The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-22
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

BY FRANNLlN 7 Leo
New York. Nov. 2O.-Three women are
doing odd new things at the theatre this
week Mrs. FiSke. most Whimsically
Intellectual of our famed actresses,
starts in Salvation Nell' as a scrub
woman in a groggery. Miss Duncan,
the artistic progenitor of the hundreds
Of bare-legged dancers, makes use of a
grand opera for the music and the es-
teemed DamrOsch symphony orchestra
for the musicians. in a new display OF
her denuded grace. Mrs. Fuji-KO IL
Illustrates sirenic japanese pantomime in
The Vampire Cat" Thus we see an
Gent Grecian and Asiatic poetry of mo-
ton in modern reproduction, along with
a dramatic study of a slum woman In
New York today.
Mrs. Fuji-Ko's human vampire cat
and Miss Duncan's Grecial woman with
no scratching claws in her soft feet,
must stand back-for despite their art
they are doing stunts-while I describe
Mrs. Fiske's scrubwoman, a dramatic
achievement that is high in art though
low IN material at the outset. Most ac-
tresses accustomed 10 look their best
are loath to make themselves ugly slat-
terms. The usage is 10 cut the cheap
clothes ~ jaunty shapes. to preserve
the outlines of a neat couture in tous-
ling the hair. TO show white hands and
wrists that ought to be chapped red and
70 never. never disfigure the face. AS
TO Mrs. Fiske-but first about the stage
setting for the initial third of saliva
ton Nell IL is an inCOngruity in New
Works sections Of utmost squalor. that
people who lodge and eat IN wretched
teuements may lounge and drink in
beautiful cages at an expenditure at the
bar OF. say. a dime per hour The floor
is tiled, the ceiling frescoed. the walls
wainScOted with marble. the windows
and doors paned with cut glass and the
bar respondent with polished and orna-
mental glassware.
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The GROCERY In the HeH's Kitchen
sum, as shown in this play. might be
real as vel as realistic. and the men
ana won en- IN il might be actually the
lSdIures lney purport to be. for all the
laws IN imitation disceruibIe under
plsnt electric lighting. AuC of all the
characteristic objects. alive or Iifeless
none IS less like a counterfeit than Nfrs
lskes Nell. the OutcaSt who cleans the
moor mat drunkardS have fouled 7 SIM
pose II Is she, too. who controls the as
poets and activities Of the thronging
customers; and for fidelity II is nboDo-
~Fdphlc and Photographic Nor does she
SHRINK from participation in the show
ing OF dreadful depravitv in thar saloon
atlhough she Is passive in it most Of tbe
tIAe- Her words here are few. but she
SpgdAS Them clearly. without the STAG
'dl' SURFING that often mars her elo-
I"N'H- Drunken men and women ca
-'-Se ana hight. swear in their slang
@'-o 'he revelry is Of the coarsest sort
T.-g oi me upSy women is white-haired
I'm 4Se. A girl who dashes in. having
luCeo tne police in . raid AT a neigh
Ing odgniO. Is a bedizened travesty
" me lady in a decolette toilet from
I'LL Jim Platt. a drunken rowdy. en-
3D. III q literal way by HoIbrook
'.-l' is NeH's master. She is a fond
-seIlai, faithful and brutaIly abused
ramon. In n defense of her how
l,eI' ne Kills a lOafer who scorns her
a. scrubber, and that climaNes the
vgt non OF the play that is in a HelI's
Nells lover goes to prison and Nell
= ready TO go to the gutter bur bet
Ter impulse takes her TO a salvation
Army barrack. Time flies eight years
between acts, and when next the felon
ana the audience see her she is as good
salvation lass as she looks to be. She
mas saved herself from sin and shame:
IS living neatly with her child born OF
her vicious ignorance. and is working
10 rescue other women. The released
wretch tempts her 70 join him in their
Old ways OF wickedness, and she is al
red almost 10 the extent of yielding