The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24

II HE riotous demonstrations that
attendod earlier performances
OF The Playbov Of the Western
World have rather cclipsod the 9th
er numerous plays introduced by the
Interesting company conducted at the
tho Abbey thcater. Dublin. by Lady
Gregory and William Butler Yeats.
but now that the atmosphere Is some
what cleared Of eggs and vegetables.
of stern minions or the law and out
RACED nstriots.' We may see more
clearly tho merits OF these very indi-
NidUal actors. and especially of their
Dlaya. ] have seen the company in
Twelve pieccs 6nonc long enough TO
nll an evening by itsciO and 7 can
sincerely say inat most of them d.
Nerted me. while in progress. and not
one failed ia enrich me with food FOR
later thought.
Mixed Marriage" IL ? rather dun
and its four short acts seem pretty
lonz. Vet its characters arc delight
ful in themselves, observed with penc-
irating keenness and sketched with
that absolute fidelity and simplicity
that make for subtle humor. ST.
John @. ErN'Ine. who wrote II. used
Ia ho a workman In a Belfast ship
ward. and 'dls play concerns Itself with
sirikc I'm such place. The trou-
bic is between Irish Protestants and
Catholics. Tho head of the humble
household in which tho action passes
IL the one man. We arc made 10 un-
derstand. who can bring the factions
INTO order, He Y, biroied Protes,
tant, but is Wiling 10 treat with
the Catholics until hc discovers tnat
his elder son purposes marrying one
Of them. This--snd virtually nothing
morc-is talked over FOR three acts.
In the fourth the affair comes To a
violent and abrupt conclusion.
though one that hardly can he said TO
settle anything. Rioters are sur
rounding The little house soldiers
have been called out to uucll them.
and the Catholic maiden. pokine her
head out the front door Is acct
dontally shot and killed.
IT "Mixcd Marriage" leaves ono with
Il mixed opinions, the one -act com
edy presented In the bill with 1t
Us reward enough for ono evening.
II is called The Workhouse Ward,
Is by Lady Gregory herself. and Is
delightful with the waEgish, appar-
entity unconscious humor that con
stitutes the most individual merit OF
these little plays from Dublin. And.
like the best OF tho others. II is
touched with simple. unassuming,
very human sentiment. Two old old
irishmen bnyo been confined 10 ad-
jaccnt cots In n workhouse ward for
Heaven only knows how many years,
But all that time they have been
pickering and complaining at each
other-hickering and complaining
pickering and complaining. Presently
the sister of one comes 10 see her
brother. She feels II a family dis
grace that he should be u public
charge and proposes taking him into
her comfortable home IIc win have
little room 10 himself, warm bed
ding and enough TO cat. Al iirst he
Is delighted; and. in a Ike degree.
his ncighbor is Jealous. But present
ly The favored invalid realizes that
he will no longer have Ills ancient
cnsmv To night with. So lie refuses
tho offer. And al the last wc see
the two old men once more pickering
and complaining with each other over
some fancied wrong Of thirty years
or more ago-bickering and complain
ing-bickering and complaining.
M ORE serious. significant and sad
lY1 is THE Well OF the Saints" the
first play TO be acted In This country
by j. III. Synge, author of Tho
Playboy of the Western World"
Yet with all it's wrench TO the emo
lions ano with it's lovely symbolism.
unstudicd wit ard huulor have
spoken OF above. With the cruelty Of
tho ignorant. e lot Of peasants have
conspircd to play u henrtlcss trick
OH n blind old man and his siGhtlcss
wife. With eyes that could apprc-
claie The hideousncss OF the tStLcrcd,
il-iavorcd couple. the young folk
have assured each OF the others
beauty. But though their purpose
was inconsldcratc merriment, they
actually have made the husband and