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

like derelict wrecks through the re-
mainder of the play.
Ethel Barrymore is the most fash
iOnable actress in New York society,
also, she is very bohemian: and her
openings gather people who make a
theatre lock like the Metropolitan
opera house. Her appearance in Mid
Channel was her first since, as Mrs.
Colt, wife of Colts revolve~s heir, she
became a mother. She had added
twenty pounds to her beauty, pumping
it to the limit of the Gibson type, but
the buzz of comment within my hear
ing was that as a young matTOn she
was quite as lovely as she had been
when a supple maiden. EthePs role
was far heavier, too, than she had ever
before undertaken; and it bore her
from chickering's with Charles Dalton
as her husband to equally unafinitive
disagreement with Eric Maturin as her
paramour, despite the pacific efforts of
H. Reeves Smith as the mutual friend;
those three actors being helpers to her
in need and indeed.
In "Mid-ChanneP' Pinero has written
a bitterly graphic study Of a petulant,
irritated, unhappy and finally sinful
wife, and Ethel personates this crea-
tuTe Of circumstances admirably. The
audience seems glad to take her Sc
riously. In the third act she goes from
her paramour to her husband repent
ant and expecting to be taken back;
! but he turns her away with cOntumely.
In the fourth act she returns to the
paramOur to find that he has engaged
| to marry some one else.
Now. what shall become Of this wom-
an? Shall she live or die? Do you,
! like most people, like to have your fic-
| ton end happily any way? Or do you,
like the few, prefer a miserable finish
! II that be logical? The three men hold
a consultation over the woman's pitifuI
case. Shall the conclusion be life or
/ death? Which would you rather? II
| there was some way to poll the au-
/ dience instantly, a change Of ten words
/ would reconcile her and the husband
/ at the pleasure Of the majority. AS
! Pinero has written it, a servant comes
in to say that, overhearing the discus
/ sion Of her plight, she has killed her
/ self by leaping from window.
The Young Turk.
The new play for fun is THE Young
/ Turk" The larger Of the Rogers
| brothers was Gus, and he is dead. Max,
/ the little fellow, who used to put his
/ inquisitive nose up into the others fa6e
and ask foolish question, like Weber
/ with Fields, and take all the kicks and
| cuffs in the clOwnery, is called the
/ Young Turk in the present show. al
| though a New Yorker, because he is
sworn into a secret order of revolu-
| tiOnists for Young Turkey. And now
/ you know without another word, don't
| you, that he goes to Turkey for lu-
| dicrous adventure at court and in a
/ harem?
Novel uses Of girls are looked for in
shows like THE Young Turk" Be
tween acts, they are transported from
America to Turkey, and the curtain
is lifted to show the broadside of a
steamship, in the dark at night, with
the face Of a chorus singer nlumined in
each Of the many portfolios. Journey
ing on land, they build a big automo-
bile so quickly, out Of pieces swished
from their skirts, that they are seated
in it before you have mad time to Won
/ der where it came from. OF course,
they are ladies at the sultan's court, and
inevitably they are inmates Of a
harem, where they put of skirts; but
the satin panties they put on are
modest, although they loIl sensuousIy
as though to advertise the cigarettes
they smoke. They pose there as list.
eners to Max's medley Of popular bal
lads. IN the Rogers manner, and join IN
the refrain of his New York topical
ditty, I'VE never saw a thing like that
in Turkey" Could the haren scene get
along without a wriggie-waggle dance
It doesn't try to. But with nearly nude
art women in high vogue, this
/ hootchie-cootchie stunt looks innocent
as kindergarten calisthenics. And a
| travesty Of the current Partisan
apache waltz is too funny to be wicked
Max Rogers mimic sweetheart and
partner in song and dance is a new
! Violet Mcmillan, adult in years, but
only half grown in size, and so dainty
a little creature that it looks nothing
but neat and nice when Max takes a
cud of chewing gum from her lips in q
kiss. It is a theory that stage kisses
don't cause Jealousy, but a woman near
me said: Il wonder If Mrs. Maud Raw
mOnd-ROgers likes that?" as the gum
! snapped mouths. Well, il is art.