The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31


T." gives a relatively cheerful
view Of the evil that men do to we-
men. This new play is not a funny
farce. as its name seems TO indicate,
: but a comedy Of tender sentiment and
deep emotions. Mrs. Burnett has made
it with alen and ink. as welt as seis-
sors and paste. from her novel. I'm
Connection witts the De WiIoughby
Claim. The misfortune which John
Baird brings So MargeTy Lstimss IS
shown in the prologue. Then the sc
ton skfps seventeen. years and we get
acquainted with AIs.ggeTy's daughter,
Felicity, who goes on her wedding day
TO lay her bridal flowers on her moth
ers grave and pray there To be iespt
pure. a plaintige Incident is this, with
the girl unaware Of the pitifUl perth
nency OF what she does, and her re-
mOrscfui fathEr saved from sufride un-
Willingly by the innocent creature. OF
course You have seen Maud2 FealS-
if not on the stage then in portrait
ure, as her hundreds Of photographs
have been. multiplied into millions OF
prints the world over Maude is az
pretty as her pietuse. young and sweet,
too, and rather more than a pasSable
actress. As the maiden just married
she is lovely.
Robert Hilliard is the star of the
play, however, as the CT who, after
long lapse Of time, discovers that
man" the father of his head sisters
child. in his own lifelong chum. NOs-.
billiard is a powerful artist. and he
makes Uncle Dicks vengeful feeling
look sure to damage Baird seriously.
Most of US know, too that Hilliard
Is a sinewy man and impulsive; 50 our
concern for the TeDentant. remorseful,
suicidal sinner is heightened. But the
gentle Felicity, quite gnWittingly, re-
lakes her uncle's fist into an open hand.
extended to her father in manly fore
giYeness. Mrs. Burnett's play is pro-
Xix and disorderIy, but in its scenes
Of cross purposes for the two men and
the girl it quickens the pulse and
opens the tear ducts.
Hilliard is a product of Brooklyn,
which grows more amateur actors to
the acre than any other city in the
land. He used 10 play Hamlet and Ro-
meO evenings, when he wasn't boxing
at an athletic club. and came across
the river daytimes TO clerk il in Wall
street. Very we'll known is Bob 10
ealiy, and for brain as wei as Drawn,
though | doubt II ever his name vas
on any church roll san all BeechertOwn.
After he went on the professional
stage he Travelled q season in a COM
pany which contained that other quick
tempered and~FeadE-hsted actor, Lloyd
Bingham, and il wag inevitable that
they should come 70 blows. That was
years ago. Bob is proud Of his hiss
trionic reputation and ambitious to
increase il, and acutely sensitive TO
anything that might lessen it ever so
little. One of the published accounts
OF Lloyd's assault on Acton Davies, the
dramatic critic, said that Lloyd had
once punished Bob for an insult to
Mrs. Bingham. And this in the very
week before Bob would come out in
THAT Man and ia play by the emf
nent Mrs. Burnett. with all that the
event poTtended IN art and literature,
The scandalous, infamous. injurious lie
must be nailed quick and nailed hard.
1T was / licked Bingham" Hill
lard telegraphed from Buffalo, and
if he has forgotten the fact { would
be pleased to pound it into him agar"
Ada Rehan is the marvel of. the
passing show. The question whether a
play or player is or is net pecuniarily
successful seldom seems a salient point
for this corresp9n len -; but in this pc
culidr case IL is too pertinent TO be ig-
nored. Augustin Daily vent bankrupt,
only a few years ago. with Miss Rehan
II classical comedies. 4 closure Of his
theatre was averted by recourse to sen
satiOnal Tnelodramas and musical
farces. Yet the people crowded a big
mouse last week to sec that same ac-
tress in The Tanning Of the Shrew"
and are doing il this week for The
School Cor Scandal" She is still a gift
ed and accomplished artist, true enough
-Hrsa
or that after seeing her furrOwed face
and white hair or the promenade OF an
afternoon and her initiation of a girl
on the stage that same evening. Miss
Rehan is nearer TO sixty years than
fifty. else she was 10 more than child
when, in 1867 she eIas the feminine
leader in AlDaugh's Baltimore and Al
bany stock companies. Yet as RATHER
inc and Lady Teazle, althcJgh her art
can't hide what nature has done to
her beautiful face, it can and 1t does set
her age back a quarter Of a century
or more iii cla sticity. buoyancy and
other aspects of girfshness She played
tin e roles as well--yes, as effectively-as
sha dio long. long ago. ] had thought
that Grandma BerEhargt was the bluff
IN cxcelsis when I had last seen her play
the boy in "LfAiglon," bat she IS
equaled by Miss Rchan.
As 10 the astonishing fact that New
York, which permitted Days Theatre to
re half empty wl1en Ada Rehan still
appeared, there in standard comedy
characters. is aow dlling a larger hOUse
upOn her seelaingsy hopeless return to
them, ] feel my utter liability 10 eX~
plain. so I askee an Oil manager TO
tall ne the Why and wherefore. lie
took IN 4ne air oe sage in looking
backward. If he were equally good at
looking forward nc would be a million
aiTe. which lie is not.
y know why Deerle are throngins TO
sec Rehan. said This hin6siyht prophet;
"a new generation Of play-gOeTs 1as
grown up since she was III her prime,
The fathers and mothers read the sd
Vertisements EFF her temperance and
r-mark to their sons and daughters.
Ada Rehan vas d great and glorious
actress. oh, my, but there's nothing
ike her rcowadays You shouldn't miss
this possibly last chance to see her. I
guess we'd bstter ali go. SO whole
families hurry To the theatre where,
with the faded cost Imsg and worn
scenery, which DAILY beQueathed 10 her,
enc is shining with zeal effUlgence in
the rekiadlsd light Cf other days.
AugIstin DAILY was a genius FOR de-
velOping talent IN actresses. Ada Re
han, clara S5Gerris, Agnes Ethel and
Fanny Davenport are results OF his pro-
cessos- he was not similarly proficient
n cooking actors from raw to wen
done; nor is David Belasco; and Dag
failed to ind amy value for his pur-
poses N suel fixed and uEaltera bic
women as May irwin and Annie Yea
MAS. whom III took INTO his company,
but in moulding younger and more
plastic feminine material he was an
adept. He did not go Into stage man
agem ant Prom the ticket Office, bat from