and Shameen Dhu IS
his nom de plume. He is the friend
Britain. the idol OF the colleens; in
short. hos Chauncey. A young
widow of village In kincannon has
no peace at all at all. from the at
tentions OF the men, who all would
Dare O'Chauncey TO propose 10 her,
just as protection from the others.
Then arrives an Irish born Peggy
from America, with whom the singing
poet Immediately falls in love. But,
of course, he Is in honor bound to
the widow. However. he does not let
that deter him from singing ballads
down Pegs back. She has brother.
a fighter in the cause of America
against Great Britain. I may have
forgotten 10 mention that the period
is about 17TS-I thought you would
have guessed that. Well. Pegs broth
er being an enemy OF the red-coats,
Sha meen's hatred OF them Is the
keencr. He may be said TO put Great
Britain to defeat and Wild confusion
with one hand tied. Then, there are
The Papers.
But, really. ] can so no further
Suffice II. "Shameen Dhu" Is the very
sort Of play TO please, people who IKE
that verv sort of play, 1t is the typl-
cal Chauncey Olcott thing. That this
country swarns with people who en-
10y such harmless stuff is proved be-
yond the smallest argument by the
fact that through Il Mr.. Olcott has
become one of the wealthiest men on
our stage today. He has lost some
fat and also some voice, but his act.
ing Is the same as ever. His audi
ences ali but howl with delight In