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Show ONLY ONE CHANCE TO SEEJIG SIOW "The Old Bedstead" Performance Perfor-mance Will Not Be Given Second Time. .. MEMBERS OP THE CAST TOO BUSY MAKING MONEY Characters in Production and Plot of Play Are Announced. An-nounced. The question is being asked as to why the Salt Lake Press club does not trjvc more thnn one performance- of FTlie Old Bedstead" at the Snlt Lake theater, fn answer the Press club boys point, out that, while the play itself is hill of jokes, there are none connected with the task of getting up rehearsals, and keeping" a. cast in line lor its parts, especially when city editors are given to sending the actors out on assignments assign-ments just at rehearsal time. The town will get one night, and that only, while the actors rush back to their desks aft or it is over to write of tho more serious phases of local life than those which scintillate through the throe acts of the burlesque. The Press club show this year is a more ambitious effort than over before attempted. With the "Ham Show" nnri the "Tom Show" the authors had a book to follow. Wnldcmar Young and Bnco Whitney have this year written writ-ten an entirely original play, having only as a guide the instructions of the board of. managers to build it on the linos of tho stock emotional melodrama with n rural setting. This they did, as ihc full plot printod below will testify. The development work was done in the Press club rooms. Plot of the Play. Once upon a time, in the litllo village of Jordan's Grossing, lived Josiuh Stubbs, a prosperous miller, who hod u beautiful (lnnghtnr, Gwendoline. Next to bin daughter, daugh-ter, Josinh treasured an old bedsteud. This was a family Jieirloom. Among tho many suitors for his daughtor's hand was a brawny blacksmith, Arthur Trowellcn. They wero happy in their early courtship, but clouds descending upon .Tosiah threatened to mar tho future lives of tho young people. The first shudow was tho appearance in tho village of Poarsford Sope, n lord and promoter Ho had discovered the secret of making denaturalized alcohol from the pulp of sugar boots. On n former visit to tho village vil-lage he had nccurcd a large part of Josinh's prosperity. Sopo's plot now was to obtain possession of tho Stubbs farm to grow these heats, and for tho further purpose of securing secur-ing financial backing in the village. Tosiah, however, rememboring his former experience, was suspicious of tho promoter. Having boon icorncd, Sope now approaches Squiro Kottleson, the wealthiest and "crust lest' native, whoso hntrod for Josinh was a matter of common knowlodgo. KottloRon enters into a plot with Sopo to break Josiah's heart by obtaining possession of tho old bedstead, bed-stead, the most treasured heirloom In tho Stubbs family This Kettloson can do, for he holds a mortgage on tho bedstead, so-cured so-cured in au election bet years bofore. ICet-tleson ICet-tleson agrees to forcloso tho mortgago nnd advance Sopo monoy with which to purchase tho bedxtead at the auction.' Kottleson hnd not foreclosed before because .Toslnh was so popular in tho villngo that nobody would bid on tho bedstead had it boon offered at, auction, Tho plot thickens! Loses Old Man's Favor. Trcwollan, by running on tho ticket which lost Stubbs his heirloom, loses tho old man's favor. Both ho and tho girl nro driven from tho Stubbs homo in a blinding snowstorm. Gwendoline goes to the city and is forced to earn her living selling violets in the ktrecls of .Fountain Green. Bid Dubbs. Josinh's chose boy, and Suo Brett go to tho city on a trip. While thcro they try to find Gwendoline, but incut Sope inKtcud. Sopo informs Bid that ho is out of money and money ho must have. Sope asks Bid to hold up a train, promising to reward win, not with congratulations alone, but bv hmling Gwendolino for him. Bid, in Iris eagerness to find Gwendolino, half promises Jo hold up tho train and agrees to meet Sope laier. In another nnd more blinding snowstorm, Gwondolino meets Sope and denouueos him, but tho villuin sneers and is unmoved bv tho beautiful girl's impassioned words. Another daf-h of thickcningl Bid Stubbs koops his engagement with Sope and the train robbery is planned. It comes off on time. Sopo is still pursuing Stubbs and by a stroke of master finance secures the monev to purchase tho Old BedBtead. Foiled! 11 All ends happily. |