The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-19

NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-Many ac-
IN tresses have great talent, many
others have great beauty, but very
precious few have both. Mary Ander-
son! On, 1 know. A rare exception.
But there's the superbly loveliest of our
present stage women, tOO-Lillian Rus
sell-utterly devoid of mimetie ability
after more than thirty years of practice.
And right here, i'm new plays-Marle
Tempest in Penelope" and Helen Low
ell in 1.-THE Lottery Man"-are uncom-
monty adept condolences with regret
able faces. One of these admirable ar
lists renders herself slightly by art1t1ce
for the portrayal of mOdish ladies, while
the other makes herself up for grotesque
roles.
Marie Tempest looks her best possible
in Penelope" she and it and an Eng
fish company being a FrOhman impor-
tation with LOndons brand of .. K.
ON it. That isn't written in spirit or
either Anglomania or Anglophobia. The
time of prejudice for or against theat-
Eical things from London is over thanks
TO prevailing American common sense
London sticks to it's stage favOrites
through thick and thin; and Marie is
one of them whose. figure has become
neither too thick nor too thin for the
wearing of fashion-plate gowns. have
said her face is ugly, and I won't re-
tract; but it is a piquant sort, of bright
cOuntenance, too, and goes well with a
shapely figure ana alert manner for a
right smart effect.
Marie has an invariable set of vocal
facial and gesticural tricks, but she has
acquired a knack of using them to
make a part mean more TO an audience
than it has to the author in manuscript.
don q
lords SON. don't YOU know, and a
rounder in the kings set, used to write
over plays for her from the French,
Londoning their Partisan rakishness
cleverly: but COsmO and Marie are
chummy no more, and this Penelope
is the work of W. Somerset Vaughan.
Penelope, wife Of Ulysses.
I'm Grecian mythology, you remember
Penelope, wife of Ulysses, was a god
dess whom some of the gods preferred
TO the more beautiful Venus. AS a NOR
tai i'm a comedy, Penelope takes no
ton to divorce her husband; whereupOn
five men offer themselves for remar-
riage. These sudden suitOrs are OLD
family friends, such as a crusty law
yer, a fruity guardian and a nutty I'M
Gle of her husband.
When she summons them to her cOun-
tells them she has made up her mind tC
stay permanently apart from her tran
silently absent husband, they are
amazed firstly; and then, secondly, they
tumble over one another to get on theil
knees TO her for a new go at wedlOck
They tire and bore her so that. WheT
her husband. fond and true comes bach
from his journey, she goes gladly into
new honeymoon with him. 1t is farci-
cal fooling with types of middie-cias'
Englishmen not caricatured out Of q
comedy semblanCe to life. The hus-
band is played by W. Graham Browne
leader of Maries London company; and
the expectation Is that. if the courts
set her free from CosmO, she will marry
Graham.
If you saw Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
bage Patch" you laughed at the wed
ding of William Hodges veteran bum
mer of the war and a gawky old maid
The actress was Helen Lowell. Nov
she is a smoother but not less drol
hired companion of a New York silly
heiress. who strives to keep off fat by
physical culture while putting it OF
with candy. With deftly ludicrOui
touches and humor akin to pathOs. Mis-
Lowell wins the lottery man delight
fully; and he isn't eccentric but thu
politely pleasant Cyril Scott in "Th'
Lottery Man."
Fashion in the drama is ike fashion
in everything else. very largely mat
ter of somebody saying to somebody
that somebody else is doing or wearing
so and so. The word has gone ROUND
that the farce of seven Days is thu
success Of the seasOn-sO farces are il
fashion All this being so, we may al
well take the pleassnter, easier and per
haps safer side. and predict success 70
''The Lottery Man." Some years ago
when "The Prisoner of Zenda" anC
Under the Red Robe" set the style il
romanticism, we might not have; nor il
four or five ago. when 1.-The Lion an'
the Mouse "The Man of the Hour
and Thomas w. Lawson In the back
ground, convinced US we had to expos
something 10 be listened to- nor las
season when ''The Easiest Way made
It the correct thing to look at and dis