The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-24
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son. acted on the other side by Sir
George Alexander.
Henry Arthur Jones's daughter,
Mrs. Leslie Fabcr, has come over
TO play Mrs. Marchrnont; Frank Gill;
more is the Nigel Armine, Robert
Whitworth succeeds to Mr.. Bryant's
part, and Claus Bogel Is impressive
ly uncanny az the silent Egyptian
servant Hanna.
The drama centers around Mrs.
Chepstow. who, it Is made clear in
the novel, is restive under that morbid
dread and consciousness OF losing
youth and charm, which is likely to
obsess an Idle, beautiful. rnateriallstic
woman, but who. in the play. sug-
sests herself somewhat mad euuately,
III her confidential conversatio with
DR.. 1saecgon. in the broken SEN
tence:
DO you realize how frlghtfulIy
women-many women-suffcr secret
ly from depression when they-when
they began to find out that they are
not going to remain eternally young?''
Thereupon She proceeds TO conduct
herself Ike Lucretia Borgla set down
among lot OF modern Londoners,
She has come TO consult Meyer Isaac
son, Jewish physician and nerve
specialist OF high repute; but her
call is incited by subtler purpose
than mere professional advice In
snort. she has completely captIviated
the younger brother and heir of an
old, unmarried peer. DIR. Isaacson.
bcinS Il staunch friend Of the young
man, Is determined 10 checlmatc the
design Of this woman who. after be-
ing discreditably involved in divorce
scandal, has become a dcmi- mon
daine, but now sees means Of re-
with. this we'll born. rather stupid
youth. But Mrs. Chepstow is a match
for the physician Under tho protec-
ton OF professional confidence" she
tells him everything he has found
out, thus safely scaling his lips.
The remaining four acts pass in
Egypt. The newly married Arnnes
have gone there on their honeymoon,
a sorry paradise for him. as We pres
entity shall see. He loves her to dis
traction. while the animal allure
ment OF Mahmoud Baroudl. an
Egyptian merchant prince. has got
complete possession of her How
ever, her eyes arc firmly fixed OIL
the title and inheritance that will de-
seend TO her easily managed husband
Yet what does the elderly peer 20
out and do but marry and be blessed
with a baby boy
This Is too. too much for the Hon
oIdpie NIss Nl5el AfmlQe- she turns
an ear by no means deaf TO the
tempting Egyptian. whose proposition
Is no less, indeed. than that she
sugar her husbands coffee with
sugar OF lead.
Into this situation. made no better
by the constant care of a weak and
credulou3 American doctor. comes the
noble 1saacson. His is a long fight.
FIRST tho murde ereSs tries 10 nut hum
off through the stupid American. who
d Id
scene being one of the best written
and most gripping In the play. Hav
ing substantiated his suspicious, and
succeeded In seeing the all~but dying
Nigel. Isaacson convinces the other
physician that his reputation will nc
ruined unless he withdraws quickly
from the case. Isaacson then threat
ems Mrs. Armine with tho police un-
less she lets him take entire charge.
The next act shows us Nigel we'll ad
Vapced toward health again; so much
so. in fact. that lsaacson feels nc can
no. longer put off telling him OF his
brides infamY for which. however.
ne is driven from the trusting hUs-
bands sight.
This scene may be said 10 bo the
most effective OF The play. IN the
last act, weary Of the prospect or ev-
istence with Nigel rather than life
with Baroudi. Mrs. Armine defianty
tells. her husband the truth. But
tlan. For, from the first. he has in
sisted that their relations he carried
on in the strictest secrecy, lest a
scandal prejudice his interests with
the English: so now he simply casts
her off and returns 10 his other
women.
The play ends. as does the book
with DR. Isaacson. reunited TO his
friend. closing the wooden shutters of
the villa on the woman VINO made
her way TO the Sate Of the garden,
passed ont TO the deserted track be-
yond and disappeared into the dark
ness. going blindly toward the dis
tant hills that keep the Arabian des-
ert,"
NJHILE celebrating the fact that