Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-15 | Page 14 | 'Pal O' Mine' Seen at Hippodrome this Week

Tal 0' Mine' Seen at Hippodrome This Week i AS J. MORTIMER HEMINGWAY, principal character in "Pal o' Aline." which opened at the Hippodrome last night. Raiph Cloninger assumes. In a pleasing and effective manner, the part of a man who turns from the path of crime for the love of a girl to whom he is married by a mistake. The role calls for subtle dramatic art and Mr. Cloninger proves equal to the occasion. Hazel Baker, aa Ruth Weatherby. the girl to whom Hemingway is married, gives a delightful interpretation of a country banker's daughter who is haughty, pretty, self-willed, but a real woman at heart. Her part requires careful care-ful presentation to make it convincing, but Miss Baker is fully equal to the occasion. oc-casion. Jimmic Manning. 0. gentleman of leisure leis-ure and pal of Hemingway, is played with &kili by Louis J. Foote. Milton Goodhand gives a pleasurable Interpretation of Tucker, the village constable. Milton Genevieve, the bank stenographer, is presented pre-sented by Ethel Roberts with good effect. L. Victor Galliard assumes the role of Weatherby, the banker, in a convincing manner, and Bud Munday. the village minister, is played well by Harold Hutchinson. Hutch-inson. The other parts are presented with ability by Pearl S. Van Norman, Harry Taylor, May Roberts, and Stanley Jonasson. The arrival of two strangers in the village, vil-lage, followed immediately by the robbery of the bank, gives the backg'round for the plot of the story. The strangers are at once .suspected, but in the meantime, one of them, iu a playful mJod, goes through" the marriage ceremony with the banker's daughter, and a trick of fate makes the marriage legally binding. The girl spurns her husband because of his imolication in the robbery, but in spite of herself fal's in love with him. A whoilv unsuspected turn of things in the end makes the ro- j manee come to a proper close and sends the audience home feeling that matters were as they .should be.