The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-29
Amelia Bingham in Fanny
Davenport's Role and Armor
FRANKLIN
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

be ridiculous
Two sons of the late Henry c. De-
Mile, who thrived with 1.-The Wife"
and The Charity Ball." wrote play
for Nat G. Goodwin, but it was farce,
and at that time Goodwin had passed
up TO comedy, with a rising tendency
towards tragedy. So the DeMilles had
''The Genius and the Model brought
out in Brooklyn without him. The
birth notice that gave it in this cor
respondence was almost obituary, too,
for in week the play looked dead and
laid out for burial. 1t had lacked a
comedian with comic facility like Good
wins, and now that he acts it's rich
fellow, who buys the whole output of
painters, Sculptor's and composers
studio, to exploit ii all as his own
works of versatile genius, the deferred
laughter is abundant.
The uncertainties Of the stage are
shown in this case of Goodwin and
1.-The Genius and the Model" After re-
jecting the play, the actor failed with
1.-THE Beauty and the Barge" in New
York, although it had succeeded in
London He went at once to Amer
lean farce, which ne had rejected. But
not in New York. He chose an up-river
town.
A collision between actresses was in
cidental to the experiment. Goodwin
had in his London company a super
carlisle.
and he brought her along to realize the
physical projections of the artists
model, who, in the farce's studio, wins
the heart of the fake genius. Now, as
possibly the reader may recall, I de-
scribed an exquisiteiy lovely Edna
Goodrich as the figurant in the original
production. Edna has been one of the
sure first six "FIorodora'' show girls
and was additionally distinguished
through getting and divorcing a rich
husband. It may be nip and tuck be-
tween Alexandria and Edna as to ma
lures modelling of them, and the Eng
lish girl isn't much of an actress if she
isn't better than the American; but
Edna has provided a kind friends
money for the first venture. her option
on the piece hasn't expired, and she
just would be the model of Goodwin
never, never should be the genius So
Alexandria, after being a theatre box
exhibit awhile with Goodwin, goes
back pouting to London. and Edna
poses proudly in the play.
Edwin Barbour's 1.-THE Mayor of
| COrnville'' is nothing like the similarly
named play which a Chicagoan wrote
and accused Rostand and Coquelin of
stealing to make 'CyranO de Berge-
rae Nor has it any resemblance to
"A Corner in Corn" which Tim Muir
ply is in litigation over. THE Mayor
of Cornville" is all original, with the
authors purpose to show that a man
may be a true Christian reIigionist
without ever entering a Christian
church. Hoyt in "A Temperance
Town" gave all the saving graces to
tiplers and none to the abstainers. To
his way of thinking, a prohibitionist
was necessarily and invariably a by
pocrite- But Barbour is not prejudiced
like that. His VirtuOus hero is accused
by the church people of a mid-Western
village OF being a debaucher of wo-
men, a robber of the town treasury and
a murderer by hOmicidaI heredity be-
fore he is found out to be bound hea-
venward instead of hellward But the
types of church members range quite
huBQanly from good zeaIOts to bad big
OTIS; ami in the end the INDICATED
mayor of COrnville shakes hands with
Ccrnville's leading clergyman.
There is a soubrette fOXhOund in the
playa pretty girl with a tip-tilted
nose that looks as though it would
CULVER at the scent of a rOseleaf a mile
away. And she had TO stick that deli
cate little nose into the plot She smelt
perfume on handkerchief that a bad
woman had left in a midnight sceance
woman had left in a midnight seance
tute one bearing the initials of a good
girl, who was thereby disgraced But
the soubrette foxhound got onto the
scent, followed it to a church sociable
shifted at the sisters and finally smeIt
out the guilty one.