The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-28

have lost his partner of the days Of
Zaza's birth. The play was known as
the joint work of Berton and Charles
Simon. But of late Simon's name
seems to have been mislaid and the
drama is announced as by Pierre
Berton." He. by the way, is world
famous as only a dramatist. but is
highly esteemed in Paris as an actor
in the Coincide Franco Sc. Also. he is
the father of Paul Berton, dramatist
and actor.
The Italian Mimi Agugia is the
third actress of Zaza in New York.
The American Mrs. Leslie Carter was
the first. and the German Marietta
Oily was last weeks second. Some
novelty was, given to Mrs. Carter :
present temperance in the role be
cause a matinee was devoted especial
ly TO that arch advertiser. Mary Gar
den, whose hysterical tears over the
woes of Zaza were hardly less tenn
pestuous than Mrs. Carriers p cturine
of them. OF Marietta Olly's perform
ance in German I have written to you.
like her, Mimi Aguglia chose the
character to be a final appeal here in
her native tongue. The Sicilian ASug-
LA and the Prussian Hedwig Reicher
and Marietta Oily. are three actresses
famous in their own lands. and who
are studying Engi sh 20 become Amer
lean star actresses. thus following the
recent lead of Ala Nazimova and
Bertha Kalich. and the earlier Mod
jeska ond Janauschek. These are made
more noticeable by Sonia Adler.
daughter of Jacob p. Adler. tragedian
of the Yiddish drama acted On the East
Side. Miss Adler. having played Il
r Lar y
her father in Yiddish, now enga geS
herself to cast her lot with US.
To get back to the renewals of Zaza
Mimi Aguglia's portrayal of the show
girl wanton is an extraordinary patho-
logical exhibition of nervous hysteTia
Zaza is very aCtable. No actress Of
even moderate experience could fail
in it. But to an artist of the calibre of
Miss Aguglja its gamUt Of emotions
gives vide scope. / have seen six Of
the world-celebrated actresses as
Zaza, and Agugiia's is different from
the other five in its incorporating
realism. If that is one of the stand
ards Of histrionic art. Aguglia's must
be recognized as the greatest of the
ZazaS. 1t scorns the bizarre efforts
Of Carter ana Naz.mova. and it does
not resort to the conventional theatric-
isms for sympathy of Carter OF Re
jane.
Agugiia's costuming is distinctive.
Carter, you will recall. made her first
appearance I'm a dashing, uproarious
manner, gowned in a yellow and black
striped affair. with a scarlet bodice
and a huge. fiaring hath short such
a costume as has never been seen ex-
cept across footliGhts. 1t was effect
i've; I have no doubt that the actress,
or Belasco. thought ii out carefully,
or that il helped her sensational sue
cess. The Aguglia Zsza, however.
came to her dressing room in the sort
of cheap, tawdry finery that a second
class music hall singer would wear.
Then. when she dressed for the stage,
the costume was frippery offrippery,
a reasonable sort of finery which Re
Jane wore. seeming to forget that Zaza
was a vulgar woman working In a the
atre of a small city. In this scene,
however. an odd accident brought ridi-
cuIe upon its good art. Disregarding
her Establishments, Dufresne calmly
read a newspaper. But IL was the col
ored supplement of a New York Sun
day paper, which. rather vitiated the
atmosphere" further. the Italian
actor held il upside down. And this
newspaper was used for ON
of Aguglia's most startling illustrative
When she donned her
short-skirted and ow-bodiced stage
dress, she stuffed wads of paper down
the front Of the waist, bullying out her
torso to a degree that she seemed to
regard as entiring. When she came to
undress. enGeavoring further to lure OF
the man she had only half caught, she
had 10 resort by trickery equal to .
sleight Of hand man to slip out the
stufing without her lover seeing II.