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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
SALT LAKE THEATRE.

Few if any of the home-lOving citi-
zens of America really and truly I'M
derstand, or for that matter have de-
voted any thought, to the methods used
by the police in some large cities in eX-
torting confessions from supposed Grim
inals. And for that reason, if for no
other, Charles klein's latest dramatic
success, The Third Degree" which
comes to the Salt Lake theatre tOmOr-
dow night for a week with Wednesday
and Saturday matinees, will prove a
revelation, and at the same time a gen
timely interesting evenings entertain
ment. Mr.. Klein's story is said TO be
intensely dramatic, beautifully human
and relieved throughout by a subtle vein
of brilliant and scintillating humor.
The author. Charles Klein, was on the
dock at Marseilles waiting to go aboard
a steamer for Egypt. Picking up a New
York newspaper, he espied an article
telling of the arrest on a murder charge
of an innocent young man, the scion Of
an old and respectable wealthy family,
from whom the police had wrung d false
confession after subjecting him 10 hours
of physical and mental torture. the
third degree" and thereby exhaustins
his energies to such an extent that he
became temporarily an imbecile and re-
peated, paTrOt-like, the words put into
his mouth by his prosecutors. From
this incident the playwright gained in
spiration for his play, The Third De
gree" and odd as it may seem. he was
in Cairo, Egypt, at SheppaTds hotel,
where he executed his work that has
already revolutiOnized the methods of
OVeF-ZealOus police officials of the
United States.
The tremendous scene at the begin
ming of the play, from which it derives
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

what she has done, and the stepdaugh-
ter does the most amusingly natural
thing that is done in the plays whole
length Furious with rage, the girl gets
to the telephone with a leap and
bound, rings up her mother and shrieks
into the receiver; shes slapped me,
mamma - she's slapped me - she's
slapped me"' The curtain knows this
is a time to drop, for it is sure to go up
again and down again many times be-
fore the audience stops making a jolly
noise.
That and other incidents of the family
row ir THE Intruder" would make it
go much better than it does if they
we're handled deity; but they are not;
md besides that, the actresses are not
uitable for their tasks. Thompson Blu
hanan created this stepmother for
race George, I believe; and the gentle
manners of the physically delicate
Grace would render the abused new
wife's outbreaking blow a stroke of VIC
tory for the comedy. But Janet Beecher
is a handsome creature Of vim, looking
quite able to take care of herself, and
so she is a mistaken choice. Then,
again, Adelaide ManOla, selected for the
stepdaughter, is like her mother, Marian
Manola, for saucy airs. and so she gets
no sympathy for the girls grievances,
where an ingenious creature would
make an Annie Russell sort of triumph.
As it is, Janet and Adelaide suggest
that they have been matched up for
fight with fists rather than a contest Of
wits. Here is an illustration of the fact
that, by picking out players who can't
help being in appearance what the au-
thor intended, conditions of success may
be created easily. / write this to let
you infer that l know more than the
managers do about their business.
Another point, and one on which
don't hesitate to give advice to authors,
is to begin a play explicitly as serious
or comic in its main purpose. and stick
to your choice. THE Intruder" seems
to have confused its writer with his own
cOmpleXity of plot. Besides the antipa-
thies of the wives, there is an old hatred
between the husbands; also, the son of
the one, acted by Cyril Scott, and the
daughter of the other one are lovers;
moreover, the second wife was once be-
trothed TO this chap now a wooer of her
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
ST PERFORMANCE OF ELENA RIVERS AT COLONIAL TONIGHT

Juan. who grabs all the pretty women
in "IncOnstant George" and an ola al
chemist who tries to acquire a young
wife in THE Girl and the Wizard"
As ever, the dramatists are telling love
stories.
If you were a girl passionately in
love with a soldier who went away to
war and was reported killed; II, in your
agony of grief you turned to religion
for consolation and took the Celibate
VOW Of a nun; if then your lover came
back alive and asked you to keep your
betrOthal to him-what would you do?
Such a case you may have real N The
White Sister" a novel written by r.
Marion Crawford with a drama in
view-obviously, now that the acting
version is on the stage. 1 marked in
the book the chapters which I expected
10 see practically unchanged in play,
and the selections We're so easily right
that I don't brag of them. And I
couldn't fail to name Viola Allen as the
actress in the authors mind for the
white sister: for hadn't she embodied
satisfactorily essentially similar he
roines of his and Hall Gaines? Likely
enough, he wrote the scenes Of the play
before he did a line Of the novel; and
maybe some of the important passages
"
cry; for how else could they have been
in print entirely suitable for stage use?
The potential episode is melodrama
straight and strong. The first and sec
ond acts have shown the white sister
on duty at a hospital, where her sup
posedly dead soldier lover is astounded
10 find her in the garb of a nun. Her
determination TO keep her oath as a
pious reCluSe has not been overcome by
his stubborn insistence that she quit
the order and marry him. Now third
act contains the melOdramatic outcome
and upshot of her heartbTeaking clash
between religion and WedlOCk Here
the interest is concentrated and height
ened by actors tremendously and effec-
tuaIly Old-fashiOned in handling the
old-style material.
Viola Aliens nun believed she was
starting for a leper colony to die in the
dreadful service Of nursing doomed eX-
lies. William FaTnum was the lover
who had her brought to his own apart
ment instead, intending TO coerce her
into signing a remuneration of her re-
Iigious oath rather than suffer infamy
as q nun seemingly caught in Illicit in
timacy with a lover. Minna Gale, once
Lawrence Barretts leading actress,
whe retired at his death to marry
wealth, and now returns to the stage
after fifteen years, was the jealousy
vicious countess who sent word to the
convent Of the abduction that looked
like an elopement. James O'Neill, for
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

ever and ever so long a popular Count
of Monte Cristo, was the priest who re-
sponded 10 the false friends call to the
rescue. Fanny Addison Pitt was the
nuns lay comforter. Could you name
five better American opponents Of the
dramatic methods that were more ap-
proved before the new era of natural
ism? They gave dignity to the suicide
that ends the story.
John Drew, the Uncle Jack to batch
of young Drews and Drew arrymOres
is showing them how to make farce
look like comedy And, too their old
Uncle Jack is giving an Illustration, in
'IncOnstant George" q won't say a
lesson, for that implies something to
be learned, and I doubt if his facility
can be acquired except by heritage) Of
an actor nearer 90 than 80 personating
with effectual illusion a lady-killer
nearer 20 than 80. DO you recall good
old Joe JeffersOn'S vain efforts to smear
of half his years as Rip Van Wrinkle
and Bob Acres? Drew's youthful buoy
ancy as the incOnstant George described
as having a dozen cravats on his neck
to one idea in his head, is wholly mat
ter of behavior. He dresses the fellow
with the same nicely that makes him
New York's model of mode off the stage
straight and close between numbers
one and three; no line in his face is
smOOthed out; not a hirsute trick of
bang or mOustaChe is played to lessen
the apparent size of his nose; he uses
no DTettying or Tejuvenating device Ct
any sort; yet all the same he suggests
by demeanor only a blithe beau with no
more than sufficient age or brains to
cast a first vote.
The Inconsistency of George is heed
less, reckless, the fOOleTy of a fellow
who lets no willing woman lack his
wooiEg-- 50 for as time and place permit.
but his trysts overlap, his love affairs
get tangled, and before the play is half
through, four rarely mOdish are en-
meshed with him-a wife a widow. a
maiden and a vaudeville singer who
doesn't care which of those three kinds
of women she is. George gets into a
funk of fright and runs away from his
amours.
Next comes the plays rare and ra-
diant disclosure. The maiden of the
enthraued quartette Chases Drew into
his hiding place to take him fishing at
daybTeak. As he is still asleep, with his
door locked, she comes in through d
The actress is pretty Mary
Boland. and for this escapade she has
come with feet and ankles bare in d
boys loose trousers Yet Mary is not
the sight I have mentioned. The very
exceptional human exhibit is John
Drew abed and then getting out with
pajamas on. One of BefaScO'S exploit
tatiOns Of Mrs. Carter was TO pose her
in regal bed, as Madame Du Barry, to
give audience to obsequious statesmen.
Those who paid homage to Drew, as the
inconstant George, were on the other
side Of the fOOtlights. and their curiosi-
" was proven by the general focusing
of opera glasses
Drew is in bed when the act begins.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

e Orpheum Theatre - Vaudeville
x al week, beginning tonigh-, with
~ matinees daily except Sunday.
- Colonial TheatTe-Emmat De- 8
e vav in "Dreamland' all the week,
- beginning tonight, with matinses
% Wednesday and Saturday.
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- Lady" all the week, beginning to 4
% light, with matinees ThurSl3 and q
q Saturday.
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- gree" all the week, beginning Mon &
@ day night, with matinees NYednes-
q DAY and Saturday.
g Grand Lovers Lane -
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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
BUNGALOW THEATRE.

The announcement that the ArinEto
Players viii present 1.-The Cowboylan
the Lady" at the Bungalow ali Eez
week. opening Sunday night, is one Iha
will be read with interest. It is a Ion
time since this delightful western Era
ma, which some are inclined to rank a
among the best Of the late Clyde Fitch
many plays has been given here, aid
has never been produced by a Zoe
company at popular prices. Mr.. Aims
ton viii give the play splendid mIlnt
ings and an adequate cast which cab
relied on to bring out 10 the full il
possibilities. Nat c.. Goodwin siore
heavily with this play, and is still pleas
antly remembered in it here.
John +. Incc viii play Teddy Ntrtl
the Harvard man who takes up abel
ing in Colorado and becomes known a
''the dude boss" from his love of teat
ness of dress. The part will suitI NJ
Ince, and there will be some eXCi lei
passages between himself as Teddytan
Bertha Creighton. as Mrs West,t Il
visitor, who VIII not accept him Il h
true value, but persists in regaSlin
him as a weaking. North has 20 pee
this and he even COnceals from PR
Weston the fact that he has saved be
life. In the end, when her husbaid
murdered, he suffers imprisonment an
faces a charge of murder for her LAX
believing that she has been goadj1 ;
the deed. His innocence is finally ejtat
lished. and he weds the lady aftei sF
has discovered the true manliGesi bt
meath a foppish exterior
Nudge. q little girl whom TeddyI Ia
Continued on page 4.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
THE Neutrality-suspicious. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SUNDAY OCTOBER g. 1909

go. he is sitting up now and the jack
ct section of his paJamas is visible. He
asks her TO go away, and lies down to
sleep some more. Next, she springs in
through the window, and he slides lazi-
~ out of bed. His pajamas are as
shapeiy full length as though fitted to
MIN by a tailor. de lets Mary and US
view him in his nighties about half a
minute. Mary says he is an azure
vision" He hastily puts Oh a chamber
robe that turns him into a gray dream.
His feet? They are in slippers. &c
must have shod them deity and slyly,
in the same motion of throwing his legs
out of bed. This is a nice point in the
comedy that Gladys Unger has cleaned
from the French with no dimming Of
its original briliiance, and I'm sorry
can't be explicit. 1 can pick a flaw OF
insincerity in the comedians art. He
wears stockings in bed. Mary scolds
him long and severely; not for sleeping
is stockings. though, but for his incOn-
stancy; and her fearless candor so wins
his love that he begs her to marry him.
That's what "InCOnstant George"
comes to.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

His head lies on the pillow with not
a hair disOrdered. His arms stretch out
over the quilt in light blue sleeves. A
knock at the door aTOUses him. Who's
there? Mary What's she want? To
take him fishing, to be sure, as agreed.
Well, he's changed his mind and won't
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

New York, Oct. Viola Allen, john
Drew and Sam Bernard have greeted
the Hudson Fulton celebrating visitors
with hands open for dollars in The new
guises of a nun who desires to break
her vow of virginity and take those of
a bride in The White Sister" COM
posite of Beau Brummell and Lon
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

doubt if a company ever went to bed
more cOntentedIy after a first perform
ance to wake up for a perusal of harsh
er condemnation. Each role had shown
excellent spells, you see, and these sep
arately were well received; and the ac-
tor who discerns anything in a play be-
yOnd his own part is one in a thousand
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

it's title, is a mOdernization of the i
flying ordeals and tortures to which
uOcent victims were subjected dit
the infamous Spanish Inquisition.
Fernando Eliscu. Paul EvertOn. /
colin Duncan, +. A. EbeTle, r.
Forseman. Alfred Moore. T. L. 1
man, A. II. SUMMONS, Ralph RAN
and Irene Oshier constitute the presE
ing company of THE Third Degrees
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stepdaughter: and the motives crisis
cross and zig-zag until the play doesn't
know whether it wants its audience to
grieve or to grin. A piece that might
be good is very rarely so bad and
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03
NINE. THERRY.

tercatiou; and when the younger tongue
goes beyond the reach Of speech to re-
tort, the older hand hits back with a
smack on the cheek. Then the step
mother quits the room in dismay at
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-03

The woman who becomes a second
wife while the mans first wife lives
around the corner with a second hUs-
band, and a young girl goes to and fro
between mother and stepmOther is like
iy to be called hard names, The title
of new play specifies her rather pO-
litely, though, as an intruder" The
intruding woman and the repulsing girl
agitate the talk until it comes to an al
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-03
BETSY CONCLUDES THAT
SHE is CLEAR OUT
Retires from Business in Blaze Of Glory While the Tender
Hearted Old Gray Haired Friends of Her Youth Watch Her
Lose Both Heart and Gizza rd

chinery turned to run the other di
rection and the result was the old
faithful juice wagon caught fire and
refused to bulge an inch toward
town where a possibility could be
entertained by Mr.. Owen and his as
sistant, Harley Bossler, of hiring the
fire department to shoot few
streams of water into the suicidal old
machine. When Motsrman owen dis
covered that his travelling companion
for many years had made a bonfire
of itself by refusing to hold the
string of cars back, he "hollered" fire
with all the force of his husky lungs
and would have guided the car off
oward the South Salem slough before
he could he have got her off the
track, but he was finally compelled
to "giv-er up and let the flames con-
tinue the scorching while owen and
Bossler stood alongside and witnessed
the last flame flicker out. When the
fire had subsidized Mr.. owen boarded
the car and attempted to move on,
but life was extinct, "Betsey" having
Joined the other cars on the golden
track. 1t was a case OF "Betsey and
| are out" and surely no one will re-
great the old girl bringing suit to the
boneyard, where the wicked cease
from troubling until the dumpyaSd
in Portland and gets so crowded the
company has to send some more of
the old derelects here for final in
terment. "Betsey" VIII soon be
showed under by those who come af-
ter her from Portland.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-03
AUMSVILLE
HAS A VERY
BUSY WEEK
Ladies Get Busy in Working
for Social Orders and
Generous Rivalry
StirS Town.

Mrs. Morrison, district organizer of
the Pacific Circle, w. of w, is IN
town this week enlisting new re-
cruits for that order.
The c. E. birthday social, held at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. X.
Winslow on last Saturday 9yonipg.
was very successful, netting over
$40. A large number were in at
tendance and report an enjoyable
time.
DR.. B. F. Pound and friend, DR..
Rudow, of Portland, came up from
Portland Friday, returning Monday.
Mrs. Geo. Brock and daughters
were visitors at the capital Tuesday.
a. L. Tucker returned from Salem
Thursday, having closed a deal
whereby he takes possession of 6
business interests here tn L. w
grocery business in North Salem.
Mr.. Tucker has disposed of his
Brock, who will continue the same. :.
The Missionary social at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Van Behren
last Wednesday evening was we'll at
tended, all reporting a good time.
Sherm Swank was Salem visitor
this week.
f. P. Talkington has sold his farm
west of town to p Beckman of War
rem, Ohio, who will take possession
at once. ~"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-03
COLD DAY
WHEN HE
GETS LEFT
J. E. Baker Goes to Upper Alas
ka to Buy FurS-The
Weather Gets a Triiie
Cold at Times.

Mr.. J. e. Baker, of Salem, left
for Fairbanks, Alaska today. He
goes there in the employ of the
Northern Commercial Co., of San
Francisco. Mr.. Baker goes direct
to Fairbanks, and from there 1000
miles into the interior with dog
teams. His principal business will
be buying up first of all kinds. Mr..
Baker says it gets little cold there
once in a while. Last winter the
thermometer went to rs degrees be-
low zero, and for three weeks the
warmest day was Sc degree below
zero.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-03

"Betsey," the old freight motor
own,si by the Portland Railway,
Light and Power company and 6per-
ated by that indispensable handler Of
Iightning-bug ozone. George Ofen,
become indignant and real skittish
at being pulled down hill by a string
of cars loaded with rock and her ma
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-03

of iPnk Tablets
congesonbood 20 25c Sold
somewhere. Shoop's Capital
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-07-27
Eads For Women,

A new design in a bureau or side
board scarf is of linen, hemstitched all
around, then hand embroidered.
The embroidery starts from the four
corners and is worked inward, forming
two very handsome ends. In the CEN
ter of the long sides a pretty running
design Is worked above the hem. 1t
measures IS by "a inches and costs
$3.50.
Hemstitched %pillowslips similarly en-
broidered are Of Irish linen, measur-
ing 22h by SO inches, and may be
bought for $1.65 per pair.
Burlap and craftsman's canvas are
much used for cushion covers, and
really beautiful effects may be brought
out with very little effort. A design,
conventional or otherwise, cut from
cretonne and employed with an en-
broidery stitch will make a brave
showing at the expense of little time
or trouble. Another good design equal
ly simple is of two peacock feathers
drawn diagonally across the pillow and
worked with mercerized thread in
natural colorings.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-07-27
Where to Put Plate Rail.

Where to put a plate rail In the din
ing room is not known definitely to
many people. 1t should be placed
about seven feet from the floor and
should match the woodwork and can
be wider or narrower, as 1t Is Intended
for holding plates or pitchers and tank
ards.
1t Is safer to have a grooved lodge
for plates, to hold them more firmly In
case of sudden Earring.
The fullest effect Of a plate rail, says
an authority, in the way Of decoration
is made from a careful selection of
what it Is to hold. Avoid a tumble
Of colors and overcrowding.
Blue in rich deep colors is most eff
fective, but with tan or ecru walls,
dark reds and ivory colored pottery is
lovely. With the brown paper now so
much in vogue for dining rooms, plenty
Of orange and light yellow plates and
pitchers on the rail give a needed touch
of color.
If possible do not keep articles on
the rail that are in frequent use. They
are apt to be broken In taking them
down.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-07-27
REVIVED MUSICAL ART.

Young Girls Are Now Playing the
Harpsichord and Clavichord.
Quaint musical instruments of a Pc
Rod preceding the advent of the grand
and upright pianos are being studied
now by the young girl who is bent ON
broadening her knowledge of music
and her powers of approaching the
compositions Of great masters. Gre
ators having reached the highest point
in the perfection of the mechanism
and tone of the modern musical instru-
ment and artists having learned how
to understand and enjoy masterpieces
through this medium, the time seems
to have come when real music lovers
revert, and willingly. too, to the days
of the tinkling harpsichord, the gentle
spinet and the well tempered CLAW
ichord.
The girl of today studies art, and
she learns quite a little about decora-
ton, so that she finds a great deal of
pleasure in planning the decoration Of
her own harpsichord or clavlchord If
she does not choose one already fin
ished. Genuine antiquities are rare,
and where special instructions as to
color and style Of case are not to be
considered a regulation style is offered,
one hat will harmonic in almost any
room and n hat is specially suited
to the study hall or school music
room. A plain enamel, not too dark,
with gold trimmings, is the most satis-
factory for general purposes, but where
one presides over a French sitting
room and music room combined her
the decorations Of the musical 1nstru-
ment should by all means follow along
the lines of the French Instruments.
The harpsichord is somewhat more
difficult to master than the clavicAurd
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-07-27
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