Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-28

ROYAL MOUNTED
IN TULSA TODAY
Cecil B. De Miles Great Play
of the Northwest to Be
Offered Here.
HASTINGS IN THE BIG ROLE
Scenic Investure Will Be Elab-
crate; Big Demand AL
ready for Tickets.

Carrying out It's policy of pre-
senting plays that are released for
stock for the first time, regardless
of the amount of royalty to be paid,
the Incompatible Grand Theater
stock company will offer this after
noon and tonight the great drama
of the northwest by Cecil B. De
Mile, The Royal Mounted" dealing
with the exploits of Canada's fam
GUS rangers, the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police.
Mr.. De Mile, the author. is now
one of the foremost moving picture
directors in the world. and he still
saws that THE Royal Mounted" is
the best pieces of playwright work he
ever did. Its wonderful success
wherever presented attests to the
truth of his statement.
Scenery of Northwest.
The scenic investure for the play
will be the most costly yet attempted
at the Grand.
Cliff Hastings, the popular leading
man, will play the part of Victor
OBrien, sergeant Of mounted police.
Director Harry Vickery said last
night that judging from rehcarsals
this was going to be Hastings most
successful role this season. The
other members of the company are
well east.
1t is different from any play yet
offered by the Incompara bles. Tie
story is a beautifully absorbing tale
of life in the environments made
famous by the worid-renowned
moupted police.
Rosa Larrabee has come to Cal
gary to make purchases for the
boys in Russells Camp No. 13,
lumber camp in the wilds of Can
ada. A man has been reported to
the Northwest police in Calgary to
have been murdered at Camp 13,
and Major Buckland, the command
ant of the force. has been notified
that Rosa is in the city. and he
gives orders to have her brought to
his office.
Comes as n Spy.
Lieutenant Victor O'Byrne,
young Irishman, one of the most
noted Of the Mounted, has been as
signed to the case-and the major
secretes him in the room when Rosa
calls so that he can obtain the de-
tails of the case or as much as he
can obtain from her.
Rosa Larrabee Is a bright, pretty
girl, who has received convent
education thru her brothers assist
ance. who is a trapper and guide in
the vicinity of Russell's Camp.
She being one of the few women
in the wilds of that great country,
she of course has been sought by
many. turning deaf ear to them
all. until one, more daring than the
lest, has tried to insult her, with the
result that he meets his death in a
mysterious manner. Rosa discovers
that her brother Sam has shot the
man, and it is at the opening of the
play, when Rosa has been summoned
to appear before Major Buckland,
that the interest commences
Falls I'm Love.
Rosa Is uncommunicative in re-
CARDS to the case, and the young
lieutenant Immediately falls in love
with her.
She returns to the camp. imme-
diately followed by the lieutenant,
who has been detailed on the case.
The mounted police are cordially
hated and also feared by the lum-,
beriacks OF the north, who are, as
a Dlole. the scrapings of the world.
rough. uncouth and unprincipled.
His reception at the camp is not the
mos. cheerful. but Rosa. not knowing
his real identity, stands sponsor for
him. The lieutenant under another
name engages Rosa's brother Sam
to act as his guide in a hunting and
trapping expedition, which of course
takes him to their home, where he
resides.
During the many weeks he is in
the woods he IL unaware that the
man he is after for the murder Is
the brother Of the girl he loves, and
who has learned to love him, and
one of the most thrilling dramatic
scenes ever written occurs in the
third act of the play when he dis
covers the fact, and that he has got
to arrest him and take him back to
Calgary, which means death II he