The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-24

be traced by handwriting they cut the
necessary words from a newspaper
and paste them into the desired COM
municaton- The plan goes well-un-
III the fellow is nabbed with the
jewels and accused as the thief.
From that point on the very orig
inal play becomes a matter of every
body taking the blame so as to shield
somebody else The end Is that the
physician convinces all that the
Widow Raffles was out of her mind
through bad nerves. and wins her for
his wife. Good luck TO the pair Of
EN-. Still, up to that point. it was an
interesting story to unfold.
That an audience not above mid
ding In culture will let itself get en-
crossed in abnormal and supernatural
subjects, even I'm midsummer. has a
half-hour demonstration in the only
Broadway theatre open now with
vaudeville altogether. The singulari-
ties that make The Devil. the Servant
and the Man" worth description are
appropriated from those metaphysical
dramas, The Devil" and The Serv-
ant IN the House" The man comes
home late at night and tlpsy. raps
gently at his wife's bedroom door.
doesn't get any response. falls asleep
in an easy chair and has nightmare
visits OF the devil and the servant
from the plays he has lately seen.
A Diabolicai Fellow.
The devil is a gentlemanly but dia-
bolical fellow, who suggests TO the
man that his wife. having threatened
to misbehave as he does II he won't
mend his way, has gone out for a ca
rouse with a rake as he has with a
siren That drives him frantic with
Jealousy and satan leaves him in a
he NJ
comes in from the other play, where
he is. as you know, the spirit OF
Christ embodied in a mental mortal.
Taking up the mans excitement at the
pitch that the devtl has raised It 20.
the servant slowly soothes him with
kindly talk. induces him 20 vow re-
form and finally tells him his wife is
innocently abed and asleep The man
awakes to find that his visitors have
been imaginary, but that his wife's
purity is actual
The Christly servant is made to look
as much like Christ as Actor Charles
GIL can copy from the traditional pic
lures. His hair is long. his beard is
soft and his robe is white, but instead
OF dignity the demearnor is sanctimO-
nious. and instead Of mellifcrous sim
piicity the voice Is that Of the re-
vivalist's harangue. Gill does the best
he can. but he is not an Arliss for the
devil nor a Hampton servant. How
ever. vaudeville is not discriminate
An afternoon audience. two-thirds
feminine, enabled me to observe the
effect OF a stage impersOnatiOn of
Christ on women OF a kind mostly
to credit Mrs. Anna Eva Fays tricks
OF mind-reading Their questions.
written for Mrs. Fay to answer were
such as they would put to a fortune
teller concerning incOnstant lovers.
hayward husbands, rivals in love and
other matrimonial troubles. To their
simple souls and dull minds this very
theatric Christ was religiously i'm
pressive. 1 don't think that n, by an
electric device. a halo had encircled
the mock Savior's head. they would
have deemed Il impious. When the
sacred figure responded to a curtain
call. like any stage hero, they applaud
ed hard
Next before the sober play Una Clay
ton made them laugh with a new COM
edietta Of her own. His Local Color"
Una IS a small woman with the right /
voice for a street waif. who wanccrs
ragged into an artists studio. and
whose active legs get entangled in the
long train OF a gown she puts on. As
a model she supplies local color for |
picture and Jealousy for the painters |
sweetheart: but the fun comes from |
the awkward antics with which ac-
tresses, from Lotta Crabtree az the I
Marchioness to ReJane as Madame /
Sans-Gene. have been comic nOviccs /
in court trains. Una out-stunts all /
predecessors by tripping heaalong to |
the floor, rolling of a sofa and soner- /
saulting down q stairway.
And next after the religious play a /
monologue mimic astounded me with |
something / had never seen befcre--i.
specialist who bothered to. make his /
act partly new every week by carica-
turing briefly all who preceded him
except that he respectfully omitted the |
Christ.
A Theatrical Comuotion.
The biggest theatrical commotiou in /
Broadway these days Is where Jack i
Johnson. the pugilist. Is on exhibition |
afternoons on a ground-foor stage
and evenings in the roof garden. II IL /
a black and white mob. Modish f,lk
who come in motor cars are roughly /