Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 49 | Stevenson's Stirring Tale of Adventure at the Wilkes

Stevenson's e enson s Sli Stirring irrin ring Tale a e of Adventure at lie al the Wilkes 6 f t 1 P y ANAS ANA'S i J. J a Z 4 a c MOORS 4 A f fK T- T Some of tho the Wilkes players player who will be seen n in Treasure Island which has a weeks week's engagement at the Wilkes theatre with the tho opening performance tonight At time tho Wilkes CR this week the thc es I players with Nana Xana na L nr Bryant ant are arc going on ml an expedition for fm real treasure under tinder tho tine direction of oC a piratical crew and and their theil destination is Treasure Treas Treas- ore ure Islan Island rhou Thousands ands and nd thousands of bC boys bos and and some ome girls from girls from 6 to CO GO have I taken en this same Rame trip un under el tho guidance guIdance guidance guid guId- ance of Robert Hubert Louis Loul Stevenson enson and andl I j this week at tho the popular State street j i theatre a lar large e majority of ot them will gain again I ain II live r over the tho days clays when th their lr blood ran hot and cold over o tho the wondrous wondrous won won- drous tale too told by hy that master mastel who I has contributed more TO tho timo enjoyment enjoy enjoy- u I ment meat lI of boyhood than almost any other thel writer in the tho l English lan language Whoever el has passed out of or his or orItEr her ItEr teens and hns has not rend read Steven Steven- Konn TI IHan Island hn has a n treat In store Stevenson unquestionably i t stands as one of tho time greatest writers in tho the English h language in the thc latter tart part of r tho the nineteenth century and the time first part of tho the twentieth cent cen cen- t tury Ul Treasure 1 Island has been heen dramatized dramatized drama drama- ti d b by Charles G G. Royal Roal and his version of or the story story- has proven IHO to tobe tobe tobe be one of ot the mo most t successful plays over written b by an American author Tho The pIn play Is In ht four acts and nine scenes all of or theta them teeming with rapid it I action and Intense Interest I Royal has faithfully depicted the characters and antI main miln incidents of Ste Stevenson's great rat story While hilt of ot course the time entire story could not I be told In a n. play Royal noral has hns chosen with rare dramatic Insl insight ht the prIncipal principal principal prin prIn- cipal incidents incident of or the narrative and woven them into a play that holds your our Intense Interest straight tn l ht through to lo the tho cn end Swift action and thrilling t r suspense is me the Keynote of 01 or the ine pia play as well Weil as of ot tho the book I In his pIa play Royal Ro has worked In Inthe Inthe inthe the pirates Treasure island the thc voyage voy voy- voyage age ago after atter the tho treasure tho the thrilling fight between the thc piratical crow crew and I tho the leaders of ot the expedition tho the I finding of or Ben Gunn on the Island j time the eventful battle for tor possession of oC j the stockades es tho the full tun recovery TeCO of or time tho treasure and tho the return in triumph to England Nana Bryant the charming versatile versatile versa versa- tile actress will iII enact the role of Jim the boy who has the chart to the treasure and who leads tho the ex ox- ox The Wilkes players are aro assi assigned tho the parts well adapted to their ability and it is certain that Treasure I Islands Island will Hill bo be a a. rare raio dramatic treat The rho play opens tonI tonight ht and continues continues con con- throughout hout the tho week