Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30


hlluseis turns Up. without warning.
SOMEONE has cAbIed him domestic
tiN
with Glaydes appearance there is a
CESSATION OF tleyci- talk aNd we yet
down IN business. tIe sizes up' Leroda
instantly, and asks him For 4 private
Interview on the morrow. When the
others are gone, nc pleads Ior his wlte's
love- He has been TOO busy atrasslnS
hg millions, but Is pulling out of bis
.ltssls" even OF moment wI,cn there
n Il great iigift on that lie may devote
himself to the little woman he has never
cpASed to care for '"rud late,N she says.
lie has sacrificed her love. and must
hoein all over again Also there Isn't
room for him IN her new flat and ne
mrst spend the night nt his hotel.
Even the touch of his hand on her arm
~ evidently reDulsivc to her,
IN the NEXT act Glayde Is AZ his hotel,
torn between his domestic difficulties
and the cables apprlslng him OF a ri.
val's raid on his stocks. He takes on
heth--~dictating cable messages, inter-
viewing guests Of the last nights din
ner party aud quietly picking IN from
them sslch Information as lie needs
concerning l-eTOde. and dealing with his
London agents over the long-distance
telephone. When Lerode arrives,
Cslayde is ready for him. The portrait
OF AlfS, tsLHy WP UlAtsI IttIlilll utllitllShSpf
I.etode must undertake. never to see
her again. The artist revolts- He WIN
see Mrs GiIayde as often as he likes
until she herself SKIS him TO stop cal
ling. Gayde is called away for q few
moments to the Par'A-London tele-
phone. and bids the artist think 1t over
while lie Is gone,
And here tho audience is taken by
surprise. We had supposed Mrs
GlAyde's affair WAS little Irritation
But she has been lurking in. an adj
Joining room, and when Glayde leaves
she flies to Lerodc's arms, She bids
him lie to her husband and promise
that he VIII never see her asalin,,
otherwise she is certain Glayde VIII
kill hin They Will fly together that
very night to che little French towns
they have secretly visited so often be-
fore IT goes against the grain tor
I.erode to agree TO this lies but ne
Yields for the wofnan's sake. AS she
starts back to the door through WHICH
she has come. an arm appears and
the door Is softly closed from the
other side 1t is Il poignant lpoment
Whose arm was it2 Glaydess2 the
woman tip-toes over and peers
through, No one is visible, ana sne
goes out as her husband comes IN
through anoth ~ door The audience
is as much in 1ouht as the guilty pair
and we all watch fslayds bSeathlessly-
But he goes ON more calmly from
where he left on. He suspects notn-
ing, LerOde swallows hard. tells his
lie, and departs. Mrs. Glayda comes
in and expresses surprise to hear that
I.erode has been there, She laughs az
her husbands suspicious When she
has gone GIayde's old servant brlngf
a card for Mrs. Glayde. He says, IN
whiting OF the import OF his WORDS
that he didn't give It TO her before be-
ka Nt.l.s fa Ing y-ifh NV -
rode, and apparently dldn't wish to- be
disturbed, so he had closed the door
and withdrawn till she should be at
liberty. 1t is obvious to Glayde that
his wife and Lerode have He'd TO him,
AS the act closes. he turns resoluteIy
10 his cables, but the words fail ana
The curtain falls on a man tortured
to the limit of endurance,
In act LII, Glayde has pulled him
self together and confTonts his wife
In her flat, as she Is packing tor the
elopement She Is defiant; yes, she
lied to him, It was TO save Lerode.
Glayde is so quiet and grim THAT she
that he means to XIII her lover% She
throws her arms around her husbands
neck, begs his forgiveness promises
never 10 see the artist again. says she
loves her husband, and will start on
the morrow on new honeymoon with
does the audience We are apparently
10 have commonplace reconciliation,
and everybody is TO be happy ever
after Mrs Glayde has excused her
self TO make promised CALI and
Cilayde In his new felicity makes all
sorts of delig htful new resolutions to
the end that his wife shall be happy
[ His private secretary PUSHES in--he
| has seen Mrs. Glayde drive straight for
I Lerode's studio, and has learned that
they are going 10 elope Instantly
Space fails in which to indicate the
adroitness with which Mr., Sntro has
prepared for the last great five min
utes OF the play In Lerode's studio. We
see the artist packing for his flight,
and already beginning TO half-regret
The pictures and the life he IS to leave
behind. a cynical friend tells him
of the time when he too eloped with
another mans wife. She bad spent
half the time asking II he still loved