Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-14

nothing OF this, urges him to gain ao-
cess 10 the draWlngrO0m by 70 AnS the
place OF the absent butler. brown
agrees, aud, In order 70 keep hun IN
countenance, Lady Betty masluerades
as ladies' maid first persuading hef
R.rl chum Gwenny Holden, TO pass
herself OF as the daughter Of the house.
Of course an sorts of complications arse
Immediately The amateur butler geis
himself Into hot wnter by undue ianll-
ilrity with the guests While Lady B9t-
TVS chum, IN her assumed character OF
"a peers daughter is oyerwholmed
with attentions, notably from French
count (Maurlce Fark0a) who Is among
the company, Finally, 1t having Leak
cl out that The real hostess is dis
Euised ga q ladies' maid, every pretty
domestic on the place IL courted IN turn
u the hope that she may be Lady Bet
ty. The end comes when Lord l.mm-
bingham returns and bursts IN wNthful-
ly on the merry scene. He Ia placated'
however, upon discovering that the
young man whom he sees In buffers
dress Is a millionaire, who has proposed
marriage TO his daughter, and all ends
happily,
g. p. Huntlay Is the make-believe
butler and when he has worked up his
mart more, win be quite as amusing as
he WAS In Three Little Maids" Madge
Crlchton ls not IN the cast, the part of
Lady Betty being taken by Adrienne
Augardc, another Of George Edwardes
finds. and a most winning young wo-
man, Della Mason plays the part OF
Gwenny Holden, Lady Betty's chum,
while George Carol Is diminutlve
corporal At present, there are not as
many good songs In Lady Madcap" rs
there We're IN Three Little Maids
but that Is a matter that can be eeay
romedied. Maurice Fnrkoa. however
has a city called, 'T Like You In SAT-
In, ] Love You in Plush" that Is sure
10 be liked on both Sides OF the water
II holiday plays for children We're as
popular In the United States as they
are IN this country, Arthur Bourchier's
Christmas Offering for the young folk
would be sure OF an American produce
ton, fer It So an about the famous lit
tie characters IN the "punpy Books"
Rutland harrington, the former pooh
Blh' Of the savoy company. who dr1-
mat!zed klngslcys Water Babies" SO
ruccesglully "a year ago Is author Of the
new piece n is called "I.lttle Black
SambO and Little white Barbara" and
they, not TO mention the two aunts, Or.
Funnyman, pMn'agenet, Black Jumbo,
ana the Tigers are all I'm II as large
us life with tunemi music, It makes
an attractive entertainment which Is
played by "a capable company lnclud-
ing Frank Lawton, the American whls-
tier or THE Belle OF New York"
j. NJ, BuTlas latest play peter
Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow
Up viii get across 20 the United
States presently There Is no doubt
about that. Tho drama if you call
II drama. which was produced ut the
Duke Of York's theater this week UNI
der the Fruhman management is even
fore fatastlc0l and whimsical than
THE Admirable Crltchton," or Little
Nary" and, by the same token, so
much further removed from anything
that ever was seen on the stage be.
fore Perhaps It could best be de-
sclibed as Christmas pantomime, plus
literary genius.
one might suppose from the title
that the play WAS tdkeu from the chap
ters devoted 20 Peter Pam I'm Bar
rie's latest book, THE Little White
Bird but the original idea only serves
as point Of departure. Peter, 1t ape
pears, ran away from home the day
after he was born upon hearing his
father speculate as to what he was
TO be when he grew up. Peter decided
then and there that he didn't want to
grow up, so he fed TO the Never Never
Never Land, and became the captain
of boys who had fallen out of their
perambulators when their nurses were
looking the other way. There were no
girls m the community, because, as Pc
ter subsequently explains, girls are too
clever to fall out Of their perambu-
lators-whiCh is English for baby-car-
rioges This jolly band Of boys de-
cided that all IT needed was a mother
so their chIeftlin lnvldes the nursery
Of Miss Wendy MORA Angela Darling,
aged perhaps II, aud prcsuades her
with her two small brothers, to fly
away with him and be "a mother to the
boys. II never would have happened
II the father of these three delightful
children had not become annoyed with
Mana and chained her up outside the
house, instead Of leaving her as usual
in the nursery TO guard the children,
warm their pyjamas, give them their
medicine, and superutend their baths.
Nanu, It may be observed, ~ a dog
such an engaging beast as never was
on sea or land outside Of Mr., Bar
rie's Imagination.
There IA no space here to detail the
tremendous adventures OF Miss Wendy
MORA Angela Darling and her small
brothers In the company OF Peter Pan,
and his fascinating boys. In their UNI
derground abode. They survive such
pcrils as wolves, Indians who are suit
ably wild, and the Wlckedest Of pirates,
and at last bcthink themselves that
their mother may be missing them,
and return home, where all ends well.
Any one who has read Tho Little
White Bird" will know with what de-
liclous touches the author has shown
that he himself is q boy who has never
quite grown UP. At every turn there
is humor that is akin to tears,
It IS said that English composers Of
light opera are sore" on American
songs Several of them, one hears,
have consented 90 supply the scores OF
forthcoming musical plays only on con-
Gltiol that 20 Transatlantic melodies
are dropped into these productions,
their argument being that when pieces
with American songs In them are sue
co9elul, the alien dittlcs get most OF
the credit for the success. There ia
something IN this but thore is sug-
soston, too, Of cutting ofC ones nose to
spite ones face, For no one win deny
that "Bcdelo," was the most taking
feature of "The orchid" my Cosy
Conner Girl" that OF "The Earl and the
Girl and Sammy that Of "The
Love Birds And the rule worked
again at Wynlhams thcater this week.
when "a FIRST night audience listened in
diligently TO the melOlious score Of a
new Irish Hight opera, but applauded
To the echo two songs from across the
water which had been interepolated
The piece In question was Peggy
Malhree' which Charles r.. Hamilton