The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01


slang; no one in it is his own gram
marian. 1t Is not an illustration of col
lege life; the collegian mentioned. in
the title has come out of school and does
not go back 10 alma mater town. II
/ is not formless conglomerate OF hui
| morous talk and takers; a story is told
coherently and with some regard for
theatrical effect. For these reasons the
newer play is unlike The County
Chairman" with its rural politics, and
quite as unlike The College Widow
with its football; and. while it is not
| as good as either of those, il seems TO
me safely better than The Good Sa-
| maritan"
AIDE took his pen in hand to. write
The College Widow for Ethel Bar
rymore, but his hand lost control of his
pen and turned out characters more en-
pertaining than the widow. He under
| took with The Bad Samaritan" 10
make star role which Raymond
Hitchcock would be assigned to. but
again his pen wasn't kept in hand. He
planned Just out Of College" for Jo-
seph Wheelock. and. l guess-for
| don't kHOw-that for third time he
! did not realize the design In the execu-
| ton Anyway, It wasn't until the play
/ had been reconstructed by William
/ seymour and edited by Paul Potter that
| froninAn bought It. The college grad
/ uate. Edward Worthington Swinger, as
/ introduced. is that ever popular fellow
/ OF the stage. a liar with a tongue OF
| steel ciapping between cheeks OF brass.
| lie has brought from school nothing
| more tangible than a diploma, and he
mas no plan of pursuit more unitarian
| than TO marry an heiTess lie gets $40 =
| "a ha To ffffr
! and Is 10 report I'm three months. when
| decision on his matrimonial proposal
viii be rendered. Swiuger spends the
| tiine and the monSy in building up
( rival TO the fathers pickle factory. and
has fools good luck al #; but in the
/ meanwhile his lies get him further into
| Vicissitudes which they are meant TO
get him out Of; and such is the ma
| terial OF this latest of the Ananias
/ farces-all original with Ado, and most
| OF II ingenious. Joseph Wheelock in
| dividualizes Swinger as John Drew
| would and as n. c. Goodwin would not
by which I mean that Wheelers au-
| dacious liar is suave and not assertive
and that women as well as men viii
! like him.
The oldest in AIDES set Of characters
| is chap who has a habit of saying
| ITS like this" when he sticks in SEN
| tence, and then he tries to tell i'm ges-
| lures what he can't put into words.
Next in amusing value is a teli-tale
girl whose frank truths do harm where
! tactful falsehoods would do good 4
! CRATER posing as an apostle of the
| simple life is made funny by carica-
| ture. An amOrOus bookkeeper. an i'm
pudent errand boy and a stately type
writer provide by-play I'm the business
Office of the first act. A neat sextette
of girls give away sample pickles in the
/ food fair of the second act. 4 pert
| newsstand girl. a sonorous train an
| nOuncer and a curt ticket seller are
not tiresomely old in the railway sta
ton Of the third act because they say
new things. Ii is here that AIDES work
is tested by memory of Hoyts; and
| AIDES Is inferior in the depletion of IA
/ miliar types, but superior in compli-
| eating them with the principals in a
climax of farcical crOss-purposes.
Not until the middle of the week was
Just Out of College" presented in New
York; so l went TO New Haven TO see
it tried on Yale students. University
! youngsters filled about two dozen rows
IN parquet and balcony, and the rest of
the house below the gallery was Occu-
pied by fashionable residents. This as
semblaGe laughed almost continuously
at AIDES matter, applauded WheelOck' 5
acting heartily and desired TO see the
author, but he wasn't there.
James X. Hackett and Mary Manner
ing could not fail with THE Walls OF
Jericho" That seemed a fortnight ago
10 be foregone and concluded beyond
the possibility of a reversal. For hadn't
Sutro's drama been the bigger of last
| seasons two overpoweringly big Lon
[ lnf Of ], o. Il
the other play. "The Beauty and the
Barge and it was SO much of a fiasco
here that faith in the Sutro piece was
shaken a little. There was enough of
doubt on the opening night to qualify
the certainty. but il didn't last long and
it gave Zest to an occasion of triumph
That is a theatrically misused word
triumph but / don't know any other
with the right meaning.
The Walls of Jericho" as blown
down by SutTos horns. does not make
the truthful exposure OF London society
that II purpOrts to; facts are misstated
by the author to support his case; but
he tells d Virile STORY engTOssingly and
his appeal to the average, everyday
mind is irresistible. Mr.. SutrO, broth
er of an American millionaire and fol
many years familiar with English arts
| tOcracy, asks US to believe that at even
| ing DdltitS-1DL informal gatherings
but affairs designated as balls-the
guests let themselves loose in cake
walks; that horsey young women stick
monocles on their eyes and all the mer
| wear orchids lin their manners as vel
| as their buttonhoies), and that cheat
ing at bridge is usual I'm smart sets. In
such a setting SutrO places two rough
diamonds, Australian milliQnaires, whC
embody all the virtues, toot horns
| around the modern Jericho of Mayfair
and strain their wives to their protec-
! tive bosoms when the stones begin t
fall from the walls. But il takes eXag-
geration to make what will be regarded
by the general public as a strong play
It is said sometimes that stage writing
in these Bitchian days IS insipid ant
anaemic in contrast with the old Lyce
um output. TO people of that mind
| may remark that there is nothing OF
| Clyde Fitch soDhistication in ALFRED
SutTO; he is a Bronson Howard in th'
sincere mood of THE Bankers Daugh
ter"
This production marks the entrance
Of Mr. Hackett into New York as al
actor-manager OF the London kind
Arnold Daily has done the same thing
| so has Henry Miller: and there is Mrs
| Fiske 1t is a movement that is aTous
ing much interest The Hacketts pre-
| sent themselves In their initial produc
ton as man and wife, he a selfmad
millionaire. she the b0rn-sO aFistocrat
Although the Lady Alethea has an ad
mirer playing for her favor, Sutro ha
avoided usually in the case. Neithe
does she permit the smallest liberty il
the dangler's manner towards her, no
does her husband doubt her loyalty 70
moment. He objects to the spirit o
| her social set. and by their Opposed
points of view a sufficient conflict 4
created When the drama is unde
| way. and the cakewalks are passed, /
vivid picture of domestic rupture /
painted; a man and a woman loVini
e ! oooi, ..tl.or dntrcfa1Iv ypf utterly sen