The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-10

EW YORK, April 9.-"Not one
Nj play in New York tonight worth
i = seeing" The man who said SO
knew better, but he thought II sounded
base and superiority cynical; and many
minimizing people believe such asser-
lions of stage worthiessness. On thAt
same evening the dramatically strong
est three plays within as many years
were in Broadway, along with three
musical comedies Of operate grade; ana
the appreciation Of their merits hao
been SO keen that all six were TO re-
main the season through. At the same
time Broaday offered fourteen star
brand actors in modern plays IRE
proachable morally, as well as popular
enough 10 have stayed in that street
of theaters one to seven months each-
Then, too, there were six more plays
OF song. dance and antic, led by tai
ented merTymakers without affront 10
anything save dignity. To offset the
worth and propriety of those twenty
six plays, there were running only TWO
of obnoxious indecency. Or course the
usual number OF travelling burlesques
and crude melodramas were In town LOT
the week; but is the Broadway round
up discouraging?
II wasn't a night to complain, more
over. for much standard old drama Is
uvered by Mrs. Fiske and good com
rades. Sheridan, Gilbert and Shake
sDeare by the Ben GreeterS, Shake-
snesre by the -Southerners, and
Maeterlinck. Sheridan and Shakespeare
at the New theatre. Until now, those
appreciative of Isben tried TO be con-
tent while glad to get Pillars OF So
cjety'' OF an afternoon, with cranky
actors and makeshlft mountings. Now
Mrs. Fiske brings It out at COST OF
care and money, and with other ilu-
,nsnators Of the matter besides herself
as the Norwegian woman who brings
home TO vindicate man who has work
ed out mis- own salvation In America
Ibsen Once More.
Ibsen has passed through the process
of discussion, and some into ordinary
lse. Although pillars of Society Is
acted in America less than any otheI
of his dramas Of realism, IT. was the
first when, at one experimental per-
Torrance. George Fawcett gave it with
Alice Fischer, Elizabeth Tyree and
other recent graduates OF the Lyceum
school of acting. Six years ago, when
Wilton Lackeye was playing an en-
gagement he gave It first profession
al presentation at a Matinee very
bad one, with hardly any role well
IACUlOTlECQ dAtN 4AN~AASeS 80
OF all.
The third play of Shakespeare to be
nut into the New theatres repertory Is
"A Winters Tale" 1t is given In the
FIizabethan Kramer Of Shakespeare
own stagecraft. as nearly as research
reveals with no other scenery than fin'
oak panels and tapestrians. Outdoor
passages are placed on 'front.' stag
and indoor ones in a higher alcove a
. rtros4.
in quick alienation eliminates delays
obviates the necessity of rearrange
ment and facilitates a delivery or TIT
entire text as written. Superb is tn
word TO s.ppIy to much OF the acting
especially to Edith Wynne Matthison'
Hernione and Rose Coghland's Paul
inc. And mot one play worth seeing
in New York;
What part would Julia Marlowe hav
taken In "a Winters Tale" If she ant
Sothern had stayed at the New theatre
where they were engaged as member
of the stock company TIE layout In
cluded Sheir participation in thre
Shakespeare plays IN two of whicl
neither had acted. They got only 8
far as Antony and Cleopatra, an
then retired, leaving Malvolio and Vol
In Twelfth Night to Oswald York
and his wife, Annie Russell So nue.
we know. But how about "A Winter
Tale?" Southern proposed playin
Leontes and Miss Marlowe his unhappy
queen Hermione; but was she also t
enact their daughter. the blitheson
Perdita? ] do not know. Since Mar
Anderson assumed both characters /
one cast ii has become so the custor
that the present generation forgets tina
& was not always so. Yet Agnes Boot
was well advanced IN years and disnit
when her Hermlone was proclaimed a
close upon perfection. And could on
fancy either of those massive memo
lies. Charlotte Cushman or Fam
Janauschek, whose Herniones squeeze
tears from the driest eyes. coming 0
at the last as the girlish, loving, care
free Perdita?
Mary Anderson's revival Of "a Wiz
ter's Tale" nearly a quarter of Ger
fury ago, was the most brilliant success
of her great career; and also term