The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-15

New York, Nov 13.-It is easy to be-
Neve that Charles FrOhman, having
made stars of John Drew and William
Gillette Maude Adams and Ethel Bar
rvmore. may assign any one of them to
almost any role that his judgment
chooses. Mind that word almost"
though. for if this were the year of our
Lord 1924. and of Ethel Barrymore 40,
instead Of 1908 and %, I doubt not that
Ethel would pout. if not weep, at pre-
tending TO be the 81 ascribed TO her in
Lady Frederick" As it is, however,
Ethel is willing, and here is why. The
heroine Is stale with a lover fresh, but
by tricks of toilet she makes herself
look not much older than he
Now. If Ethel Barrymore were as
old in fact as she purDorts to
be IN this fiction. would she
willingly reveal the means by which
the age of the heroine. is dyed and
bleached. painted and powdered down
0ne-third? l can't think so. Actresses
are women and art go to the deuce. But
with Ethers beauty still young, and fif-
teen years to be added 10 her looks by
makeup instead of taken off, why
should she object TO the task given to
her? 1 guess she is glad TO get it.
X
This new play is not peculiar in hav-
ing crescendo of interest up TO a eli
mako third act, but in stopping happily
without the usual diminUendo fourth.
Ethel Barrymore, as an Irish maiden
lady old enough to have had a career
Of various gaieties. not amounting quite
10 the moral laXities commonly as
cribcd to her. has unwittingly got the
love ofSa boyish fellow. The articles
v-h fnT he 70
Young as he are alluded to: but didn't
everyone in the first audience ION, such
an audience. with its carriages cloggine
the block and far around the corners),
know that what was declared to be
rouge, powder and pigment on her face
was no more than her own facial love-
lmess merely prepared for the foot
shts glare? Ethel is a wonder, let
me tel you. She is a welcome guest
with the ltra-fashiOnable New York
loik ana hail fellow with chosen boz
nemians. I'm not booming her reck-
leSSly; for 7 don't rate her as the &C
Ltess that the granddaughter of Mrs.
IohA Drew and the daughter of Maui
rice Barrymore and Georgia Drew
ought 10 be, but she is the pet para
u.o.hl OF tie all-alive and an-knowing
uoh OF New York. So to Lady
'eueilekS' initial houseful of people
was Jovial pleasantly t. see their
E'hei pretending 10 have swiped and
'''oIeu nIteen years off her age.
x X
Inc story ran along 10 point where
.aay Frederick felt in honor bound "a
sSehchant her boyish lover. His in
EQUATION was so absolute that Ills tact
.1i mother and shrewd uncle strOve in
laiN To MT him out of it. and as for the
gV"l4h' she kept them guessing what
-9 would 90 with him. What she die
was 10 bid him come TO her at II
CLOCK on the morning after his pro-
lS'a OF marriage TO get her answer
N''r hsu looked her artificial best that
''eAing, and he had no thought Of heI
~ ms senior She meant TO show her.
S' 10 him so genuinely that the shock
W ClSllIuSlon would revolt him. That
n - me plth and point of this comedy by
" somerset Vaughan. He is the
--.ls llSnnan (cal him Maum. if you
"uuld De London right who has gOtter
e1uuen adulation over there as a dra-
-eaLc genius in excelsis- Truly, LADY
-LglerlcK Is bright achievement IL
a Illlcial comedy, With every charactel
talking in epigrams-a play captivatins
ne mind but not touching the heart
bruce McRae is in it closely resembling
lls uncle. Sir Charles Wyndham. il
looHs and manner, and Jessie Milward
o ~, long London association with vii.
. IAN ierriss. to uplift it toward higl
theatrical art.
vi course, the idea of a woman bring
-us Gown boy from rhapsody to com
mon sense IS old She has been Otter
81 actress enacted by an actress OLE
Suough 10 look the part. from Mrs. Sid
uoI.s IN Peg Wellington" dow=a 60 Vir
Sinia Harmed in The Idol of the Hour.
VAUDEVILLE playlet described by M
only a month ago. And that's the gis