The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-23
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| in it, and what there IS gives spice TO
the tale without outraging a persons
sense OF the fitness of things 1t isn't
a gallery play by several leagues. II
| isn't balcony play. But it is a par
| quet play in every sense of the word
and in some cases it goes beyond that.
1t can be understood that the beauty of
the piece is too deep for about 20 per
cent of The people who see it,. That is
the reason, perhaps, that some people
don't enjoy it. And that is the reason
the author has scored-because the play
has depth and poetry and a meaning
Wider in scope than that of plays that
cater TO emotions through sensational
Climax. 1t shows the power of child
hooc's imagination. 1t has some of
those qualities which made Peter Pam
beloved by New Workers.
THE supporting company is all that
could be desired. There is not single
weak spot. Blanche Douglas, who was
with the old Columbia company, plays
Mrs. Stewart in an artistic and realistic
manner. There is a delicacy and earn
estneSS in her acting that is superb
Harrington Reynolds is Mr.. Stewart
and gives well-balanced performance.
Maurice Costello is good as Harry Cad
waller. Jack Webster is just the Lead
ing man for the star. Joseph Coughlin
- SACellclll as L KNOW III Is Decu-
liar TO have good company back of a
good star, but this Mr.. Cort has given
us, and the result is highly satisfac-
tory.
The stage settings were arranged by
Max Figman before he started on his
own starring tour. They demonstrate
the fact that Figman is as good in that
line as he is in acting, which is saying
great deal Every scene is a work of
art
Miss Fealy's work as Beatrice is
charming. She has just the right touch.
She undergoes the gamut of emotions
without becoming distressing. She goes
from smiles to tears and hack again
with the pleasant changefulness of an
April sky. There isn't a false tone i'm
her voice. There isn't a false gesture
She isn't old enough to have had all
this drilled into her, therefore there re-
mains one conclusion-Maude Fealy is
4 born actress.
1.-THE play tells the story Of a girl
founding picked up by en- American
art student i'm Paris. and by him edu-
Gated. AT the opening of the play she
comes hcme Unexpectedly to meet her
guardian and his bride. who has not
been appraised of Beatrices existence.
Complications ensue. The girl has res
son to dream that she is the child of a
princess who has had a love match
with ono more lowly born, and that her
parents died of grief at their separation.
She has purchased a picture which she
dreams is of her mother. and acts
toward ell she meets as would a prin-
cess of the blood. Her patronizing way
toward her guardians wife calls out no
end of amusement. In a moment OF
compulsiOn she is told the truth, and
struggling with the loss of her Illusion,
she leaves her guardians house, fol-
lowed by her guardians brother-nn- law,
who takes her from the street to his
rooms, and there, to save her reputation
and give her protection, marries her on
the spur of the moment. How this
young man struggles to restore to the
girl her lest Illusion. how he succeeds
only to have the girl realize that it has
all been an illusion, and recognizes the
realities of life, and how in the end she
grants him her love. make a charming,
poetical story. the like of which is seen
too seldom on the stage"