Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-08 | Page 31 | Wilkes Players Will Present "the Trail of the Lonesome Pine"

Wilkes Players Will Present JI I The Trail of the Lonesome Pine I WILKES i W I l 7 I L d I I I 5 l l's I 5 4 wr im I II IO 4 r r I AWk i I 1 l lK lt I K t 4 I O L I 4 STEWART ROBBINS MISS NANA BRYANT Stellar members of the Wilkes player playe s a who will appear in The Trail of th the Lonesome Pine with the other mem bers bera of the company for a week be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning with tonight's performance Every section of the country has bas its romance but it Is doubtful if any part of America has produced more than have the mountains of the South where the feuds and the illiteracy of oZ the people their lack of oC and I hand to mouth existence would seem to stifle the finer emotions but which nevertheless have been pictured in lasting beauty first by John Fox Jr In his book The Trail of the Lonesome Lonesome Lonesome Lone Lone- some Pine and then In the appealing sta stage e production by Eugene Walters The heart story of the little wild wildflower wildflower wildflower flower girl and the young oung engineer a man of training and culture culture culture cul cul- cul- cul ture is one of the most appe-al appe appealing ng ever written or staged for fog the American public The characteristics of the Virginia mountain folk the ruggedness rug of the country countI the tensely dramatic scenes I which occur so frequently are presented pre pre- seated most vividly in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine which the Wilkes I players offer as the attraction at the Wilkes es for the coming week beginning with tonight's performance The book by hy Fox was an enormous success and the play has duplicated Its popularity and even the song was as the rage for a season or so The rhe Trail of the Lonesome Pinchas Pine Pinc Pinehas Pinehas has never before been presented by a astock astock stock company in Salt Lake which in interesting interesting in- in announcement is further in-I in augmented by the fact that Stewart Robbins new leading man at the Wilkes likes has hag starred m an me toe principal masculine role and achieved success as Tack rack Hale when the play t began I Its tour of or the count country He Ia will WiIl carnI carry carn I this part in the presentation of ot The Trail of the Lonesome Pine at the Wilkes V the ensuing week and his Salt Lake admirers are anticipating an exceptionally exceptionally exceptionally ex ex- ex- ex fine portrayal of the tile role rote of the young engineer t fy y Mr l Robbins A more charming channIng part than that of bt June the little mountain girl has never been assigned Miss Nana Kana Bryant who will ha have an opportunity for the display display display dis dis- dis- dis play of or her wealth of emotional motional ability and personality Mr Robbins and Miss Brya Bryant t will willbe be bA supported by every member of the thA Wilkes players In the presentation of or orThe The Trail of the Lonesome Pine which includes include Claire Sinclaire Cliff Clift Thompson Huron L L. Blyden Charlotte Treadway McNulty l Alice Conrad Conrad Conrad Con Con- rad Cocroft Cocron Charles Murphy George Barnes Barnts Frank Bonner Bonnet and Ferdinand Ferdinand Fer Per dinand Munier lunier all of whom have splendid parts which the they will interpret with characteristic ability The scenery will be one of the special special I cial features in the production of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by the he I Wilkes players and the management nt reports considerable work being dons dona donaI in the matter of providing splendid I scenic and stage effects and details I consistently worked out There are four acts in The Tr Trail U of or orthe the Lonesome Pine which demand l mand special attention to staging taging for tor th the proper presentation and the famous lonesome pine the mountaineers mountaineer's cabin with interior and exterior views the primitive surroundings will be featured featured fea lea lured in a mo most desirable manner daring dring dar dr- ing the weeks week's run with matinee on Thursday and Saturday afternoons of this stellar attraction 1 1 S