The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-27

III UlCIc NVluS.
R6ORE beautiful. scenica!ly' Is an
Wl other royal audience this tlIne
in a garden bathcd in cold, White
moonlight. Here soon after the cm-
press has uncopsciousIy revealed her
love for her hereditary enemy, ms
l1,iscd AZ 81 loyal nobleman. ne iaIls
under suspicion as spy nut ne nhS
run away. Then comes Inc battle.
The empress. incased in golden armor,
is AT tho head OF the Scared ana
weary remnant OF her army, Inc
walls OF Nankn arc In ruins about
them; the sky is red With names
bombs burst at frequent Intervals
loyal soldiers falling dead at their
posts. The copqucrinS emperor OIL
fcrS peace Il the Mings Will give
single sign OF submission. Loving the
empress, he urges II, he pleads for il.
Bu. she is the Daughter or Heaven
and she will never Weld IL Is the
end 4 huge funeral pyTc Is ignitcd:
Ard as the smokc and sparks and
1smes swirl into tho b!aclsncss Of the
night tho loyal soldiers follow one
another into its consuming cauldron.
T1HAT scene is the greatest tri-
umph OF the play for Hugh
Ford who has realized Mr.. Tylcr's
scheme With such notable results.
The last act begins with a colorful,
admits us TO the throne room OF tho
lfanclu emperor. Here tho captive
OF the lost CAUSE. rnbcd In iunerchi
riiite for hnr as5a ssinatod baby,
mounts the throne Of the conpUernr,
who urges his love and To whom her
heart cries out: but for. the honor OF
her ancestors. ahc swallows poison.
Thus nc leave her like Cleopa ira, a
queen In death when she could no
longer he queen in iitc.
TIL TIE failure OF The Affairs ~
Anatol' Is unimportant the
failure or Mr.. Winthrop Ames is little
less than a national calamity. AL
though tho noble aud unique purposes
az the New Theater were not All ac-
conpll3hed, under his unnagGinS, Wise
and worthy guidance. a notable record
cndurcs to give his name authority
and prestige. Yet subsequently he
has used IL tn Stamn approval on five
successive plays Of )icentioUs or bias
phen,ops unburdening. The enc art
Of ''Sunlurur" and The Pigeons so
ou,N eighed the facts that they were
about women Of tho harem and
street walker as 10 quite oXcusc them;
but they we're followed By n stupid
recital. by the ponderous Mr. c. RAIN
kenn edy, In which the cruciflcd figure
of Jesus Christ was cxhioitod. by q
silly recommendation that a woman
spend ten days 1T The scsshore with
any man sbe picks ur on an cXcuT-
sion boat OF an iron pier. and now
by "Anatol. This final truck comes
from the German. in which language
II is reasonable IN supposc-sincn It
WAS written hy Herr Arthur Schnitz-
ler. q recognized witt was carried
off with a verbal dash and gaieiy
Mr.. II. Grcrvillc Rarker's translation
suggests nothing quite so much as the
atalc champagne OF the morning af-
te?.
TWILL not offend your cars or poll
lHte your Sabbath by detailing the
nasty Uuburdenin OF this comedy,
further than TO say that II drags it
self through the wearisome miro Of
the successive Illicit relations of a
useless. tlresomc young man with a
lot OF immoral-and equally tIresome
Young women. II Is about as wall
liable AS al Anna Held show With
tAe songs left out. However. az many
people so to these affairs. they may
also crowd into tho lovely limits OF
the Little Theatcr. But the cntcr-
tainment really needs interference by
tho police TO give IT the sort of ad-
rcrtisiuE il seems TO CRY aloud for,
Several good actors are involved; and
the scenic inYcsture. as one would
expect from such a man az Mr..
Ames, is beautiful and in the best
taste