The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-14

tnOugnt the screen Scene'-Whlch you
are to see next-ended the play. 1t does
not. l wish you, my dear friends,
wouldn't begin to put on your hats be-
fore the screen scene is over. nor go
out until the whole play is done. This
is a famous masterpiece, and l want
you to see the whole of it."
Mindful of that instruction, the wo-
men sat the comedy out; but il took all
that Mildred Holland could do-and she
is skilled actress of much experience
to sober up her audience when the
screen. was thrown down and the
shamed and sorry Lady Teazle was re-
vealed to her husband. Up to this time
the comedy has ueen given with no dis
regard of the traditional manner, ex-
cepting Moses caricature of Jew, and
few exagserations to force the fun:
but now the star actress came to a
point where all the historic Lady Tea
zles had stopped the laughter short off
to maintain silent gravity to the fall
OF the curtain. She knew that off
broadway. in an extension of the Bow
cry, something extraordinary must te
done TO make the lady quietly con-
Irite, and confess in tones of calm dig
nifty, wouldn't give the desired change
from noise to silence. So, the screen be
ing down, she fell staggeringly toward
Sir Pety-, made piteous gestures. gave
some anguished gasps and gurgles.
Sharply shifted her manner from that
OF Old comedy on stills to new emotion
al drama fiat-fOOted. and made an exit
Inat almost salted the tears of laugh
ter TO tears of sympathetic grief.
In the only chop house left in New
York from the many that used 70 Ill
cookery from grill only. i'm the old
bngiIsh manner, are walls hung thick
with time-yellOwed prints of bvgone
actors IN stage Suises. and one shows
lester Nallack as Charles Surface.
with mustache and sidewhiskers.
After seeing THE School for Scandsl'
performed on the Bowery side of town
With general correctness. I went to SEQ
II my memory was a fault as to the
once adulated and still revered Wal
lack refusal 10 sacrifice his persona
beard as a New York beau in profess
slonal obedience to the demand of a
cIean-shaven London gallant i'm LADY
Teazle's set. Note that. Won carriers
2t modern stage doinEs. Why. only a
dozen years ago. Guy Standing was
playing. in Lord and Lady Algv." a
Fellow who put on for a fancy dress
Dali The costume Of a London young
gentlemen Of Sheridan's time. but
wouldn't Gu off his mustache. That
''e'' it-elN.t AtlN Afbilll OF z I0ke- Inc
scrt en- scene of The School for Scan
DAT was given at d charity matinee.
Standing was Joseph Surface. and he
were his suitable clothes from the cur
rent play. bat he wouldn't give I'D his
mOustache to art. and Joseph with
hair on his lip was ridiculed by the
critics. The actor cited the crime of
Wall2ck's whiskers in extenuation of
MS own misdemeanOT of d moustache.
Lester Wsllack's vogue didn't last
his lifetime. and a memorable perform
ance Of Hamlet" by Booth. Barrett.
ModJeSka and other celebrities raised
$4,000 for him. IN The theatre that
still bears his name en- entertainment
this week yielded $1,000 to his aged
and impoverished widow Mrs. Wal
lack is a sister of Sir John Millais. the
English painter and has never been
an actress. The program had ten min
utes of Shakespeare. with Eleanor Rob
sons Juliet in the balcony and William
FaVersham's Romeo in the garden be-
low. The rest of the afternoon was
filled by extracts from current PLAYS
and FAMILIAR short pieces, the only new
matter being "On a One Night Stand. e"
written by George Y. Hobart. acted by
Thomas Wise and Douglas Fairbanks.
and calculated by its high pressure o.
Stcs-t-lOlh sentiment 10 GnInTQH
audience composed two-thirds Of the
atrical people You can't turn on the
current Of grief, pain OF any kind of
misery too strong for players liking.
Proof of that popularity in the inhab-
itantS of stageland was this dramatic
brcvity and the LpTOad OF applause il
got.
Tom Wise is an aIl-round comedian
IN either way you take il; but ordinari-
iy ne tries TO provoke laughter only:
and when he was discovered abed. his
bulk bullying the cOverlet to the con-
figuratiOn Of a mountain in the middle
of plain, there was a disposition to
be merry. But instantly we found out
that he was a very sick mana dying
dctor-whose comrades would have to
go right on from this one-night stand
to the next and leave him behind. Fair
banks was Wise's young protege and
chum; and he had Iured an infatuated
MAJ nee girl to take to the road with
him. The gist of the play was the old
actors pleading with the young actor
-twiXt moaning and some cursing
over his own unwelcome death sum-
mons-not to be guilty of such a wrong
to a fondly foolish maid The clippers
were TO meet in ten minutes to go to 4
train. Wise forged a note of good bye
to the girl from Fairbanks saying h.
had been kidding her, and had no no
ton of taking her away; and having
sent the missive unknown to the matt
nee idol, undertook TO detain him until
there would be no more than time to
catch the train without her
TIN all in" he said. but don't send
for any damned doctor-Tm past his
help; no. for any cussed parson-he'd
he no good; but I would like It. my
dear boy, if you'd do a few lines OF
prayer for me
I'd make a mess Of it, old man." the
yoUngster replied. brokenly: its 4
long while since I've prayed, and I've
forgotten how"
"Oh, Eell, but there's one PRAYER your
mother taught you that you'll never
forget. Say How ] lay me- and I'll go
to sleep for keeps"
The young actor knelt at the bedside
and repeated the first prayer of child
hood The old man shut his eyes. At
the Amen" the bell of tho ready train
was heard outside. AS the curtain fell
we knew that Wise was dead and that
Fairbanks would not destroy the girl.
Is there no fresh blot OF immodesty
on tire weeks theatrical 'scutcheon
Well yes. an immoral splash of beauty
is section called The Maid of the
Bath" in a current show on Broadway.
\ respectable rich mans disreputabIe
son wants to marry a girl who poses
on the stage in living pictures. For
that role q young woman has been
chosen FIR her symmetry Tho aotfar