Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-04 | Page 8 | Theatre Reviews

I THEATRE RE REVIEWS VIE W I t Walker Valker Whit Whiteside side I Scores Success i in Roe Picturesque Role The Arabian Furnishes U I I Colorful Background for Romantic Plot I Exceptionally well vell cast as the glamorous picturesque lab rab bandit ban ban- dit fie fley the great character charac- charac ter actor Valker Whiteside and delighted the large audience audience au- au at the salt alt Lake Lale theatre Thursday ening evening Abd- Abd Rc el l-fiey l appears ap- ap pears jeal'S as a poet a bandit antI and yet yeta et eta a cOUl courtly I polished gentleman and Ir Whiteside portrays the turbulent turbulent lent em emotions of the character brilliantly bril- bril ius and resonant voice perfectly heard throughout the theatre Miss lis amelia Campbell gives an effective depiction of Diane the young Englishwoman who sets out alone upon a mysterious quest into the desert deser Balry Bairy deserves de- de serves senes special commendation for forthe forthe the convincing con manner in which he interprets the role or of the exasperated ex- ex Colonel Gordon Frank pad and Paul II do excellent work OIk as Captain Fenway and Major Cromwell while hiie J J. Irving White hite makes an impressive Arab as U Quaint customs and b beliefs lIes lend atmosphere to the alread already al- al ready read romantic settings or of The Arabian The plot at times reach reaches s the heights of melodrama only spared by a caustic or a sudden turn of events which I relieves the overcharged emotional emotional- U The story concerns an Arabian who having havIng- been from England and separated separated sep sep- from flom his Eng Eng- Engish ish wire wife and daughter In retaliation pre preys s 's with his following any English En- En glish group which ventures into the desert desert He captures a thousand English En- En I gush glish troops in his desert fastness I and prepares to kill them all when they betray hIs hospitality The sudden disco ery that he English girl Jirl he has befriended is his own daughter changes his and brings about a pIE piea it t climax after af- af tel ter uncertainty The pay possesses possesse I ar-I a Oriental vividness which wholly the audience I