The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-14
Play Going Public More ExpeCtant
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

this hero keeps q prosperous gambling
hell in New Orleans and is several 9TH
er kinds of a rascal It is not until the
last act, when he goes back to his viii
lage redeemed, that he is worthy Of
anything but handouts and a hang
mans moose. I am told that Miss Mar
loves decision was that David wasn't
worth saving.
Jim Corbett in play by George Ber-
nard Shaw! But it is pretty nearly all
right The fellow who gives the title
TO "Cashel Byrons Profession" is a
pug" as the author makes him say
who tries TO be gentlemanly. In Au-
gustus Thomas 1.-The Other Girl the
same character was made by Thomas
and Lionel Barrymore on intimate
studies Of Kid Mccoy, who is such
gent that young women marry him
one after another, and one has remar-
Tied him after each of three divorces.
Corbett has no such wedding ring rec
ord, but he is as good looking as Nc
Coy, he has been in vaudeville long
enough TO behave on the stage exactly
as he does off, and hence the project of
putting him into the role of Shaw's
''pug'-not to act it, but to be it. Shaw
object to it? Oh, no. He had drama
tized the story, but readily consented
to Stanislaus STANCE making a play
Corbett makes his first entrance into
gentle Miss Carew's garden in train
ing cOstume-white sweater, cotton
knickerbockers, golf stockings and
walking shoes; and from what he says
TO her she would. If she were an Amer
lean girl, discover his profession at
once; but she is innocently English, she
is depicted very delcately by the Mar
garet Wycherly whom came to New
York to act in Yeats idealistic dramas,
and when he says right out that he is
pug" she doesn't know what he
means He shapes up we'll in that first
suit; so he does later when. for the
minute before he hides them from Miss
Carew under a long coat, he appears
IN rg for the ring. At this time he is
accompanied by a trainer, and why not
set-to for realisn's sake? wouldn't
Ibsen have kindly obliged? And STANCE
wasn't hidebound to Shaw, anyway.
But the scheme was to represent a
pug" in an endeavor to be a gent"
and so Corbett is kept most of the time
in the habiliments of a Beau Brummel
of 1906. In the frock coat of an after
noon he might be photographed for a
tailor's fashion plate for shape and
pose as we'll as clothes. But the test
comes when he puts on clawhamner
coat for an evening. My most severely
critical judgment is that he wears the
DIack ana White quite as easily as the
average gentleman, although more
stiff1y conscious Of them than the aver
age waiter
If Corbett were to try to be an actor
who acts he would make a mess Of it;
but he has been stage-broken to talk
and move precisely as he does in a
hotel parior, which Is perhaps. as near
rs he gets TO a fashionable drawing
room He has a rigidity of attitude
once n while. and at others he seems
about TO sidestep, or put up his hands
just as Barrymore did when imperson-
ating Mccoy, and these things serve
for nice points in Characterization. And
when, at the end Of the play, he has
fled from his last fight, is pursued by
the police, seeks refuge in Miss Ca
rew's house, tells her he loves her and
they embrace, he seems to retain some
thing of the ''pug's" feeling with the
"pug's" gear that ne sill wears in his
fight. He hugs the girl like wrestler,
and am sure that, if some one were
to cry Break awayl" he would do it
on the impulse, his love of the en-
braced one 70 the contrary notwith-
standing.