The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24

was cold. So her wOuld-be successor
pulled off her shoes and stockings and
packed the frozen feet in snow. Broad
way stood up. All this happened on
the floor of the stage, Obscured by foot
light guard, and Broadway wanted to
see what sort of feet were being worn
in the far north this season. 1t is a
point upon which neither Cook nor
Peary-nor even Henson-is clear. The
iady's feet were a few shades lighter
than her maroon plush. Indeed, blush
rose stockings Of the shade with which
the actress sought TO deceive US may
De purchased at any of our department
stores, north OF south. There was no
deceit, however, about the feet of an
Eskimo dog. His leg was supposed to
have been broken by the sled Of
cruel driver. Our great-hearted hero
carried him in across his shoulder and
laid him on the floor 10 bandage his
leg.
The dog was a most alluring brute
and, his dramatic scene being also on
the floor, Broadway stood up. He
played his part very we'll. lying quite
still while the man broke firewood and
tore cloths TO bind the fracture And
he was carried away to vast applause
That was only just. as he turned ont
TO be the real hero Of the play. The
only witness who could testify that the
man-hero did not kill the wife who saw
his griddle cakes was the former master
of the dog. So the canine actor was
sent to track him over the SHOWS and
bring him TO the trial just in the nick
of time.
How much do you know Of Dickens?
Not what have you read and forgotten,
but what have you remembered? Do
you recall his Little Dorrit at all? If
yes, can you place the girl in the cir
cumstances that the author created?
Had you put those questions to me be-
fore l saw the new comedy of 1.-THE
Debtors" I would have confessed the
ignorance of forgetfulness. So YOU
won't feel insulted when I remind YOU
that Dickens book of Little Dorrit'
was cut at British official red tape in
what he nicknamed the decentralization
office, and that the case he made out
was the grieVOus one Of William Dor
rit, a landed gentleman shut seventeen
years in a debtors Jail waiting for
lazy. lame and obstinate blind Justice
TO set him free. His seniority i'm the
prison gave him the title Of Father of
Marshalsea; and now it comes back to
you-doesn't ft?-how his jailed COM
panions were ObsequiOus to him. how
from them, and how you laughed and
wept over the poor old fellows false
pride and real humiliation And now
darling Little Dorrit, who kept house
for her father in the prison, humored
his silliest whims and dotted even on his
selfshness which he thought was pa
rental love. is with you again-isn't
she?-with all her gentle self-efface-
ment.
Well, some sugar has been taken out
of Little Dorrit. and some ginger put
in, to make her a heroine for "The
Debtors" She bosses her father while
coddling him, gives cuffs to her misbe-
having brother as well as kisses. and
isn't so mindful Of her father as to for
get herself entirely-for she cocks her
cap to catch Arthur Glenham. instead
Of Sinking shvly from him as she did
in the novel. The actress is Kathleen
Clifford, a nice little thing that used TO
frisk and fTOlic in eXtrava CANA. and
Clenham. who was sedately middle
aged when Dickens introduced him to
you, has become a rakish young round
er Of Beau Brummels time and type: so
J wonder what the irasrible and self
satisfied Dickens would saw to see his
Oh ~ ota~s altered Nv IT. Won coE10o-7-