Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-25

l"Ilhldable rival TO taWdIy mclOdrdma
and vaudeville at 20 cents
Some Of these films dart are Tho
Return OF Ulysses, by Jules Lemaitrc.
acted by Mime Bartct and NJ NJ
Lambert, Delanny and Paul Mounet.
an members OF the Comedie-a picture
OF great educational interest To- chill
uren; The Kiss of Judas sacred
drama by Henri Bevedan, acted by
Lambert as Christ and Mounet- Sully
as Judas. The Assassination of the
Duke Of Guise,' by Ieyedan an hiss
torical episode with lie Bargy i'm the
title part. and Sardou's La Tosca.
prepared for pantomime and acted by
Nine Sorel, with lie Bargy as Baron
Scarpia. These arc real dramas. with
real actors portraying real emotions
Considering who the people are that
frequent moving picture shows. their
effect cannot fail TO be for good. they
make Tor the elevation Of taste for
a better understanding OF Theatre art.
And IL Is quite conceivable that. If
some American playwrights should
cease turning their plays into bad nov
els, using their suporfuous imagination
10 devise genuine canned dramas. which
popular and skilled actors and actress
es would then interpret before the CAM
era, the moving picture audiences
through the country might in time
ity Of these playwI1ghts and players.
and 20 desire p closer view of them.
might even IN time M anew our now
empty galleries"
Since Mrs Wigs Of the Cabbage
Patch no such volume or delightful
'home-folk' literature has appeared as
PA chickering's Folks" bv Bessie r..
Hoover, just published bv Harpors The
QFufhRrfe "a "a of
humble homely folk inhabiting a cheap
tenement row I'm a town near one Of
Lake MiChigan's shores. and the story
of Pa chickering's numerous family
with their diversified natures, expert
ences. woes and joys makes one Of the
most luscious pieces Of reading given Ia
the public In many years. Pa with
his even. placid, but righteous charac-
ter. stolidy holding his ideals of fair
ness in his working world, winning and
wearing uuostentatiously the meagor
honors that figure SO big In his realm
Of limitations. MA in her daily drill
Of household drudgcry. "Julc" with her
emotional. hlEh-strung and mrcsponsi-
BILE temperament; Milo and the
"twinses." m fact every one Of the many
characters in the home-spun group
stand out like nuggets IN their rough
setting. and one becomes as deeply
which stand for episodes In their ruts
of lives as ever he was wont la Indian
story-days, when scalp-raislngs stake
burnings and traiu-massacres were the
thrillers In his world of literary roe
nance The bob-sleigh ride 90 mis-
Bistle's' anniversary party stands out
coloroLsly I'm the mosaic Of natural pic
lures. and not "a page On the volume
that docs not hold some unpreached
frRH - fFsaff Ina
these starved lives II Is book for the
discontents. the dolefuls. the desper-
ates. and the dilattontcs Of the world,
teaching In simple wholesome object
lessons. the strained differences of social
and material conditions, and by obyi-
GUS comparison the duty Of aluuistic
effort, that into such starved and Grip
pied lives real and numerous 10 pitt
ful extremes. might come eventually
some Of the bigger and better things
which enrich the broader environs Of
human life. The book is published by
Harpers and rs on sale az thtc Desoret
News book store.
I'm a little book Of hardly hundred
pages, Thomas Janvier has given 90 the
public a history Of Henry Hudson, which
comes with grateful timelincss Just now
when the Atlantic coast is alive with
patriotic cndeavor towards the honoring
Of his memory Three historic waters
bear the name Of the brave navigator
whose tragic end undoubtedly cut short
a llfc destined for even greater laurols.
Hudson River teens with legends of
the hardy seaman Hudson bay and
Hudson straits 1--we in historic, in CONE
mercial and In romantic lore, and an
along their shores rise cities which
might never have been save for the
exploits ofsthe Haf Moon. and the Dis
coVeTy. For the first time IN centuries
America is planning ~ homage To the
hold brave and fated naval commander.