The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-28

contortlOns Of vulgar eastern ballet dane
ers; but / decline to accept her snake
eharmer as a priestess of the Hindoo re
ligion. In this character she handles
and fondles a long, fat lazy and prob
ably benign serpent; and at that don
think she likes it; for she wears clothes
now to her chin, toes and gloved fingers,
to prevent contact with the reptile. EX-
posture to chilly air and human stare may
be borne for religious arts sake-with
satisfactory remuneration; but the clam
my coil of a snake is different
Ruth goes into a forest for a climax OF
her show, and being in safe solitude,
strips herself more than ever before IN
religious ecStasy-a plous trance-during
which she alternates with slowly walk
ing in a circle and standing erect with
eyes and hands uplifted towards heaven,
her soul in a state of spiritual exaltauon,
and her body not caring rap what hap
pens. This account mustn't be taken for
ridicule Ruth St Denis exploit with
her beauty is so artistic and picturesque
that one scarcely realizes what it literally
is until getting away and thinking it
over.
A Labor Strike.
A labor strike is so commonly a
strife that Strife" is an apt caption
for an account of wOrkmen striking
against their employers. This drama
is the second original output at the
new theatre of the milliOnaires, yet it
presents with no bias or Partially
clash between wealth and toll. Indeed,
by making misery poignant in the
sympathy to them. All the same, the
audience claps hands that are soft
with the touch of nothing harder than
coined gold; and the applause is no.
where livelier than when the leader
of the strike violently denounces CAPT
talists. That the approval relates to
his mad harangue altogether is too
strange to be true, and think much
of it is meant for the vivid eharacteri-
cation of the agitator by Albert Brun-
ing. The opposing and contrasting
president of the company is embodied
by Louis Calvett with equal skill 1
have never seen play acted more &C
curately and effectually in every part.
A scene of pitiful suffering in a
strikers home has been written by John
Galsworthy with simple pathos and
not a trace of theatricism; and the IA
cility of three actresses, Beverly Sit
gTeaves. That's LawtOn and Beatrice
FoTbe Robertson, maSterfully con-
trolled, makes the double semicircle
of boxes look-with handkerchiefs dab
bling tears away-like feminine enthu-
siasm at a football game instead of
weeping sympathy at a play. This
passage, acted SO naturally that the
illusion of reality is perfect, is in
tended to show some of the needless
distress caused by the Obstinacy of ia
natics in capital and labor alike.
The presidents daughter brings food
and medicine to the agitator's wife, i'll
from privation and anxiety, and in
heart. The daughter first encounters
young woman of hot temper and
sharp tongue, who gives voice to the
rancor that the strike has engendered.
The wife is no such virago, but a pic
ture of weak woe, yet firm in devotion
to her husbands principles; for he has
forbidden her to accept any help from
wealth, and she obeys him, although
dying for lack of what the visitor begs
her to accept
The drama consists Of four Incl
dents between noon and nightfal of
one winters day during the visit of
the trouble at their tin works in an
Ohio town. The president dominates
the board. although ne is the only
member who wouldn't be glad to stop
a quarter Of a million and may bring
insolvency If continued any longer
They invite the strike leader TO con-
ference, and he comes with six COM
that will bring the wretche dness Of
thar families to an end; but they
stand ~ uneasy silence willie he We
hemently defies the directors, includ-
Thus the stubborn animosit!es OF two
men, coming into collision like fllnts,
strike fire again and threaten disas-
ter.
An Energetic Incident.
The most energetic incident is
meeting Of the workmen outside the
factory. The strikers wish TO COM
promise, but their leaders fiery elo-
quence fans the dying embers Of their
zeal to furious blaze again, and he
obtains the authority to defy the en-
ployers. The representation of q dis
orderly meeting, with the speakers
fighting their way to the doorsteps
that serve for rostrum, and the
others frantic with eissension, is such
stagecraft as used to be rare, bat IS
expected now. Just as the leader tri-
umphs, word comes that his wits Is
dead-killed BY the afrike