The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-15

Special to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Miss Ethel
BARRYMORE new comedy, "Lady
Frederick moved briskly and enter
tainingly at the Hudson theater, Mon
day night. Mr.. Maughan. whose Jack
Straw proved so admirable for John,
Drew, has IN this earlier comedy OF
his shown the same unhackneyed meth-
Cd of treating a hackneYed story as
Lady Frederick, Miss Barrymore ap-
peared as q happy go-lucky Irish gen
tlewomap of uncertain age, uncertain
morals, uncertain temper, but very GER
tain charm. For this last, certainly,
O Young Englishman falls madly III love
with her, and his relatives exert every
effort to save him from what they call
her clutches. How Lady Frederick her"
self deliberately disillusionizes her boy
ish admirer by revealing herself to him
at 10 o'clock in the morning, before
those artificial elements of feminine
charm, rouge, eyebrow pencils, adjust
able curls and whatnot, have been APP
piled proved TO be one of tue most
piouant scenes of the play. Lady
Frederick concludes by marrying the
boys uncle, an Old admirer, who knows
that Lady Frederick IS charm hes deep
er than rouge and rice powder,
In the portrayal Of the character Miss
BARRYMORE played with uncrring skill,
concealing under an apparent natural
manner the most consummate art. Her
| Indignation at the ungentle treatment
which she received from her young
! suitor's mother, and her repugnance
| for the sordid love-makine of pre-"
sumptuous creditor, were conveyed with
restraint and power tnat were de-
! lightful.
! Bruce McRae was admirable as an
! elderly wording. who claimed TO have
| reached the point where Glove, ambl-
tion and wealth fade before the glory
! of a well-erilled steak But he, like
Lady Frederick, had a heart, and their
mutual discovery OF that possession
made one of the most appealing scenes
! in the plny.
Paul Armstrong's new racing drama,
"Blue Grass produced at the Ma
! iestic theater this week not only
pleased, but proved that the public S
love for the thoroughbred has not
/ waned a bit, despite anti-racine legls-
lation. Mr.. Armstrong has not gone
| far from the beaten paths IN searching
| for a plot for racing plav. but 1T is
sufficient to allow of several dramatic
scenes and TO bring two love affairs to
happy conclusion.
The play takes its name from a
Young thoroughbred. Blue Grass. owned
by Colonel TAYLOR, q kentuckian q
racer he had bred. At the time the
play opens the colonel IS down to his
last cent and has n difficult time en-
tertaining even in the most unostenta.
tious manner his friends and those of
his young daughter. Virginia All is
staked on Blue Grass winning the han
dicap at Churchill Downs, Louisville.
Kelly. race horse owner. bribes the
starters assistant TO worry Blue Grass,
catch the horses bride and have him
stand ''fiat footed when the field is
sent away, Blue Grass is left at the
post. but is so much the best horse
that he wins by a nose.
Colonel Taylor's home was thus
saved, and all else should have been
we'll had not the colonel been informc
that Wilfred Warren, Virginia S suitor.
had given Old Folks, the Taylor s
family servant, money with which to
buy provisions when Warren and other
guests appeared suddenly at the Tay-
lor home The larder was empty :
the storekeeper had refused more credit.
Warren had been forbidden the Taylor
Home, but Old Folks cleared up the
situation, and Virginia led Warren back
TO her father.
Robert McWade, Jr., as Colonel Tay-
lor, was very effective, and George +.
Marion, as Old Folks, produced many
laughs. Miss Olive Wyndham was a