The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-08
Vogue of Straiqht-Out Farce
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

and higher, until her legs are stripped
to the thighs of everything except a
brunette stain. In that manner she
expresses. in pantomime, the languors
of love, the madness of wine and the
throes of penitence. finging herself
finally on the floor in a swoon. When,
in obedience to applause, the curtain
is lifted for a last view of Rhada, she
is seated crOSs-legged on the altar
again, with no sign OF headache or
other penalty for the spree which she
has INDUCED in. Indeed, she seems to
feel first rate, or at least 10 feel MOTH
ing at all. lin the cold gray dawn OF
the morning after" There IS, appar-
emily, something beyond the ken of
civilized jewellers in this mystic re-
ligion of the orient. And Ruth St
Denis is an uncommonly interesting
young woman.
The value Of individuality in men on
the stage is durable. but I'm women it
is transitory. Americans are disloyal
to their theatrical queens when they
get past being young, or, let us say
past the possibility of Stimulating girl
ishness- This gift of good looks and
the requirement of ability enable Vio-
la Allen, Julia NARROW, Leslie Carter,
Maxine Elliott, Mary Mannering, Vir-
ginia Harmed. Blanche Bates and
Maude Adams to personate romantic
young heroines. and we held them in
does the shifty multitude care for Ada
Rehan, Ellen Terry and Helena Mod
jeska ?-to mention three great artists
who still retain the admiration OF dra-
matically discriminate people, and to
kindly omit many who are clinging
desperately to remnants of their for
ner vogue. or have hOpelessly let go
and sunk out of sight People who pay
their money have a right to take their
choice.
cipient of New York's best attention.
Yet the Oldness of his repertory seemed
to defy me to get a new parag graph out
Of his acting until a friend who sat be-
side me at ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
gave an idea
How would a Bowery audience take
him in this play?" he asked.
The usage in the rabble theatres of
this city, as 1 suppose it is of others,
is TO hiss and boot stage villains. not
only when they are at their mimic
crimes, but also when they come be-
fore the curtain in the company's re-
Spouse to a call. The Broadway audi
ence was applauding Mansfield just
after his brutal murder. in the guise
of Hyde, of his sweetheart's father
Would he be abused in the Bowery?
When Daniel Randmann PLAYED the
dual role at the Academy of Music he
was assailed with the customary din
of hateful outcrieS after committing
Hyde's atrocity, but the same mob
was as noisy in a friendly greeting
when he reappeared as the benign Je-
kyll- Thomas Shea gets the same dis
criminate treatment when. more late
ly, he presents the play at the aca-
denny.
Mansfield's repertory is pretty large
ly rogues' gallery. Has not his
genius been hindered by that fact in
getting the recognition which it now
en1OVSI Henry CT int
nown as Matthias, a thief and muir
derer. but afterward he assumed few
criminal characters. 1t IS not to the
credit Of ManSfeld's ability as a deIin-
Gator of character that so many of his
stage perSonageS are Indicators? In
one week of his present engagement
he plays Richard III and Ivan the
Terrible, gleeful killers of men, women
and children; Shylock, who plots and
expects to torture a fancied enemy to
death for a gToundless grudge; Baron
Chevrial. nauseous old debauche
and libertine; Arthur Dimsdale. a cler-
zeal hypocrite and betrayer of a girl
of his congregation, and Richard
Hyde, marvel in criminOlogy. max
ing five and a half men of repulsive
evil, with only Jekyll, the other half
OF Hyde, as not at all vigorous ex-
ponent or virtue. Truly, Mansfiel~s
fame as an actor, helped by very little
recourse to stage heroism. has been
earned by vivid representation of alb
hcrrent characters.
Would you consider a proposal to
return to the stage?'' said David Be
lasco to Lolita Crabtree
Have you made a version Of Uncle
Toms Cabin with Little Eva for y
star part?" Lolita laughed in reply
would you reappear as Little Nell
and the MarchionesS in an all-star re-
vival of The Old Curiosity Shop?'"
IF you will bring out Meg Merilles.
I will take the role of Charlotte Cush
mans six-foot witch reduced to Lot
ta's f1ve-foot size. That might appeal
to the American sense of humor."
Lolita is very wealthy. But Modjeska
has to make farewell tours to replen- !
ism her fortune. Heham's inheritance
from the Daily estate does not content
her and Terry's income has not been. |
since she deserted Irving. what it had |
been before And both Rehan and
Terry are quoted to me as disliking |
Ethel Barrymore for taking away from |
them a mtddle-age role-the mother of !
a grown daughter in Alice Sit bv the
Fire"-which is peculiarly suitable to |
them, while Ethel has to pretend to be |
older than she is. Ada Rehan was
taken incapacitatingly i'll while hoping |
for the play, but Ellen Terry was ready
and willing to make an American tour
with it.
1T is so hard for an actress of my |
age to get an attractive part" Miss |
Terry said, land here was one in which /
could have made a fortune. I am |
heartbrOken."
Especially hard is it for actresses |
who have been stage kittens. and now
are old cats, to keep on frisking for I
their milk and do without cream alto
gether. The advertisement of a the !
atre up Harlem way contained a name
that carried my memory backward TO |
a debut dyx-ar
her fresh young prettiness. her Iissome
grace, her melOdious voice, her buovant |
spirits, her irresistible aggregate of
charms. Instead of letting my recol-
lection go at the picture that it con-
Jured up, l went to see the actress in a