The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-17

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/ yield 10 the temptation TO tell that
not all of he gambOling is nonsensical.
There was a quite literary frisk with
material written by Joseph w Herbert
whom you know, if at all as an actor
Ia the folderol of burlesque Bernard
Shaw was introduced I'm an imitation
by Dewitt Jennings as an angry read
er or newspaper denunciatiOns of mis-
Mrs. WaTen's Profession" Satan
dropped in TO dispute the question of
morality-an impersonation by that
Frederick Perry who enacts bad old
men on the stage. but at the club is a
handsome young fellow. Shaw and the
devil disputed the qualities of Shaw
plays. Then the audience of actors and
their guests was amazed to find itself
fooled by a theatrical trick. \ white
bust of Shakespeare stood On a pedestal
at one side of the room and of Ben
JOnsOn at the other. No one suspect
ed that the images We're not plaster
until Shakespeare joined in the discus
sion with the voice of sydney Herbert.
and JOnsOn with the voice of George
Fawcett, both uttering characteristic
ally critical opinions. So you see the
munmers are sometimes intellectual
in their own diversions. ON that same
Sunday the Progressive Stage society
was trying 10 lift the theatre from de-
graduation by performing Max Nordau' $
revOltingIy indecent drama, The Right
TO Love"
] ought to be sorry that the only full
length new play in Broadway this week
Except French one in Sarah Bern
hardts repertory) is a frivolous farce.
and | really am glad il is no worse than
that To the outlying theatres are
brought problem dramas Of miquity
with titles something like why Girls
Come 10 Naughty" "ConniptiOns of a
Wife Queen of the Laundry Wiring
and No Mother 10 Spank Her But
the white-light district of our theatric-
al town has To get along. for the time
being. with bit of nonsense. b fore
ana After lis name beink pertinent to
the difference i'm its characters before
and after taking a uostrum warranted
To change the blues 20 roSeate hues. As
the programme ascribcs the authorship
10 Leo DiuichStein. | assume that he
doesn't remember getting il from Der
I'm, where 10 had been conveyed from
Paris. and my guess is that the medi-
cine which in New York is merely "A
cheer-up from the glum. was in the
French and German cities "a love phil
ter a narcotic for the conscience. an
eNcitaut of deViltry, i'm short. "a very
wicked ntoNicaut. Ditrichstein seems
to have done with the material what
dyerS do 10 foul fabrics. cleaned and
colOrrd il tit 10 Wear among polite peO-
Pile He has made a good job of il. Not
that Mrs Fiske, i'm whose husband 5
theatre il is shown, would care to sign
its tag of renovation. for 1t remains q
lt4 Rf Inns l,4I a
bat It's eayoiy doesn't deserve any de-
nunciaton.
incidentally, ] cam give YOU an idea
Of the hard work that authors and act
ors do la make you laugh. Before and
After had been tried "a fortnight in
New England. ana 90 some extent re-
written and rrcdSt for its New York i'm
PRODUCTION last Monday. when air hi
tTichsJein fell off % saddle horse and
banged himself 50 badly that he might
not be able 20 act Miss Kenyon Bishop
caught cold that threatened ruru-
mOnia and the production didn't look
sure Jil late la the week So / didn {
need any perSuatiou 20 attend "a dress
rehearsal. The theatre was Shrouded
i'm the white cloths that protect the up
hOlStery ia daytime \ dozen seriously
interested persons represented an audi
arm I'm "a sling and a hand pressed tu
his jOlted head, coached the recruits
read the absent actress part. played
mis- own and had recourse To an attend
ing physician to keep him gOinG An
emergency actress sat apart, uulvrstu-
dying the dbSentee's role, Watching is
business on The stage, going over its hI
Of song with the orchestra leader and
arranging for changes ia its gowns al
make them fit her i'm case she had 10
wear them The business staff Was
darling I'm and ont aud round about III
what looked like hopeless anxiety. II
were a judge ON the bench ana a jury
convicted DiuichStem Of plagiarism
under such circumstances, / might send
him To a SuHitarium Tor treatment. bui
nor 10 "a prison for amy further oun-
ishm-uL
but in the public performance. Be
fore and After" looked like "A frolic a.
funny 90 the actors as TO the audience
Al one point i'm The farce really
faithful husband figures uuwillnsly i'll
AN cscapade with a soubrette. He is
dOlOrouS and she is i'm the dumps, too
The inventor puts double doses of the
quick bracer into their champagne
They have sat apart in mOrOSC
feet Their froWus give way 10 smiles
then to slius then TO laughter and
finally they break into "a hilarious can
cam Nov. ] watched Fritz Williams
and George Lawrence at the rehears-
al practicmg that incident over and
over taking the cues from the accom-.
pauyiug music for their changes OF
cOunteuance timing exactly every
ftf a.
eNuberancc. and almost convincing me
by the eNacmesS of the preparation
that no one would laugh with them
But to the audience they betrayed no
effort. The fun looked as spontaneous
as though the medicine had generated
it i'm a minute ON the spot That was
one of the numerous things that make
the farce amusing. II is a saying
among players that it is harder tC
make people laugh than cry.
There is a hullabaloO over good old
Grandma BeInhardt, arrived at the
age of sixty -somethiug, yet still the
greatest of living actresses. Yet why
the public wildly tumbles over itself Ia
get M her in 1900 after having calmly
stayed away from her i'm 1900. is q
puzzle 20 The Sh0Wmen. Then she was
accompanied by the famed COquelin
while now her stage comrade is De
Max, OF Partisan note. but unknown
here. only two plays in her fortnight
round of ten are additions To her IA
miliar repertury. The readiest sales Oh
seats were for the old Camille" and
Id ToSca, except for her opening
with The Sortereas." Ny own idea
is that the deaths of Irving and JEFF
fersOu convinced us that this might
be actually Bernhardts last tour
Sarah Befnhardts start with The
Sorceress' gave "a chance TO measure
her art by the standard of Mrs Pat
/ rick Campbell OF course, the CON
trast is belitums to Mrs. Campbell