The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

New York. Oct. 29.-Henry Irving.
kyrle Bellew and Nathaniel c. Good
win are the dramatic men Of the week
here, the Englishmen with Dante"
and "Ra6les," and the American with
"A Midsummer Nights Dream" But
there is a woman, new and strange,
and politely we VIII pay attention to
her first. Charlotte Wiche is very pref
~, probably 30 years old, yet indicat-
ing no more than 20 in her plant grace
and delicate vivacity. she speaks
French with a native Danish accent
in a comedietta, but IN the two pan
tomimes wrich are the better portions
Of her entertainment her silent eX-
pressiOns are Partisan 30 the smallest
pOut OF a lip and the faiutest droOp
Of an eyelid. she has been imported
10 help establish a French theatre in
the place around a corner from Fifth
avenue. that was known for awhile as
Mrs. Osborne's Playhouse.
I hope you VIII make as much mon
ey I'm French Mrs. Osborne tele-
Eraphed to Charles Frohman, on the
opening night. "as I lost in English"
However. the money she lost was not
her own 1t had been provided by John
Jacob Aston. heir to Aston millions;
Frederick Gerhard, who seems always
a bic 20 finance his costly exploits, ana
Norma Munro. daughter of the Nor
man Munro who made a big fortune In
sthe publication of story papers with
borders ON them and maWksh senti-
ment in them. Presumably those three
capitalists got the worth of their money
ln satisfaction behind the scenes. but
the public took no remunerative inter
est in the public shows of pretty girls.
Miss Weihe is as piQuant as Mrs Os-
borne's girls tried 10 be- In the spoken
play she is a dancer taking supper with
her lover. He has brought her 20 his
rooms to bid her farewell, as he has
picked up "a new mistress, and she has
come to break the news TO him that
she has caught a richer admirer. Each
learns the fact about the other at the
table. She keeps busy with her mouth
both ways, in and out-fOOd and drink
going in and words coming out-during
all Of the half-hOur that the meal lasts
Her vOracity would be repelling. and
her slow but sure intOXicatiOn would be
disgusting. if she were not neatly. nice
". deliciOusly funny. But she is wicked,
and must be condemned. SO let us
agree that i'm her exquisite art she is
a deplOrable example of feminine deg
relation. That eases the conscience.
French players are taught pantO-
mine as ours and the English are not.
Besides that. the French people were
born to grimace and gesticulate. Miss
Weihe's face and form are Danish i'm
their cool delicacy, and so she looks
guileless while doing things wherein a
French woman would show the guilty
purpose. In one of the silent short
plays she figures as a doh hypnotized
TO animation by its maker. and her
mechanical motions are droii without
improperly. But In what the bill
terms a mimOdrama she is again a
. public dancer with a special private
admirer. After she has sent him away
from her room. she discovers a burg
lar hidden behind a pOrtiere. dissembles
her fright by rehearsing a dance, and
Contrives 20 call her lover back to res
cue her. Miss Weihe tells this story
with small assistance from two men
I'm action that speaks as plainly as any
possible words. She employs hardly
any Of the arbitrary symbols common
TO paItOmimists, but conducts herself
almost exactly as she might If she
were speaking the role. I had not
known. nor imagined, that pantOmimiC
art could be made to serve so eloquent
~ in lieu Of speech.
But this Danish siren from Paris ap-
plies her natural gifts and acquired IA
cilities 70 what in our stage terms is