The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
t erninist Plays Staged
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t all to Cheer Critic
1.-The Bargain" Vital, Gripping Drama; Bits
From Shakespeare Presented by Stars.
By Vd',derheyden Fyles

n TEW YORK, April 1a.-Well,
nj the girls had a big time,
anyway. 1t certainly was
great day for the woman s
suffrage party. Rooters for the
cause crowded into tho matinee un-
I'll the walls Of the spacious Broad.
way theater bulged like the stom-
nch of a puppy after it's first good
meal And what a noise they did
make. / thought we were going
to have the premiere of "The
Plsyboy of the Western World" all
over again, and began to timber up
for my potato -dodging movement.
But ] was wrong; the girls had
simply turned out to show that,
compared to the Daughters of Eve,
tho Sons of st. Patrick are a lot of
pikers when il comes to the big
noise.
THE Al pandemonium broke
IL loose after the second Of the
three new plays, when Mrs. Jean
Nelson Penfeld, chairman of the
woman suffrage party, began to tell
the audience the reason why the
cause collapsed at Albany. Kisses
sizzled in the air like the splutter-
lngs of the witches cauldron in
Macbeth.
by all parliamentary procedure
the world over.' said Mrs. Pen
field, "only man or woman vot-
ing in the Affirmative is allowed to
move to reconsider. This is be-
cause parliamentary law is common
sense. In our senate and assembly
the other rule obtains, and this
should be changed, for other bills
than our own may receive the same
treatment.
Kisses were abundant for the
names of Assemblyman Jacob
Levy, who had voted against the
women after having signed an
agreement to stand with them, and
of Speaker Merritt, who had re-
fused to recognize Assemblyman
Murray; but the lustiest volley
was reserved for Assemblyman
Culliver, who had moved the re-
consideration Of the woman 5 bill
after first voting against it. A pc
tition to Governor Dix to call an
extra session of the legislature was
read; and plea was put before
the audience to write or telegraph
their thanks to him Hbefore you
hear whether he has done it or
not. -
THE theater was draped with
IL suffragette colors, and three
new plays were acted. Leaders Of
the cause beamed from boxes fes-
streamers that had been hung So.
tirically above them at the pre-.
miere of 1.-The Never Homes and
when ''star entrance had been
worked up, ] half expected to see
George Monroe stumble into view.
However, it was Mary Shaw who
entered. But we must wait to
talk of that-and Of the New
York premiere of the Bernard
Shaw comedy in which she played
until we have considered the pre-
liminary two suffrage plays. The
first was ominously called kid
de- was by an unnamed author
of highly sentimental turn; and,
indeed, stuck on the palate like
an overdose of fudge, seasoned
with a sea Of salty tears.
Suzanne Sheldon and Malcolm
Dunn, impersonating divorced
couple, met in a hotel by appoint
ment to discuss the custody of their
child. They had nothing very new
. 10 say: and were burdened with an
astoundingly old and tottering
frame to say il in. She had lost
the suit because she permitted
damaging evidence to go unde-
Tended in order to protect the good
name of an crring sisterl At this
delayed point it fell out that, tired
of waiting for mamma and papa TO
stop talking, Kiddie had rolled
over and expired. In just what
wav this dialogue held brief for
woman suffrage, cannot say; pos
siblv II was designed to warn
husbands who presume to answer
their wives back that their progeny
will die thereat,
FN PASsANT, it might be
Il noted that the suffrage pro-
2ramm6-LeQ CeuIS odSu ~ W"
cause-showed feminine defiance
of the fascination Of matinee
idol by mentioning that Malcolm
Dunn, who is acting regularly with
Lewis Waller in "Beaueaire, ap-
peared by "kind permission or Mr.
Lewis Walker.
The next piece, a less lugubn-
Gus affair, was written with con.
siderable skill, IN the matter OF
expressing character and theories
through credible individuals; but
its theme is one with which anna
teur thinkers are eternally beset,
Il was called Glib. and had
been taken by Anne Moore from
story by Margaret Collier, Graham
An engaging, honorable old farmer
was mortified by the fact that his
son had never married the mother
of his little boy. Indeed, that vii
lage cut-up purposed taking flut-
tery and flouncy village belle as
his wife. His father, stauncn IN
the belief that Lib should become
a wife as well as a mother, came
to her with an enforced proposal
from his son: but she quite
scorned the proposition, SAYING
that his original failure to do me
right thing had so disappointsso