The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-17
FRANKLIN FYLES ANALYZES
"T1E CHRISTIAN ILGRIM !"

the Globe theatre. in London, seven
teen years ago.
AS Mrs. Patrick Campbell brings no
new play, there is naught for me to
write about her temperance here. But
her daughter may be mentioned as re-
sembling her beautiful mother now,
and likely to become as capable an
actress, although she is a novice yet.
Stella Campbell is typically English
in girlish grace and soft voice. She
is about 20, and wasn't it brave of
Mrs. Campbell to exhibit her as the
stepdaughter in The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray?' thus giving a clue to
cipher at the sum of her own years.
No actress is ever formally presented
at the British court. but mamma
shrewdly got that distinction for her
before letting her go on the stage; so,
If Stella isn't much of an actress, at
least she is the only one alive who has
been received at buckingham palace.
Think of that if you see her act and
don't like her much.
All the trained nurses who ean..see
''The Coming of Mrs. Patrick" ought
to. It's Mrs. Patrick is such a model
of a nurse, and such an admirable ex-
ample of woman, that her profession
al sisters can't help being proud of
her; and, more than that. she will
make them feel that they, too, are
enough like her to deserve what she
gets-bethrothal to a fond physician
with remuuerative practice. Con-
valesced and recuperated millionaires
sometimes marry the nurses who have
attended them; but such results usual
ly require beauty in addition to the in
fiTn9ri6S nf q
are too well trained in the use of good
sense to overrate their own charms,
| But this Mrs. Patrick, as persOnated
| by Laura Nelson Hall, is no nearer
to beauty than a huggable comeliness
| not at all an exotic flower, but just
a natural pretty growth; and so her
1 well-earned reward, a prosperous ply
| stefan for a husband. may reasonably
! seem to be within the possible reach
of any trained nurse who isn't SLOUGH
| in the sick room, nor an offense to a
mirror. So, with desire to put trained
nurses in the way of encouragement,
while regaining the strength lost in
one job to tackle another, I advise
| them to go to The Coming. of Mrs.
Patrick" if the play gets to their city.
| Last year, on the opening night of
| ''The Three of U.s." there came on the
stage, in response to enthusiastic calls
/ for the author, a young woman in neat,
! but plain clothes. She had been a
| teacher in a dramatic. school, a writer
of rejected plays, and a hard Garner OF
all the money that came to her. But
| 1.-THE Three of Us" was a right clever
| drama, breeZily western, wholesomely
human, and a brave variant from con-
ventionality. 1t may have turned in
1000 to her within the year, with as
much more coming. Why shouldn't
Rachel CTothers treat herself to hats
and frocks. When she faced her second
acted plays first audience, she was
most modishly CARRIED. Truth to tell
her own improved appearance wasn't
accompanied by a corresponding adj
vance in her stagecraft. 1t looked to
me as though, misled by success, she
had rejected all advice and gone astray
by OVERRIDING what she had done just
| enough in the earlier play.
Can I make my point instructive to
novitiate playwrights and interesting
to general frequenters of the theatre!
Miss Crothers wrote into 1.-THE Three
of U.s. a girl who broke her heart, and
all but endangered her soul, for a moth
erly sort of devotion to her two or
phaned boy brothers. The motive for
her seIf-sacrifice, observe, was sound
and sane as well as lovely. It was
sensible in Miss Crothers to seek safety
in a repetition of that dear martyr to
duty. And where could she find a like
lier exponent of abnegation than in a
trained nurse? So she sends Mrs. Pat
rick TO nurse the mother of the Law
ton family, to cheer UP the dispirited
father. to change one daughter from
coquetry to honesty and another from
crankiness to good nature, and to save
a drunken son from disgrace. 1t is q
rare jewel of a trained nurse who at
tends to those side issues while pulling
her patient through an operation-don't
you think so?
But in doing it she deliberately ex-