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

The author epitomiZes the reason why
this wife, naturally warm and affection
ate, but bound III WedOck to d cold and
repellant old man, has sinued with her
first cOngenial lover. The actress deliV-
eTS the brief passage with furious elO-
quence that reaches its apex with the
cry: Yes wish you were dead"' AT
that the husband, who has listened i'm
stunned silence, slips lifeless to the
floor and the remainder Of the play is
as I have told you. It is q tOrturiugly
impressive drama.
An artist in Woman and Why is
not murdered by the beautiful girl
whose portrait he has painted, but she
tits him twice She is a bachelor maid
the first time; also aesthetic; and she
loves him for his art; but the pictures
he makes don't sell, and she has
sutton who makes pickles that people
buy vOraciOusly. She decides that the
luxury and prose of sour pickles are
preferable in wedIOck to the poverty of
sweet poetry in a studio lodging, That
is why the artist gets the first jilt tGat
jOlts his heart and sends him to Eu-
rope.
The odd incident in Woman and
Why" by Marie Y. Fitzgerald, is a d.
VOrce dinner. The heroine has had a
really first-rate husband in the pickle
maker. who loves and pets her: but she
has yeaTned for the picture maker who
comes back to New York famous and
ardent. She therefore told her husband
that she hated him and loved the other
fellow. All right, said the Mr.. Pickle,
divorce me and marry Mr.. Picture. rhe
dinner is to celebrate the decree OF d.
vorce received today and the marriage
to be held tomorrow. 1t is a Bohemian
affair-fTee and eaSy-the sort of jOVial-
ty that she used to enjoy; but several
years of polite life have refined nef
taste and the gOings-Ou disgust her
Besides, she perceives that the mercsU-
tile husband she has had is a far better
man than the husband she is going to
haVe-Or not going to. Laura Phillips
acts this CapriciOus girl and Louis
Leon Hall the worthy husband who
taxes her back when she asks him 10.
The artist isn't worth her while, and
he doesn't mind very much. SO the Soc
Ond jilt at the divorce dinner doesn't
jolt him as much as the first did,
Beverage Sisters Again.
I went across the Hudson 10 a su-
buTban theatre to see another play Of
d disgruntied wife made content by
experience. Ray BeveTedge was the
actress. Five OF six years ago the Bev-
=
publicity. huhne was a SCulptTess and
Ray was her model for classical stat
uary. They held Bohemian receptions
in kuhne's studio and visitors who had
seen the beautiful Ray in marble or
plaster met her alive. Last season, be
fore the rage for art dancing, she posed
as a GTecian figure. Now she is an
actress in Sincerity She plays a vile
who, despising her home life. put II into
drama for other WOmen's warming
Her husband advises her to include
poker game in the action. She re-
luctantly assents TO catch the rabble."
He wishes, also, to hire a strong
armed, hard-handed clacqUe. She re-
fuses because she is sure there viii be
plenty Of applause. There isn't any,
though, but an abundance of Kisses and
catcalls. She goes home humbled and
ChaStened. That's all except that Ray
is handsome in skirts and can act-a
little.
Speaking Of clacqUes, the belief has
been that, while applause in a theatre
is often dishonest, laughter is almost
sincere; for friendly hands may be
clapped without skill, but it takes good
mimicry to laugh as though tickIed
when one is not. There was a laughing
claCque, however, at the introduction
had been full of funny talk and comic
takers it might have been amusing,
but it lacked these aids; yet there was
enough laughter to drown the thud of
its dull fall. Was too grOuChy to see
the jokes points? Then I observed
that the laughing started always in the
balcony, where a front row of men
went into outlaws as though the soles
of their feet rested on wire that tickled
whenever a current of electricity was
turned on.
A clacque operated for hilarity by a
dynamo! / was considering its feast
bility when close scrutiny gave a less
ingenious explanation Of the laughing
clacque. They were actors able to imi-
tate genuine laughter. and they had
rallied to the support OF the comedians
in the company. They were the proven
bal friends, indeed, because friends in
need.