The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-30

Scene From miss Hobbs" a
been treated with deserved contempt
in literature by Byron and Thackeray,
and cold history itself records his
| shortcomings. Yet nothing in the
! drama must reflect even remotely
/ against his character!
Even Shakespeare, in a time when
/ liberty Of opinion was comparatively
unknown, knew no such restrictions as
/ those that the British censorship for
| generations has imposed upon the
drama.
Madame Troubadour.
When two little DAIRY maids came
| capering on the stage in the second act
Of Madame TrOubadour, II was as
/ though a yellow kitten and a black,
/ both in widest spirits known 70 kit
tens. had tumbled Unexpectedly into
| drawing room where fOrmality was
/ beginning TO pail.
/ Until their entrance we had been a
/ little oppressed by the magnificent
/ surroundings and the stateliness Of
/ Madame Troubadour. Excepting Van
! RENSSELAER, Wheeler, who since he
played in the Girl From Rector's"
/ has suffered from Anna Held's chrOn-
ic complaint, he cant make his eyes
/ behave" we felt that we were in
! strange atmosphere. and among stran-
/ gers. Perhaps we missed the inevita-
| Bile chorus, that human back drop to
which we have long been accustomed,
and of which we so often complain.
| At any rate there was constraint in
the air until in tumbled the kittens.
Their names were Doris Goodwin
and Anna Wheaton, the yellow and
the black. Things began 10 happen,
people Strengthened in their seats.
| eyes smiled. The yellow kitten sang
in sweet, velvety notes accompanying
herself on a long loaf Of bread that
she mistOOk in her agitation for
guitar. The black one capered after
and burlesqued her. When a hand
some young man made love to them
! with impartial devotion they grew
Jealous. Their vulgarity grew with
their hatred for each other. They
made faces at each other. They
scratched and bit Each was a COM
edy Tess OF the D'Urbervilles. will
ing, unregenerate Tess.
In a box sat the mayor of SaVan-
nah and his encourage OF a half dozen
Georgians. Ignorant Of and indiffer-
ent 10 the stern stage rule of no flow
ers passing over the fOotlights, his
honor the mayor flung a purple
chrysanthemum at the feet of Miss
Wheaton, who missed a step in her
rOmping dance in trying TO step over
it. Not many years ago Anna Whea-
ton was born in Savannah, and the
citizens Loyalty remembered that fact.
After the girls had vanished and their
song of love and dance OF animal spir-
its done, the committee of six from
Savannah stood hat in hand outside
the stage door desiring to pay their
distinguished respects TO Savannah s
fairest daughter" Miss Wheaton. the
black kitten" greeted them with the
joy Of her eighteen years, and got the
rest OF the bouquet OF chrysanthe-
NUNS.
AngIin Sees Child.
Margaret Anglin. looking off stage
during a rehearsal OF 'sThe Eternal
Feminine" six years ago. saw child
with big. dark eyes. and curly black
hair, paying eager and fiattering at
tentiOn to every movement made on
she stage. She was an intruder in the
wake of a relative who was one OF
Miss Anglin's friends
I want that child" said Miss An
Gin with the same decision with which
she secured an option on ''The Great
Divide"
But you can't have her unless you
take me. too" said the little bru-
nette's mother.
"Then I'll take you. too" said Miss
Anglin.
We saw the child later as Liza; in
deed, she played seven parts in her
two years with Peter Pan" Lately
graduated from Juvenile into comedy
roles. she is kittenly happy in that
natural element. There is great zest
in life when you are a coincidence and
eighteen.
Doris Goodwin went 20 Germany
when a child TO study for a year She
remained for three. acquiring vocal
training and German ideals of music
which is one reason why she sings so
sweetly in the few minutes Miss
Wheaton leaves uninterrupted by her
teasing. She had dreams Of grand
opera which her five feet one inch
height abridged. She can sing the
prima donna roles OF twenty-five OPP
eras at a seconds notice. Broadway
heard her as Araminta In The Three
Twins" She followed Alice Nelson
In 1.-The Fortune Teller" and the COM
PARSONS that ensued paid tribute to
her voice and the three years OF study
in Germany She sang in The Young
Turk" and 1.-The Prince of Pilsen." In
Montreal and in California she was the
prima donna in stock opera compa-
MES.
BY these devious ways, not. as wise
ones suggested. by a speciality in which
they had worked together for years.
arrived the black and yellow kitten in
the drawing room. The moral OF which
tale is Look out for the dancers. -
This is the second time in this young
season that they have tossed play
over their shoulders and scampered
of with IT,
Lily Lena is headlining the bill al