Show THE COUNTRY BOY PLEASES mm AUDIENCE I The trials and tribulations of a country boy of or sonorous generous impulses and sympathetic sympathetic the c nature who had not found his niche and who had not struck his stride sir but who went to the great city to wrest fortune from the fat fates ta a were pictured In a realistic comedy drama ThIS The Country Boy b by a capable company company com corn pany at the time Salt Lake theatre Tom rom Wilson a a. growing boy in a small man village loves IOe Jano Belknap Bel knap daughter of the leading leeding man of ot the community Th The father Hiram Hit Belknap tell tells the boy that until he proves his hia mettle he cannot annot give Kiva his attentions to Jane Jane tells Torn Tom that sho she loves him but h he ha mu must t prove himself lt before belore he can marry her I Tom rom goes Joes to the city and loses place after place until he i IB I. penniless and U la behind In his payment of board His ma trials in the cIt city boarding house conducted con con- ducted by Mrs Bannon aro are real trials and the characters he meets there are real characters The hoarding boarding house scene I Is III a n. clever mingling mingling- of ot pathos and humor which touches man many miny responsive chords in the minds of or the audience Among the boarders are Bre an embryo embro prima donna Amy LeRoy LRoy a show sho girl Fred Merkle a. a newspaper newspaperman man Irma Herman LeIU Leitz a e. star tar boarder Joe Weinstein a theatre ticket speculator Timmy Mr tit Phelps a travelIng travel travel- Ing man and hi his wife wito Tom rom thrown thron in close contact In th the boarding house houte life lire with Miss LeRo LeRoy IH is fascinated by br her but through the agency of Merkle Mercle and Weinstein his c eyes CU ea are opened Ho IB Is th then n out ont of ofa a job lob again and penniless and prepares to end It all nil by the gas flU route when whet MerkIn Interferes and talks sense Into the the- he the b boys boy's s mind By a It lucky stroke of ot fortune in which Merkle ferkle and Weinstein einstein venture everything eo they have they thy get geta a small aman fund and Tom tells Merkle Merkie of oi tho the opportunity for Cor the establishment of ofA A it neW newspaper In the home town Merkle t sees a chance to make money and haind he ha and ind Weinstein and Tom return after Tom has hafl burled buried his hi vanity The They make good with their paper from the start nit hut craves M for the white lI lights of Broadway and sells ells his hla Interest to o Tom and Merkle In the newspaper office Tom meets the big problem of or his hia lire life ind lI d conquers with the result that T Tune luie convinced of hi his hi ability and of his real worth consents to marT marry him The ch characters are well wen balanced and andreason andreason reason cason can be seen in the production for tor forte its lis te exceptionally long Iona runs In the east eart Tom Wilson is III portrayed faithfully by bya Jason a son s and his hin mother b by Je JeHie Juf Sea Sea- f Hie Ie rinsing lAnsing Hiram m B Belknap in is taken b h by Charles Charle i Rondeau and hi his daughter Jane Janc b by Eleanor Elennor Haber Miss Mies Haber nas rn as Aft Necla Necia In Iu The Tho Barrier at her previous pie visit h here re Mr Mrs Bannon flannon the landlady I Is played b by Maggie Ia e Meredith Meredith Meredith Mere Mere- and Fred frfd Merkle and Joe stein are presented pr respectively by Gu Gardner V W. W Ryder and Tame James I L. L Wiley wey Amy Arny Roy LeRoy it Is presented by Jianette Nelson Lucy a colored waitress waltrus in fn the boarding house bous who furnishes much of the tho comedy Is played d In fn an entertaining manner by J Lillian Sterling The Country Countr Boy prevented presented d a mAtIn matIne mat mAt- In inee Ine e performance this att afternoon and the tIme engagement will dOlle tonight |