Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-01-12
ROAD SHOW SATURDAY
The Girl and The Tramp VIII Be
Seen At the Baugh. VIII
Not Be Picture.


the melodrama Of Monte Cristo",
and the appeal Of @Ten Nights in a
Barroom", came last night to a
crowded house assembled in the Salt
Lake theatre to witness the premiere
of The Girl and the Tramp, says
the Salt Lake Tribune.
THE Girl and the Tramp" comes
to the Baugh Theatre Saturday night
Here is production unique In tho
ANIMALS of local theateZdom within
the last decade. For its booking may
be thanked Lee and J. Shubert Of
New York The company comes
from California; it is on its way to
Oregon. 1t is produced by the Cos
mopolitan Producing company.
In the cast are Mary Elgin, doub-
ling as Mrs. Richard Merton and a
hula girl; Jack Dougherty as Phillip
Redman and member Of the Har-
mony Male quartet: James Gordon as
(
and a terpsichorean; John Hughes
as Richard Merton and the baritone
of the harmonists. Ivy Merton is the
only member not cast in dual or
triple impersonation; she appears as
Flo. the girl Of the title In addition
TO these there is "A Musical China
man, name unknown.
The plot? AS gathered amidst the
whispered comments that Phillip Red
man. alleged wealthy banker, loved
Mrs. Merton before her marriage TO
Richard. supposedly business man.
Redman. disgrunted. uses his posi-
ton as a banker TO get Merton into
financial difficulties. Enter the tramp
as an aspirant for food at the Merton
home. Fed. Happy Jack finds piece
of paper which Redman claims is a
bill-his property: he threatens the
tramp with arrest unless his orders
are obeyed.
Il
officer. Merton is arrested With the
aid of the girl he escapes after he is
forced TO sign a mortgage-the papers
in the case. The child. Merton's
daughter. Edna. doesn't appear.
Here the first act ends and the
Harmony quartet is heard
In the second act. Mrs. Merton is
visited by Redman. who threatens 10
disposses her if she doesn't marry
him. Enters Happy Jack as a friend
Of the family. Much discourse; exit
Redman and the curtain
AS an insert Happy Jack and Mrs.
Merton demonstrate dances from Ha-
waii. South Bend. Ind. and Idaho
suburbs.
Act III is. according 10 the program.
staged in ne forest camp of Merton,
whence he has fled after his arrest
Merton. in corduroy breeehes and yell
low puttees, imparts the information
to Happy Jack, now his mining part
ner. that he has discovered a gold
mine and that all are millionaires.
Redman appears, tells Merton his wife
has divorced him and the child is
dead, and attempts 10 nave him sign
some more papers. Flo. the girl, ap-
pears with a gun. A scuffle. Merton
is shot down by Redman. who flees;
Happy Jack pursues with a miners
pick. and when the curtain rings down
THE Musical Chinaman" plays weird
tunes on weirder instruments
Again the well-worn furniture Of the
Merton home comes to view Happy
Jack, divested of his rags and tatters
and colorfully impersonating a mil
lionaire. is in again as the friend Of
the Mertons.
As Redman seeks for the last time
10 induce Mrs. Merton to marry him
adding as an inducement that he has
lust heard her husband is dead-Mer-
ton enters. Climax. Everybody in
everybody else's arms. Redman ex-
its. his plea for mercy spufned and
bis money in his right fist The cur
tain rings down and the audience
sighs and sadly repairs for home.