The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-21

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glib CAB and joins the women's crusade
tn reach the poll. The effect on the aris-
tocrat is different; for wi II Mary gets
denunciatory Of seducers aud DitCous
in telling of their victims. he writhes
with fear lest she expose his long aeo
mlstreatment of her. That rIakes a
climax for the scene, with the man
snesking behind his betrotled and sh,,
0ncoYering him to join Mary at tie
rostrum. Subsequently. he declares
that Mary has won him over to the
cause of votes for women, and that he
VIII become a champion of the sufTra-
gettes. What he viii DO with his excess
OF Observation-Disclosures he will marry
the old one, or the new one-either. uei-
Their, OF possibly both-is left to be
guessed at.
Clyde Fitch's play. '@The Bachelor
IS so gentle and cooling that you sim
ply can't write a harsh word about il
ana Its lover is Charles Cherry. ANY
New YORK girl from Q years old to 80
can tell you that Cherry is an embodi-
ment of all masculine beauty and no.
bllity. The leading actress is Ruth
Mayclif, whom no one at ali has to
point out as adorably sweet and pretty.
Ana when l add the information that
there isn't an even half-villain to ruff
lie the lovely i'm nd H., .,
ending" virtually occurs I'm the first
scene, you easily can see that 1.-THE
Bachelor is the perfect candy-I mean'
play-tor girls to eat. Every working
girl should swallow IT, Taken neatly
between the thumb and second finger
and nibbled slowly, she will find il very
sweet and tasty Yet this play trans
ports us Immediately into the CONNER
cal world by showing two influential
Hnanclers discussing at length the COM
paratlve charms OF their stenographers
Other girls in the building are touched
upon, and, incidentally, business. Our
handsome Cherry hero praises his anna
nuensis especially for her vivacitv and
freedom from restraint about the Of
flce. Presently we learn that her dash
and go, and the slang which she saves
up for her employer. are not easily ac-
quired. In short. she is not what she
seems-not Jenny, the beautiful tyne
writer, but Mile, the belle of the ball
The family fortune having burned to
ashes in the San Francisco earthquake.
she, noble girl, has come to New York
TO work in support of her mother and
to send her younger brother through
college.
It is the bumptious boy who tells the
confirmed bachelor these things. with
the further information that his
steuographer loves him madly. He
feels it his duty to ask her to marry
him. Her delighted consent changes
to proud rejection. though. when she
learns that he spoke only through
kindliness. Her feeling reverses itself.
you will hardly be surprised to hears
when the bachelors GOODNESS warns to
ardor. That is all there IS Of the plot.
and virtually all of the incidents of
The Bachelor" 1t runs along smooth
". except when. now and then. it stops
running entirely and stands gently
still. II excites no nervous apprehen-
sion as to its outcome. 1t might have
been written by George NJ. Conan on a
scenario by Bertha VI. Clay. That is,
most of it might. Much merr,ment is
made of the typewriting girls enGeav-
ors to pick UP slang thus to at once de-
light her employer and hide her truly
We're de We're self.
The girls love for the powerful finan-
cier is revealed to him by her mistake
in taking his dictat'on. She writes In
sweet abstraction Il love YOU love YOU
i love<yOu"-ad lib. Later, when the
heart trouble extends to the employer,
and he cannot keep his mind on his
work, it is she who cOrTects his blum
ders in business letters. Now and
again she finds herself playing the key
board of her machine like a piano to
the tune of "Cuddle up a Little Closer"
At the last. when the Cherry fascinat-
er finds that he simply must pluck the