Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-21
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Special correspondence.
New York, March 16.--That flying
Dutchwoman OF the drama, Elsie de
Wolfe, made her perennial appearance
on Monday night In a new play called
Cynthia" Poor Elsle She has been
engaged in this business for twenty
years or more without much success
In an evil hour, FIVE and twenty years
ago. somebody told her that she was a
good dresser, and 50 she resolved to
go on the stage. where fine clothes are
seen TO the best advantage. Unhapplly
dressmakers and Thespis are far sep
arated; as we have witnessed recently
in the flasco of Mrs. Osborn and her
playhouse. Elsie knows everything
about lingerie, boots, stockings, mil
lInery ana gowns, but she declares lit
Gle Of art. The critics have helped
her, millonaries have helped hereyery-
body has helped her, but she still re-
mains performer beyond help. She
Is Of blue blood, her father a Doctor
being descended In some fashion from
the ancient Knickerbockers. The gross
and vulgar public, however, cares moth
ing for lineage when 1t Is called upon
to pay s. at the box office This demo-
cratic and dcplorabe disposition has
been instanced lately in the cold shout
| der given to Earls Yarmouth and Ross
| Ign, both Of whom are of the most
| aristOcratic blood, yet neither OF whom
| Is worth tuppence as stage attraction,
| Indeed, the former noble lord aban-
| doned the drama some months ago, be-
| came q Wine agent and after many
vicissitudes finally betrothed himself
| TO a milionaires daughter, whose in
| come will support him for the future.
| His nobility of Rosslyn is not so for
| Wnate. He fell In love with an actress
| as poor as himself and together they
| have gone starring In a romantic sort
CT way with little chance of making
ends meet. These illustrations are
educed merely to show the futiity OF
Miss de Wolfe's hope Of standing on her
blue blood As an actress Elsie mas
not been smiled on by fortune. Yet
she found angels galore. Apparent
! ~ every time this lovely lady wants
! To- star she discovers hackers aplenty
More money has been spent on her
Than on any player Of these times
IL is said that Charles Frohman
spent $4,000 in trying to establish
ner as the heroine of "Therml-
dor" That was a great drama by
| yctorien Sardou and Miss de Wolie'5
leading man was Forbes Robertson,
one Of the finest actors In England
Yet the venture fell into disaster
| Again Miss de Wolfe emerged from
oblivion as the star Of Joseph ana
again she fell into misfortune once
more she was resurrected as the lead
ing lady Of "The Surprises OF Love IN
which the Earl OF Yarmouth made his
dramatic debut but In spite OF the
aristocracy Of the cast Of that play
II found no enduring prosperity.
Emerging from that accident Elsie
came forward as the star Of The way
of the World" a comedy by CLYDE
| Fitch, who is uniformly successful vet
the piece fell into misfortune. Alto
9, tber Miss de Wolfes dramatic am
Litlons probably have cost sum APP
rrnNimating 100000 Her new piece
Ia which. with undaunted courage, she
makes a fresh venture, was written n}
a hitherto unknown author Hubert
| Horny Davis. for after her experience
WITH two famous dramatists E''
thinks that she may find better fortune
with an obscure playwright cynthia
was produced al the Madison Square on
Monday night and its story runs as fol-
lows;
STORY or CYNTHIA"
\ young married couple Is surrounded
bv an the comfort and luXuries that
unlimited wealth can provide, life 70
which both had always been accustom-
e. and which they believed 20 be the
~ life that any one on earth leo.
They are absolutely ignorant Of such
"A 'bing as poverty or Of any trouble IN
pafting all the money they needed, eN
cent that there We're such things as
banks on which they could draw ai
any and an times for whatever they
desired The wife Is an American glIl
of wealth who has married a young
Epglshman blessed with "a father O.
npparently limitlcss capital ana
who had been In India for some yeor'
AID returned 90 London two years
after his sons marriage TO find his boy
living u life OF luxurious eNtraVagance.
and who has made serious inroads into
the old gentemans bank account,
without realizing for one moment thti
there could be an end TO those re-
sources. Upon being told that eN'
penses must be reduced the young cou
lie evolve ideas OF economy. Her ao-
solute ignorance OF the worlds ways
or how or where money Is acquired,
leads the wife inuoCenty into the hand
q a German money lender from whom
she obtains a large sum OF money,
q fact which she Keeps from
her husband A young friend OF
the family. a man Of boundles'
means. Is suspected Of being the source
of the new wealth which the wife SEE
cures, and the consequent complications
and suspicious that naturally arise
create quarrel between the young
couple. The discovery however by the
husband that Cynthia has done nothing
more foolish than 20 borrow money at
30 per cent makes him happy, and they
decide that money is not az all neces
sary 10 them as long as they have each
other. Believing that they can I've ON
love alone. the last act finds them IN
extremely humble quarters ana re-
duced 20 extreme poverty. Love, how
ever has belied the old proverh and
has refused to Fly out al the window,
and they are poor but happy, though
they have discovered the fact that
money Is an absolute necessity. The
two acts laid among the smart set
} in the West End 81 London give the
woman ample opportunity Tor display
ing gowns aud this opportunity Is mad.
the m lst OF by the leading lady.
OPPOSITION TO THE TRUST.
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