The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-16
lr;+icjsm and Comment
on New Plays

Vincent Scrrano, the heavy man of
the cast
''I'm dc kid wot s knowed as Mis-
souri, Pete replied the ragmuf1ip.
The press agent denies completely.
and Missouri Pete got six months.
Marjory's Mother.
Just as the game of piuochle IN
"Thc Man Who Stood Still centered
a sort Of special attention on the play
in which Louis Mann has made so bril-
limit hit as John Krauss. the old
matchmaker, so the rehcasal scene IN
" Mariory's s Mother has been picked
out by the elect as the most enjoyable
thing in his comedy, in which Miss
Clara Lipman is acting as an individual
star for The first time. This scene rep
resents a rehearsal of a play called
.'Thc Worst Woman in Paris. written
for the purpose of exploiting a Paris
ian actress. Simone La Fec, (Miss Lip
mani as an English speaking player,
after the manner Of Nazimova. Simono
learning ner first English speaking role
rs quickly rs possible. she presses into
service for the various subsidiary roles
Of tho play her guests and ncighbors.
All these amateurs are stage.strucl<.
none Of Them is talented. When 81
none stage director comes 30 the re
sort for the purpose of talking over bust
one of the rchcarsals. and, in his pro.
fcssioual enthusiasm, he takes charge
Of the volunteer players.
is Really Pretty Woman.
Helen Lowell has doubtless had moro
''picccs : in thc papers than any other
living actress. She saws so herself. but
very modestly she attributes il 10 the
fact tha; she played miss Hszy' in
Mrs. Wigs Of The Cabbage Patch +"
for 20 long time. ''Therc was some
thing i'm tho character. said Miss Low
I'll al the Bijou theater the other even.
ing while she was resting between
spells in "'The Lottery Man. that ap-
pcalcd 10 newspaper men and women
m sure half of the people who used
10 interview me never dreamed of such
a woman rs Miss Hay. I'm sure they
had uevcr met her III real life, | sup
pose ii was her pathetic life and crush
Cd nuucararce that called for pity. In
variab!y tho intervicwerS would say;
! And. although The reader VIII hardly
believe il. Miss Lowell is really a pretty
woman. That always made Miss Hazy
feel very badly They arc saying the
same kind of things about Miss Lowell
for her PLAYING of the part of "Liazic
in "'rhc Lottery Man. In fact. 9 Liz
zic might be mistaken for a near.
relative OF "Miss Hazy' 81 never
again. admitted Miss Lowell This
should occasion no surprise. Do YOU
recall that | have appeared in Shake
spcarc! have also played IN Gilbert
and Sullivan 8 operas, Then, half
iolingly, she added ''Nou must rcmcm-
Der chat the papers used to say She
is really pretty woman
Lillian Russell S New Play.
Lillian Russell has scored in the new
farce, "The First Night. in which she
! Will appear in the south and middle
west for the balance of the season, un-
der the direction Of Joseph Brooks, The
nov Offering is an adaptation from Ros-
en- s German comedy, 8 Der ualbe Dich-
Augustin DAILY went to the same source
! for his "Nancy 6 Co. which was
81 great success two decades ago. The
players in the DAILY cast were Ada Re
han, John Drew. Mrs. Gilbert. James
Lewis and Otis Skinner, Miss Russell
PLAYS the part Miss Russell assumed and
Digbv Bell is cast for the role in which
tho late Mr.. Lewis made tho best i'm
preston OF his long career. Mr. f1o-
bart retains tho situations. but modern
iZcs the dialogue and Introduces much
new business. His lines are witty. The
action hinges on the complications of
n young wife with a Jealous husband
| writing a musical comedy IN partner
ship with an author, who is in love with
the daughter of flirtatious father She
induces him TO accompany her to the
theater for the first night of the play.
The skcin gets very much tangled when
the jealous husband. the father and the
fiancee take up the trail Of the two
authors, whom they suspect Of rcla
tionship stronger than that of a literary
! partnership. Miss Russell as the wife