The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-27

its first beauty and the corpse is
hideOUs.
A psychological meIodrama or ira
yeStyinE melOdrama might take big
impressiVeness from The Picture of
Dorian Gray" but EdWardes Davis. NJ
A. evolves am agreeable comedy for
vaudeville. Dorian Gray is a beautiful
girl, not man, and while she is rs
vain as Wilde's abnormal creature, she
is not at all vicious. The scene is a
sumpruOUs studio of an artist PERSONAL
ed by Tempiar SAKE, the tenor, who
does naught but provide a meeting
place for Adele Blood as the richly
goWned. and Edwardes Davis as an
actor who has won her love; to sing a
bailaS to them entitled Drink For
ever and 10 paint portrait of the
girl.
The actor comes iu disguised. Have
you observed that fiction is stranger
than fact i'm the matter of DISCUSSES?
A detective puts on a wig and beard
and everybody kindly refrains from
Identifying him. A brunette woman
bleaches herself to blonde, and her in
Inmates are TOO good TO the plot to
recognize her familiar face. In this case
the actor wigs himself, sticks on a
mOustache and @ bit of chin Whsker,
and his sweetheart doesn't suspect that
he is her lover throughout a long con-
VerSatiOn of Wilde'S wit and sarcasm.
The deceiVer's worthy object is to tell
her some things calculated to. cure her
of frivolous vanity and beft her o.
make him a sensible wife.
Cured of Self Conceit.
That is the gist OF the play with its
bright Verbiage scissOTed from the
book. 1t is given well and the Broad
way vaudeville audience comprehends
it with satisfaction. The only resem-
blanCe to the tragedy Of THE Picture
of Dorian Gray is that the girl, being
convinced by the actor of her fault of
self-COnCeit.. seizes d knife and Stabs
the portrait, before throwing herself
into his arms. At the conclusion. Oscar
Wilde is recalled by the playwright re-
citing some lines from The Ballad Of
Reading Gael"
A French pantomime company is Civ
ing Blood of Passion" here with every
point expressed as clearly as though
words We're spoken: but their skill CEN
tiers i'm the notorious and now too ia
milan apache dance. which YOU don't
want me to describe again. Two ardent
but reputable fellows are rivals for the
hand Of a pretty cOquette. Each
thinks she has gone to a ball with the
other and goes to thrash his opponent. /
They find her with the lover Of her
chOice-one of those apaches who hyp-
nOtize their SWeetheaTts i'm a waltz
and as an actor able to Whirl so many
times round on the tip of a toe that
you can't keep count Is she to blame
for yielding to all that? The tragedy
eusues. The pivOt-daucer goes out and
on returning finds his girl with her two
WoOers. He draws a long knife and
murders ali three. This little panto-
mime viii not be seen in after-supper
entertainments i'm fashionable resi-
dences.
Those jabs and stabs at tragedy NAV
serve for prefaces 10 "The Witch" a
New theatre output too glum and grim
for popularity, but TO my mind a re
markable achievement IN historical
drama, the theme being Salem witch /
craft. In the first scene d crazed old !
woman is chosen TO be a sacrifice to /
the prevailing mania of superStitiOus
frenzy. She fees i'm terror from the mob, |
but is caught and quickly sent to Witch |
hill TO be hanged. In the last scene the |
heroine Of the play is similarly accused !
of being a witch and IS delivered over |
To the hangman.
An Engrossing Drama.
In the gloom between the two fanati- |
cal murders, the only relief of sanity is /
the heterOdOXy of the hangman, who 1
gets upsy after a hard days work with /
the moose, humorOusly doubts the guilt 1
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