The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-31
(Catholic Universe, Cleveland


France has sent us another great
artist and dissemination of vice.
! Where is Comstock?
| Since Nine. Rejane may come to
| Cleveland we give her plays this ad-
vertisement so that our city readers of
| both sexes may not go to their pre-
sentation. An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.
The madame landed in Cuba Octo-
| Der 10 and got great reception. But
to the play, The play was 'Sapho.'
and the Cubans soon showed that while
| Daudet might write plays to delight
| Parisians he was not the master to de-
! light Havana. The senoritas were not
| permitted to attend this or any other
| performance given by Rejane'S COM
pany. because 'Sapho' and Zaza' and
| La Passerelle, of which Marie Tenn
| pest gave an expurgated edition in
The Marriage of Kitty were not
| deemed appropriate for the young
person to witness. The matinee girls
of New York. Boston, and other Of our
cities, who flock to such plays unat-
tended, might be surprised to learn
! that Cuban girls are not allowed to go
to such plays even when Chaperoned by
their mothers.
AS the play progressed it became evil
dent that the richly dressed ladies were
any rate, the audience grew colder and
colder and appeared ready to go home
long before the play ended.
The Madame arrived with her French
company in New York on the 18th of
November. The New York World said:
In the praise which was beloved
upon the artistic and the woman her
first play 'Amoureuse,' escaped much
of the censure which its salacity and
I i
comedy is certain to be nasty has come
to be an accepted inference. The char
acter which Nine. Rejane played at
least afforded range for her extraordin-
| airy gifts, and New York audiences are
Catholic enough TO distinguish between
a brilliantly acted role and the general
effect of the drama that surrounds it.
But when, three nights later, Nine.
Rejane presents d play which goes even
nearer to the limit of the vile in
French life. it is time to call a halt and
to suggest that even her brilliancy and
SURPRISING skill do not excuse the Of
fensiveness of the material with which
she works La Passerelle, which she
| presented last night, is a farce and
perhaps is of too light texture to be
taken very seriously; but its perform
ance on a public stage, with all the
naked naturalism Of the French COM
pany, is an insult to decency which
ought not to tolerated"
Mr.. Winter, Of the Tribune, char
acterizes "Amoureuse" as "a nasty ex-
hibition of coarse persons and immoral
conduct" and says of La Passerelle':
The heart of it is carnality, and the
garment of it is frolic." The Evening
Post comments.
mo art in representation can give
any value to such pestilent trash as
this. The fact that it is offered sim
ply as a means of amusement makes it
all the more pernicious. Only the
most debased and abnormal appetite
can find qualification in flavors so rank
and gross"
1t is no wonder that a people who
tolerate and even enjoy such plays as
Nine. Rejane presents are losing their
taste for religion and are degenerating
in the social and moral scale.
Should the Madame come to Cleve-
land our readers will not ne in a posi-
ton to plead ignorance of the char
acter of the plays she presents. II with
such knowledge they go. they cannot
plead innocence of bad intentions or
! freedom from grave moral guilt.