Arizona republican., 1920-10-23
TIGER ROSE" OPENS
 1T THE ELKS; II HAS PUNCH IN EVERY LINE

If YOU want to see a melodrama
 that packs a punch in every line ana ia unusually well presented by an un-
 usually capable company you must see David Belasco's Tiger Rose which opened a two-day engagement at the
 Elks theater last night. It would pc a hard boiled" theater goer who could leave the Ellxs last night without re- | solving to himself to tell all his friends i not to fail to see this play; play that kept the audience on the edge or the seat until the last curtain dropped.
 "Tiger Rose" is a story of the Cana | dian Northwest with the inevitable | Northwest Mounted Police on the trail
 of a lawbreaker. And, of course 1 there is the woman in the case, in thls | instance Tiger Rose herself, an or | phan child of parents of unsavory rep | utation. Unlike most stories of this kind. the clements of tragedy that | creep into the love affair between | Tiger Rose, the primitive girl of the
 wild Northwest, and the young engln-
 eer from Boston, creep in unexpected- ly, and thus so naturally, after inc Il two had met clandestinely and their
 affaire damour was just getting a
 healthy start The interruption came
 when the young engineer, who was
 sent up to Tiger Roses neighborhood
 to do some surveying, suddenly comes face to face with the company doctor, whom the young engineer lover instantly recognizes as the one who had shamefuily wronged the boys sister years ago back in the States" There is a fight in which
 the engineer kills the doctor.
 Of course, you know what always happens in unpleasant affairs like this |, up in the Canadian Northwest-tht ? killer is a fugitive from the North west Mounted Police, and the we'll
 l earned reputation of that organiZa' : tion is that they always get theil s man." AL of which Tiger Ros' 2 knows. To complicate matters fur e ther it also happens that the police @ neighborhood is chiefly Constabl - Michael Devlin, a persistent Irish - man, loyal to his duty, which loyalt, - in the case at hand is emphasized b. V the fact that Tiger Rose has refused = his tenders of love and he more thai
 | suspects the reason.
 1t is up to the wild little French & Canadian girl to get her lover out O h the country, right from under Con = stable Devlin's nose. There you hay - the malSings of ripping good melo % drama with many hair-raising, heart
 gripping scenes, and you may readil ,r believe that the master, Belasco, ha
 let no opportunity get by without frs :, squeezing the last drop of melodram
 out of it. And still there is nothin c cheap about it.
 As for the cast, critical comment c " a particrlarizing nature would seer '. superfluous, but we cannot pass b u without special commendation of tn II trio, Tiger Rose herself. by Francesc T. Cappellano; Hector MacCollins, th '- governor of the trading post and fos y ter father of Rose, by Charles Riegel 'd and finally, the old Jesuit priest, b Us James H. Lewis. Bernard J. McOwe le is a real one too. It is not often tha
 Phoenix can see such a good play a Y this, and it is indeed fortunate tha 2, the company is remaining over toda K to give a matinee this afternoon an III their evening performance too. Real r. ly, you can't afford to miss it.