Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — “The Rose of the Rancho.” [ARTICLE]

“The Rose of the Rancho.”

Chicago is now having its first view of the notable dramatic success, “The Rose of the Rancho,” which is to be also the last attraction under his management that David Belasco will send our way this season. New York has had this attraction all to itself for two seasons, it playing in Mr. Belasco’s 42d street theatre in New York all that time with great prosperity. It is interesting to note that: when “The Rose of the Rancfto” begins its engagement at the Garrick March 30th, Miss Francis Starr will make her first bow to Chicago thea* tregoers as a Belasco leading woman

David Belasco has taken California in the days when it was part Spanish and part American, with its picturesque and old Missions crumbling in the sun, its fragrant tropiba] gardens, its glorious sky of Italian blue and warmth, for the scene of his drama, “The Rnse of the Rancho.” In this new world setting he has placed men and women with the blood of old Spain in their veins that throb with the pride, the passion, the romance of the Old World whence they sprang. He brings into conflict with these irresponsible people—“mere children picnicking in a beautiful garden,” he calls them —the American of opposing types; one, in the reaching powers of superb, young manhood, with stout heart, moral courage, and a helping hand for the people he is sent, by his government, to protect; the other strong arms and weak ethics. This attraction Is holding forth at the Garrick for a three weeks' engagement. /