The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24

preparations. At a dress rehearsal he
has reproved her sharply. she has re-
| scented it and a lovers quarrel is IN
| der way. A friendly dramatist under
takes by one operation to cure the dis
pirfted scenes fault and the lovers
own disagreement. He tells them, first
! off, that plays should be made to be
| seen as much as heard; that some pas
! sages ought to have a yellow outfit;
others red or blue; and he shows the
different effects of various hues. This
primary lesson in stagecraft interests
| the audience.
Next, the instructor teaches them
that the scene in immediate question
should have exactly the blend of blue
and yellow to initiate the light shed by
the harvest moon. He regrets that he
can't fake the needed moonlight All
but genuine harvest moon is shining
outside. The curtains are pulled aside
and the moons effuIgence floods the
window. What else can happen than
that the real lovers quarrel melts away
in rehearsal of the mimic wOOing
and the mock lovers naivelv betrOth
themselves anew and actually
Negative suggestion. That is the
particular kind Of telepathy with which
Thomas makes THE Harvest Moon"
psychological Adelaide's mother gave
birth to her while astray with a para
mOur in Paris. and died there, after
sending her to the home in New York.
where she grew UP ignorant that her
mothers husband was not her prOgenf-
tor. A vixenlsh aunt though. took
vicious pains to inform her that her
mother had been Maynard. The child'e
slightest fault or the maiden's-each
tr1fiing lapse into misbehavior-wa at
tributed to innate depTavity inherited
from the mother. The aunt predicted
nothing but disgrace for the niece.
That IS TO say. the woman negatively
suggested wickedness to the girl: and
so Adelaide ran away from boarding
school and for a fortnight was a mem
Der OF dramatic stock cOmpany. II
was an escapade without deviItrv.
That happened before the time of the
play. When We first see her she is bent on
becoming an actress as a way to get
away from her aunt-bossed home. The
moonlit scene, already described, is in
cidental to her debut in a New York
theatre. Her supposed father, a pro-
ressOr at Harvard, opposes her going
on the stage. Her aunt ascribes it. of
course, TO birth faint of cussedness.
A negative suggestion, you see. that
she will yield herself to dlshonor as her
tihoeAACA hft anu SOlIlt actresses 90. The
idea that she is pre-doomed to infamv
possesses her. She misconstrues her
small peccadillos to the big misdeeds
and when she finds herself fascinated
by the theatrical cOmpany's leading
man, she accuses herself Of being re-
creant to her fiance. Of readiness to
give herself to her stage wooer. and Of
being veritably wanton IN disposition.
Negative suggestion has made her all
but ready to become the worst that her
aunt predicted. She is saved from that
rutnation by the friendly dramatist
who is a Frenchman and turns out to
be her real father
An unidentified parent serving as a
protective guardian of an unsuspectfng
daughter is sure to be winsome. es-
pecially if he speaks English with a
foreign accent. Thomas has written
this one attractively, and George Nash.
hitherto known for useful versatility.
acts him with so much of sympathetic
torce as TO dominate the play. George
and Adelaide are doing right well i'm
this very singular play. The Harvest
Moon" is far away from being Angus
tus Thomas strongest play; but l
think it is the most intellectual.
The first out-and-Out melodrama
came so far into New York that il did
not stop at any Of the theatres where
such plays are accepted. but pushed on
20 Broadway. Such bOldness lays Two
Women and That Man" open to easy
ridicule. There is little doubt, however.
that if Henry d. Corey, author and
leading actor, presents his play before
the proper audiences he viii be reward
ed with ample success. The pictures in
the lobby promised a thrilling assert
ment OF terrors of the frozen north, and
such Broadway regulars" as were on
hand for the premiere placed bets as
to whether THAT Man" was Cook or
Peary. But he turned out to be a good
old friend of melodrama, the sainted
hero.
First off, he married an Alaskan
dance hall girl, but she left him. He
believed her dead-no one in the audi
ence did, but several characters said
they saw the body So he was free to
WOO the traders daughter. That
worthy was rich in hirsute adornment.
So was daughter-thOugh ii must be
admitted that she lacked the Senator
Clark whisksrs which flowed luxuriant-
ly from her parents chin. When he
strained her to his manly bosom to
warn her against the fascinations of
our hero and to deliver a bountiful
eow Of general Thoughts on virtue"
ne marry tollage or both was nearly |
their undoing, Buttons and hair are |
risky. Father and daughter became |
indeed, 50 attached to each other that |
the touching scene had to be carried on |
beyond its lines while the actors fun !
bled to untangle hair from buttons.
Perhaps this shook fathers conf |
dence in daughter, but, anyway, when |
she appeared later with her bushy hair |
in disorder he suspected the worst And |
he said what he thought right out loud |
With many a horrid word, he drove her |
from his door. She passed the night in !
her lovers cabin, though he respected |
her innocence so nobiy as not to be |
caught by a. single hair. In the morn |
ing he made pancakes for her. Drip !
ping the batter onto a griddle on one |
side Of the stone fireplace. he presently |
drew a pan of beautifully Drowned /
cakes from the extreme other side just /
as our hero of the north-who appa-
rently was Cook after alI-was about to |
marry the traders daughter his first /
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