The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-17

courts, The English women are on the
wrong track In the methods they take
! 10 secure the franchise. On several oc-
caslons when | was In London the con
duct of the women as they stormed
parliament was disgusting Their ac-
tlons made me ashamed that / was ever
! associated with such movement
Olga Nethersole's IS Hobby
| When Miss Olga Nethersole begins her
short engagement at the Academy of
Music on Monday night it will be her
three years, as she is entering upon a
long foreign contract, which will take
her out of the United States for that
long. She will be seen in "CamilleD
and "Sappho,' plays IN which she
gained her fame. 1t is not generally
known that Miss Nethersole' s hobby is
babies. She would rather talk about
them than about the art of the drama.
~ haven t any of my own'' she said.
but | feel personal interest in every
one of them that is born - 1t was in
her dressing-room. Her visitor was a
young married woman. making a social
| call
Have you any children7'' was al
most the first question of the actress
after the introduction.
Upon receiving an answer in the af-
ilrmauve she went on TO extract name,
| age, sex and dozen other particulars
from the mother, "Well. then, " She
said, "you must have felt the full force
of my climax at the end of the second
act, dldn t your This climax, as those
who saw the play will recall, pictures
the agonIes of mother when She learns
her child Is being burned TO death in
tenement house fire.
''Yes? Well, l knew it. Do YOU
know that at the end of my second act
dozens OF men, after 4 whispered con
sultatIon with their wives, have stolen
out OF the audience in the various thea
lers nave played, gone to the phone III
the box office, called mp their homes,
and asked the nurse; Are the children
all right2'
-" / regard that as one of the highest
possible tributes TO my art as an aa9ress
to move people TO think OF the wei
fare OF their babies L wish | had the
world well and happy. -
MISS Nethersole told Of her visits to
The tenement houses in New York. She
told how she had seen women in dirty
hlthy rooms working on fine lambs wool
innings TOR the baby's carriages of the
rich' Every one of those babies, -
she said, 'will be compelled TO sIeen in
consequence among millions of Ger Germs ne
OF disease and death. Those rooms in
the tenement houses are alive with bac-
terra Of typhoid fever dipbtber;o
tuberculosis and the rest, and il is the
babies that must suffer-
Cohan's New Musical Comedy.
George Michael Cohan. the Yankee
Doodle playwright, is working upon an.
other burst of color. That is to saw
Mr Conan is soon to produce new
musical comedy. IL will consist of pop.
ular songs, lests and the waving Of
H.. /, I,
Wmte and Blue and United States
An. - sighed Mr. Cohan, rcgretfnlIy
wish we had more national anthems
and more American flags Why, every
nation ought TO have at least fifty ma.
tional songs. Here ] am writing away
on my new piece and ! can t find a
national air that / haven't used be.
fore, And say, we ought to have al
least twenty flags. One flag is not
enough for a nation rs bic as the
United States. More flags and more
national anthems, say ~
Marlowe and Sothen.
F.. TT. Sothern and Julia MarIowe
have closed their season at the Acadcmv
OF Music and are playing out of town.
On Monday, June o, they will return
to the Academy for n single perform.
ance of "The Tanning of fhe S6rew ;,
for the benefit of the Actors fund.
That will be the last legitimate per-
tormance upon the stage of this ia.
nous thenter. In the future, Miss Mar
lowe will devote herself to impersonat
ing Shakespearcan hcroines. This is
a gracious tribute to her art and to
The foremost plays of the stage. In
Miss Marlowe the traditions of Shakes.
pcare' far women rests OF all the
actresses on the stage today she alone
possesses the ambition and equipment
to give her experience and labor to
the works qf Shakespeare II is sci |