The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-24

despot's cruelties. he is the author of
his own hard luck. He bears on the
back Of his neck as a birthmark an
emblem o. the planet under which he
was born, and ne believes that he must
die simultaneously with whOmever
came into life similarly branded. He
sentences TO decapitatiOn an Arab
chieftain who wins away the love of
his favorite concubine. and an Amer
lean chap who would wed his daughter:
but tricketer tattoces the cahalistic
talisman on them, so that when he
pulls down their collars TO chop off
their heads he sees the counterfeit en-
blems. Thereafter his sole care is to
save their lives in protection of his
own. and from that comes abundant
foolery to make up a Daniels entertain
ment. It has no Quatrains of old Per-
sian poetry, but a-plenty Of such more
appreciable tenderloin pearls of thought
Is
L knew the moon would get full with
the tide
When 1 saw the dipper right there by
its side:''
and then again,
Early to bed and early to rise
And you won't meet people TO put you
wise"
Daniels new catch-phrase is Are
we down-hearted? No" Why should
the audience decline to take the fun it
pays for2 And there is much else than
wine in the exhilarations Women and
song are there in exceeding allgTement.
During the ten minutes prior to Daniels
entrance, the scene IS crowded by a
mostly fresh selection of beauty from
the multitude Of girls eager To get on
the stage, and who are willing, usually
eager, 10 satisfy any demand for ex-
posture In this exhibition. though. the
lire OF limit is drawn along the outer
edge Of immOdesty without passing
over into ndecency-except that when
one set of dancers take to twirIing. IL
Is seen that their Persian pantafettes
haven't come in from the laundry. and
the girls are left with nothing to wear
'twixt skirt and limb than skin-tight
and skin-tint texture I don't think
they suffer any chill The atmosphere
is warm.
Victor Herbert can't be a crochety
composer. His tunes are faithfully fit
as well as popularity melodiOus. He
may have liked better To write the
arias and the concerted numbers. but
he didn't finch from paraphrasins the
familiar hOOchie-kooch strains for the
ORIENTAL ballet, nor even from bringing
the air of Wilkins and His Dinah''
down TO date for one Of Daniels patter
songs. Daniels is 10 wanton destroyer
Of time-tried material If the public
doesn't tire Of it, why should he? For
a curtain speech. he still uses the one in
which he gets hopelessly lost in meta
phOrs Of sea and desert. is distracted
by an envious understudy in the wings.
and finally is left in darkness by a hate
tui TrcmpteT turning off the lights.
So no one expects that the Persian
play viii lack a harem. or that the
harem viii lack an amorous woman
with visage hard enough for Daniels
TO crack jokes on I'D hate TO have
to count the candles IN your wedding
cake" he says. in reply TO her sOlicita-
sion To marry her. May NOkes refits
her awkward servant girl to the part.
md makes good humor with some orig
nality of manner. The baby-goc SOU
brette of the outfit is 2 young and new
9erty Carlisle. and for. eomrade in
juvenile pranks she has a Harry
Clarke, also stranger to Broadway
He gives limitations of the six other
other than Daniels. whom /
listed as row here in musical farces.
New York has something else than
'rivolity in new stage matter. There is
The Reckoning" for an example. of
he utmost advance in dramatic literal
SIN. as opposed to imaginative TO-
nance. Arthur SchnitzIer is a Wan
lese writer of the Ihsen school. and this
play is regarded as conducive to his
anne. Robert Hunter is making the
experiment of an English translation,
md of putting it on the stage here in
he modern German manner; which
means that there is no attempt to
effects by Evolutionary tricks
)r tEeatric exaggerations- The actors
submit implicitly TO a direction which
Keeps the play as an entirety in mind.
permits no member of the company to
sharpen points that would dull others.
las studied from life to compose Just
he pictures which the author con-
,eived. The theatre chosen for this is
% small that no forcing of the voice is
to make every word under
stood. nor any violence of gesture to
make every motion comprehensive. and
acial expressions are clearly visible
without unnaturaily strong illumfna-
ion. All this is done regularly for at
east a fortnight of evenings, and not
1t special matinees for the Ibsen cult.
still, the steadily increasing number of
MISUNDERSTANDING the word
% indicate all those who like to see
in the drama-have provid-
q tn@ dUQ1SnCeS mus lar. and IL Is too
'oon to say that such a play, acted in
Iueh method, viii gain more gem
sral support.
Fritz is a bachelor caught in Illicit
owe of married woman. and he is not
courageous Ia his Inisbehavior. for he
s in nervous dread of the husbands
The wife is not shown All
We know of her is by hearsay. The wo-
nan we see with Fritz is Christine a
Toung daughter of poor musician.
Christine loves Fritz passionately, and
s vaguely jealous of whatever ii is
she surmises it is a woman
hat distracts him from her: while he
; fond of her, yet is absorbed in the
ieeper and dangerous affair. The up-
hot is the news that Fritz has been
killed BY the husband in a duel. That
5 all The acts seem like three out of
he FIVE Of a longer drama Yet
purpose OF presenting a
tudy Of a girls breaking heart is fully
srried out. Katherine Grey. she of the
'ibratory eontralto voice. facile speech
md artistic self-control outlines the
haracter with vivid simplicity, shades
n TIE emotions with detailed nicely.
nd il America were thoroughly Ibsen-
zed. she would be safe TO pack her
runks for a starring tour.
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All, yes, indeed. and to reiterate. New
Fork has something else than frfvolitv
n new stage matter; also. it has some /
hing else in lovelorn drama than Ibsen