The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-05
SOME NEW SUCCESSES
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

New York, Dec. 4-District Attorney
Jerome goes out of office because his re-
fusal TO prosecute millionaire life lnsur-
ance thieves rendered him TOO unpOpu-
lar for denomination. His assistant and
clum, Frank Lord, writes a play ON life
insurance crooks who go free of punish
menL There is no more observed figure
in the night-l0ug cafes and restaurants
of b Oadway's white light section than
jerome. His frequent companion is Lord.
what is Lord S play2 Exposure? De
fense2 Confession TenderlOin people
crowded to see it quite as eagerly as
they do TO a hIghly-heralded show Of
rcVelry. A ruuCr that Lord had quar-
relied with his chief and sought revenge
bY peaching on him, bJZZed through the
theatre. The tension relaxed though, as
the play went along i'm friendly fash
ion; and there was rUther dlsappolny-
n.ent when the amateur dramatists work
didn't develop crudlties to warrant rldl-
Guile
Doors of many law offices bear other
names than those included in the firm s
title. Under the inscription Jones,
Brown. Smith & Robinson may be seen
in smaller letters the names OF several
Juniors i'm the concern. Lord calls his
drama His Name on the Door, because,
az the outset the name of Frederick
Brent is being painted thus on the Of
flee door OF j. Bradford Hunt legal adj
wiser and criminal pal of John Martin,
owner of a snide life insurance company
The upheaval la this field of robbery mas
come and the big lawyer and his big
client fear imprisonment. They scheme
TO make a partner and scfapegrace of
Young Brent, who has had no hand IN
in the frauds, and induce the district
attorney TO prosecute him as the only
guilty person.
Jerome isn't shown, nor any explicit
defense made Of his conduct, and he is
tacitly assumed to be an officer v nom
rupt. Lord seems 10 have no other puT-
pose than 70 utilize play plot suggested
by his familiarity with the insurance
cases. He gives IL a love twist by having
Brents sweetheart came To him with a
policy which ought TO yield 5000 to her
mother. but the company VIII pay only
$500 Brent has to decline as counsel for
her, as the snide concern is the very
one that his firm represents, and il is
he who has advised that owing to a
trick in the policy, only 10 per cent OF
its seeming promise need be kept That
complication, and not an eXculpatiOn or
exposure of Jerome, is what his assistant
uses TO make the play go. He exhibits
the nighttime activities of Martin, up
Town as well as his life Insurance opera
lions daytimes downtown. Chorus girls
are among the Injuries that Martin buys
with his swag, and as Brents sweetheart
happens to be the show girl Of his pres
emit desire he gives to her the whole $1,000
has endorsed: PAY OILY $500
Not a Siren.
There's an arrangement between the
eirl and her fiance; but a haison with the
Iibertine doesn't follow, FOR she is no si-
rem Brent thinks he has lost her to
Tenderioin vice, however, and himself to
a felon's infamy; but she saves him by
trapping the big lawyer and big client
instead. Lord says nothing about the
Of nd
speaks of "an immunity bath" for insur-
ance scOundrelss and to that extent Je-
rome is hit piayfully with the tag. But
that's all Policemen from Jerume's Of
flee are at hand to arrest Hunt and Mar
tin instead OF Brent il the suddenly
dominant show girl gives the word.
I never could bear 10 make beasts
suffer- she remarks, with a glance of
scorn at the criminals. "Let them 60"
Does Lord mean 10 assign that motive
to Jerome2
Ada Lewis and Valeska suratt are en-
acting showgiris of the extreme Tender
lOin type. Ada dates back to Edward
Harrigan farees of loWly Efe in New
York. and she persOnated Il tough girl
for him. 1t was nothing like the smart
type Of toughness now VIGOROUSLY NUM-
erOus, but a girl tougher in her BOWery
manners than in real disrepUte. Ada has
kept at her speciality, with variations, but
is not among the off-stage Tenderloin
exhibits of that sort of life. In "Old
Dutch" the new Smith Hobart-T Herbert
musical farce for Lew Fields, she is
Niennese sOubrette who goes TO the Alps
for an escapade with a confidence swim
der and there they take on the name Of
a celebrated scientist, under which alias
they have q festive bout as honOred
guests at a spectacular supper. Ada gets
tipsy, her antics become hilarious after
the manner Of three o'clock in the morn
ing at Rectorss or Jacks AS a climax
Of exuberanCe she trips the length of the
long table to the rich old chap whom she
has picked out Tor fascination. sits in his
lap, drinks from his glass; and rounds Up
with an explosive dssmn.
described Lew Fields part in "Old
Dutch last Sunday; but it seems per-
tinenf 10 add that he doesn't Join in the
revelry Of the supper. Is he taking or
dignity with mis- advance rs consdianf
However, he hires others to carry on the
fun-inciuding a te0upe OF gypsy dancers
who vino Up the cOmmotien in a cyclone
ballet.
An incident of the banquet proves that
an old friodd in farce may be introduced
as a stranger without discovery if well
disguised Tin Fields last previous show
much was made Of soda water foun-