The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-15
GREATEST ROLE MRS CARTER EVER HAD
BY FRANKLIN FYLFS
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He falls and she stoops over him.
Are you dead?" she whispers.
NO" he murmurs; again"
She thrusts again and he is life
les.
In this scene Mrs. Leslie Carter
on earth-to the best of my knowledge
and belief
George Bernard Shaw's ways and
means of making pays are as far
away from BeIascO and Longs as sub
tlety and obViacy can render them
There isn't minute of uncertainty In
"Adrea," nor one in You Can Never
Tell that isn't eqUivocaL This pub
lshed piece of Shaw's is on the stage
here this week for the first time any
where, except for two or three II
regular performances in London. Shaw
has never strfVen harder for singu-
laTity. Yet he is less original than
initiative He is realistic like Ibsen,
satiriCal like Sullivan, and all the
while he keeps up an endeaVOr to be
like himself with smart wit. But it
isn't worth while to discuss Shawism
again genera lily. All you care to read
here is some of the particulars of this
example. Arnold DAILY probably sur
prised the author and himself last year
anyway. he astOnished everyone else
in the thea trical woTld-when he got
patient hearing and a fun apprecia-
ton for Candida" Now he is taken
up by Liebler x Co, VINO provide ma
terial support for his intellectual en-
teTprise-
Shaw could write straightaway
drama that would satisfy millions. but
he prefers to delight hundreds, inter-
est thousands. and so stick, fOndly TO
his ever careful idiOSynCTasieS. Need
We berate him? Why not let him
amuse us2 And there is one normal
reasonable. consistent human beinS IN
You Never Can Tell" as there was
in Candida" a loving and lovable
woman. Miss ClandOn has been trained
by an advanced socialist Of mother
to be guided by her hardened head
never by a softened heart; but the
daughter, after an obdurate Struggle TO
be hateful yields TO her father and
her lover, both of whom she has set
out to fight unfeelingly. She is SYM
pathetic study in femininity. But you
never can tell what is going 20 be done
next by her or done to her by the
ten other Characters. They have spells
of kindness and of cruelty, of being
lambs and of being hedgehOgs, and the
transitions come without an instants
warning. often turning what is almost
pathOs into what is outright ridicule.
all in the Shaw manner. DAILY is
passionate wooer and an aVowed for
tune hunter almost in the same breath.
His ardor so overcOmeS Miss Clandon,
in one of its outbreaks, that she sub
mits willingly to as real and earnest
a lip-to-lip kiss as the stage has ever
known "a piece of give-and-take bust
ness which engrOsSeS us deeply. the
actress being the beautiful and other
wise noted Drina De WOlfe), and al
most Immediately his lapse into sOrdid
dupicity so eXaperates her that she
dashes al him with her caressing hands
doubled suddenly into fists.
daniel F,robroar,'s Tvcel1n1 stock
company has been dead these three
years. vet il has two new triumphs
this week-triumphs of memOry-with
Sweet Lavender and THE Case of
RebelliOUs Susan" Arthur Wing Pin
erO wrote the one for Edward Terry.
and Henry Arthur Jones the other
for Charles Wyndham- but both We're
made known to New York by the Ly-
Ceum players. and not until now do
the untraVelled of us see the originals.
The american eagle has d bad habit
Of 5 Ieaming; but, then, native claim
ants of cultured taste are prone TO
underrate homemade art: so it is not
unseemly to cite with satisfaction the
superiOrities of the New York per-
formanCes of these London comedies
When Pinero wrote Sweet LaVen-
der he had not developed the breadth
Of vision nor the facility of technique
that have made his recent plays great.
In spite of its CTuditieS. however, it is
a sympathetic study of character. we
laugh through tears at the weak but
kindly drunkaTd; that is, we should,
and we used to when the late William
J. LemOyne embodied his sweet and
gentle cheer. Edward Terry has acted
the part over four thousand times,
and he is very funny with IL, but he
doesn't make us cTy-unlesS II Is in
memory Of LemOyne- And the Terry
cast touches that of the-Byeeum at no
point
The triumph of Daniel e-F'rohmas1's
former players over those Of Charles
Wyndham's present ones would hard
" justify our eagle in screaming, but
the bird might well coo comfortably.
The Case of RebelliOus Susan" is. in
plot and characterization. d subtle
comedy Do you remember how we
argued and Wrangled ten years ago
as to whether Lady Susan was un-
faithful to her husband or nOt2 1t was
never settled whether, when she
vowed vengeance on him for his slip
from marital duty, she really went as
far with the young chap in Cairo as
she had threatened to. All she ever
told about that Egyptian night, when
she went 20 a church with the fascin-
ating fellow. was that the sermon
was very long"
Wyndham is a very fine comedian.
it is not too eulOgistiC TO call him
great and so Herbert Kelley isn't
original actor of the philosophical law
yer. who directs Susan's course back
TO dOmesticity brings out points that
we missed at the old Lyceum. Nor was
LemOyne with all his JUNCTION, any
better than Alfred Bishop as the re-
belliOus girls other uncle. Wyndhams
companion. Mary Moore. was in Jones
mind when he created Susan. and So
we see her a feather-brained. Silly
romantic young wife of caprice. Per
haps il is only the TOseate hue Of MEM
DRY shat makes me think of Isabel
Irving's Susan as more sparkling than
Miss Moore's.
In the more sQortive field of amuse-
ments. n hot race lis under way. The
runners are Joe Weber's "Higsledy-
Pigeledy'' and Lew Fields "Nordland.
The two actor anag gers, partners
once, are contenders now Each is
mounted on a high horse of eXtrava-
ganza- ''Nordland" got q lead in the
sendoff. with ~Higgledy-Pig n
close second, though there was clear
gap between. Klaw & Erlanger's
Newport" was a favorfte entry. and
seemingly in fire rate form. but it has
been distanced and Withdrawn. And
now "Higgledy -Piggiedy," under the
Whip and spur of an added travesty of