The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-03

vacuum that the husband has invented.
He didn't know what's to be the use
of it, but Gibson realizes its dramatic
utility. The wife and the friend have
| carried on scandaiously, as the wives
and friends OF aosorSed scientists often
do. The sinners mere, ike Bernstein's,
have sown the wind before the play be-
gins and we see them reap the whirl-
wind.
A hint for secret sweethearts. Don t
make dates by telephone. Gibson's two
did it. The husband CHANGED to cut in
on the party wire. He heard their
agreement TO spend the night in his
/ house during his absence. So he comes
! back too soon for them, as stage hus-
| bands do, and, according to usage, he
made noise enough in getting in to
warn the culprits. But here genius
provides a strange divergence from
custom. The friend neither faces the
| husband brazenly, nor skulks into his
lady's chamber. He let's her hustle him
into the vacuum.
Are you on? Do you get Gibson's
! idea? Do you foresee the force of the
dramatic thrill that will knock Bern
stein out of business? 1 hate to seem
presumptuous; but why didn't Gibson
put a transparent front into his cabi-
net? He might have known how eager
we would be to see the prisoner choke
to death. However, he lets US view the
husband, calm and even CHEEKY, watch
in hand, tell off the quarter minutes
until two whole ones had exhausted the
air in the box, while the wife made no
fight for a rescue. but had useless con-
YulsiOns and VociferatiOns of anguish.
GibsOn's fashionable friends laughed
when the first performance was over.
So did Gibson as he said: II wanted to
find out how much the public would
stand"
For the first time in their partner
ship, E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe
appear in "As You Like It." OF course,
Miss Marlowe's Rosalind is old enough
to be a classic, yet young enough to be
a performance Of infinite charm. Fiji
teen years ago it was the pivotal point
of a memorable controversy. Miss
MarlOwe had gained critical admira-
ton and had still to make her way with
the general public in New York. Au-
gustin Daily was far too clever a man
ager not TO appreciate her potentiali-
ties. So when she made an heroic bid
for Broadway favor by a season in
repertoire, Daily checkmated her every
move by presenting Ada Rehan just
two days before her, across the way in
Broadway, in each role she under
took. 1t is not necessary here to COM
pare the abilities OF MarlOwe and Re
han. But the latter was then at the
zenith OF her talent, popularity and
fame, and easily vanquished Miss Mar
low. Now the older woman is a retired
invalid. while the younger is still an
ideal Rosalind.
Scthern's Jealousy.
But what role does Sothern assume
You may easily ask. For that question
has kept "As You Like 1t" out of many
distinguished repertories that have in
cluded such comedies as Much Ado
About Nothing" and 1.-The Merchant of
Venice" because they offered star"
parts for both man and woman, Or
lando is generally chosen; but it is
rather slender employment for substan-
tial ability. When it was proposed to
adopt the comedy into the Sothern-
Marlowe repertoire for the actress
sake, Mr.. Sothern refused to waste
himself on Orlando. He considered
playing either jacques or Touchstone-
though the upshOt was that when, dur
ing their ambitious London season,
Miss Marlowe felt it due to herself to
her greatest roles, Mr.. Sothern re-
NAMED out Of the bill.
John Hare, who acted TouchstC ne
when Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall were his
co-stars as Orlando and Rosalind,
dared declare in his biography that
Shakespearian clowns were silly and
vapid, if people would only be cour-
ageous enough to admit it. Frequently
1t was urged upon Henry Irving that
it was unfair to Ellen Terry not to give
her chance to play Rosalind. But