The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07

} himself has proved herself a faithful
and by no means unresourceful actress
! The process as set before US is a rarc
treat in legitimate drama
If 1 We're on familiar terms with tht
! king of England, as Charles Hawtrey
| is. | would write TO the royal Eddie
I what his chUm Charlie did here in New
| York last Monday afternoon. Maybe
| will send copy of The Herald witt
l this paragraph marked. Hawtrey. as
you know. is a stage Chesterfield and
| Crichton, Prince of Walesy glass Of
| fashion and Beau Brummelly mould OF
| form. That is to say. Haw-haw- trey
| looks like what his name sounds like
| a perfect example of the calm. easy
and every way utter young English
] aristocrat- ~ All heir to d dukedon
| in the hitherto Enacted play of The
| Splendid Life he declines to assume
/ the title. and accepts the estate only
| to establish on it d Tolstoi fraternity
| of equality between the extremes, OF
| social class. There isn't d touch OF
/ satire IN this exposition of socialism
/ nor the faintest sign of fnsincerity; il
| is an attack in earnest on the aTistOc-
racy and plea for the cOmmOnest
people
| Why and wherefore is Havtrey q
/ convert TO TOistOi? Has King Edward
/ marked Actor HRwtrey off the Prince
of Wales list of cronies along with Mrs
I La1gtry and Mrs. Potter2 Or has
Hawtrey become financially phrenzied
against wealth. He was such a spend
thrift in London that. although a
heavily capitalized stage pet. he came
TO New York with his wallet empty;
and since then his costly habits have
| Kept a large income from films that
wallet Anyway. he is evidently a
heartfelt believer in Tolstoi doctrines,
for the play in which he breaches and
practices them was written by himself
and his brother. George. As to The
| Splendid Life il won't be seen or
heard of ever again. Il Il an utterly
undramatic composition in which Haw-
! trey'S delightful personality. usually
valuable. is absolutely worthless. That
two actors of experience should make
/ q play of words and not of deeds a
theatrical garden full of the weeds of
| talk without a single flower of senti-
mental interest, Is q question to be
guessed at. but not to be answered. un-
| less it be true that the Hawtreys mean
TO devote themselves to social mission
airy work for their hitherto despised
people against their hitherto beloved
king.
The first play l ever saw was The
. French Spy" I'm the time when star
actors travelled without comDanies.
and the local stock players supported
Edwin Booth in Hamlet one week
and Stuart Robson or George h Fox
In burleSqUe OF Hamlet" the next
week. One of the sinners i'm the
theatrical heavens was Zoe. the Cuban
Syiph. silent pantOmimist and it
was she who eDtrdnCed me as the
French girl spy who pretended to be a
dumb boy and rescued her soldier lover
from an Algerian military prison.
Under the usual contracts. all the
money taken in went TO the theatre
manager until certain sum was
reached after which the visiting actor
shared, except that on Friday night he
took a benefit when he got a
quarter. third. half or sometimes even
the whole of the receipts. according to
his popular value In many cases his
sole income for the week was on that
one night. and 50 he usually did some
thing extra to lure people in. Tbs
most eminent did not disdain to add j
farce to the drama, and this double
bill' would be repeated on Saturdav
night ZOe'S ira ding stamp inducement
to buy The French Spy was to walk.
dance and turn flipdaps OF high wire
To my bOyish fancy the Cuban Sylph
was the palm of palms i'm those paImy
days; and the aTdor Of my admiration
was equalled by thu intensity of my
contempt for her Extraordinarily be
cause he was her husband at all but
chiefly because he fixed UP the wire on
which she TiSked her bOneS-or her
skin, for her surfaces were so smooth
and plant with grace that / couldn't
have believed there was anything as
have been her business manager. stage
manager. press agent. bill poster and
bag carrier. and so worked harder than
she. but TO my untutOred mind he was
lazy loUt who lived on her danger
Gus labor
Yet my hatred of Leontine Lausanne's
husband this week is just about as
strong His name is CASTOR Borde-
very. and he is the first man TO
moGernize William Tells feat Of
craftsmanship in q show since Frank
Frayne killed a woman at it and quit
the stage for remOrse- Castor is
short. thick. ugly and fifty. LeOntine is
tall. slender. beautiful. and twenty
They are. shsTDshoOters at the Hip
podrome- After duplicating the skill
of Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley with
rifles safely, CASTOR shoots electric
bulbs off the heads of two assistants.
but they are very ordinary fellows.
with no visible indications of value.
and l don't quake with dread even
when they place a glass ball for a
target between their fOreheads |
can't make it seem as though if the
bullet should shy into one Of their
craniums, there would be any grievous
loss Of BRAIN But I get interested
when LeontiHe takes her place on a
pedestal from which she may fall dead.
She is dressed fashiOnably as for d
carriage drive TO an opera or a ball
except that there is a big hat on her
head as well as an envelOping cloak
around her body. CASTOR lays himself
on his back across a chair, and without
a rest for his pistol. shoots portions of
her hat away until none is left. Then
he removes the sleeves from/her wrap
by breaking their buttons With bullets
until her arms are bare The rest of
the cloak and trailing skirt are
popped off in the same way. until she
las lost all of her clothes worth
mentioning, bus not her life-not this