Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 35 | Old Times Come Back

Old Times Come Back NEW YORK, May 1? Tlma turned Its hands back recently and gave m odar a playgoers a chance to ae th o rt of plays w saw when kid a. Play with vlillana who wer real villalna. vlrglna who war Intact, A ota of Ood muatered' on tha aid of tha righteous and the undoing of all and sundry who hsd rata hand against pur vominbood. It was all there and even more. The play was railed "The Dust Heap." aad Bernard Ber-nard J afcOwea and Paul Dlckev wrote It. a rxl the affable "Jlmmle Sheagreen and I.yl Andrews, ao doubt with their respective tongues tn their cheeks, procured It st ths Vanderbllt theatre. Ths virgin wss Ines Plummer. tha Ingratiating villain vil-lain waa Loulnt B'nnlaon. the flrat hero was Robert Strange tn tha uniform of a Hoy a) Mounter of Canada, whlla th ee tat ant hero waa wlHlsm II sale y. This wss merely a beginning. Th lctrlelsa waa atarred. and a was ths anan wh manipulated the ace a try la auch meaner aa ta bring a beam from tha rafters dawn oa the shoulders shoul-ders of ths villain as he pursued: ths pir maldsa up th stairs with vll Intent. Th act wss laid In the Yukon, and th girl was th lost daughter of a ploua Jew who traveled for twenty ysara about the wild. of Canada seeking th daughter Ha was full of wis saws and philosophy. philoso-phy. Indeed, he was as full of pttty as th French-Csnadlsjt villala was of devilment But at tbe end rr throe acta, whea th audience had been treated to melodrama which w of an older generation thought dead and burled, tha daughter was restored 40 th father, the Magdalene Magda-lene had reformod. th villain was I-. handcuff a and readv ta recogttse tha eslsienre of a Ielty. the Koyal Mounted had made good add 'got hla man. the ploua priest wss bene v. olently smiling, the t'tvkney eomtc , wss grinning st the right end of s psir of sis shoot srs and ths rreepy music which had prmeatd the entire en-tire affair waa getting ehllller and chillier, and th audi ear departed divided between thoee whoa memories mem-ories ef kldhood had be -a revived and those who atlll pondered what It was all abosit.