The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-24

painted in his studio what she hopss
will be a masterpiece for the Academy:
but it is rejected, and by now the su-
dieEce easily guesses why The vam-
pire has drawn from her i'll their close
association the artistic essence of her
nature. But he loves her other thar
paternally and would save her from
mis- abortive outrage. In sending her
away TO work safely elsewhere. he lets
her know Of his passion, and she in her
establishment informs him that she and
the novelist he has vampired are be
trothed. These young lovers are Kath-
crime Florence, very sweet and gentle.
as always, and Mark Smith. who
may be a descendant of the old-time
Mark smith for aught I know, and
any way delineates the braia-robbed,
dazed and almost crazed author in d
parity with keilerd's blend Of the nor
NAL with the abnormal in the brain
robber
Through two acts The Vampire
holds its grip on the audience, and then
in a final third let's so, NeverthelSsst
I hardly see how it can fail Of 2 vogue
with people who don't dislike to think
at the theater or TO come away WIKI
matter for nightmares The young
novelist wakes mornings 10 find that
his nights fancies for fiction are gone.
and he is brain-fagged to the verge of
dementis. 1t is the girl who hits on
the solution of the mystery. The YAM
piTe sn saks into the poor fellows room
when ne is asleep. lays hands on his
head. draws his ideas from his brain
and leaves him nothing for his ow
work. The girl compels her weakened
sweetheart to go to sleep while She
hides and watches. The vampire en-
tiers. applies his hands and utters the
words that within are dreamiiy form
ing themselves into phrases 1 don
know what more 1 should expect in the
way of phenomena. Surely, I can't ask
Kellery to leap on Smith, like the YAM
pire of tradition, and savagely suck
his blood: or surgically open his skull
and remove the gray matter from his
brain; yet I am. with the audience,
keyed up for something o. other spec
tral. Instead, KeneTd pleads guilty TO
the girls charge Of intellectual YAM
prism, and he responds with pro
longed plea that it is no new thing
X
As ultra a fight into old-style TO-
manticism as that drama is into new
STYLE occultism is The Barber of New
Orleans" It's time and place are over
a century ago. where the MISSISSIPPI
still runs It's fresh water into the salted
cult OF MekitO- Wittn was lA-t8 IdAANt
Little Paris in the wilderness. The out
set is in the shop of the barber. but it
is spoken of as an atelier by the Creole
beaux and bellies who go there to take
lessons in fencing and dancing, as well
as to be shOrn or shaver. Surgery
could be had theYe, too. to the extent OF
blood letting and tooth pulling And
those strangers who dropped lin ana
with a casual air remarked to the bar
Der. rs this a good shop to get a throat
-cut?" were welcomed a a fellow pol t
icaI censpirator; for at this crisis Lou
isiana was being shifted 'twixt France
and Spain just before its purchase by
the United States. So the barber was
a revolutionist. And. oh. ] have nearly
forgotten that he was a dramatic au-
thor. Quite careiessly he mentions a
play of his as having been produced
the night before with the same success
that attends all his doings in mental
service or professional achievement
You viii perceive that the hero here
created by Edward Chilts Carpenter
and personated by William Faversham
is a genius beyond rivalry in the his
tory of stage heroies.
y < X
I paid less attention to William Fav-
ershams instruction of Olive Oliver in
a bout with foils and of Julie Opp Fav-
ersham in a minuet, although the two
women made the exercises gracefully
slightly, because ] was wondering if he
would dare use brush and razor on the
face of a man customer. Of course,
there's the 1atherer and shaver in the
opera Of THE Barber of Seville" and
you mayn't, but do, remember Daven-
port Mayo Eddy and other old-timers
in Jerry Clip the Barber as an after
farce to a tragedy of 2 Saturday night;
but would FaveTsham put on and
scTape off latheT in his character of
pictOrially romantic hero? For half the