The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-14
TIE DRAMA IN NEW YORK.
Socialist Play by Thomas Dixon One
of the Productions,


NEW YORK, Oct. l3.-One Of the
carly successes of the season is the
characterization Of Thomas Dixon S new
book, THE One Woman To one
who has read the book, the play Is a
problem. It retains its plot of So
cialism against the home life, but it's
story eliminates many of the features
which were severely criticised IN the
book. Dr. Dixon, man Of distinctly
socialistic ideas, built his book TO EN-
phasize the difference between the
has developed the dramatic, dealing
with socialistio minister who has
ideas as 10 marriage, a college profes-
sor who is wheedled and il is q
good word in the premises-into So
cialism by a woman lecturer. The part
of the female is perhaps the strongest
in the play. N this connection it would
be we'll to say that Miss Leonora Won
Ottinger, a Philadelphia and a ST.
Louis girl. takes the part Of the So
cialist, Kate Ransom - With her,
as the "opposite, is Gretchen Dale,
a Cleveland girl whose father is Of
fortune in his home city, and who has
interested himself in the latest pro
duction of DR.. Dixon Miss Won OF
finger has won praise for the portrayal
of her part, which ranges from comedy
almost TO tragedy
Lillian Russell, the perennial. ap-
peared at the Savoy Theater last Mon
day night in e play without music,
called "Barbara s Millions 1t IS
an adaptation by Paul NJ. Potter from
the French by De Croisset-''Le Bon
heur Mesdames.
1.-The Love Letter. which the Shu-
beTts have chosen as the vehicle for
Miss Virginia Harmed for this season,
had its first metropolitan production
at the Lyric on Tuesday. THE Love
Letter is the English adaptation by
Ferdinand Gottschalll of Nictorien
S1rdou's "La Pixie which Rejane
played in France.
Richard Carle has returned to DAILY S
Theater IN "The Spring Chicken, -
which was taken from the French.
given musical dress by Ivan Caryll
George Edwards Gaiety Theater Mr..
Carlo has, however, introduced six mu.
sical numbers of his own, and has
staged the play as we'll 1.-THE Spring
Chicken gets its title from the fact
that the central character, Gustave
Bubori, becomes boy again when the
first spring swallow shows up. With
the end of the spring, he again be-
comes q sedate and industrious lawyer
The recurrence of this fever so dis,
tresses his American wife that. with
this particular spring at hand, she
sends Tor her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ambrose Girdle, Mr.. Girdle has the
further object in visiting Paris of con-
sulting the celebrated specialist, Dr.
Brabaun, who regulates blood infusion
to the different needs of his patients
AS Girdle is an old man of failing
health, he injects into him the blood Of
a lamb Consequently, Girdle becomes
as uncomfortable rs his son-in law,
and mother and daughter have two
scamps to watch instead of one.
The new attraction at the New York
Theater is Blanche Ring in Harry B.
Smiths and Victor Herbert's recon
structed musical comedy, "Miss Dolly
Dollars,'' the vehicle used by Miss
Lulu Glaser lest season.
fsThe Great Divide, at the Princess
Theater, the drama by William Vaughn
Moody, which Mr.. Miller and Miss
Anglin produced last week has been