The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-28
6eIwyn-Mayo Play Wins
blanche Ring Its Star
lite Wiesenthal's Dances Score Big Triumph
Kitty Cheatham's Storytelling Matinees
Exert Graceful Charm
By Vanderheyden Fyles

~Ew YORK, April 27.-Grete
W;esenthal and Blanche Ring
have shot brilliantly across
The Great White Way, drag
,c aftcr them fathers, act.
~ or fictional; and several
"a, stars of airy entertain
M have flashed newly into
,or quite without parental chap.
''orage, "The Wall Street Girl -
,cl3 not be much without Blanche
Ina: but then, since il virtually
4 Bianchc Ring. the point is hard
4 eonsecucntial. lnasmuch as Ed
"a Sclwyn and his clever wife,
|rrgaret Mayo, wrote it expressly
"a Miss Ring, designing IT TO
20 freely on her best abilities
"A 10 show no need OF those She
Without, they well might claim
|.mplete success for their first
.usical farce.
indeed. though Mr.. and Mrs.
..lvyn have achieved individual
.reess as dramatIsts-the one with
Tie Arab" and "The Country
10 the other with "Polly of the
|rtnsn and "Babv Mine '-'The
[.ll Street Girl is the first
LA work. II ran close chance
being unforgettably associated
lh the tragedy Of their lives, in
lad Of with its happiness, for dur
n its inaugural performance in
10 York the first news OF the Ii
.nie horror reached the audience
IA Il was pretty generally known
La the Youthful authors had
1oked passage on that ship, with
|rn7y B. Harris. the theatrical
|1naeer and his wife. Indeed. it
||cht be said that "Baby Nine
|1ieh elevated the Selwyn s from
1osperous dramatists to very rich
1cs. saved their lives. There Is
D reason TO suppose they would
We changed their plans had not
|rs Selwyn become so fearful that
n farce, which has repeated its
|ueriean success in England and
\ tho Continent. might he vulgar
|<I'in Paris. where il is about to
= Produced and decided to remain
'6re for the premiere,
y UT enough Of gloom and horror.
" In spite Of the awful news that
umbed the audience at "The Wall
rect Girl anyone might sec that
OVID good spirits assured success.
N which | mean of course. Blanche
||pe's good spirits. When she
|7sf npou first act that was be-
ming to wi,hcr and fade away,
spite Of all the false vitality
|uped into it, ii was not so much
fhongh a star had rcappeared-
felt, rather. that the sun had
|E1 suddenly to warm us with
fenial glow. She slapdashed
the midst of a bouquet Of fluff
md feminine girls. wearing n
~ and tailored skirt, with
Qusers y pockets. masculine
~ and tie. a mannish coat, and
waistcoat that might possibly
oeen funnicr on Joe Weber.
psnd crashed, Miss Ring sang
seould have been born a boy"
me plot was ours. Her father,
nl Street broker, having been
Ppoiuted in the sex Of his only
4, had brought UP his daughter
Johnstone Bennett lines.
poomerang struck him when
self-rellant girl invested the
OF the firm IS money in
gold mine in which he had
1aith; but--to nohody's sur.
but papa 's-the boomerang
'ea out to be a gold mine in
~ sense. Just in time to send
{:rnody on TO supper, happy and
fling Decide. Dec.Dum'' on
say. ="
" farce shows Blanche Ring
n three circumstances, but one
Wall Street, Reno and Fifth
w but with hearty smile
She looks better than ever,