The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-12

new play is a French comedy of di-
vorce. The heroine Inarries Jean. but
finds out between church and chamber
that she loves a Jacques, who loves her.
and that Jean loves Genevieve. Those
( discoveries put her into a dilemma. and
she gets out of it with a dizziness that
1 IS close 10 ,duplicity though disguised
as innocence. When alone with her
husband on the nuptial night. she per
suades him to run away from her and
join Genevieve. which causes at once an
opportune separation Of the two whom
heaven has Joined together. and makes
II easy for the courts TO put them
asunder. So she becomes a maiden
bride 10 Jacques. instead of being a
sister TO him and the wife OF some one
else.
AS written i'm French and acted in
Paris, the almost wife of Jean and alto
getheT wife of Jacques was a girl to
blush at while you laughed but as
translated into English and performed
IN New York she is guiltless, though
not quite guileles,s, and very roguish
And the personality of Annie Russell is
so exquisitely dainty that she has but
I to wink to express deviltry. If she
thrusts her foot beyond the hem of her
dress il looks as wicked as though she
! kicked hat off a mans head There
fore she can be racy in the bridal night
scene without doing a thing that can
be remembered as indecorous 1t is
reasonable for Miss Russell 10 tire Of
being coy on the stage, after twenty
years of it, and feel like breaking out
in wild levity. if she can't get the
chance to do ii i'm emotional turbulence
like the girl heard the poet Richard
Watson Glider recite this verse about
at a dinner:
There once was nun in Siberia,
Whose life ii grew dreary and drearier.
Till she broke from her cell,
With hell of a yell,
And eloped with the Father Superior"
With apology to sweet Annie Russell.
She has never had TO elope to get a
husband. In the time OF the Palmer
stock company, when Eugene w. Pres
brey taught her how TO be charming to
audiences in Elaine, she charmed
him incidentally and let him make her
his wife. Last year the English actor.
Oswald Yorke. fell i'm love with her
really while pretending to in The
Younger Mrs. Pairing" and now Yorke
is her actual husband, while he is play
ing the Brother jacques who almost
loses her to Jean.
The question whether the glittering
glOries of Weber & Fields shows would
BE- perpetuated by either member of the
divided firm was answered once when,
a month ago, Joe Weber reopened the
old music hall with the same form of
entertainment, but with much of the
foreign substance of an Anna Held ex-
traVaganZa. The answer is repeated
this week. for Lew Fields opens new
theatre with Old-time Weberfields mat
iZy I'd Of fl1ff
success has started the former COM
rades on their separate ways. 1t Hap
pened IN NOrdland" comes from the pen
of Glen Marlborough, and the baton, as
one may say. of Victor Herbert. If you
know the genius of Fields for building
up farcical scenes, and Of Julian Nit
chell for creating grace and beauty in
chorus work, you will understand why
they made a first-night success out of
rather poor words and none too good
music.
MacDonOugh's plot starts at SIS and
ends at SIT. Our tenderloiners don't
bother 10 get TO theatre before $50.
So few Of them see the elopement in a
railway train that begins the action
and cOngeals the plot for future pUr-
poses. Then the fun sets in, and is in
teTrupted only when beauty and song
intervene. In detail, Marie Cahill
reaches NOrdland just as the queen has
eloped, leaving a royal and drunken
sutton behind. The American girl, with
Zendalike timeliness. resembles the
truant so closely that she takes her
place ON the throne. falls in love with
a lieutenant of her guards, finds her
lOng-lost brother-the Fields character
land royalty pardon6 his illegal indis-
cretions. Perouetting around Miss Ca
hiA and Fields are. May Robson as a
gPOtesque princess. Julius Steger as a
qTack doctor, Joseph Herbert as