The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01
TT HE OPEN RANGE" " Willard
Mack s rewritten version OF
Goods Country Is said to
he tbn host effort of tho actor

feTT hh ofEN hANTf" wizard
Mack s rewritten version OF
Goods Country - Is said to
be the best effort of the actor
author. It will be the offering at the
Utah theater all this week, beginning
tonight.
1t is story OF Montana back in tho
early ninctics, II concerns one Pinto
Crockett, a girl of 10 years, who has
been reared and raised near the little
COW town OF Twin Bridges. Pinto s
father is cripple with rheumatism and
Pinto runs the ranch. She has never
had time for a sweetheart, and being
brought up among rough surroundings,
she is hardly ever looked upon as a
manageable woman, but, away down
in her heart, she, like all girls, has an
ideal. and at last the man arrives in
the person of one "Blll' - Ruggles Ga
nom de plume), who drops off an n. p,
tram one morning and settles himself
in the little town. No one knows who
he is or where ne came from, but the
slogan of the west IN those days was;
"Never mind what be was, what Is be
now9" The rough male element like
ed sheriff Of the county. and an atfec-
tion has sprung up between Pinto and
the sheriff.
AS the story gradually progresses We
find crowd OF land sharks from Hell
ena are trying to buy old man Crock
ett's ranch, and price is offered far
in excess OF what it seems TO be worth
This arouses Bills suspicion who, aft
er, making an investigation, finds
,s riHn po rho land N I.
prevents the sale of the land, which
arouses the ire OF the lawyer in charge,
and The trouble begins. The lawyer
feels from what he has heard of the
sheriff's history that he must have
some good reason for being out in the
west holding the position of sheriff
who is evidently man OF culture and
things: so he sets about to find out
something more, which he does, with
the help of drunken greaser, by
searching FBill So shack and finding
there papers and letters which prove
'Bill'' TO be an absconding bank cash
ier. "Bill'' rests under the stigma
until Pinto confesses her love for him
and demands that HBill' prove the
lawyer's IS stories untrue, which he does,
and all ends well,
Mr., Mack, in speaking Of his own
work, says: E'Beyond doubt the comedy
spirit and the types Of character, both
men and women, arc the best in 'Thc
Open Range OF anything I have ever
done. and / am very anxious to see
Marjorie play Pinto. 1T IS part, the
like of which she has not had in Salt
Lake: full OF comedy, deeply pathetic
at times. and in the scene where she
makes the Mexican confess what he
has done she should rise far AWAY and
above anything she has done in long
time.
Besides Pinto and the sheriff (played
by Mack), Howard Scott will play old
Parsons, the old body servant who
comes out west with "BilI.' Fred
Moore will play the local oracle. Fred
Sumner will do Stanton. the young
civil engineer. Arthur Price will do
Hastings, the lawyer. and Arthur Moone
Will play Pete, the greaser. while Mrs.
Rambeau will play Mrs Higgins the
boarding house keeper, and Miss More
land will be seen as Alice, her daugb-
ter. The scenery has all been painted
| from photographs taken by Mr.. Mack
at the boarding house, where be spent
six weeks collecting material for the
drama