The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-13

his mother. The pal swears he VIII go
/ to her husband for blaCkmail. She bars
| his way out. He throws her aside. She
/ shoots him dead. As done by Dorothy,
this deed of death thrills Broadway
! thoroughly.
Trial of Murderess.
However, the actress domination of
| the interest in Madame X" is over.
! The remainder Of the play is the trial
/ of the murderess. A spacious court
room so fully peOpled that no one per-
| son can count for for much without
/ having a great deal to say; and as the
| prisoner obdurately refuses to speak
a word until near the close, the lawyer
| for the defense gets the attention. The
/ sympathy goes to him, too, for the
| audience knows, although he and she
] do not, that he is her son. By a rare
! chance Jacquelins own son is assigned,
/ for his debut at the bar, to the case of
/ his mother; and the author, having
/ thrown probability aside. doesn't hest
/ tate to place the husband and father
on the bench as a guest Of the presiding
| judge; but his wife has changed so
piteously in twenty years that he
doesn't recognize her.
The sons opportunity for distinction
D
! Elliott. The youngster takes full pos
session of the stage and auditorium
| for a fervid. unstudied, unconsciOusly
eloquent plea for the life Of the
wretched creature for whom he in
! stinctively, unknowingly feels a sons
/ love of a mother. One would have to
! go somewhere that Camille, Lady Isabel
or Little Eva was dying before unso-
phisticated spectators to see tears flow
so copiously as they did from the
usually dry flrst-night eyes at Ma
dame X" And # the tears that roll
down the actors face are not natural
then he onions or something else to
force them. At the climax, Dorothy
Donnelly has a death scene In the
arms Of her son; but the demonstration
when he won the verdict of acquittal
exceeded that which she had evoked In
the previous act.
Three New York Dramas.
Three dramas in New York this sea-
son have had builders Of bridges for
heroes. To be explicit. the lovers are
civil engineers, who plan bridges and
see TO their construction. In the latest
of these compositions, None So Blind"
! ernest Poole author and John Mason
! star actor, a gain of picturesque loca-
ton is obtained by making the hero a
bold bridger of gorges hard to span;
and the transfer of the mans young
wife from eastern culture to western
wildness causes the plays essential
misunderstanding; for her affinity with
a cOngenial poet conVinces the husband
and the audience, too-that she is at
| heart untrue to her marriage vows. So
here is one more of those cases of two
being good.
The oddly Of None So Blind" is that
John Mason personates a man who for
nine months has been blind; but he re-
gains his vision, and then pretends
while to be still sightless, SO that he
may watch unexpectedly what's going
on around him. A blind man recovering
his sight, and using it to watch the con-
duct of a wife and her sweetheart sug-
gests French farce. In Poole's drama
not fun, but much heartache come of
it. The poet tempts the wife in the hus-
| bands presence, believing he can't see
them; and they imagine that their
words belle their actions to him, yet all
the time he sees all they do, and is de-
ceived only in ascribing a wrong motive
to them.
Although None So Blind" is a futile
aspiration in mental drama, at least 1t
| justifies the adage from which it takes
| its title: None so blind as those who
will not see" The husband won't see
that his wife's fault is esthetic, not
| sensual, and that her love of him is not
| impaired. He would send her east with
the poet, and stay west lonesome. but
she refuses TO go, and convinces him of
her loyalty.
"Just q Wife,"
There is not a doubt that Beiasco is
the author Of the noise of the hus-
bands arrival and departure In Wal
ter's Just q Wife" The leaf In Gil
lette's laurel for hocfbeats IN Held by