The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-22

Is there also a Paul McAllister coterie,
and each is made UP of girls ready 10
! throw fondIy kissed flowers at their
| favorite This season there is only one
stock company in Harlem. with Meal
| lister for its leader, and Kelley lS-Or
has been I'D to now-left 'out of sight,
out of mind" unless the other aolSe
| is truer that says absence makes the
heart grow fonder." Kelley isn't m
! clined to test the endurance OF MS 1ol-
Lowing unduly, or to neglect too long
the filing of his purse; so he makes
A touring star actor of hiIpself for a
| three weeks round of theatres at the
Harlem end of the town. That has
enabled me to take a dose OF theatrical
naivete for the relief OF sophlsucatlon-
l found myself in an audience when
carried me in memory back to the
DAYS when the idolatry of actors was
ecstatic in Broadway.
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Incidentally, a new plaa by George
c Hazelton, 1.-The Craftsman, IS
brought out by Kelley; and would you
| think if wise in an adulated hero 10
make-believe, with audiences prone TO
attribute in reality the assumed quail
ties of his role, to present hlmsen III
the character of an unrepentant ana
| unregenerate burglar? Kelley knows
his girls. though, and they hail him
/ with a suatting of gloved hands and
a fluttering of scented handkerchiefs,
when he appears by night at the WIN
! dow of a residence, cuts out d pane OF
/ glass. and enters with dark lantern
in one hand and a pistol in the ether.
He doesn't overtaX their loyalty
though, by making up as the Ordinary
stage housebreaker, with an unshaVeh
lie
but wears the clothes of Fifth ave-
nue. beau, has gracefully polite man
ners. and talks grammatically-but not
morally in as much as he demands
from an old man his money or his
life He doesn't get any cash on TINS
draft, however, because the household
er is a banker ruined by last autumn 5
financial furry: and as for that par
tvs life. why, he is about TO destroy
it suicidally anyway. Thus. you per
ceive Hazelton has created the compli-
, cation of a robber threatening to take
the life of a man who is about to
throw that same life away. Do KEEL
Iey's Harlemites take any account OF
that dramatic oddity? Nope. They
are engrossed in their first view of
their stage darling as craftsman.
What will he do? That's the para
mount question.
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This play is not reDlete with origin
atty Its craftsman does what many
! a craftsman has done before him-on
| the stage. Sometimes it has been a
: trustful child who toddled in upon the
! thief. and by her baby charm defect
ed the criminal from his purpose; and
sometimes a brave maiden has done
missionary work, mingled with tact
! full coquetry, to change the burglar S
! ind 10 ha hIIf q 10
: person who turned his purpose from
evil to good was clad in her nightrobe.
: The nightie, especially as idealized by
its stage wearer. has ever possessed a
. wonderful potency in Transforming a
murderous robber into a courteous
gentleman. Doesn't this give prac-
teal hint to girls in real life? -@-Why
not wear frilled, laced and In all pos
sible ways beautiful nightgownS as a
means TO molIify burglars? I don't in
clude solid matrons in that question,
| because-well, never mind.
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: In THE Craftsman" It is the fair
daughter of the household who has the
sentimental interview in a nightgown
with the robber in modish clothes. He
: is William ]. Kelley, don't forget, and
all the girls in the auditorium are with
him; so the girl on the stage gets no
great credit for making him feel like
: saving the impoverished family S
! father from exposure as a defaulter
3 by robbing his rascally enemy of $25,-
900, and making it a free gift to her.
OF course, the daughter falls in love
with Kelley. although he is a cracks
man and glad of it; but hardly think
she is recommended to the feminine
hearts of Harlem by that fact, as l
fancy they are jealous of her on ac-
count of the probability that she will
) get him for husband. The play ends
5 indecisively as to that, and with KEEL
l. ley still devoted to, his profession of
burglary. I'm not SO sure that the
girls wouldn't rather go home think
ing of Kelley as a wicked bachelor
/ than as a moralized husband.
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/ Now that I have dropped you down
1 from high dramatic art to the sordid
business in the craft of the stage,
will take you, if you pleace, to a
? Broadway vaudeville theatre. II will
= be of no use to go to the ticket win
: dow. All the good seats unsold are
being haWked by q dozen peddlers on
I the sidewalk. 1t costs Sc to place you
/ and myself in the third row of the or
2 chestra, instead of the advertised 81
per chair The rise in price is caused
by clever device. you can fool
/ some of the people all the time, and all
f the people some of the time, but not
/ all the public all the time" said Abra-
ham Lincoln, or p. T. Barnum, or
D was it Barnum's advertising agent