The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-06

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| coming OF the actress, the return TO the
| old playhouse where when she only
nine months old she was carried on
| tray on tho stage. IT was her debut
| as an actress; the play was "The Lost
| Child" with Phil Marsetts in the title
| role and MaUde Adams was carried upon
me stage by Harry Horseley. who was
| also in the cast II was different scene
| Then from the one OF Thursday night At
| that time the seats in the Salt Lake the
afer were benches; most OF the audience
wore homespun clothes Thursday even :
Ing the audience was in evening dress.
The beauty and fashion of Salt Lake
were there; the state outside OF the CAPT
'ai city was well represented. The stalls;
and loges were filed with offlcialdom
rcrresenting the nation the state. the
county and the city OF Salt Lake. 1t
must have been more than gratifying to
this Salt Lake girl TO be greeted by such
welcome. Her mother had appeared
upon the same stage when only 16 years
old. She appeared in the juvenile part
ot The Lost Child the same play in
which her daughter made her debut. Her
mother was in the audience, and she, too.
was happy at the homage paid TO her
gifted daughter.
Adams have recalled! She looked into
faces OF old friends OF those who had
known her from babyhood; she looked
into races Of the friends OF her girlhood
days; she saw new faces, many OF them.
and all were eager to give her the well
come which was due
And IT was a welcome. When she ap-
peared there was an outnurst of applause
mat was continued. and II was some time
before the play could proceed. so hearty.
so spontaneous was the ovation. 1t came
from parquet. from dress circle, from
balcony. and from gallery. and the gal
lery god was there in force TO show his
appreciation Of the distinguished Salt
Lake girl who has achieved such fame
upon the stage.
1t was a happy combination OF play and
DlIyer and aI6lpnre All in,
III was like great orchestra, all in per-
feet attune, The play was the finest the
best that has been seen in Salt Lake for
a long while; indeed. II might bo said
that the play, the delicious comedy. was
the best ever presented here, In that
the players and the audience were in
yet not n play, For the players took the
great audience and held this audience just
az II 1t was narrative that was being
told Ia the home.
And It was a most delicious comedy.
II was brimfull and overHowlng with
Scotch humor, 1t appeals to every one.
Ana no ono could have interpreted the
lines SO good. SO well as did Maude
Adams. This is said not because she is
a Salt Lake girl. not because OF the pride
ono has for her because this Is her home
town, but because OF absolute merit
Salt Lakers have seen her in many
plays. tho last in Peter Pan" when she
made even the older people believe that
falrles sun exist when she startled them
with her rendition OF an elf But one
runs out OF adjectives and superlatives
In expressing opinion of the play 1t is
the best comedy that Barrie has turned
out
II has been suggested that good sub
title for tho play would be How 10 Man
age Husband" The title would have
been misleading. for every woman does
not know how to manage her husband
and this is not the bit OF information that
Barrie attributes TO the sex in his play.
The heroine OF the work knows how to
manage Ter husband 10 the queens taste
but, then, the heroine does not belong to
ner OF means.
In the play Maggie EylIe is a shy. re-
GrinS little woman whose three brothers
are deeply grIeved because no one seems
TO want her for q wife. John Shand
young Scot. with plenty of brains. some
push and no money, breaks into their
house one night committing technical
burglary to study the books they have
bought TO show their appreciation or the
"eddicatlon' they haven't got them
selves. They catch him, and are so
taken with his enterprise that they offer
TO pay his way through college II lie
will marry Maggie at the end of Ave
years-if she wants him then. Shand
deliberates, agrees. and sticks to the bar
gain. The timid little wife liz not with
out ambitions. and the foremost OF them
is that her John shall become n great
man in the world.
Maggie is always the general in the
background, helping John do things
really doing them for him, and not let
ting him know at all. because he loves
self" He becomes through her efforts.
a member OF parliament. at the end OF
the six years. And member OF pailia-
ment as he conceives IT, needs To be
pretty magnanimous II he is TO marry
"charmless woman" like Maggie, Never
theless. he is q man Of honor aud he
goes through with the part. And Maggie.
not having the charm 10 win hus-
band. creates one by her very cleveruess,
and her creation is so good that she
loves II.
for the house OF commons. All Maggie
docs ls 10 run through them and insert
the; little expressions and ideas that
make the speeches worth hearing. She
merely docs the best OF the work the
soul OF Ii. injecting into the thick brain
OF her husband with delicate psychology
cal surgery the Ideas that ought to be
tiere-tben expressing these same ideas
for him as they ought to be expressed
She makes him seem to have brains
and magnetism and nanners. And all
the time she makes him think that he
Is doing il all.
She corrects his errors-of every sort.
She finally corrects his erroneous belief
that he is in love with another woman
The other woman Is the "inspiration"
IL would Seem. OF John Shand's best work. |
1t is always another woman" who sup
plies the inspiration in stage affairs.
Only Barrie happens to he different
SO Maggie sends John away 10 be gone
len days with tho other woman, and tho
other woman, I'm her languorous way. adj |
mires The generosity Of Maggie, and vol |
unteers the lovely remark: "Oh, | know
you must love him. too-in your way"
But II happens that John Shand Is duo |
for an important speech which must he
written during his n-day romance. He |
will be so beautifully inspired. Maggie
tells him-what a speech that will bcI'
And what n speech il is! Shaud's s |
friends mourn the passing OF his genius
after they have read the speech, Maggie |
does not actually let him deliver it, She
makes extra copy" with some cm- |
bollishments. and once more John sshand's |
''second thoughts prove him the genius |
that lie has always appeared TO be.
Shand finds himself out In the long
run. That happens despite the best ef- |
forts OF Maggie to prevent H. Shand is |
finally forced To compare n speech writ
Ten by himself with the same speech re
touched and vitali8ed by Maggie And
then he colapses. The idol OF his self |