The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-18

New York. April 16.-Drama here this
week is holding the mirror up TO mod
eu American life, and especially to let
our women see themselves as play
vrichts see them. Take for first con-
sideration Clyde Fitch's The Happy
Marriage" Its pivotal parsonage is a
YOUNG wife of a New York man en-
crossed i'm the making of money. He
is aware that she is an exquisite Crea-
ture. and he loves her. now that she be-
longs 10 him, as truly as he did when
De Woocd her. and she kept him guess
ing whether he would win her. She is
fond of him to the foolish limit, and
wants to be coddled and cuddied by a
man; but her endearments annoy him,
while his TepellauCes irritate her. and
100 her lack Of a husbands love, she
falls into the embrace Of the ever-ready
Hbertine. That is the matrimonial af-
fair set forth i'm Fitch's new play, as it
has been by many another author, al
though lot often so entertainingly.
Clyde Fitchs men are not apt to
amount to much, but as a delineator Of
Whimsey women, from exquisite to &C.
CENTRES. and from Fifth avenue debu-
tantes TO BOwery girls, no one beats
him. Ii is his usage TO devise a rep
LE~r tllEllhE view I ULh NOIltdlA llISLlN- 10
hx on a fitting actress secondly, and to
write the role thirdly and most impor-
family, i'm a way to let the player do all
she is capable Otto utilize all the tai
eut that is in heT-tO go clear to her ut
term0st limit, but not a jOt be
yOud what she can do into
what she can't. The selection in the
present instance has fallen on Doris
Keane. You don't recall her name,
much less HERSELF Let me tell YOU
about Doris. Now. for an example.
Maude Adams is unique. No other ac-
tress is ike her in the least. Neither
natural resemblance, nor initiative tai
emit. nor both combined. have vet pro-
duced anything like a duplicate. An
other actress in the Frohman list. Ethel
Barrymore, has seemed TO me equally
Individual Yet in the case of Ethel
who isn't ubiquitous enough TO be in
several places at once, the places that
DON'T get her may accept Doris Keane
"a my word that she is a counterpart
ln hure Doris like Ethel is the Mau-
1er-Gibson type Of the London and
New York modish belle, tail and slim.
1o-l1W-Chested and Stoop-shOuldered
ln voice they are similar with drawl-
ING cadenCes. and in demeanor with
-Auous mannerismS; in the FrOhman
cast of The Happy Marriage" she
Helped 10 appear as an Ethel Barrymore
entraurer
The reliance on The Happy Mar
mage is such that Charles Wyudham
mas made ready 10 enact the cold hus-
oand there assigned to Edwin Arden).
"ho ueslects his pretty wife until he
earns that she is chilled by him, and
thinks she is at the point of elopement
.l-L warm seduceT- An oddity in
ms aoroit retelling OF an old story is
llat there Is no adultery. The roue
.l-FlceS the wife that her husband is
untrue To- her. and jealoUsy's dupe that
N-e ls- she decides to reJaliate She &C
-ell> iu moment of emotional stress.
--e l7muter'S offer TO Dust her husband.
MA-t he and she mean by that is diff
.-Eent though. for he has in view a
secret IaiSou that won't jolt them in
me ordinary courses OF their lives.
'Ai.e she viii do nothing surTeptitious-
- and insists on an open elOpement to
-.i' De- a separation from her first
husband by divorce. and the legal &C
; +-.ieI1e1J of a second one by regular
marriage That is to say, the discon-
tented wife has no thought of deceiv-
- her husband. or Of turning from
-..- before she lawfully acquires his
successor.
As have written. Doris Keane's own
----rtLiNcHeSs- and her resemblance TO
--'.. Barrymore. are among the max
- or sure success for The Happy
'aEr-se. but I foresee that in Lon
Nyldham will he acclaimed as the
-->-aHG who masters the situation.
-s~9S his own fault. fOrgives his
. errors. illustrates her elopement
i 'ruSs her back to wediock's love.
america, though. Fitch and Froh-
exploitation Of Doris Keane as
N-e who aches for her husband
s. and when he won't give them TO
-- -+Nes some from the lips of a will
- .er-eicr, viii be aIl-SuffiCient.
.- 7l 20 De that If a play was done
a.ler CRY and abandoned before
-=--he1 New York. the conclusion
- t-at 1t had failed irretrievably. II
So now Going Some" started
l stopped a year ago do not know
mach of II has been amended. but
...-S 20 Broadway now q lively farce
- sood GRANGE for popularity. Paul
>--onE- the whimsical dramatist.
s-.- rex Beach the novelist, are its
'-s- Both are inclined TO make ado
--9ir vlrility in westernism. They
= lli no end OF raw spirit into Co
some Bret Harte story stiffened
- profanity, and you get the '.atmos-
q tnlS Play Of western camu-