The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21
AZ FRANKLIN FYLEs.

N,,. E-o.-'-. Feb f2.-Juha MarlOwe
and Mildred ltoIaud are French queens
iu mes plays. The loss famous Mildred
j. the EmQ~e-s Josephine in "A Royal
.li1n-.-r' H, Joha GrosVenor Wilson,
4 wan amCrcs history by making Marie
Louis, a - HenCr, 4 potter ana inner
vut!v hatCful. Instead OF The negative
vtJtish oil circumstances that she has
been Geclrri. That is the only note
worthy pn,U.jav.jy ia the drama. which
contains <a-o!eun i'm his usual poses,
Ttf!cyTaud s1ufdnr, doddcring and
uipttir-. AIurdt and Nov with their
martial MANNERS and familiar members
ut the }5ouaDaite family in scenes at
Fountains hiesu and the Tuileries. Mil
drcd holland Is ~ fsrjlc artist aud her
Josephine is a gentle, accomplishing,
7tdeTiol crcatur. -. Ne9oieOns cruel
A%l1biiiCn.
The moro famous Julia Marlowe, now
the American leader in romantic drama,
is French queen through revolu-
tionary enhancement in THE Goddess
of Reason" The things usual in play
of the Reign of Terror are shown again
with pictorial sDlendor such as Julia
became accustomed to when with Z. II.
SOthern- and she has some Of the as
poets of her own Joan of Are, because
she is again d peasant girl who dreams
of liberty for her people and acquires
much control of them. Yet Xvette is
not another Joan for visionary insplra-
ton of purpose, nor for greatness of
achievement. She has an Instruction
ary impulse though. and instiuctiveiv
sings The Marseillaise" when. = pupil
in a convent she should Join the nuns
IN holy hymns; and on hearing . tuTDu
lent mob in tie street. dashes out to
join their yells for liberty, equality and
fraternity.
The ensuing spectacle is such as we
used to think Henry Irving only could
produce; out which Lawrence Barrett
soon equalled for himself and Edwin
Booth: and which may now be dupli-
Gated without difficulty # the necessary
thousands of dollars are provided. The
populace has abolished religions. obIit-
Grated God, Instituted an era of COM
mon sense, and these changes are being
celebrated at Nantes. The tri-color IS
borne at the head of q procession in
front of a guillotine. Julia Marlowe,
fattened out of the slimness of her girl
ism Parthenia. yet not visibly as much
older as the years since that debut
might show, is enthTOned high and
handsome i'm a chariot as the Goddess
of Reason. Behind her come carts con-
tanning aristocrats to be beheaded. Tbs
public square is crowded by frenzied
northumberland. women and chill
dren-singing and dancing, shrieiling
and blowing tTumpets, in giee at the
blood that is 20 flow. The din is ST
fenced to let the goddess be heard She
has from the outset been a fluent speak
er with blank verse written with one
.poetic line to about a hundred pTosily
korded by Mary Johnston.
:. = X
Julia Marlowe is an able declaimer.
Her voice has been toned to melliferous
eIoquence. Audiences like to hear it. So
does she. Her spells of loquacity pre-
long this play past IL till nearly l.. Yet
the verbosity didn't seem TO bore many
of the first-night people. And it was
broken by human interest IN this cpl
sode of mob rule Supreme power for
the day has been voted to the Goddess
of Reason. Upon her within or caprice
the life or death OF an aTistocrat may
depend. She sees the moo seize the
Barno Rene de Vardes, whom she loves.
and impulsively she sets him free.
That's like q woman. Soon afterward
~Sae observes that the Mamselle de
Tchateua-Gui, who as she thinks is
Rene's sweetheart, has Joined him in
seeming intimacy. Shall she save the
she still is womanly-even feminineiy
jealous-and so she denounces her rival
as a high-born girl qualified for the
guillctine And TO make a complete
end comprehensive job OF it, she in
ciudes Rene in her wild revulsiou of
feeling and orders both to the guillo-