MARLOW COMPANY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1432, 6 May 1912, Page 5

MARLOW COMPANY.

• "THE LUCK OF HOARING CAM 1 , ." n "The Luck of Roaring Camp," a me'o'l drama, in four acts. Cflst:—. v Will Gordon Cecil Hnnnerinf ■n Tom Barnes Herbert .Linden . Gonzales Godfrey Cues ;; ,I'addy M'Ginty Crosbie Ward Nieger Don J. Bannister Howard, jun. r 01(1 Pard ..'.... H. Stewart fiarncr o fihcrlif P- Vincent Scully it Tommy Little Drnoy Turner II Mary O'Flynn J. P. O'Neill. . ilea- Elsie Prince \ Pinky Tlbbs Patiio Oourliiy Jovita Dc Sutro liarrie Ireland , e Noil Curtis Louis* Ilauipton a The name of the author of melodrama '• which stalked tho boards of the Opera House on Saturday evening under tlio gaiso of "The Luck of Hearing..Camp" was not announced on the programme. 0 The author nt once is judiciously modest, [), for whilst he subdues the- natural craving b for fame as a dramatist, his work cannot a. fairly be described as an "adaptation 1 from' Bret llarte's novel," and those who s look to see that brceisy story in stage form I, will bo disappointed. "Tho Luck of Hoarf ing Cttinp" is a crudely constructed melu> il drama of that simple, unalfected character 0 which appeals to the primitive.eniotione ■- of that large section of the public .which ii- loves to see the villain an "oiit.. inid s outer," prepared to stick at nothing,- ili s order that the hero's hnlo might be the - brighter when villainy is finnlly variquisii--1 «I, as ovuryono knows it will toe. In this play tho villain .is a perfect ■ terror. Although lite .scene of (he play is away up in the mountains among tlio mountnint sido mining camps of Nevada, he affects . the cowboy dress, which is essentially ono f for tho plains. This is Tom Barnes, & 1 cool hand. Ho stabs an old man, who 1 has lost his memory, to (jet the plans of a a lost gold mine, and then throws Hie blame; s on Will (Joixion, tho handsome young fi'l- , . n low who has come from New York to assist :1 "Old Pard" to find the mining gold lead. :, Wili is about to bo hanged when Nell . Curtis, "Old Pard's" daughter, invites b those, who want a funeral to go on.wild I tho .hanging. Ii is charaek'rihtie of tlw t jiia.v that, whilst a inrlrp is in progress - after Nell's timely intervention, a plump 3 old Irishwoman (who might easily pass r for a daughter of the Willow ..O'liiiou ) in "l-'un on the Bristol"), t .">hoiij(L ■ dance a wuul jig. It -was- all t extremely laughable. Then Will, is.ro- : leased, and is about to resume operations ■ in the mountains, when ,lovih>. d<; llSulru, ■ ii Mexican adventurer, eoitspires ..with, t Banip.s to separate Neil and Will, iis or- > dor that Barnes may uVo"the"occa!;ioii ■ to woil Nell und her prospective fortune, I which is still missing in tho mountains." • ! Failing in this, Barues and .l.ovita kid.' 1 nap Nell, and secrete her in a cave, from • which she is rescued by her indefatigable lover. Gonzolcs, a half-mad Mexican ■ Ri'c-ttser, and former lover of Juviw's brings retribution to the evil-doers ia the lend. Foiled in his altempt to kill Gordon, ho learns that Barnes was "the nian who had wronged him, and rushing upon him, is stabbed. Willi his dying breath, Gonzales informs the sheriff (liaf Barnes was tin' murileivr nl , "Old I'.inl," whereupon the representative of law and order iitstniets thi> "boys' , tu lynch him. • Tho play ends merrilv witli Mic iiiniriiife of Ttim and \<-ll (who turns out tu l> d«. cciulnd twin an aristocratic -KnsHsh family), Tho piny is slroukod with poiiioilv, sutv. plied by Mnry O'Flynn (Mr. .). I'.OWeilD, an alleped Trishninu with whi--kers Ihat aro an insult to the nalion (Mr. Cnvby Ward), and an impossible nesro (Mr. J. B. Howard). Mr. Cecil ifimnerinj* mnile a youns and handeoine Will Gordon, ami nelrd (|i« pa.rt (such as it wn.s) with manly praro and restraint. He was the only one in the east -who attempted tho Western vernacular, and though lie was successful, ho was just the one that should have refrained from doing so, as thy. cnnrar'or is fresh from New York. XeU Curtis-was quietly and effectively played by. Mi-< Louiso Hampton, and Mivs HnrrieTrelnn.l emphasised the esrutlce-likn subtlety antl jfrossoess of tlie depraved Jnviin rath.M , cloterly. Qensjulcs was played by Mr. Godfrey Cass in an uUra-tlrnmatic vein. The Rudienw mistook it for comedy, and laughed nf his every line. There wne ovea lauehtor when "Old P<ird" was .'tab. bed by Barnes (who was made n' vaster■ clean and tidy oowlmy wiiti an Australian acoent, by Mr. Herbert I.indon): "The Lack of Koitrins Camii , ; .will t>» e&iA ilia siealng, '.'