The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-04
THIS WEEK
AT THE THEATRES

9 'Hedda Gableri" Friday, SatUT- G.
(. day and Saturday matinee, .
. "COmtesse CoQuette." Z.
4: COlOnial.-AH week, matinees 9
9 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, .
@ THE Kerry Cow" g
q Orpheum.-AH week, beginning %
9 tonight, matinees daily, vaude- .
{: vile. .
9. Bungalow.-Au week, beginning o
{. tonight, matinees Wedner nd &.
z. Saturday. The Sl0,0e
8: Show" e
=, Grand.-Au week, beginning to- g
e, night, matinees Wednesday and Z.
9. Saturday, "A Runaway Tramp" o
. Lyric.-All week, matinee daily, 4:
e pictures. songs. ..
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who are sirens; and Robert Hill
Hard, who cant have lost his patience
more than his friends have theirs wait
Ing Tor his big opportunity, seems to
have got il in the character OF the
vampires victim. The layout of the
action il like this. A New York hus-
band. happy with his wife and child
goes to England on a diplomatic mis-
sion Of Importance. He meets the vam-
uire at the outset Of the voyage. We
don't see him during his stay abroad
but are told that he is bedeviled by the
ne has been recalled in disgrace by our
government for neglecting his duty. He
IS dominated absolutely by the evil
creature; and she has absorbed his
blood OF heart and essence of soul
YES. and vim of body, too-like a veTi-
table vampire f. stoned on the breast Of
q sleeping person; and he is mere
wreck morally. mentally and physical
Il. billiard does not shirk the artistic
= fs1lr inc "a
evades no detail OF AFFECT enthralment
by the wanton, dulls no point of the
woman's emascUlatiOn, and palliates his
matrimonial dishOnOr in no particular
but gives q bravely true depletion Of
the once upright husband as now
thoroughly despiCabls wretch. And all
the while a friend. who champions his
miserable wife, and strives to reclaim
the husband, is the plays likeable man.
Hurrah for Hilliard, say I, for putting
aside the actors love Of heroics and
choosing instead a duty to dramatic
art.
Don't take me to mean, in denyiTNc
Artist Burne-Jones and Poet Kipllns's
genius to Author Browne, that "A Fool
There Was" is a weak drama. 1t is
very strong in many respects. Its final
act in which Hiiliard stills the house
to pinfaH silence with q feebly resOlute
struggle TO get away from the wanton
and back to his wife, Is wonderfully
enRrossing. He IS q pitiable wretch.
who keeps himself alive with brandy.
The friend comes TO beseeCh in vain.
DeuunciatiOn is no more potent. VI
tuperation neither. Then the friend. IN
a fOrlorn hope to rouse the wretch 10
some of his former manliness, strikes
MIN in assumed anger. knocks him to
the floor. and kicks him as he lies
there. unresenting, unresisting and 0e-
cIarinE that he deserves II all his
child comes in. That reviVes the nus
hands pure love against his foul pas
sion The wanton enters, takes up the
little girl and is about to kiss her. That
rouses his sense Of decency ana ne
rescues his offspring from the pollu-
ton At last is he going to save MN
self from this beautiful ghoul! NO
T,eft alone with her again, she eXertS
her seemingly supernUman power over
him. The actress, Katherine kaelreo,
Is p stranger frOIu Australia; not
Young nor beautiful, Yet Of the tall,
sinuOus. dark type, to be suitable 10
the role. and a proficient artist, mas
been rehearsed to denote IN Weru, uii-
csnnv ways-by CTouchlng poses ana
darling moVements-by coolng eJacula-
tions that run into fiendish laughter
md embraces that quickly shift TO
gbo,,1isb erasps-until no one is sur
9~ieed to see him fall rfeless into a
low wide chair and she pounce down
80 min, like a famished vampire from
nor crave. TO feed on her victim IN
conscious on his couch. But he Is DEAD
ri. ,,,a, who is done TO death by a
---,,11ire woman in The Conflict is one
Of tbosa fools whom the adage says no
otbar fools are 1ike-an old TOOL. ana
ss mis- old fool is "a, while the killing
creature is a show girl three-quarters
of a century younger, you see wnat a
s,,,erlaF 3veIv idiotic and dodderlngly
ea15ila old fool he is He hasn't been
/ like that long. though; for up to halI
81 wear ago he was physically Wen
preserved man with the mind OF d pun
osopher unimpaired. We get acqua1ilI-
ed with him as verItaDie sage prone
TO cite himself as an example OF "hO4e-
come living. rewarded by almost a cen
t17ry of vigor for having wasted nei-
thor tine. strength nor money on
[-iclrad women. He has looked as abun-
dantIv white of whiskeTs as snake
sneare's frosty and wise POlOnlus and
Adam combined, and his teachings OF
| tarnDerance have been eloquently oracu-
liar such is Caesare Resapha before ne
| falls down TO a show girl whom inc
PLAYWRIGHT doesn't snow 10 US DuI "S
are told that she is no great shakes as
/ a professional beauty, nor extra en-
/ tranciug on her own personal account
! The truth is that old Caesare Resapha
wouldn't slump from wealth to poverty,
and from health to death, but that the
/ vampire girl is wished onto him undeT
! the following peculiar circumstances
/ Caesare is a business antiquarian his
store Is like a museum, except that ne
makes no charge for a sight Of his Gu
rios but sells them TO collectors az
prices that don't look like bargain
/ sale advertisements figures. In that
/ traffic he has made a fortune. He has
had q long while in stock. however, an
article that he can't sell. nor easily
/ give away. 1t is a piece Of Wild ass
! skin inscribed I'm ancient Arabic Win
/ the assertion that its owner may have
/ any wish grati1ed except for pro-
] foncation Of life: and that, at the gain
ling of each desire, the piece OF skin
{v-iu shrink and the wisher's term OF
| life will shorten. Caesare won't monkey
with that donkey hide for himself; but
/ at length ne finds a Raphael de Valea-
/ crrfa