The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-22
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Perhaps it was the heat, but more likely
| II was the play which affected the larger
portion OF the auditors at the first Salt
Lake stock presentation Of Madame X.
| Bisson's powerful story of wife who
sinned and suffered. Handkershiefs were
| I'm demand.
Willard Mack. Marjorie Rambeau and
the Orpheum players have indeed made
a big success of the play. the presenta-
! tlon OF which even by u travelling COM
nany Is no small task.
Miss Rambeau, by her work In Ma
dame N has given her rapidly increas-
insight into her real power The difficult
portrayal OF the woman who has sunk to
the lowest depths and who In her effort
10 forget has become addicted to the use
OF ether. seemed 20 be transition OF no
particular hardship for her.
The story Of Madame X" Is quite well
known In this city. the play having had
two previous presentations by road COM
panies and the book having had wide
circulation.
a husband. deep in his work and for
getful of his wife, has caused her, in her
eagerness for gayety and life, to desert
him. leaving in the company of another
man. The wife comes back repentant
and is driven away. After many years
she returns TO France. where tho scene
is laid, wreck OF her former self. a help
less hulk afloat on the sea of life. tho
only bright spot being her love for her
son, who believes her TO be dead.
In quarrel over her effort to conceal
her real identity she kills her lover IN
prison she refuses to speak TO any one of
her crime or Of the events leading to Its
commission. BY chance her own son Is
rnond. the son, has had able tuition under
the guidance of his father. who has ad-
vanced TO the presidency OF the court
The sons pleading before the jury saves
ho fG ytnf Ia
client Is his own mother
After her acquittal Madame x dies In
the court room. The scene is u most af-
fectlng one, Its able presentation by the
Orpheum company was last night attested
by the busy handkerchiefs OF the audi
tors.
This week also sees the first local APP
pearance Of Richard Vivian, cast as Ray
n6nd. Mr., Vivian seems to he a whole
souled young man. amply capable OF taxi
Ing care OF his share OF whatever part he
Next TO Miss Rambeau. vivian's part
Is l;,oae the mos, most important in the play It's
use s;, bit OF ls. slasng hes q bear"
Orpheum. Regular matinees Will be given
Thursday and Saturday. A special mat
inee will be given Wednesday. Pioneer
day.
The best place TO take a hot weather
crouch this week is to the Empress. II
Edwina Berry as the kissing servant"
TO rout there are three other funulakers
on the bill whose supplementary efforts
haven't been known 10 fall since We'd
nesday last. The Barows- Lancaster com
pany I'm Like Father, Like Son" cause
one long thirty-minute succession of
laughs with their unraveling OF the mat
r!monial entanglemcnts into which q |
wealthy New York broker and his son |
become enineshed through the marriage |
OF each 70 lady Of the stage Both |
are afraid to disclose their wedding and
the denouement Of the farce Is one OF |
the richest pieces OF fun staged locally |
this year. The bill Is on the last lap
OF Its week. as the acts constItutiuEI
the present programme will finish their
engagement Tuesday night The head
liner for next weeks offerings. opening
Wednesday afternoon. is the great Dollar
troupe Of acrobatss