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the cynical fippancy ~ tho modisb world
Mr sutro a ~ def and aophIs, icatod ~ he
IL primitive IN his insistcnce on tho Gle
mental morslities In this respect he con.
pafe- favorahly with tho best play wri shts
on either ada Of the Atlantic There IL an
Ia .Ft. IL, ha fl la,
fsvorsbiy with Oscar Wilde at his hest
And hs wit is all hla own The only thing
! would not blush 10 pla siari1e, he saya.
ia a rioh mans widow Then there Ia an
autunnal maiden who. with infinite humor
and vivacity, advertises In various drawing
rooms her search for a rich husband, he
speaking tho aid Of all her friends No
Yldtksh maiden interviewing the sohstchen
could come more directly to the point, Her
frst mark Is a rough miner, an old pal Of
Frobishsr's. who. like him. has returned to
England after striking it rich. When 1t is
clear that hs has been captured by the in
g4nue Of the play she announces that
II Lady AieLheu divorces the sturdy Fro
bisher she il willing to take him on for
what still remains Of his bank account
Even this ins4nue has learned the lingo.
She breaks on an affair with her fort tine
less cousin in order to capture the pay
dirt man. calmly remarking that after
she il married there will be time enough
for the cousin. 1t is q lesson she has learned
from her elder sister. Frobisher's lady. |
In order to enmesh the simple heart of |
her intended, she awaits him with volume |
Of Tennyson in her hand. and clad in mus
lns which she bewitchingly calls her "Jane
Austens.' Nowhere in the modern drama
b there to be found more vivaoious sketch
Q! the maiden Of modern sophist ioation.
Lodv AIefhea herself vies with the heroine
of Joness Liars" in witty revolt against
t he somber humors Of her husband. She
lets her tame cat address her passionately
by her first name, and even calls Fr06isher
an old ogre" on condition that he will
amuse her and make her forget her hus-
bands scoding. Yes, she goes as far
~ that
1t is when We turn from the words to
the deeds Of these rotten" people that
Mr.. Sutro's row of worst things proves
No pay dirt rewards the
autumnal maiden. And no rich widow
the plagiaristic desires of the
hpigrammarian. II Browning had not
forestalled him one can even imagine
him writing his own death march under
The title of THE Epgrammarian Funeral"
The ingGnue, at the first blast of Fro
bishCr's trumpet, reveals the skin depth
Df her cynicism by confessing all TO her
pay dirt man. and accepting him, sad
brow and true maid, for the heart, not
the pocket, OF gold
Lady Aiethed. caught unawares by the !
man with whom she is flirting. finds her.
self for a moment manhandled; but she
spurns the villain and rushes from the room
in an access Of shame and indignation
Next day she forbids him the house In
he end all her worldliness crumbles before
her husbands Joshnads Size leaves the
Mayfair Jericho to live, forever as it seems,
in the pastoral simplicity Of the Australian
Israel. In all the seas of Eabylonian talk
only one human being actually does wrong
Alethea's brother. who has ruined
The governess and he turns out the most
moral Of ALL for he needs only the mildest
to make him marry the girl
Verbd, non opera," might he the motto
'R ths whole cast. Every American town,
rom Cohoes to Santa Barbara, has a smart
yet that, on the score Of actual performance,
'ould give cards and spades to this smart
'et OF Mayfair England.
The basis on which Mr.. Sutro has built
lis drama is, in short, of the himsest No
,ne doubts the wckedness Of fast London
society. New York, for all the publicity
which is thrust on our soiled linen, can
'how nothing comparable to it. An Amer
can lately commented on this in London.
You will find, however" said the Briton
n defense. that our wives are very careful
until the heir is bora" Ii MIR. Sutro had
'ealy meant to picture the Jericho Of May
air. something of this sort would have ,
'een his rubrc. Many wife, sound at ,
'eat az Lady Ak'hea. has been betrayed
~ the brilliant oynicism OF the world in ,
which she lives into desrising good man ,
ind loving bad one. In such cases, If I
'ur ideals of marriage mean anything,
hey mean that it is the husbands duty {
o do what he can to reclaim her. The 6
heme might be made the basis Of a true I
rama, intensely illuminative and stinu- 7
ating. But it is our racial habit to shrink I
rom the truth in these matters And those
rho stand out most vigorously for the
anctity of marriage would be the first I
, cast the s,one. Not if playwright's y
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