The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-09
Last Letter Of Franklin Fyles,
the Celebrated Dramatic Critic
Describes Success of The Red Rose" Under
"Starsbiip" of Valeska Suratt and About
Saddles" Play He Ever Saw.

/ dazzling duplicate of one pictured
in paint before us. In the glare of
a friendly calcium Valeska poses
for us in attitudes denoting Joy,
fear, supplication. etc. We know
they mean these things because
each pose is carefully announced IN
u large, clear voice. But none OBJ
scures the bovine beauty of the
| model
Next we become aware that Lola.
though a model, is a good girl
Why? Because. when about to run
away from the lover she thinks
faithless, she robes herself III a
simple. uuornamented and closely
! clinging gown. But with the be-
ginning Of the second act we are
shocked to learn that 'this sorrow
has made her reckless. She sings
about being Queen of Bohemia and
wears A harem skirt. Beautiful
indeed the gown is; and beautiful
| are the dresses and scenery that 60
with it. Everything is pink and
dazzling and very flowery. Hats
are huge and plumes are as plenti-
/ full as the leaves of Vsllombrosa;
Miss Suratt promenades with
long, long parasol; and the show.
girls scatter roses everywhere and
Somethingorother mirrors. II is
all very beautiful and looks as
though it smelt intoxica ting
Swift Dramatic Change.
But 10! great dramatic change
suddenly occurs Lola appears
garbed like a Merry Widow! Of
course we guess her purpose. Or if
VIC doubted it, all question van
ishes when she seats herself in a
rose-entwined swing and sings 10
the lover she mistrusts. 1t is a
very pretty song, and he swings
her and soft lights come and go.
SO straightway they waltz together
and are reconciled The next
change of gown beralds the most
amusing scene of the piece. 1t is
bridal dress-bouquet, veil, and
all Lola is about to marry a poor
specimen of the nobility at her
fathers command. Numerous 9th
er unprepossessing examples Of his
unwilling bride is heartbroken.
But when, upon the false declara
tion that she is not the baron's
daughter, the groom"eect rejects
| her, She seizes the pearls the baron
gave her and tears them from her.
throat. Casting them at the feet
of the aristocratic company, She,
dasbes from the place. Docs the
curtain fall on an abashed nobil-
ity? Not at all All its princely
male members fall upon their hands
and knees and scramble in the dirt
for the unstrung pearls.
Some Excellent Stunts.
However. as I have said, what
ever one s feelings as to Miss Sur
att S right to stardom she was Law
ish as to salaries and generous in
| allowing her company ample OPP
portunities to justify them. Ern-
est Lawford was there to delight
irst-nighters with his familiarly
droll embodiment of q titled ass
| from England; and John E. Har-
zard, to break the English Ian
| guage in the most approved Broad
way fashion. With him Flavio Ar
caro-, who played the maternal con-
cierge and looked and acted much
| like Marie Dressler, was very
amusing In song about her old
days in the ballet when she was
the forerunner of Russian dancers,
\ W hSS NiptpSiop -iCi w liONS,
and other terpsichorean novelties
of today. Such of the music as
was at all ambitious (most of it
was very pleasing but wholly un-
pretentious, being the work of
Robert Bowers) fell to such famil
lar singers as Louis Casavant and
Craig Campbell. and to Carrie
Reynolds.
The last named singer. blonde,
vivacious and vocaly son the
Job, Is a newcomer to Broadway,
though she has traversed the couu-
try in travelling comic opera com
psnies for many years. She was
supposed to be gay Parisienne, an
enticer of frivolously inclined old
men. But she enticed into no such
naughty occupation on her own ac.
count. Indeed, no, She was en-
gagged by moving picture firm.
Rival trust magnates (Alexander
Clarke and John Daily Murphy
were inclined TO "do'' Paris cir
cumspectly; but q cheerful black
mailer devised the plan Of catching
them entertaining, then winiug and
dining a yellow haired soubrette.
Not that he was going to run the
risk of discovering such thing
himself. On the contrary, he sta
toned cinematagraph photog-
rapher nearby, among the bushes
of the rose garden, and made his
efforts TO extract hush. money only
when discriminating photographs
had been taken, developed and Sc.
lectcd. Meanwhile we had been di-
yerted By champagne trio sung
by the old men and the siren en-
titled BUY Buy, Baby"
Not the Same Graham.
Then TOO, there was Lillian Ora
ham. This slender. youthful and
dcmurc newcomer used to be ell
liam, but lest she be mistaken
for the woman now on trial for
the shooting OF w. +. ID. Stokes,
she sacrificed an .1o Indeed,
when the story of that ARRAY first
became known the similarity Of
names caused some confusion. This
Miss Graham is, histrionically. the
better known. She is an American