The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-08

anu James IA E1ackeLL. ana TWO
comic, Sam Bernard and Frank Dan
iels. were in the plays introduced in
Broadway this week. Mr.. Bernard is
not starred" however, but only flea
tured-' That means q difference to
the actor in his own mind, and is ap-
probable by stage folks. but the audi
ences are not aware Of the discrimiEa-
ton. Charles FrOhman presents The
Girl from Kay's.' with Sam Bernard"
and not sam Bernard in The Girl
from kay's.' Thus is expressed the
distinction between starring" and
featuring" Absurd2 No Tt involves
professional etiquette and business
technicality, even though the public
takes no account Of IT, The more sal
tent point IS that Bernard IN the role
or rich and vulgar LOnuOner trying
TO break his way into polite society
over there such a fellow is called
bOunder, and the term is coming into
use here TO designate that kind Of
bounding braggart-is for the first time
something Ike q legitimate comedian.
The upshOt IS a character instead Of
caricature. This Hossenheiner speaks
Bernard broken English. and Is funny
with Bernard mannerisms, but he is
dramatically legitimate. He IS just the
bore whom Englishmen regard as
typical Of American new wealth, but
who is quite as numerOusly an Eng
lish product. In this instance he is a
German Jew, and so instinctively
thrifty even in his prohigacy that he
counts the cost OF his indulgences and
cuts IL down by ingenious devices. He
IS a pursuer Of girls, and especially OF
one from Kay's dry goods store, but
when he gets her he assents to her
demand Of marriage because. as he
puts it, as her husband he can give
her diamonds and stHl keep them.
coming from kay's gives vivacious glee
20 this latest musical farce from Lon
don. She is played by Hattie VIII
liams. who is permitted to take cur
tain calls hand in hand with the flea
tured' Bernard. Winnie is a winner.
She skates over thin ice with Hogge1-
nelmer-I may say warm ice-in the
way that Partisan sirens do I'm French
farces, but at the point where she
seems about to break through the
moral surface and plunge into what
is underneath, she steadies herself on
her feet like solid English maiden
and slides safely away into matrimOny.
This play. with it's tripping songs
skipping dances and ripping girls ends
thus with an honest wedding prepared;
and &c has begun HuDtially. too with
bride and eight bridesmaids on view
I'm beautiful gowns. That is the smart
est OF the many spectacies. Winnie
brings q bonnet from Rays to the new
wife. and casually kisses the new nus
band, thereby estranging the pair at
the outset OF the honeymoon. Thar
half Of the story. like the other, ambles
closely along the line fence between
moQeSty and 2ucaCity, and at times
straddles it,. but doesn't limb clear
over and at length gets down on the
right side. This piece was made in
England. on the English model. by
owen Han and Ivan Caryll, but it's
gayeties are as characteristic Of New
York 40 they are OF London. and still
more are they conEeuiaI 70 Paris. They
keep you eNpectant of a moral shock
which doesn't come.
Jessie Nrllward has for years and
years been leading woman" on the
New York stage, but never a star
until this week. She is enough of an
artist to satisfy without personal beau
ty eli the demands made by her new
pretensiOns to distinction And when
YOU come TO think OF it, few Of the sue
CessfUl actresses-that is. dramatically
sCccessful-are more than passably
good looking. Beauty is not usually al
lied to exceptional talent can to mind
the faces of your favorites and you viii
see that while they are agreeable. or
attractive. or even enhancing in their
mobility. hardly any of them would be
accepted by the hanging committee for
picture exhibition of feminine beau
". The photographers more commonly
aim their lenses at CEoruses and bal
lets when hunting for loveliness. Miss
MtllWard is a wholesome type Of the
English woman, with a good face to act
with, but not 20 expose to the camera.
and it is by her accomplishments that
SHE has held "a place in London and
New York theatres these twenty years.
In the British capital she was Identified
mainly with melOdrama i'm companion
ship with the late William Terriss.
though both were at times with Henry
Irving. She was brought here for
Charles F'rohman's Empire company. in
which she started so well as q comedi-
enDc that her American vogue has been
as "a sentimental humorist. r.. -. Car
ton has written a cOngeuially seriO-
comic character Tor her in "A Clean
Slate The meaning of the title is that
the wife OF a worthless man, whom she
does not love when she weds him and
subsequently learns 90 despise, wipes
clean her marriage slate with a divorce
sponge and takes her pencil in hand 60
make a. happier record with a second
husband his wife having elOped with
the first. You can so easily discern in
that one sentence the nature of the
complication and it's solution that no
more need be written about IT,
Appreciation of Miss MiIlWard's act
ing is keener WITH critical than careless
people She makes points" with a
nicely and sureness Of method which
experts admire. yet which the less dis
eliminate majority do not take note Of.
She is especially slGllful in witty utter
anccs, but almost devoid of emotional
potency. Her technique is all and her
magnetism" is nil. In that respect she
IS much Ike our own Agnes Booth.
They are good actresses for stage-as-
piring girls to watch for knowledge Of
dramatic art. Miss Millward's bril-
lance in CA Clean Slate" has no
warmth yet many a more gifted as
pirant might well let &c light the way
to fame. Henry Irving. who went to
see her yesterday afternoon, remarked
that Jessie was a superb artist. He
was bound to say something pleasant
as he was her guest in a prosceniuun
box. but he chose the right phrase and
meant IL sincerely.
James j. Hackett has come back to
Broadway popularity with John Err
mine of the Yellowstone" It is a thin
line that divides romantic drama from
Eaelodrama. often the division is not
visible 10 the naked eye. When is a
romantic drama a melOdrama2' ' might
be answered, When its scenes are
American" If the Sardou heroines had
been homicidal in Wyoming instead Of
italy. we would have smiled on them
patr0nizingly as BoWeryish: and who
would have staged the turbulent story
of Rassendvu if 10 had haDpened an