The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-06

travesty of the title. She purports to
be a pupil at a school secluded on an
island in the Mediterranean sea. Men
are shooed off and Anna, having been
there since babyhoOd. has never seen
one of them. Maidenly innocence
through absolute ignorance is timeworn
from stage repetition. Not longer than
Marguerite Clarke was such an un-
knowing creature with De Wolff Hop
per in an extravaganza: but have you
ever seen what a phenomenon of I'M
sophistication Marguerite looks to be?
If so. set her up in your mind for con-
trast, as you recall Anna asking you
TO come and play with her, or telling
you that she can't make her eyes be-
have. The academy's grounds are
througed by school girls in white frocks
on graduation day. Anna comes among
them and soon is lest alone to he in
truded on by the Charles Bigelow of
hair minus and nose plus. She asks in
wonder what he is. A man, he says. He
holds her hand, encircles her waist,
kisses her mouth, and she inquiries why
he does such things; also, why she likes
them with her eyes shut better than
when she looks at him.
The Lawrence D'OrSay, who doesn't
have to make up for a handsome Eng
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crawl, is the second intruder. Anna
exclaims that if Bigelow was a man,
D'Orsay isn't The same sort of thing
couldn't be so different. She is patted
and Rugged by D'Orsay, like Bigelow,
but as TO kissing her. he won't do that,
because it seems too much like taking
candy from child. Now, all this while,
Annals eyes are misbehaving, and she
is tempting the fellows 10 play with
her; and when they grow fond she says
TO the audience in a song, Please tell
me what they nlean," and in another, Il
want to be naughty" / don't believe
there is any actress more amusing to
some folks. or less to others, than this
same Anna Held: and TO another por-
ton of the public she is piquant, unique,
audacious, a curiosity, neither liked nor
disiiked. In her present assumption OF
a know-nothinS girly, this woman with
a know-all aspect is a rather funny lit
tie joke.
Anna and some of her schoolmates go
to Paris for a vacation. So does the
schoolmistress, whom Emma Janvier
makes the usual man-grabber- The
stage is set spaciOusly for the Abbaye,
one of the newer Partisan resorts of
past-midnight gaiety. Anna Held's
opening nights in New York are society
functions; oh. my. yes: quite as much
as the big occasions at grand opera
with certain differences, for. although
double lines of carriages reached around
the block at Miss Innocence" the rise
into the Smart Set wasn't higher than
the sink was low into the Swift Set
What / mean is. that the theatre was
crowded to excess by men with Wo-
men who wore the costliest of clothes,
and tie asSemblage as a whole was
representative of Gotham's very live
Hest life all alive
As each relay of chorus girls entered
the Abbaye. headed by several beau
ties of the show girl grade, the leaders
were recognized and vigorously ap-
plauded by their acquaintance out in
front These celebrities were gOwned
and 5eweIed eXtravagantly. Some of the
stage pictures might have been photo
graphed from mansion dinners. recep-
tons or balls of Fifth avenue. so far as
the shapes and textures of apparel
went. Mixed in with the quite correct
clothes were eXaggerations of sheath
gowns so snug OF skirts that. when one