The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-05

when opposing a bill I'm Congress
against prize fighting. got Speaker
Cannon interested. showed to him
some Of the tricks OF the trade and
had a glove bout with MIN. thus cX-
plotted. Nelson IS rushed onto the
summer stage. IL is a mild sight.
though. since the opening night, after
which the police forbade him to
knock out four nOViccs IN SUCCESSION
Has New York no new serious
drama2 Yes. MARY Magdalene-'
Religious2 No. Irreligioue. An attack
on Christianity. The principal char
acter is an unlovely, hateful, even
murderous zealot. He is SO obdurately,
implacably pious that. believing him.
self utterly without sin, he not only
casts the first stone at a wocbegone
Magdalene. but keeps on hurting mis-
silev at her until she is killed Inc
poor girl is his own daughter. too. yet
he Is pil,less. and when she seeks
truth at the bottom Of a well-that IS,
the truth Of Christ's teaching that
seIf-murderers go TO hell--he remarks
that her death is a comfort TO MIN.
There g. no counterbaiancing Illus
tration OF Christian JOY in this dread
ful drama Christ Is not there 10 alb
solve the repentant transgressor and
bid her go and sin no more. The
whole purpose and purport of the
piece is TO show the cruelty of that
savagery In religion which used 20
torture unbelievers 20 death. The au-
thor is not even sober in all OF his
writing He jokes about things that
orthodox Christians deem most holy.
He gibes at the doctrine OF Christ
actual blood I'm the wine Of commu-
Mon i'm way TO shock Catholics es-
pecially.
Don't drink that" says a girl TO
her tipsy brother: father says the
devil is in wine"
'Wel. he has told me that God is
| IN wine. too. sometimes. So down he
goes"
Audience Appiauds Sacrilege.
As the fellow drains his glass the
I audience does not hiss. nor stay silent
, in reprovai. but at least half Of II
breaks into laughter and applause.
I The Progressive stage society, com
/ posed mainly Of free thinkers and ad-
vanced socialists among the foreign
born masses Of our east side, has
hired a Broadway theatre In which 10
present plays of a revolutionary ma
I ture- But the audiences are not rab-
bles. They contain men in swallow
tail coats and women in fine evening
gowns. as well as people OF careless
dress. All social grades in icono-
clasm are represented
Mary MaEdalene IS not u heNs
drama by some one striving TO thrill
people and nothing more. It was writ
ten fifty years ago in German by
/ FREDERICK Hebbcl. but this is its first
perforniance in English. II has one
! scene that IS like the American kind
OF gun-pop play. The young man who
caused the girls misfortune has aoan-
| doned her she has worthier lover.
: who. when she confesses her plight
still desires TO marry her. But first
he means TO deal with the rake. That
rascal is a village officer. He is at his
desk when the other fellow. with a
cooked pistol in each hand. dashes
/ into the room and makes the culprit
throw up his hands.
Either you OF ] must die ne
says. "but Il shall be a fair fight-un-
/ less you try to escape. in which case
/ I'll shoot YOU down. Walk. ahead OF
me into the woods. and there Wen
have our duel--without seconds or
! surgeon
The bad one obediently makes his