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Show NEXT WEEK "THE SPOILERS." SPOIL-ERS." The stock company at the Orpheuni theater will next week give further I demonstration ot Its versatility and of the management's aim toward pro-vldlng pro-vldlng Ogden theater-goers with the dramatic successes of the day, in Its production, for the first time In Og den, of "The Spoilers," a dramatization dramatiza-tion of Rex Beach's Alaskan novel. Mr. Beach and James McArthur are Jointly responsible for the dramatic version and the play began Its career j at Ihe New Theater. Chicago, and was I taken to New York, where it enjoyed a long run. Rex Beach was the first author to uncover the fertile lands of romance In Alaska, and hU many novels and magazine contributions contribu-tions have placed him among the most successful writers of the present day. His style breathes the virile Far Northwest and in hendllng many of his subjects he wields an almost Btartllng trencliaDt pen. The incidents of the story of "The Spoilers" centers In one of the most picturesque and dramatic episodes in the history of graft the holdup of Alaskan miners by a gang of political bosses in control of the machinery of justice. In his novel, Mr. Beach, who is a young man of enthusiasm and . original Ideas, turns drama Into hlnh- class melodrama, and In this Is his superlative effort. The plav Is, In the main, faithful to the book. Precedent to the contrary, Dowith-standlng, Dowith-standlng, he urgues that there Is no reason why facts should bo barred from the drama. Mr. Beach's love story, turning as t It does upon a strong man's persistent futility and abrogation before a slip of a girl, ostensibly In league with nil the villains. Is calculated to reach the heart of the auditor. It is the j sort of a story w lichi must penetra" I before It hits one between the eyei. Mr. Travers will be seen as Roy J Glenester and Miss Outtrlm as Heb u I Chester. The other members of the company are well cast. There will j be a matinee Wednesday and Saturday tat 2:15. |
