The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-18

a farce, became known as the girl n
pink pajamas." She had a minor part
from the outset OF the Earr-s Wins
cality, and is hers its s----sd actress
Il was curious to see it given a. 8arrie
wrote it; for Maude Adams eliminated
wisely, l think-severaI passages tAat
lower the odd play from e--q-is-Js pam
tasy q common burlesIue. las eu-
dience was about half al ha-f french
and English or American, but the resi-
dents knew the foreign tongue we
enough to enjoy themselves.
That was the only innocent pay
have yet seen in Paris The last
French comedy at the Vaudeville was
The Best of Women" Observe the
neatness, the nicely, the GeIghtilg sim
plicity of the study in depravity. The
heroine, although the wite of q deEen-
crate man, is a woman o. true good
ness, devoting herself to WORKS OF chart
~, and giving no heed 10 his disioyaity
until a particular artocious cXY.o-t
Of his decided her to ret@li5,s with
liaisOn of her own. So shl picks out
paramOur, but breaks several grO n
ments with him, because she san { bt2.
to neglect her many duties o. religion
and oenevolence. The nan becomes IL
patient, and when at Length the natron
goes to keep a tryst with him. nc
ttdIllS that ne Has laENA Il NtfAAt5
maiden in her stead. SIN bent "a good
deeds, and perceiving t,l5e the girl j.
innOceBt, she saves her rival from evil
and induces the man to marry hcr. As
to herself, she returns to ner good work
and her bad husband. What you'd
Americans say to that?
At her own theatre Rejaae was PIE
senting THE Refuge" I'm which p sir
was the husbands sweetheart. his
wife's companion and betTOthCd to his
bachelor friend; while his wife was that
same friends apartment co-nr1de before
her marriage. The aggregation Of .nesc
four under one roof seems 10 be re-
garded as a piquant variant of tho ia
miliar French triangle. Fer lack of or
binary prudence, the girl was caught
at her tricks and scandal cnsues To
calm her despair. the husband proposed
to marry her and divorce his wife; but
the bachelor wanted the girls fortune
and insisted on keeping her as his
fiancee.
Then" said the husband, you are q
pig. Remember, sho is my mistress"
THAT doesn't matter" replied The
bachelor; Il don't mind, for your wife
used to be mine"
After that declaration, which was
more brutal in French than 1 have
worded it in English, the husband re-
piled simply: Il knew it.
More Of the American miilionaires in
new French plays are from the little re-
publics of South American than the big
one of North America. The Latin aces
in the southern half Of the new world
provide, types Of craracter appreciabIe
by F'renchmen, who don't understand
the Anglo-Saxons of nearby England,
and are absurdly uniformed of the
people Of the United states. Owing 10
the large French population in Canada,
Paris is specifically acquainted with
the Dominion; but its relations with
Brazil are more sympathetic. 1t sends
opera and dramatic companies to Rio
JaneirO and BuenOs Ayres every an
nual season that is winter in those
places and summer at home; but play
ers from Paris seldom go to New York
Re1ane has just gone with q company
to dedicate a government theatre in
Brazil and Argentina, and make a tour
of South America even &c Mexico. She
is accompanied by DariO NicOdemo the
Brazilian author. who was with her
when last she visited the United States,
who makes plays for her and who took
the place of he~ husband as a business
partner. 1t was he who wrote the
sketch in French that Rejane delivered
at the celebrated dinner that Hyde,
then president of the Equitable Life In
surance company, gave at a cost of
90. geo Equitable dollars.
When a CrOesus from our Pacific
coast is seen in a Partisan play ne is
apt to be a bOor with very coarsely
poTcine traits and hOgpen manners
Even q woman from the states in
That Pig of a Child" al tn9 Doric, is
made q Ounce ClO~c to idiCcy, yet she is
described as having good enough brains
and bad enough morals to make twenty
millions in Colorado mining A Pa
Tisian husband and wife nave no child
to inherit some of this aunt's wealth;
but they write to her that they have a
superlatively beautiful boy baby; and
they describe him so exUberantly that
she decides to come to Paris to see him.
What's to be done? Borrow an infant?
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