The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-17
SideLghts on the New York Theatre
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.
az FRANKLIN FYLEs.
~ Ew YORK. Dec. 16.-Twenty-three
LL --L..--- L---- IL

: 4 r.
plays have had Introductory per-
fornanees in New York within a
week. Many of them were little ones
though, and occasional yet some of
these brevities We're Interesting 10 those
who watch for fresh dramatic IDEAS
Three We're presented al a matinee
which made $4,000 for A. NJ. Planners
widow, whom he had left I'm poverty.
FROM being competitive producine.
lnihdser with Lester Wallack and An
eustip DAILY, controlling A stock COM
pany 'as celebrated as either of theirs.
amer lost presuge and prosperity,
developed fatal malady ana died deem
IN debt. lie had organized thai me
morable matinee which put sos 600 into
the finally INDECENT WalIacix's nurse.
nut Wheh MS own turn came TO be OBJ
solete IN art and by-gone in business.
he declined to be helped in that wav.
W men am dead, do what you Will
Tor my wife and c!si!5ran" he said To
Daniel trOhman. but I'd rather work
out the time that's left me-if / can
get Job for that little while"
30 thafleS FrOhman gave 10 the for
mer dramatic fitctor a chance 10 earn
living as business agent at one of the
Frohnah theatres. When / consider
mat the third magnate I'm that trium-
bankrupt, and only left an estate bv
CHANGING to die at an up instead of "A
down point in his changeful fortunes.
1 wonder If II is possible that either of
The F'rohmans or the Shuberts. Erlan-
ger or Belasco, klaw or Fiske. viii die
noneyless after all their profitable con-
fention.
But these three plays worth mention
ing at the Palmer matinee: English
authors or account, L. c. Carton and
Alfred Sutro. had written dialogues.
one light with jovial sentiment and the
other heavy with WOeful emotion. The
Ninth Waltz" showed the chance meet
ing. IN an ante-roCm at bah, of
sNeethearts who had been widely sep
arated for years. They talked as wit
1ily as Carton can write. and behaved
as mannerly as Fay Davis and Cyril
scott can act But there was nothing
I'm II more Ruling than the woman
telling the man that in his absence she
had become Wife. Whereat he was de-
pressed, and her later information that
she was a widow, whereat ne was
elated.
$50
Sutro's THE Correct Thing" was a
study in polite vice. a young English
man, about to make an advantageous
marriage, paid a parting visit 10 the
mistress whom he had TO get rid of.
The author meant us 10 pity the wo-
,nan and deSpise the man. She had
Flnned through love that was honest
though unseemly and she INDUCED 4
fond. fOrlOrn hope that she might he
come the Wife Of her DaramOur. The
situation is as old I'm fiction as it is i'm
actually. Sydney Grundy used il i'm
almost exactly the same Way-to cite q
recent inStdnce-in I'm Honor Bound.
a short play which he heightened into
"A Debt Of Honor"
Margaret Anslm was the sufferer i'm
''Fhe Correct Thms." Have YOU seen
Margaret act? She is the Weepiest
thing since Clara Morris was young
She could start your tears by tellme
YOU that a corn hurt her TOE, or SET
You sobbme with an account Of q pain
ful felon on her finger, and when she
gets hysterical about an@acfe i'm her
heart she breaks YOU all up. She is NOT
asiOnishinEly clever. but she is-Wnnder-
fully gifted She is now PLAYING iu
sZira new version Of THE New
Aaedalen.'' differing from the old one
in no essential except that the woman
Il divorced wife instead of "a repent
amt outcast The dramatically weaken
ing change was due to the actress dis
like of peTsOnatmg an impure heroine
Why. then. did she volunteer To repre-
sent that kind Of q creature i'm The
Correct Thing Perhaps she rad-
soued that the charity of the occasion
would cover the sinner, and it was foI
fifteen minutes only i'm single after
noon. anyway
The audience was mostly feminine
too. and all for Margaret against Ben
Webster. although he is very beautiful
and she is barely pretty. The author
hardly ever lcr him complete sen
teuce in self-dcfense. while she silenceo
him over and over with an clugu~uce
Of grievance that overwhelmed him
When Margaret throws herself fiat on
the ioOr before him i'm moaning an
guish and n turned away from her
Two girls behind me Missed their usu-
ally admired Ben, as they DO melo'
dramatic villains i'm BoWery theatres
Isn't he the demon limit said one
Ana isn't she the augeiist ever
said the other.
Half an hour later those same girls
who seemed 10 regard the "Ovid's Art
at Love" scene from 1.-THE Huuch-
back as a new c0medietta, We're cali
inc HaSsard Short "a chump and duff
Ter because, as the bashful AIoduS, ht
didn't kiss Viola Allen. the teasins
Helen. They were from Fifth avenue
too.
#
William Faversham figured thai
afternoon as an author as Well a. actor
His service as hero i'm The SquaW-
man had melted him TO write one
act wild western melOdrama, IN old
California" and / viii tell you why
although il was a futile effort, 1t in-
IeresJed me very much for its alllua
error was a smglar one for an expert
erced actor 10 fan into. The charac-
ter created by FaVerSham for himself
was "a sheriff in pursuit of a bandit
Vel throughout the action, clear mp tC
the denOuemeut this hero impersoua-
ted the villain, i'm a disguise so thor
ough that NOT alone the heroine OF
the stage, but many i'm the audience
slidn't identify him. The bandit was
described 10 as AT the outset as wear
ing long yellow hair SO. when a MAJ
shus distinguished came into the hero
ines cabin and asked her TO hide hin
from the sheriff she fell in love witt
him instantaueousIy and put him into
a, secret closet. \ second bleacheC
4Suffalo Bill dashed i'm and begged FOL
s.ancealment. Which was the fugitiV,
villain This one. The other was tn,
pursuing hero. The sheriff came GU
and took the bandit captive. but by
that time We rather liked Favershan
distinguished as a lighting bandit, ant
we couldn't all i'm a minute. favor hin
<Ehen he pulled of his yellow wig am,
revealed himself as the tricky SheTif
An oddly planned play for an actor q
write
Paul Armstrong. author of 9TH,
Heir 10 the Hurrah. wrote an expert
mental brevity in stage westeTnisn
IA. bringing an Arizonian in 18th,