The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-04

N-4. York. April vampires.
Women v-mnircst, The ancient super
srtfon was that those creatures vino
came out of their graves at night 10
suck tEa life blood of sIUmbereTs were
masculine. usually. if not invariably.
some modern American playwTtghts,
however. have created three vampires,
for Simultaneous exhibition here in
Nnw York jHis week. who are not
buried men kept alive by such hideous
uouriehmeut but sirenic women with
anIauty of warm blood Of their own
fr live with. and robbiug their victims
of hearts and souls, honor and money
Henrietta Crusmau is the vampire in
sham" and YOU know what a healthy,
hearty beauty she is; while the VAN
uire in The Conflict is a not less
wholesome Helen BeresfoVd; and 50
there is nothing grewsOme i'm those two
Womeu's vampIish absorption Of sub
sieteuce from their befooled dupes
They take i'm like soft human spOnges
rather than harsh ghouls. Their kind
OF CRATER is not rare IN the society Of
fashion and culture. Katherine kael-
red is a much more dreadful vampire
in a Fool There Was" as ! VIII tell
sou.
Sir Philip BUrne-Jones. English
painter. made a picture which he la
beiied THE Vampires" The spectator
read IN it. at one look, the awful story
of a mans destruction by a woman. 4
young fellow lay limp and wan across
q bed. He wore an evening suit. lack
FMS the coat as though he had fallen.
spent Of strength. when almost dressed
for a nights dissipation. Upon his
legs sat a beautiful young woman, in a
d-collette gown Of exceeding eIe-
gance, as though he had taken her In
his lap in fOndling admiration, and
then had fallen back in a collapse Of
death. Her face bore a startled look.
but no trace of pity or remorse, and her
eyes glared into his eagerly, hungrily,
ElOatmgly, as though she would revive
him with one more kiss, and so draw
from his heart a final draUght Of his
life blood. 1t was a dreadful picture,
as YOU may have seen when it was
brought 70 this country for exhibition.
Rudyard Kipling, then a journalist
unknown as poet or novelist, saw his
friends painting before it was shown
publicly. He was acquainted, too, with
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the actress,
who had posed for the siren vampire.
kipling wrote while taking his first
View of the pictorial parable;
a fool there was, and he made his
prayer
To rag and bone and a hank Of hair,
But The fool he called them his lady fair,
-hs vampire woman who didn't care"
That is the germ. as a mutual friend
gives it 10 me, that grew into one Of
hHImgs famous poems, although he
dldu own up To il for awhile lowing.
] believe. 20 Mrs. CampbelFs wrath at
IFS cure summary Of her visual points,,
ana TO this day il is not included in any
authorized collection Of his verses. Now
Jne picture, the poem, or both together.
have inspired Porter Emerson Browne
20 write 6 drama. The audience reads in
The program the Kipling poem in its
extended form, before seeing the play.
gazes at the BUrne-Jones picture in
la9-eau after il is over, and goes away
profoundly impressed with a tragedy
that is being enacted here. there and
everywhere in American life.
* = =
The drama that lies between those
ITs- and last ends of a Fool There
Vas has none of the painters or the
poets genius; vet it serves very well
us pun rose of illustrating the destruc-
ton of men who are fools by women