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Show "BIRD OP PARADISE" GREAT 5? S5 U 03 PLAT IS WELL PREcSENTED i . : Hawaiian Music Is Special Feature of Enchanting Stage Production. TN VI UW of i ho re ma rkahle ponul;. rit y njnyoij hy (he Hawaiian fad. lien ; oih o th rnutii' and ph-I iires'iuc1 costumes j of I lie isla ndei k were i n t rod need in the i il serins strange I hat Kuhard Wal-m,i Wal-m,i Tully, author of " 'n Bild "f Para-d Para-d !;-," should have gone t-: i long without realizing what, n Kiipci al nmdance of play uial oi-jal lie had right at his foot so many ears. j l'ni..iihff .) Mr. Tully's charming jAay. which is the 1 1 ia:l inn this work at the It Lake t lira lar, Iihs been responsible 1' t t ho V ni ted Slates Invasion hv Hawaiian Ha-waiian mufdclnns. In litis brilliant drama of a woman's heart, local play pa irons last night had an nppoi t unity of seeing the peculiar comhinai ion of Eurasian and American life which today exists in the 1'enrl ni" the Pacific. The gripping story uf "The. Rird of Paradise" held t he audience enthralled, as it v. ere. lasl night. Mr. Morocco's g:en-e; g:en-e; ons mou ni lug of the piee in ut he ae-kuowiedged ae-kuowiedged as a triumph of the scenic artist, and Salt L;ik Pity Is bound to wake up ( t!io f;i scina.t ion of the native! music which pervades the entire performance perform-ance like some strange, sensuous perfume. per-fume. As to the play itse-lf, and apart from liie music, it one really can set mat a pan., it tells of a Hawaiian princess who falls in love wilh an American who soon makes her his bride. The scenes depleting the growing dislike of the liushand for his brown-skinned spouse until the final s( cue, when he leaves without any ado. add greatly to the success of the performance. per-formance. Miss Olin Field as Iguana, a HawaJian phi, later a prim-ess, is about as finished an actress as has visited Salt Lake City wilh any production. To say that she plaed her part well would convoy but a flight conception of .iust Imw valuable she is to t lie production. The originator of the part. Lauretta Taylor, never performed per-formed an v bet tor than Mis Field, for the simple reason that her work last nicht left no room for improvement. Applause Ap-plause greeted her efforts time and again, and her emotional acting brought many a tear to the eyes of the audience, the wiiier of this article being frank to confess con-fess that he whisked away a- little tear-d'op tear-d'op himself. Fortunately the lights were Imw and no one noticed il. Forrest Stanley as Paul Wilson, a young doctor v.'ho married Luana and then tired of her, certainly deserves all the nice l iiinas that have been said of him in advance. He n an actor of exceptional ahiliiv, and while he carried along a part which did not make a hit with the audience audi-ence from a sympathetic standpoint, he did what was assigned to him in a masterful manner, and even though he was mean to the princess he certainly made a hit with those who know good acting when thev see it. I tavld Landau. "Ten Thousand Dollar Dean." a beachcomber, the originator of the character, acquits himself in a master! mas-ter! v manner and handles a very difficult diffi-cult part with grace. Miss Ethel Rerney as Piana learned was a blight star in the cast, and shared in the honors of the evening. Miss Laura Adams as Mahum-mahu Mahum-mahu reminded one of Lydia Yeanmns Titus, Ti-tus, and if one's memory soes back that far, it tells that sh is a valuable aeuiPition to the Moroseo ranks and omits nothing desirable in the part she plays. .lames Nelson as a Hawaiian priest, Robert Morris, Mor-ris, a planter; James Applebee, a missionary, mission-ary, and Fanny Vantls. his wife, act well their parts, and lack of space prevents the opportunity of saying many appropriate t hi nes about them. Suffice it to say, they, too. were valuable adjuncts to tiie play. 'The Bird of Paradise" is one of the best plays from every standpoint that It has been the good fortune of Salt Lakers io have the opportunity lo witness. |