The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-31

to her maid: Come, doll me up the
prettiest ever I'm going to hit it again
at Rector's."
Frances Hodgson Burnett has created
a. stun girl, the sweetheart Of a burglar
accused of murder, for Eleanor Robson
to become in THE Dawn of Tomor-
row." and this girl with tangled hair
and garb of squalor is marked for I'M
morality by a millionsire's prohigate
son: but Mrs Burnett and Miss Robson
have not been led by examples to ex-
plot q wicked heroine. Rather have
thew been attracted by the trend OF
drama toward mental phenomena; for
this waif Glad of London streets IS q
Christian Scientist. Seemingly weak
and hazy in her curative science; she
knows only that it consists of wishing
hard" that more wrong things may
come right; yet her occult power OF
purity and faith cures one lover Of
thieving and the other Of RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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Also. Glad saves a man Of wealth
from idiocy and death That is the sa-
lent thing indicated in the title Of THE
Dawn of a Tomorrow" Sir Oliver Holt
is told by mental specialists that he is
doomed to paresis. He would rather
die quicker and while still sane He
goes to an obscure lodging to kill him
self There he encounters Glad, VINO
has caught the Christian Science idea
while i'll in a hospital Incidentally,
Miss Robson makes her a slightly cres-
ture, though unkempt, and remark
able girl to be found in a center of mis-
cry like Apple Blossom court. set TO
the whole width and depth Of the stage
with scenic realism and thronged with
"a =f md Of NJ
ity She talks with the accents and
idioms of the East End: she is a fiery
scrapper when her temper is tried but
she interests Sid Oliver in her doctrine
of "awskin' an awskin' TT wot you
oughteT have an you'll git it; also, in
efforts TO better the condition OF his
sdualid neighbors, and to his amaze
ment his own malady disappears. So
Mrs. Burnett's play is cheerfuliy Opti-
mistic in contrast with the grim pessi-
mism of Mr.. Walters and Eleanor Rob-
sons tatters covering purity are in
wholesome opposition to Frances
STAIRS fine clothes adjoining depravity.
There is no call for comparison, how
ever: for the mans drama is robust
with hard truths and the womau's gem
tie with softer ones: and one viii sp-
peal to one set Of people and the other
to another. Mrs. Burnett has written
again in the manner Of THE Little
/ Princess" and Miss Robson has a part
not unlike the one she had in only
Mary Ann"
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| A ShOwgirl is a distuTbant in Kitty
I Grey 4 singing and dancing comedy
| from London. I don't remember what
her name was in the first English YER
/ sion of the French farce which. entitled
Founders" made some Of our people
ashamed OF our stage; but recall that
she was an outright bad one and glad
/ of it. That was ten years ago. and We
have advanced thestricaily both up
ward and downward. Kitty now, as
| then. is an actress with enough Of
charm left over from public use for
I private deviltry; and the principal
place of piquancy still is her dressing
room; but what happens isn't shocking.
partly because such plays as The
Easiest Way" have relieved our BASH
| fitness and partly because in Kitty
Grey the Incidents are not indecent
! though in1modest. A giriish wife comes
to the actress for help to get her hus-
| band back from a Jezebel. The actress,