The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-04
COOL DRAMA PREFERRED
Continued From Page 5.

Some are plays given in the form for
which authors wrote them for flesh and
blood actors. At one theatre / found
'sThe FOOLS Revenge holding, in 81
lence, the attention of a large-sized au-
dience The pictures followed scene for
scene the drama as written fifty years
ago for Samuel Phelps by Tom Taylor
from Victor HugO's lie Roi s Amuse,
only recently revived at the Coincide
Franchise. Only this difference struck
me- In the drama, as you will remem-
Der. the deformed jester relates his early
married life and the tragedy of it, which
is the reason of his bitterness. An cleo
trio apparatus or its accompanying
piano could not make that clear. There
fore, we would have for our central
character only a snarling villain in place
of the Ditiable martyr of the Taylor
Hugo drama. So the picture play starts
with the home life Of the deformed no
tary and his wife and baby girl.
A dissolute. uobleman abducts his
wife. Presently, prisoner in his palace,
she stabs herself. Thereupon she Is
flung into the street and left to die. Her
husband finds her; with her last breath
she tells the story of her wrongs, and
dies as he swears revenge. So when this
Bertuccio goes through the many scenes
of the old play we have as much rea-
son TO sympathize with him as when
Edwin Booth used to recite the agoniz-
ing cause or nowadays when Maurice
Renaud so sUperbly sings it in the Verdi
opera.
How many plays have been written
about actresses who assume q coarse
ness or uncOmelineSs not their own in
order to disillusiOnize ardent suitOTs
younger and more unsophisticated than
themselves? It would be mOrc easily &C
curate TO say that THE Child From
Pittsburg'' is the latest than TO venture
a guess as to whether il is the One-hUn-
dredth OF One-thOusandth. As Nance
Oldfeld, Ellen Terry has been "disillu-
sionizing' adorers most adOrably for
more than a quarter of a century, while
as David Garrick, Sir Charles Wyndham
has been doing the similar thing for as
long a time and with as nearly equiva-
lent fascination as his sex will allow.
Yet neither role was new with these
players, nor, with Rose COghIan. Hen
rietta Crossman and Genevieve Ward
in the one case, and \. c. Goodwin, Z.
s. Willard and TOmmaso Salvini, in the
other, can either be regarded as the eX-
elusive right of its most famous inter
prefers. FictiOnal heroines. innocent and
IEAltLE LtDAll lLlE SldSE. NAVE aALEAllE LCLA
to disgust their lovers, Maude Adams
| pretending once to be intoxicated and
Annie Russell actually smoking a cigar
cite right before everyone. Ethel Bar
rymore. all this honeymoon season Of
hers in Lady Frederick" has been
/ showing herself dishevelled from the
bath and asking US to fancy her unal-
| Turing thus. while Virginia Harmed has
! been popular in a short play Of her own
T writing, showing her way Of magnani-
mously opening a suitOr's eyes
X
The guileless admirer in THE Child
l From Pittsburg'' is the son of Pitts
burg millionaire who has seen an at
tractive actress in his home city and
! followed her to New York. If you re
call Allan Brooks as the big BOBBY in
/ THE College Widow" you viii see why
/ he is dubbed. in this. The Child He
/ has never seen the actress off the stage,
and when she admits him, dressed as q
maid, he does not recognize her. It is
not difficult to guess what follows. The
wit, if hardly of Gilbertian finesse, hits
/ the audience il aims at, and with no
subtle uncertainty.
| That's enough" the actress screams
/ when she feels that the still befogged
/ Child from Pittsburg' has gone too
/ far TIL call a policeman
! To which the retort is; You'd better
! look out when you call him"
/ Later. when the girl has revealed her
self, she expresses surprise that he came
/ sa far TO see her. Did you come clean
{ from Pittsburg2"
Not exactly" he retorts. You see,
1 took a bath when I got here.
The Girl With the Angel Voice is a
/ newcomer who is endeavoring to lift us
UP, up, up from the blistering sidewalks
and melting asphalt into heavenly cool
/ cloudland I cannot be sure that her
/ gown is authenticity the latest cut in
angel circles. but it is so unsheathiike
graceful and human that it may be &C
cepted as more or less angelic anyway.
Angel gowns are being worn loose. this
/ season. it appears, falling in easy folds
from the shoulders TO the ground. Span
I giles are not prohibited. though used in
moderation and in the figures of butter
nfas and other innocent devices. Tt IS
Z not surprising to discern that pompa-
dours and '-puffs' are not worn in cloud