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Show 1 ' : At :03MEUf THEATER '. . '. , '. . .'; ' .... - t- " V :. : : . " i s A subject of much discussion in Salt Iako today is the dramatic sketch "Pals," which is being reproduced at the Orpheum this week, for it was in thia playlet that James J. Corbett appeared ap-peared with such success. "Pals" opens upon a most beautiful beauti-ful stage setting, showing the interior of a Wall street broker's country home, and at first gives the impression that n r.lever little every day sketch will follow, fol-low, for Jack Wayne 'phones his wife telling her that Capt. Redmond, one of his old roHege chums, who has just re turned, from the Philippines, will be out to dinnPr. and Mrs. Wavne is very much humiliated because the servants have all gone to a picnic, and she was going to make her better half feast on eanned goods that evening, aud so on the little drama runs. Dash for the Train. The servants away, the stable boy is given a few hasty instructions and impressed into the "service as butler, and quite a few ridiculous situations are the result, but Jack is called back to the citv. and explaining to the Captain Cap-tain that he will only be gone an houf or so rushes out and makes a dash for the next inbound train. Hardly is Jack's back turned when the chain, who has partaken too freely of the flowing bowl, makes advances toward his host's wife. Having ' missed his train. Wayne returns to his home. expecting to finish the evening quietly with his friend, but instead finds Orace, his wife, terrified terri-fied and fleeing up the stairs, while his "old pal and chum" is in the act of following her. A hurried explanation explana-tion by Grace and then the climax. Fight, why you have never seen anything more realistic either on or off the stage in your life. These two men fight all the wav across the room. Mirrors are smashed, the chandelier broken into a thousand pieces, brie-a-brae wrecked and stilr they fight. On up the stairs, where the young wife i standing horrified and trembling, until Jack seizes the Captain in a grip of steel and literally drags kirn. back, down the long flight of steps, where the curtain finds turn choking the last breath of life from his false chum. This is the fifth season that "Pals" has been before the public, and in that time some things have happened during the fight that were not on the program, according to Mr. William Wil-liam K. Powell, who has always taken the comedy part of "Higgins. " the stable boy. and who is now. in addition to appearing in that role, managing the production. Scene in Theater. "When Jim was 'Jack Wayne.' says Mr. Powell, "we had a big chap playing 'Redmond.' One night while I was watching the fight from the wings 1 was horrified to see the two fall against the banisters and pitch off the stairs to the stage. It is a drop of about fifteen feet, and 1 fully expected ex-pected to find one of them badly hurt. Corbett. however, came through witb-ont witb-ont a scratch, aid iho othrr chap only sprained a couple (.f tinkers. Ano'her time, when Hal Davis was j. laying the lead, there was one night that we answered no curtain e-C!s. for in the scrap, Hal struck out. expect inj? to hit Walter Green, who was then Captain, on the shoulder, but Greeti turned his hea l . ..St in time to g : tho full force of the blow upon the point of his jaw and down he went for the count of ten."' |