Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-05-30 | Page 2 | Mrs. Fiske Coming to the Grand This Week

MRS FISKE COMING TO THE GRAND THIS WEEK Will In III Her New c 1111 flay Nell ell One Ouo of uC the Ilet She MIC linn lies Had Ind It is seldom that tho the mal maiden en effort of oC the playwright meets such uch fled fed success as has lias been the tho fortune of oC Salvation Nell the thc play of life In the thu crowded centers of oC ten New ew York In hi which Mrs FIske will appear at the Grand theater Tho The author E Edward Sheldon Is a young oung Chicagoan 22 years ol old and was graduated from Harvard with hl highest hest honors last June Junc How lIow Mr Ir Shel Sheldon on came to use the tho Salvation Sal Army the back as ground of or ofa ora a play Is of Interest The Idea came canio cameto to me mo one da clay he says on pausing to I Ito I rr r rv v ti itt it- it r. r I t cs r rr r ti MILS MUS In hi nl on Nell INell watch vatch a street corner meeting of ot the Salvation Arm Army with Its Us simple terse testimonies and amI Its vigorous orous band Like a flash nash It came canine to mo me that here hero was vas a great source of dramatic material material material mate mate- rial as yet et totally undeveloped True Salvation Arm Army life ha had been Introduced introduced introduced Intro intro- once or twice on the tho stage but only In a Il light superficial manner Inthe Inthe In Inthe the earnestness the directness tho the genuineness g of the message of ot these Christian workers It seemed to me there was contained much of oC tho the like Christ 0 spirit that pre prevailed ailed among the earliest of the church To gather the material for tor my play was the big necessary task I 1 spent spoilt my summer vacation at ut time the end of oC my JunIor year ear car In college studying tho the work of oC the army In Denver Denvor Chicago o and New Yoi York k 1 was privileged to ac accompany accompany ac- ac company of oC the tho arm army on their thel expeditions Into the most degraded fl quartets of ot these cities and thus col col- collected a IL vast amount of oC material useful from the dramatic standpoint For Tor my senior year at college 1 arranged m my schedule of oC studies so that my mornIngs morn moin- Ings were free Cree and It was Sas during then that I wrote Salvation Noll Nell Anti Ami Salvation Noll loll Isn't my first play There was another another another-a a terrible tragedy called The Single Insle Family Its It's burIed burled burled bur bur- led away In Um my trunk somewhere Imay I nut may get It out one ono of oC these days