The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-14

new 1Orh, OCt- lZ.-Such a four aC-
tresses as are newly guised in Broad
way. Such a variety of distinctions,
Eleanor Robson and Virginia Harmed,
| equally talented, but one delicately sub
tie TO almost the point of weakness, and
the other broadly graphic with an ap-
| preach TO coarseness. Lillian Russell
with plentiful beauty and scant ability,
and Margaret Anglin with an album
/ dance of ability and a lack of beauty.
And the plays they have chosen to suit
| their individualities are distinguished
in authorship by the names of Victo-
| rien Sardou, William Vaughn Moody,
Francois de Croisset and Israel lang
| will.
| Miss Harmed and Miss Russell have
Sn1fted themselves into TRANSACTIONS of
French farces. Miss Harmed, person
ator of many tainted heroines in earn
est, gets comic relief by playing one
facetiously in "The Love Letter" and
Sardou, after devoting. many years TO
| tragic melodramas of passion, becomes
Jovial with piece of nonsensicaI in
decorum. An uniformed person, see
ing the names of Harmed and Sardou
over the doorway of theatre, would
be astonished on going in to find Vir-
| ginia very SportiVe and VictOrien very
! jocose. The letter that raises a merry
row was discreditable to the divorced
woman who received it, yet she didn't
destroy it, but left it in a desk TO be
| found later by her jealous second hus-
| band, who took il for evidence of recent
bad conduct, while she undertook to
| convince him that it dated back to the
| time of her first husband. thus getting
herself into tangle of falsehood and
mess of scandal
In this contribution to the French
mass of fiction on the theme of real
and imaginary conjugal misbehaviOr
Sardou duplicated some of the humCr
! of "A Scrap of Paper" and Rejane
has used 1t great deal in Paris. But
New York does not laugh with Paris
ian readiness at the fun of disordered
wedlock. 1.-THE Love Letter is replete
with derision of honor in husbands and
wives, and Astounding with indecorous
behavior. The English version both
| cleans and dulls the material so that
Miss Harmed doesn't have all of Re-
james opportunities. She works we'll
and handsomely, but it seems hardly
/ worth while.
jeanne Granier is a French actress
who passed from comic opera to gay
| comedy with a play by Francis de
Croisset. and the English Marie Temp
est used 1T for precisely the same pur-
pose in the adaptation called 1.-The Mar
| riage of Kitty" 1t was reasona BILE of
Lillian Russell. therefore. when she de-
cided to cease as a songstress and be-
| gin as coincidence to choose for
medium "Barbara's Millions" a new
piece written by Croisset for Granier
But there are two causes of failure for
her enterprise. None of Croisset's fun
has been brought into the expurgated
English version, and Lillian lacks the
least facility i'm a role made for a
sprightiy soubrette So nobody cares
for Barbara nor her millions. Her
wicked looking but good-intentioned
| exploit of spending an evening in an
isolated cottage with a disreputable
bachelor. SO as TO get even with her
! husband for an imaginary act of inf
! deity. raised but single outburst of
laughter in the opening audience.
Did you never think of marrying ~
the exceedingly matrimonial actress
was asked.
''wel.' she replied with a knowing
glance at the rows Of her acquaintance
in the parquette, ''once or twice"
By chance Lillian Russell. the Amer
lean beauty and Lille Langtry. the
English beauty, are on simultaneous
exhibition in Broadway. Comparative
observation can't be helped. Is it i'm
polite to criticize actresses faces
1 Their Visages are much as their voices
are part OF their professional outfits
| Mrs. Langtry's face was seen last week
10 be but lightly marked by time the
outlines hardened little. but the skin
as smooth and fair as ever Miss Tus-
sells face has not been out of New
/ York's sight one year in the last twen-
| ty-fVe, and a slow change might pass
unnoticed; but a close study uf it. as
| shown now in "3arbara's Millions -
discovers even less 9lteration than is
visible in Langtry's. Lillian beats Lii
lie in the preservation Of the most pho
! tographed two faces ON earth. Her
complexion is false with a smearing Of
pink and white, and daubs of red and
| black, and her hair is yellow with
bleach: but in the features there is no
hint of sagging checks or doubling
chin, no crowsfeet are at the eyes or
lines at the mouth, and one uses 4 glass
in vain to fiEd sign Of ageing. Her
| form has added 4 mdtron : weight TO
its girls pro ortions, but she can face
a camera IL beautifully as ever.
A third farce fr.prl Paris is "A Spring
Chicken" but it gets here by a circuit
Gus route, and it grew more amusing
| by the way. 1t started as n usual farce
of French wedlock, ana it's originators'
names are of no account. George Gros-
smith. jr.. made a musical comedy ont
of ii for London with the aid of a half
dozen musicians and rhyr~ sters. Ricl;-
ard earle took Il i'm hand for New
| York, and put lot of funny American
things into it, including himself. Garlic
is an adept at folly. and never has lie
been more funnily foolish Yet there
is nothing new in the i1ea of a hen-
pecked husband taking frisky pow
der. which makes him defiant OF his
wife, although his son-in-law's pecul-
iarity of getting gay every springtime
is a variant in French deviltry. The
n IL Il
away from their hen and pullet and go
hopping and pecking in a forbidden
grain field That is to say, the two men
go on spree with young women in a
restaurant for roysterers.
The songs are a big factor i'm THE
Spring Chicken" One of them "In
| ROfterdarn - would have bit hard If n