The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-02

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III staSeland that Belasco meant to turn
David Fd into a serious actor. yet
many OF the people at the introduction
OF The Music Master" expected to
iaugh. And they did laugh a little
Wnen they shouldn't. but not enough to
hinder the uipcess Of the venture. You
nave seen Wa fields Polish Jew, sup
pose. for the fellow. abject vet assert
i've. foolish yea shrewd. has grinned.
stammered and sfAambled through bur
iesque farce aGtd comedy these dozen
years. Warfieiti's German has the
same dental m5uth. slow tongue and
halting feet and wa wouldn't take his
pathos soberly m he didn't give it to US
cleNeFiy. Appe ar6nces are against
MIN. for his face is as ugly bare as il
was with unkemi,t whskers his figure
is as ungraceful ln clothes that lit him
as it was in thOse that didn't. and in
every respect he Us less interesting TO
look at as teacher of music than he
WAS as peddler Glf trinkets.
II have made any success tonight. 8"
ne said before the curtain. cit is be-
cause Mr. Belasco has worked very
hard with me-
Perhaps some OF Be1asco's efforts
with Warfield was to convince him that
ne conld make more money and prob
ABLY more fame. in a modern dialect
role than in Shakespeare for he has
had his heart set on ShSiock.
Belasco, did not write "The Music
Master" but evidently le dictated how
Charles Klein should do, Il: and Klein
seems to have been curbed and Grip
pied by the letters. for this is a poor
example Of his writing, dramatically
considered. But IL contains a father In
search Of a long-iost daoghter-a sim
pie. appealing old fellow. without
touch Of experimental subtlety. and
thus calculated to minimize the risk of
taking Warfield out OF fun and putting
him into patllos. The parent finds the
child I'm one of his wealthy pupils. for
bears TO reveal himself lest he may
make her miserable. and finally finds
out that her happiness lies in her dis
covery Of him. The play has no other
merit than to serve the purpose Of
grading VARIED ABOVE such good COM
edians OF his type as j. f. Dedsoa and
the late Felix Morris. quite I'D to the
level Of John Hare. and within haiiing
distance Of the dying Joseph jefferson.
Bernard Shaw fooled New York peo-
pie like practical joker on the first
night OF How He Lied TO Her Hus-
band Dramatists in England nearly
always keep secret the subjects OF
forthcoming plays. PinerO and Gilbery
carrying reticence to an extreme: but
IN America accounts are usually pub
lished beforehand. and so curiosity was
piqued by the Withholding of any in
formation about Shaw's comediettina
as he designates his new piece. Aside
from the title we knew nothing but that
he had written it in London last sum-
mer for Arnold DAILY. whose use of
Candida" here had carried the eccen-
trio playwright into a success he has
not reached in his own country. A
paradox occurred. An audience fully
prepared to be surprised was surprised
by real surprise. 7 wonder if YOU
know that. in Candida" Shaw made a
clergyman and ais wife listen indus
gently 70 an erTatic boy poet. who de-
manded that the woman choose be-
tween her husband and himself and
that the scene OF the choice was d.
vertingly fantastic incident in cpl
Erammatic drama Literary owls
blinked at IL with wise eyes. and boot
ed their opinion that here was present
ed problem OF some profound sort or
other.
When Arnold Daily enters at the be-
ginning Of How He LIED to Her Hus-
band ne is not bit like the pale
faced. lOnghaired. dream-eyed poet
smartly dressed. white gloved. carries
bouquet OF orchids. and his pink and
White makeup fits his description of a
boy Of is. The woman he is to take to
theatre is i'm distress because some
amOrous verses of his have been ex-
planned TO her husband. The poet
would so with her. hand in hand. to
her husband and there have her choose
between the two lovers. She objects
hsr- -ra~ 50 80
man and incidentally n good fighter.
An this worded brilliantly. and very
whimsically. too. when the youth sizes
up his pUgilistic against his Jpoeticai
abilities. She decides against a refer
encc Of the matter to her husband and
prepares TO start for ;he theatre
You got seats for 'Parsifal?'" she
asks.
No" he replies; mot one left"
What them"
Why. the only other play that could
appeal to you aud me-.Candida.'
And there il all was. Shaw was bur
lesQuing Shaw. DAILY was ridiculing
DAILY. the fantasy Of the prose poem
was suffering under the searchlight OF
practically. This curious joke was
played for half an hour ludicFOusly
clyde Fltcl is a prolific father of
tionately large. because the death rate
among his children is high. Three
died last season in early infancy and
three grew up sturdily. This seasons
first born can't survive its christening
long. Fitch wrote THE Coronet of the
Duchess for that same Clara Blood
good whom his Girl with Green Eyes
had brought from him obscarity into
star brightness. Both tell stories Of
matrimony. starting instead of ending
az weddings in New York wealthy so
Ciety. Now. Mrs. BlOOdgood in real life
of tlat grade has been an unhappy
wife twice. although felicisous in the
third time trying. In stage fiction she
reached that state Of double blessed
ness IN her first venture. notwithstand-
ing that green-eyed jealousy DELAYED
the process. Her second experience i'm
mimic wedlOck brings coroneted mis-
cry with a despicable duke before she
reaches an outlook OF release in divorce
and reunion witt a better man. It
seems as though she might now Sit
down with Fitch. and. experienced as
they are In actual and imaginary mar
iJai Joys and sorrows. plan a right good
third play on the subject.
The theme and action Of "The Coro-
net OF The Duchess are much the same
as those OF Bronson Howard's 20-year-
old The Bankers Daughter" In each
play an American heiress withholds her
hand from a worthy American sutton
and gives il TO a foreign nobleman: in
each she finds that tie infideIity Of her
s1rdid husband vitiates all the value OF
his title aud position; in each she sep
srates from MIN and mates anew with
her native lover But there is the vital
difference thai Towards girl was in-
fatuated with her French marquis HIM