The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-04

FORBES Robertson dims their achieve
ments with Caesar and Cleopatra"
X
Sir Henry Irving nee Broadribb. sep
arated from his untheatrical name and
undramatic wife early in his stage
career, and took Ellen Terry for an in
spring comrade i'm the art of acting.
MISS Terry earned and obtained her
dues IN fame and money. The Irving
son ana heir. Henry, B., is paired mat
rlmonlaily and professionally with
Dorothea Baird I believe he is well
under way to greatness that will equal
his fathers, hut not that his Dorothea
VIII be. as Ellen was, a helpmate in
acting. That he means to carry her
along into renown, however, is proved
by Mauricette." To be sure. he gave
only one evening and an afternoon to
that play, at the very end of his New
YORK engagement as though grudging-
~; yet that he can, twice in while,
stand back and let his wife sten in
front of him, is evidence of his devotion
TO her. For Irving's role i'm "Mauri-
cette" Is that of an incredibly selfish
and obdurately lustful man. at the
usually cooling age of go, with a still
fond though matronly wife. whom he
neglects for younger women.
X :.
This play is from the French. and
you and / know how lax is the Gallo
view of cOnnubal obligation i'm fiction
If not in reality; and may be this hus-
band wasn't blamed much i'm Paris
for acquiring a passion for a Young girl
whom his wife brought into their home
as d companion for herself; but i'm Lon
don and New York no tolerance can be
gained by such a scoundrel, no matter
how he may try to give to his black
ness a hue of rOseate Sentimentality
There must be a strong reason why
Irving impersonated him in London.
and now does 1t again i'm New York
The reason is that the girl in the case
Mauricette, is the dearest of maidens.
only two years more than sweet is:
that she isn't a whit to blame for the
husbands love of her: nor yet for low
ing him in her clean. girlish way. for to
her he seems an ideal man: and now
you comprehend why Dorothea Baird
Irving, with her suitably gentle, in
genuous individuality, wishes to per-
form in 'Mauricette."
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Once 1 heard an eminent actor say
that Sir Henry Irving had cultivated
his manneriSmS as a means of distin-
giishing his performances, and as proof
the fact was cited that in some roles
he put them off, while in social life,
even when making after-dinner
speeches, he betrayed no trace of them
1T means success for an actor" said
my friend, when the caricaturists and
the burlesquers take him up. Our
Manfield's first boost came when fun
was made of his affectations. Mrs.
F'iske knew she was on her way when
her peculiarities were attacked by stage
humOrists. Mrs. Carter felt sure of
herself when they began TO pull her
red hair"
Nevertheless, the younger Irving does
not ape his fathers singularities nor
disclose any of his own. There is a
similarity between the two Iryings in
the intellectual face and the command
ing figure; also, in some tones of the
smoother voice and gestures of the
more graceful pantomime; but there is
never any of the well-remembered gro
tesquely gait and speech. Henry B. is
versatile, too-rdther more so than his
father, i think The first half of Maui
ricette" is light comedy, with the faith
less husband more amusing than de-
plora ble-a volatile, shallow, humorous
type of the gay Partisan. 1t is not until