The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-10
ADJUSTMENTS
IN SALT LAKE THEATERs.

There were tears, a rain of them. There
were noses turned red. many Of them.
And this lachrymose scene In which Salt
I.akers participated at the Colonial the
ater on Monday evening was not scene
Tor there were great. big. strong men.
whose tears flowed just easily as did
those of the wife and mother who were
seated beside them. The occasion was
Madame X. that drama by Alexander
Bisson, which, when first produced In
The first performance OF The Lady OF
the Camelias." many years before. 1t
took hold OF the people. held them in a
firm grip. made them cry as they have
not done before In years. for the play is
drama Of thrills. OF sentiment OF emo
tion. OF heart throbs and sobs. and the
II set Paris wild; Its success in England
was great. And its success In England
has been exceeded In America. Nothing
approaching 1t In the way OF gripping
drama has ever been presented in salt
Lake City before.
The prologue and the first two acts are
details 1t is the, court scene which grips
YOU. for In this scene is climax after
climax You are held fast and firm and
You are carried away for the time being.
You forget that you are In a playhouse.
for the scene is so realistic that you are
In tho court room, I'm fact and listening
his endeavor to save the life OF his client
Then comes the death scene when mother
ano son are alone and are known to each
other, and the erring. but repentant
woman. expires just before her husband
arrives.
The story. in brief. has to deal with
home and baby in a moment OF tenn
porary infatuation, meets the inevitable
END emo and becomes the scum OF the street
sought a reconciliation and had been cast
off by her husband Twenty years later
she finds herself in the company of
knows her secret and expects to black
mall the husband, thereby exposing her
son 10 shame. To prevent this she kills
him. She maintained absolute silence
concerning the reason for her act and
Is Is known to police officials only as
iievcs her dead and whom she left as a
4-year old child, now grown TO mans
estate and engaged in the legal profess
sion. should be appointed to defend her
on the murder charge. The boy-and It
Is his first case-makes a wonderful plea.
an unconscious of the identity OF the
impassioned plea 10 the iurv in the pres
ence of his father, the wreck OF a woman
VINO IS already sure of her suspicious as
TO who her attorney is. her extreme
anguish and the scenes incident to her
acquittal from tense picture and rapid
~ following series OF gripping events
"h,ch en- cannot s fail to move the auditor.
ana then comes that thrilling death
scene, preceded by picture OF heart
throbs in which the mother and son are
ioia atone IN the court. room and are
known TO each other. while The sorrow
ing woman expires Just moment before
her husband. repentant and eager 10 re-
claim her, arrives in the room.
Jacquelne, the wife and mother who
sleeps her soul in the basest of human
immortality, who saturates her body with
drink and drugs 10 deaden her brain and
make her forget what has been and what
she once was. is powerfully portrayed by
Adeline Dunlap One has not heard OF
her. except perhaps in casual way,
Many of her fellow artists have risen TO
the height OF popularity who possess less
ability to master their art, and less
power to move their audience in heart
and soul. OF the hundreds who crowded
10 witness her portrayal of Madame Y
Monday night. and the hundreds who will
clamor for admission during the plays
short stay in Salt Lake, not one will ever
be able To erase from his or her mem
ory the terrible panorama of this mis-
cradle woman's life. as interpreted by
Miss Dunlap.
Howard Gould is seen as Louis Flo
riot. the husband. His Interpretation
manifests the ability OF an accomplished
actor. His personality is that OF a man
OF strong, unrelenting Will. to whom n
wrong must remain a wrong. During the
Portrayal he is called upon for tears OF
the bitterest kind. When he smiles. II is
the smile OF sorrow. Every detail of the
deiinlation is worked out in the acme
OF stage realism. Raymond Floriot the
son, whose existence kept both his faith
er and mother from suicides graves, is
taken care of In remarkable manner by
Robert Ober. Parissard and Merivel
two placid polite blackmailers. are won
derfully played by James Cooper and l..
J. Loring, Vincent Sternroyd is l-suf-
ficient as Noel. Floriots friend. La
rogue, an adventurer, dcspicabIe char
acter devoid Of all sympathy drawing
qualities, Is amply portrayed by Edwin
Forsberg. The supporting cast Is per-
haps the strongest and largest in meo-
drama ever presented the Colonial
Each character is given a life like imper-
sonation. with careful attention 10 detail
and Proper restraint.
Madame y. plays through Wednes-
day night. with matinee on Wednesday,
To paraphrase nnothers words, YOU can
not afford 10 miss Madame x; YOU
may be sorry II you go. but you Will
have reason TO be more sorry If you stay