The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

BY hRNhLlN ] Ito
New York. May 2S.-Love is a game
of chance. Adages have said so through
the centuries. Ancient and modern his
tory has so recorded it in thousands Of
celebrated cases. You may have played
IL Yourself with a loss to impress its
uncertainty upon you. Therefore, when
] went TO "The Game of Love, know
ing that the author was that FREDERICK
Nariani who married an artistic daugh-
ter of the political progressiOnist,
Mayor Tom johnson of Cleveland, I ex-
pected TO see played a love game as
much advanced from the stagecraft of
nav boyho0d as bridge whist is from
seven up. In agitated expectancy,
awaited a novel layout for a new game.
with cards unique, or dice peculiar, OF
some other implements singular. Alas,
Il was not so. Alack, it was nowhere
near like that.
No stranger is the bachelor who
stretches out his ardent arms to so
many maidens that he can't offer his
hand for marriage to any single one.
Sometimes, too. he reaches fuTthest for
wives. preferably those Of his friends,
and how then can he become a husband
To one of his sWeethearts? New York
had once a fondly regarded stage beau
in p. j. Radcliffe. OF recent wears he
has acted elsewhere. Now he returns
iu THE Game of Love" He is a paint
er of soulful pictures, and seems de-
teTmined 20 make a harem of his studio.
Oriental sensualists lodge. feed and
Clothe their slaves of passion. This
Americans thrifty method is to have
them come 10 him after breakfast, and
60 back home in time for dinner. get
ting from him tea and cake for lunch
con. But that is a detail Of stomachs
not matter of hearts.
4 \
At the opening OF the play, it is said
that the mans concubines have been
numerous. Those in the current affair
are a former friends wife whom ne is
throwing on, a present friends wife
whom he is taking on, and a maiden
whom he is just beginning to eompro-
mise. His dates get confused. his sub
Jeets grow jealous, and he is kept Jug
glng with the truth like a contugal
Lar IN a French farce. But this is no
!oFlai play 1t is as tragic as a bullet
can make it by wOunding without kill
4g Inc hbertine, He is putting a dear
friends wife into a cab to take her to
MS studio, when a pistol sends a bit of
isao into him. The woman runs back
INTO her house before the police take the
"le-grabber to a hospital.
Who fired the shot? The woman's
hlsoand2 The audience thinks SO
s"hle. But he hadn't done it. Then
S4e brother Of the tempted maiden
~ayoe' for she was ready to throw her
sen away on the bachelor. That the
~ Is disprOved, though. and the police
.an learn the truth: but the author
80 II 70 the audience when he gets
good and ready.
VIE Lillian and Maid Mildred. sis
Se.s-in-iaW, are in hot and jealousy
.'-selal lace 10 the goal of dishonor,
, e''1 d the time Of the shooting Mildred
"al1lills out for Lillians final lunge
yin WY may not the girl have
oeen the shooter2 Again. no II vs.
L-ah Who fingered the trigger-the
49,. o,-'u OF a Josephine, already men,
49, as recent acquisition by the
friends. 'ie WIVES VI MS
me Game OF Love" is a cemosv
ana -a Alidred. an emotional drama. with
,--lian and a tragedy with Josenbine
s.s..59S d pay OF detectives and ciFcum-
Nan ~, q i4eAce. IL is ingenious in its
-. 1-l scope. Butch. butt is
.U1en and constructed So anna te,5risr-
c.. ss 70 get not even the scant anpre-
c- -, zen que, and all the scorn bestowed
'~ theatrical fascos.
drama with the c,rrsn+ than. -
u-sfb,,s "a si--sl wealth in love. vet in the
ua7y ~ ~ us making unlike any OF the
s1r5i5 -- plays on the subject of
by 10 -'i ny, has been presented
to- ",oert Mauteu as a weeks vs-ie :
- rom his mostly Sbakesneo 80,
f5. .S The penultimate act rms
Ans ms Manteu in the cbarsc+sr 80
bas .-In sculptor turns ont thres go
H. at sell for several tbo,,ssv,5 ~
so,5,.al-u with that he goes into $50 =
tor y,. 20 enjoy the pleasures Of nlauCit
Bo,-L ~ while. He encounters Nfarie
sr,v- t'4ssell-reauy his wife ~,
o-r--. o-l III the play an beiress ~ .
hs- ~ rarely sufficient 10 caDi+aIizs
ns-- -Ae quest Of a millionsirs -
b IN L-1anteA loves Miss Booth fiar-e-
soss h. IltAe-believe. as dofbtlsss he
shs - e1etlallty, and he tells bar 81
oh n nm quite as madlv. hut is
has ri,,."1ts MIN know it. because sbs
F,h 49, out an old man OF money
Tas- - = TO 90 into matrimony.
De ara ne sentimental condition NJ
Fylpto- w. |hen the wholesome Young
IN vis,, .,. iu The corrupt old million
eaea Ia ,ts heiress on the same after
- mean ne. .- marriage. Miss Booth
saatsl an. 10 De cold enough to freeze
Pets Be- IT, out the heat Of his love
lln hs- -1S surface, and out comes
III, Ho,- --e--rt flood OF molten PAS
9'sl' she has had bad ex-