The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-19


sometimes il takes a wise author y
know his own play when he sc it OH
the stage. Harry 3 Smith VT te' "The
Belle of the West" to order, a year
ago, With Fay Templeton N view for
the Pelle; but circumstances alte ed
the case and instead of the buXOm.
hold and buoyant Fay we have the
dainty, modest little Florence Biadley.
Fay would have had the piethoIic Feta
DALEY for rival school teacher TO fall
in love with. bat Florence has q tetec
singer in Jack Hen1e,s son. and [ e.
provide a pleasant share o. the en- err
ta{I'ment by singing me,od Ousiy abb ut
their hearts. They e D esC tfeir sem
timent in dances, too: also mel dra-
matically and with gunDlsy. T mix
ture OF thrilling plot with the cheerful
foolery is one of tie numerous c n e
quenees of the example of L Il
Johnny Jones" CIR teal iud ment / ad
it that George Cohan. wen he sh o.
up meOdrama and bullesque IL that
glass, was making q drink that the
public wouldn't swallow But it was
gulped down, and Cohan proved to be
a fool that could teach the WISE how
10 tickle the paletss Cf the m ! III
Net yet do our tWo-d Her audi nces
Ike 10 have their comic men aEd D c ~
81. Is stop joking to talk sen s y. Cr
TO cease 81 z NJ anl CaaCi1g d 20 Il
flgating. Blu that sort of i~c ng ubUs
thing goes wei in the ha Up G the
aires and lot of il is being turned cut.
Old oliver Twist is new with ~
this week. Not as Of wore is Fag Il
put out of action during Skies muir
der OF Money. Beerbohm Tree. the
London actor manager. who had ne
ell wit Ie 4 f1
drel in ''Trilby," saw II Fagin, the
trainer OF thieves. a ehance for SINH
larry malevol ut character tim.
Therefore he had Dickens story so
dramatized as to make Fagin domi-
nant instead OF Skies or Nancy. It was
long before my time that Chano'te
Cushman had her head battered on the
floor. with stamps of Skies fee TO
make the sound of it,. and was d az
ged by her hair. with err arm W az
ped in il TO pun by), into an ado ming
room from which came her sc cams
of fright and pain (uttered viii she
was smeartng her face with red al q,
and finally wa2 thrown h d ng
through the doorway r. die in hroes
of agony before a Mortified ardie &c
But Nc tilda Heron did ii tbaJ way
witt in my n-eIHo~Y ana after he C M
Lucille Western, Res Evtinge, Maggie
" tchelPs sister Mary, +. l. d. en-
ports daughter. Fanny an1 so cling
TO the still extant Elta Proctor o S
who speWs from her mouth what looks
like blood and foam.
In the play written by J. CoNyrs
Carr for Tree the killing CT tie 81 | s
not eliminated. but We don't see it
done and instead Fagin de~ints il for
US silently with his face. w ich IS tie
only lighted srot in the otherwise IN
room. We hear the blows an out
cries while the changes OF dem nj
expression III TIE actors Visage are
ei0quently descriptive. / can Ia d Y
believe that Trees countenauce gave a
more graphic account Of the crime than
j. Z. Dodson does,
Wilton Lackaye distin us ed him
self with Sveneali IN Amerisa more
then Tree did in e AMI an re s-n-
ably may have thou 1T he could ex e
him with Fagin. La k'y2's ma a e
made bid for the new-o7d MAY. So
dill that Proctor whose name h 3 beCn
brand for a half-dollar mixture OF
vaudeville and drama. and he paid
the higher price that got IL for this
country. But anyone may make an
acting version of q Dickens novel and
Paul Potter. dram7tiZer Of "Tril y"
is turning out one Of "Oliver Twist" for
Lackaye as fast as he can. Meanwhile,
the Tree piece is used this week for
proctor's installation of the KIND of
stock company that wave G J.. Wa~e1
and died with Wallack. DAILY and Pa
mer. At one of his theatres. Proctor
atolishes between acts s ecill les,
grades prices up 10 dollar and 5 IS
an organization of able actors to work.
So now people who have ached for the
palTniness of the good old dramatic
days may ease their suiferings with the
Proctor remedy.
Oscar Wilde's" ''salomo' was re-
garded by the Lord Chamberlain of
England as an infamy of genius, and
he would not permit its public perform
ance in that country. Wilde translated
it into French and Sarah Bernhardt put
it on her stage, although she did not
act in it. Wilde re-wrote it in German,
also, and now Richard Strauss is COM
posing music for its operate represent
alton. New York gets il in English
this week at the hands Of the Progress
size Stage society. Just before the first
curtain was lifted for it a man with
long hair and big eyes, all black and
wild, came out and said that he was
Mr.. Haff, the founder and chief pro-
mOter of the association; that this
movement was going to rescue the
drama from its awful degradation; but
that he had emptied his pockets with
out filling the void between the ex-
penses and the receipts and that thirty
six dollars must be raised right then
and there, else Wilde's play couldn't
be given. Half a dozen Jealous pro-
gressives passed their hats and after
the contributions had been counted up
the performance began.
The biblical story of Herodias's
daughter dancing before the king for
the head of John the Baptist is not told
reverently or deeently in Oscar Wilde's
''Salome." but is made sensual, licen-
tious, abhorreht. Herod has married
the widow of his brother. according to
Wilde, but has tired of her as she has
aged, and now his DESTROYS cid eyes
are fixed on her daughter, and his
niece. the beautiful Salome. She loathes
him. and indeed disdains all men. until
John is brought q prisoner from the
wilderness to stop his prophesies of
Christ. Salome is enamored of him at
once and tells him SO, but he will not
look ct her. She describes him in rap
turous terms as the whitest-skinned,
softest-haired, brightest-eyed OF men;
and the actor had been chosen for his
physical suitability. She boasts of her
own loneliness, going into particulars
frankly; and the actress really looked
as she said she did. The dialogue min
giles Jchn's fervid hera1dry of Christ
and Salome's 2morous solicitations;
but AIR. Haff's progressives never
1inched. not even the young girls who
We're numerous among them. SaIeme
offers herself 10 John with much poetic
implorings worded by Wilde, and John