The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-26

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The make-believe fury of actors is
apt 10 be funny if the author hasn't
Drought US into d state of mind TO re-
gard it soberiy.
Take thatr says Miss Beringer. as
she jerks off a twenty-button glove
and slaps it across Carson's creek:
and that, and that" with two more
strokes.
BY Cod he cries, and we finch
at the sudden, needless profanity; yet
ne ISM angry, for he smiles and ex-
clalnSt i love you / love your
He turns the other cheek. and she
throwing the glove down. hits him a
vicious spat of a blow with her hand.
Ihat is where we laugh. Count Fred
erick Won Kuntz and Baroness Won
banDerg have talked q Ions while
without saying an interesting word:
We nave learned nothing from their
ioquacity except that he is the boss
ulPlonaC at cOUrtlet somewhere on
the fhlue. and she the emissary from
soIhe Other minute monarchy: and we
nave had no hint why they are AT odds
over d letter whose purport we never
ascertain. Carson says. good-humOr-
euiy' That, being himself engrossed in
the story which was in his own mind
ne quite forgot to put a bit of il into
( the play. He Will rectifv the error
by Iengthening the comedy before try
/ ing 1t III London. The curtain doesn't
rl'e till quarter to 8, and it fails
shortening the action mean the in
dcti0n-to an hour and a half. Nev-
! ertheless, those of our Fifth avenue
people who went to greet the deDuta-
ton from Belgravia began TO get away
( before the function was over.
Yet they are delightfully."- English"
l heard a retiring Anglomaniac say:
especially the youngsters who pIav
I the girl queen and the bOyi,sh prince
cpil*Drt- we don't get that sort of
thlnS from American actors"
was sorry l didn't know the airy
/ dullard, so that l might tell him the
pretty little queen, with her dainty
ways, was our own native Soubrette
| Lottie Alter. and the youthful prince.
win MS drawing room manner, was
= CIeneay Matthews, well born and
pred to be sure, but no nearer London
IMAM baltimore. where there Is enough
, OF soft accept from the south 70 over
come the sharp twang from the north.
An awful tragedy is A Passion IN a
suburb. AlgernOn Boyeson. who
wrote it, announces it as "a psyche
logical study of madness" AIgernon is
a son of Professor BoyeSon. the Co
IumDIa university scientist and novel
Isl. which would indicate that he
KNOWS now to depict mental phenon-
ena IN the form of fiction. When he
came before the curtain, however we
saw a fac smile of the silly ass type
OF London swell. looking as though he
couldn't write anything brainier than
wouldn't have been surprised if. in
stead OF gracefully disnified remarks.
he had struck out with the ditty of mis-
namesake i'm the musical farce:
on, very well known is Algy
To the barmaids Of the Strand"
Anyway, this Algy of the Boyesens
has provided a shuddering half-hour
Drama Tor Frank Keenan'S imitation
IN New York of the Antoine
theatre i'm Paris. Antoine thrfves
Two women went out to faint in the
lobby. and three got clear away from
the house, before the first representa-
llon was over, and that is about the
nightly average Many men as we'll as
women take good care to stay away
listening to accounts by those who have
seen the entire play. Yet if there is a
sufflclent relish i'm Paris for such
show to yield remunerative audiences.
wont there be in New York?
The psychological study of madness
IS more the actors than the authors
\ thousand men might write the role
as wen where one could interpret il 80
terribly. \ young wife and her lover
are together i'm her suburban home at
midnight The husband is absent and
Ihey taIk about their passion: but the
y a
there can be no misconduct Indeed.
the man has not come as Il tempter. but
10 give warning that the husbands
jealousy has become dangerously ira
honai- The lovers are alarmed. but the
audience care not for the distress of a
pair Of buffers at acting i'm a stage di-
lemma which thus far isn't strange
Inc interview ends tameIy with the Wis
ltorS departure The agitation begins
Fucdenly when the windows at the back
of the room are flung wide OPEN from
SelIlnS 10 HOOr. and there i'm a snow
storm stands the mad husband with his
Whlte-dIawn face. his uHsteadiiy-
ing eyes, his nerVe-tWitched mouth a
picture Of mental agony He stalks
forward distrd Ught. yet striving to keen
a mold on reason. bus he has seen the
lover with his wife and his last faint
clutches at sanity are futile. He talks
wildly. but never loudly. of faithless
mothers and illegitimate children. He
takes the boy on his lap and cares75es
nm Hereby, yet not Violently. and car
ries him out to put him to sleep i'm
what, the mother knows. will be the
sleep Of death At this point last even
ing woman rose quickly from her seat
and sped UP the center aisle We heard
her .gasping in the lobby al the time
that the outcries Of the child faded
away behind the stage.
The mailman comes back and says he
has put the child to rest deep in the
snow The wife tries to calm him with
Caresses. to cajole him with endear-
nentS; but he sees her terror and is all
the more fixed in his purpose to Kill
her. Here the second woman coIlapSes
in the audience and is helped out BY her
escort. But the poor creature in the
play can't escape. In CHASTITY coquetry
she says she viii arrange her dishev-
elled hair, and be pretty for him to pet;
but, with the keennesS of insanity he
knows she is trying TO Kill time till
neighborS come to the rescue. so. when
her long hair is braided in "A single
strand. it suggests to him hangman's
rope. and he puts ii around her neck.
tigEtenS 1T slowly and chokes her till
she lies limp and dead Thus keenan,
i'm New York initiates and equals An
tome in Paris.
The evening began with Keenan, in
the WhiskeTS and SuaVe dignity of an
aged inmate of a Sanitarium and con-
tinued with him in the unShaven and
harsh a h1lpulaf in i1Fa e