The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-05

ties.
Every business man likes TO have
money, md when his customers request
him to do So, he IS liable TO comply with
their demands. There IS Il man in fhe
theatrical business who Mt the present
time is being besieged by thousands OF
his customers 10 save whole lot of
money next season, and vet he Will not
comply with their requests. That man
is Chauncey Oleott When Augustus
Pitous first launched Chaunccv Olcott as
star, he promised the public that he
would give them new play each sea.
son, and up TO his retirement last spring
a year ago, he complied with that prom
ise. Ever since the first production OF
"Shamcen Dhr' at Sarfnoga Springs
August lS last. scores upon scores of
Mr.. Olcott q admirers, who firmly think
" Shameen Dhu - to he the greatest of
begged Henry Miller, Mr.. Olcott S pres
cnt manager, 10 continue this play
throughout a couple Of seasons. bot Mr
Miller states positively that ho will not
swerve from The innc2ible rule, but
will shelve "Shamcen Dhu Mt the end
OF the present season When it is
known that the cost of making a new
theatrical production is at least $50 900
every dollar of which could be saved by
Mr. Olcott if he would continue this
play for another year, his resolution ia
| remarkable.
Mr.. Olcott has stated that he would
like to continue another season in this
role, as it exactly snits him, but he finds
much pleasure in studying and portray
ing new characters every season, and
therefore will adhere to his old custom.
"Shameen Dhu~' will therefore be laid
away with the other big successes in
which Mr.. Olcott has appeared during
the past twenty wears, but its beautiful
story. its delightful songs and other sue.
cessful features will Inner long in The
memory of the theatergoing public.
The more sincerely one enjoys the
thrills Of genuine ad-in-earnesE meo.
drama, the more surely and keenly will
one realize the frankly fearless and
hilarious fun of George M. Conan g de-
lightful mystery farce, HSeven KEYS
to Baldpate, which is now in its
seventh big week at George NJ. Cohan IS
grand opera house, Chicago, and des-
tined to run all through the summer at
this theater.
In this, the latest output from the
pen of wizard Cohan. he fools his audi
ence to the top of his bent. AT the
opening of the play the audience learns
that William Hallowell Magee, nov
elist of the lurid type. has made a
wager of $4,000 that he can write a
10,000-word story in twenty-four hours,
the only stipulation being made that
the work must be done in the lone
soonest spot on earth. y
In the prologue Magee is discovered
arriving at the aforesaid spot-Baldpate
inn-a summer hotel closed for the win
ter, and the prologue ends to the ac-
companylng clatter Of a typewriter as
Magee begins his task.
AT once he is encompassed by a cy-
clonic circle of sensational incidents,
and for two gripping acts the audience
sees Magee the center of a gang of
plotting politicians. ex-conyicts, adven.
turesses, not forgetting the hermit Of
Baldpate, who has become recluse
because his wife ran away with a drum
mer.
"Seven Keys to Baldpate" is most
unusual play. 1t will lift YOU right out
Of your seat, it is that full of thrills
and surprises. In it Mr.. Cohan runs
the gamut of human emotions, begin
ming the weird manner Of introducing
his characters who, one after another,
let themselves in on the scene, each
under the impression that theirs Is the
only key to Baldpate inn. The tangllng
of the plot, the exciting experiences OF
the hero and heroine In their cndeavor
to outwit the plotters of the play
makes one of the most exciting even
ing's entertainment imaginable, and one
that will keep you laughing and guess
ing for two hours and half. and even
then YOU won t be able to solve the
problem until the author elects TO solve
it for YOU in the epilogue which occurs
at the end of the second act
The story is intensely interesting and