Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-16
Divorce Play Excites Paris.

ties can be covered. and her younger
daughters dowry be provided. He
insists that Nalen tine shall be Sum-
moned and asked whe Their she win
submit tamely TO this wrong,
Valentine appears and Shere ensues
a really heartrendins scene in which
her pent up resentment of her posi-
lion in the .Arnieres household bursts
forth 1t is all a most searching am
alysis of a painful situation. all the
more painful because Mime. ArInieres
mas been unconscious of ii. You
have been mother TO me- says Wall
entIne- Ito Marguerite you have been
a mammal When was i'll. YOU didn't
embrace me any more, for fear Of
giving her nay 1eyerl'' The scene grows
more passionate and violent and cul~
inmates when Arnieres enters. COM
fronts his Mtfe's son. and orders him
out of the house, AS | have said at
the audience was entirely swept away
by the force OF the piece and the act,
ing.
In the third act, the Two girls have
violent alteration, as the result Of
which Marguerite decides to iorego
her dowry' and incidentally, to quit the
household. These are the two big
scenes of the play. and they will act
well on any stage The remainder OF
the piece shows us the dissolution Of
the house of clay Madame Ar
meres has failed to satisfy the claims
upon her on either side. and fallen
short OF both halves of her divided
duty. The two daughters go their
separate ways, the son his. and at the
end the mother is left ON the stage
alone. to face the new situation as
best she can. No theatrical situation
In many years has led TO so much dis
cussion In the French capital.
The other piece about divorce, Lies
Jacobns,r has proved almost us big
a hit as LA Maison d'ArgiIe' but
It is in it's rlghtful place Mt the Paris
Vaudeville" and the rights Tor Eng
lish speaking countries at any rate,
are not likely TO be in demand. Les
Jacobins," by the way, has also set
Parisians to asking a question: Can
married woman be engaged The
''Jacobins'' of the title are the French
society women whom divorce serves
1s an easy way OF being OF with the
old love and on with the new, ana
though IL Is all. or nearly all, comedy.
" Is comedy mixed with biting satlrel
Abel Hormant is 5he auth or and his
heroine is "epris'' with a man other
Than her husband. and engaged to
him--her remarrage TO take place
just as soon as she can manage to get
Il divorce
Duh Hut NPll HVhl VI lNe
He is in love with her, and he refuses
TO a mutual consent" arran cement.
Moreover. when she tries TO elope he
surprises her and the other man,
and finally makes her choose between
them in scene which Is somewhat
like one in Candida though not as
artistic. la the end, however the
lady Chooses" her husband and SO
her "engag ement' 10 the other man
Is broken off No small part of the
success OF the piece is due 10 the man
ner in which well known Partisan
types are sattrzcd- We have So
clety woman, for instance, cnatnofed
of an American dentist who has pur-
chased title in Rome Another
amtlsing-and essentially reco gnisable
figure is "the Marquis d'Esparron,
who is working as n society reporter
There is an especially vivaclcus scene
where he enters and takes photo
sraph for his journal Of society folk
discussing their latcst "ehArIty,"
CURTIS BROWN.