The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-25
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

New York. oct civilian Gillette
and Louis Mann have no feminine OPP
position In their temperatures here IN
new plays: nor is there any compeu-
ton between William and Louis; for
how could there be? Gillette is far
from the ablest American actor, but l
do believe he is the brainiest: for he
has wealthed himself by adapting roles
TO his personality. from his shift from
q college prOfeSsoTship to farcical act
ing in his own version or a comic farce
10 his Sherlock Holmes in gloritica-
ton Of the detective drama. He has
risen high in fame and fortune with the
aid (and friendship. l beleVe) OF
Charles Frohman. Not so well has
Mann done He used TO be on a par
with David Warfeld in the caricature
Of the humble vet shrewd. abject yet
asSertive Polish Jew in New York.
Both We're comrades with Weber. Fields
and Sam Bernard at the bygOne Web
erfields concert hail. Neither hated 50
much 10 talk about himself that he
wouldn't tell YOU that. although he
mightn't be superior 10 Booths and
Irving'S Shylock in their obsolete ways,
they merely awaited the opportunity 10
show their new. original and better
personatiOn Of the Jew that Shakes
peare drew i'm comedy which actors
have persisted in presenting traSically.
Well. Warfield fell into maSterful Be
lasCo hands that showed him forward
i'm The Music Master" and have held
him there despite THE Grand Army
Man." while Mann-whOm many adj
mirers of slow. exact. detailed acting
rank up with Warfeld-has but just
now come to THE Music Master sort
OF an opportunity in The Man Who
stood Still"
First. though. for William Gillette
and Samson" The play is not a dra-
matization OF the biblical strong mans
feat of pulling pillars out of placeand
rushing his enemies along with him
self i'm a falling temple. The hero IS a
French duplicate Of an American stock
lohber i'm that he has wrung and
screwed a colossal fortune from copper
mine stock He has worked and fought
his way from a stevedOre on the
wh0rveS 90 the boss OF the bourse: and
The most exquisite, luxurious. seemingly
valuable thing his money can buy is
an impoverished marquis beautiful
HauEhter. And there YOU are. The
Lady of lyons TO claire and the Iron
Master. and a hundred plays Of caste
between them, with high-born brides
sustaining low-born bridegrooms
awhile. bur finally doting on them. In
--'' .ANltlls the Olu way OL the
HuS9anl winning the wife by humble.
enduring. all-suffering love is not fol-
i'"ea Maurice BraChaTd is no Seuti-
mental Weakling. Having bought Ma
re Andeline. he demands that. al
"ousa she detests him so that she
Won .al him touch her. she shall not
.7, another man handle her Iewdly. So.
"Hru De- learns that she is going t.
>''hi @ night in a carousaL with Je-
rome L. Govain. he goes in for a hell
-Al-a. row. Don't let those French
names confuse YOU. 1t is only the IA
-.Aiar family triangle. without which
french dramatistS would lay down pens
'"1 write no more.
However. there is no staleness in the
,lir1 acts matter Maurice knows of
.iaFle.s eSCapade with Jerome The
samson fable ensues in modernity.
'te-Tlce has forced copper stock no 10
@ Jerome has begged and borrowed
Very dollar that he can TO add to his
..'esJment in copper If Maurice can
run the stock down TO coo in a day on
NE oourSe, II viii ruin that corrupter
"i ms bride. Also. it viii bring Mau-
.-7 down with crash. But didn't
samson kin himself in killing his enc
MES 50 win Maurice destroy his
''rS Sedu' or. jerome. although death
.-NeS 20 his own self. too That is
HomSon'S' big scene. Maurice has
telared disastrous slump in copper
ne invites Jerome TO midday lunch
w Jerome is drowsy and distraughi
after a night Of dissipation with Mau-
Llees Wife. Maurice is alert and eager
lot an astounding vengeance He fools
VITA jerome like cat with a mouse
ever purring. never scratching, until
-e"sooys are heard crying extras about