Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-09

Special Correspondence.
N EW YORK, Feb. At really
IN should have been called Cap
Y tain Brassbound's Converse
tom"
As a matter of fact, lis title is Cap
tain Brassbound's Conversions IT was
written many years ago by George Ber-
uard Shaw, and it is serving as a vehi-
Gle for Ellen Terry at the Empire. All
the theater- going world turned out last
Monday TO welcome Miss Terry back Ia
these shores, and the actress was given
reception that must dispose of any
question as TO the loyalty of America.
She Is the same Ellen Terry that every
body remembers-a wee. tiny bit older,
a triile more prone TO forget lines; but
just as charming and graceful and
Womanly as ~ years ago. Somehow,
though. the stage didn't seem quite
filled without Sir Henry Irving. 1t was
almost as IL the player before us had
lost an arm. or an ear, or some other
part Of her own person, Perhaps that
is why the Empire has not been packed
to the doors since Monday, and per-
haps the lacking OF so cents on TO the
price OF orchestra seats has had some
thing TO do with the matter. Even In
New York loyalty az two dollars and "A
half head isn't likely to be quite as
fervent as loyalty at two dollars.
Captain Brassbound" is garrulous as
an individual and engulhngly loqIa-
cious as play, The characters sit still
on stand mOtionloss ana talk them
selves blue IN the face. IL words were
tangible objects the entire company
would be buried In them up to their
several ana separate necks before the
second act was half over. Shaw has
always been an opponent of the adage
that deeds speak louder than words"
and he has justified himself by allowing
greater quantity of wit and common
sense TO issue from the mouths OF his
actors than any other dramatist who
ever lived. ] submit timidly. however
mat Captain Brassbound" seems 10
nave less ~ satire and more of farce:
less OF epigram and more OF obvious hui
NOR; less Of tho ordinary seen through
the eyes ~ am extraordinary man, and
more OF the extraordinary. seen through
me eyes Of an ordinary man, than any
other pen-product OF the inilnltable
Shaw.
This Is not to say that Captain
Brassbound's Conversion" fails TO en-
terrain and amuse. Nothing written
Dy SHAW could rail TO do either, There
~ u Wide margin between the irish
mans worst ana the best OF most other
people
AfNNN N'NllS WuNUtlt IL tue hlllA
woman In Captain Brassbound's Con<
version perhaps that Is why the play
appeals 80 strongly 10 lady stars. | re-
member that Ada Rehan was quite mad
10 present II few years ago. she and
her brother Sir Howard Hallan, jour
ney 10 Morocco, where they are seen at
Mogador, most anxious 10 explore the
interior OF the country Captain Brass
bound and his picturesque band of cut
throats are engaged as an escort Now
IL happens that the captain Is really
nephew OF Sir Howards. and cherlshes
views OF his uncle's behavior toward
his mother, together with fixed de-
termination 10 murder that same un-
Gle, lie is about TO have this ambition
gratted, when Lady Cecily dissundes
Nm, Arterward, Brassbound falls into
the hands Of an American naval officer
and Lady Ceclly prevents his being
swung from the yard arm. In the course
OF this story, Shaw mildly satlrzes
missionaries, police court Judges and
dime novels, The principal humor OF
the piece. however, comes out OF the
Shaw theory that women do what they