| Show The Bcirnslomers When a tour of Utah and Southern Idaho was suggested by the management of “She Stoops to Conquer” it looked big too big an undertaking for an amateur organization like the one just menwas The tioned proposition knocked by the knockers and kicked by the kickers but while the knock- ing and kicking was going on funds were being raised and the advance men were already in the field It was big The play itself while it contains good wholesome humor in abundance does not contain the elements that would endear it to a popular audience Its production in Logan in the first place was intended to be chiefly educational The management could easily have chosen something which would h the preparanot require tion “She Stoops to Conquer” required and which would have taken better with the ordinary audience They knew the introduction of thirteen pistols and eight buckets of blood would have helped in a great many places to hold popular attention but they were not in the business for that sort of thing The attitude of the class of people we ordinarily found on this proposition is about summed up in the conversation between one of our ad one-tent- vance men and a young hopeful “Anv shootin' in vour plav?” “Xo" “Anv stabbiifi ?” “Xo” “Show ain't worth a damn” And we found this spirit manifest in the peanut galleries all along the line Despite all these difficulties the thing has been pushed through successfully and too much credit can not be given Professor Upham and Miss Moench for their tireless efforts in making the thing a success for it was a success a howling It was a success from a success financial standpoint from an educational standpoint and marks we hope an era in Utah colleges It is just possible that it is such occurrences as the one now under consideration which create around our institutions a college atmos- phere and give the W estern student to understand that there is something to be obtained out of school even here far removed as we are from the influences of the big eastern institutions beside a mass of information ground out of encyclopedias of the The newspaper write-up- s performances were nearly all favorable The Rlackfoot editor who objected to the show is file chap who wanted to know if one of the stu- - |
