The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-26

Is hope that the guardians in the hall
way. placed there after the exploit of
nihilist with a bomb. will stop this
more dreadful intruder. But Death
waves them aside as though they were
smoke-climbs the stairway-enters the
bedroom through the unopened door as
though Il were shadow-staDdS grim
and hideous before the man who seeks
10 hide from him, and says: Come
with met" Wouldn't that make you
SILVER?
The new play OF the week made from
novel is one in which Mrs. William
4. Brady represents a heroine created
by Mrs. Humphrey Ward. l name the
actress as Mrs. Brady. instead OF Grace
George. because II Grace George were
not Mrs. Brady she wouldn't be Mrs,
" ards heroine in the theatrical Ver-
sion of The Marriage Of William
Ashe.' MIR. Brady has financed and
promoted the professional ambition OF
his wife ever since, a gentle. pretty,
inconsequential graduate OF a dramatic
school, she played n part in his produce
ton OF The Turtle" He married her
as quickly as she would let him, and as
promptly he undertook 10 make a great
actress of her. The effort used up many
thousands of the dollars from his
money-making Ventures. such as
" 09 1JOh II EdSts nut season altET
season the loss of cash lessened and
the gain of reputation increased until
last winter. / guess, the popularity of
Grace George was sufficient to balance
the account of "Abisails'' Meanwhile
she WAS striving hard 10 develop talent
TO utilize her personal charm, and now
she is 8 facile actress with i pretty
firm hold upon the potter portion Of the
theatrical public "If at first YOU don't
p1rr a - -,
band who viii enable you to "try. try
again. And Grace George is a lovely
actress. Most of US agree with her
husband as to that.
1t has been Mr.. Brady's declared de-
termination TO never let. his wife enact
an immoral heroine
Plan me a strong play for her on
any subject save one he once said to
Augustus Thomas, "and I will sign as
liberal contract as any one ever made
with you. My stipulation is that the
character for Mrs. Brady must be
clean"
But women who sin are so much
more easily made interesting than those
who don't" said the dramatist.
Mr.. Brady seems to have come to that
way Of thinking. for 'The Marriage OF
William Ashe,' with its wife who goes
away from her husband with a para
mour and dies for her misconduct. is
East Lynne and 'Frou Frou" over
again As YOU VINO have read Mrs.
Wards coo pages know, the genius Of
the writer lifts the story into a literary
and ethical dignity that is dificult TO
convey to play of one-tenth as many
words. Margaret Mayo has done as
we'll as any one could In making an
actable condensation without coarsen-
ing Lady Kitty as a prankish maiden
0IElONnl wife and = a. q 4
ess. The job has been cleverly per-
formed in so far as II makes Kitty for
SiNable, and Grace George is so sweet
and dainty that the transgress0r
against the seventh commandment is
hardened by the audience, whatever
The power higher UP might decide to do
with her.
During the first ten minutes Of "The
Genius and the Model that new farce
threatens 70 be a tiresome repetition OF
hungry BohemianS with a young girl
for a pet The place is the New York
studio Of French painter, an Irish
sculptor and a German musician. It is
breakfast time. but there is nothing to-.
eat and no money to buy anything
unless they spend the dollar due to
the dumps. for a picture. a statue and
sonata have come back rejected with
contumely. But they don't want Nell
to know they are hungry: so the paint
er daubs three empty plates with coun-
terfeit gravy spots 10 make believe
they had chops or steak; but when she
comes in she detects the fond fraud
Thereupon. like good fairy, she brings
out a pie from under her cloak and they
eat voraciously.
Now, I WAS in the audience at an ex-
ira matinee for stage people and we
wondered eXoectantly what else Nell
had under her cloak by way of a sur
prise: for we knew that the personator
of Nell was Edna Goodrich. one of the
real, true, original "F'lorod0ra" sex
tette: that she had been in the ordinary
chorus alongside her mother until pro-
NOTED TO the show girl rank. and that
since that distinction she had never
appeared otherwise than in long skirts:
so in the character of an artists model
who knew what addition 10 theatrical
knowledge might be made when. hav-
ing come TO the studio by appointment
to pose. she should throw off her en-
Veloping garment. Edna is a prettier
creature than ! can tell you, and has q
naturalistic loneliness of unbleached
hair, eyes so big that she doesn't need
to darken the lids, and skin so white
that she has to touch it but lightly with
rogue to make a perfect complexion
Edna is featured" which means al
most starred" In THE Genius and the
Model" with Harry Woodruff as the
genius. I can't recall her as having
had ever before a role of more than
six lines, yet her celebrity as q show
girl. although local. was sufficient to
assemble most of the extravaganza
companies now IN town to see what she
could door couldn't do--as an actress
in n legitimate play.
The authors. William and Cecil De
Mile. sons of the late Henry G. De
Mile. had meant that the model should
be a poor girl, 10 whom a dollar count
ed for every one Of its hundred cents, |
and from whom the %ift of pie was
a self-denial. The three bohenlians said
so. and she didn't deny it in words. but
the plun1ed hat that she wore. and the
fur-edged cloak. were so sumptuous
that ! asked q woman how much they
probably had cost.
ooh. as much as $500 if she ordered
them IN Fifth avenue" was the reply
''and not less than $500 if she bought
them at a department store
This woman gasped with admiration
when Edna threw off her hat and cloak.
yet think that, along with most OF the
spectators she was, disappointed to see
no more of the girl than had been
shown on the stage before-shoulders
and arms to qualify her for q model
while tho rest OF her was draped in q
rich robe of what seemed to be a queen. |
for she took off her hat, put on q crown
and posed fin the attitude of a sover-
eign. And wasn't Edna q vision of
beauty? 7 ask the question Just to say
yes to il. Don't raise the inquiry
whether she can act, for would have
to say no, But she can look pleasant |
She had transferred her show girl smile |
from extravaganza 10 drama and she
used il with but nlomentary INTERRUPT
tons. At points of presumably intense |
emotion only did she cover her white
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