The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02

10 TEW YORK, June 1.-Capping
red I'M the climax on metro
Us to VI politan season made mem
ae orably uproarious and his
no dstrionically international by per-
sesn ,formances by the Irish players,
Grant 81 ne sbrieked above the din of rioters
Rnd by scmi-geniel but disorder
", reception of Gaby Deslys by
lot of college boys, by the capitu-
lation of the town TO the Orien-
Pur cstal invaders of the "Sumurun, -
T. " II Kismet' - and "Garden of Allah"
OF T. stompanies and by the mysterious
do ,ehooting, on the public highway, of
Er lcoi.Russia IS most famous Ibsen actor,
le snst From Monarchy TO Republic
|ans.taEEomes as as an appropriate novelty.
eS, ., 1t is Chinese drama.
sni.Y Theatrical custom mas guided us
ooStnto the habit of thinking of the
endcn Tar east only as q scene for comic
peops opera; or, if introduced seriously,
one fas locale chosen for IFS mystery
EneE ,eE land remoteness, where, as in "The
O,s nssDarEng Of the Gods, for instance,
of ..tnch wicrdly diaboical tortures and
4 drsspther horrors may be introduced
NlgprEithout any moro danger of contra
EntaHiction than the dungeons Of a
Raafairy tale,
; nat But "From Monarchy to Repub-
'vss .saa die'' trades in no such bugaboo ira
litions. 1t is as modern as the day
us before yesterday. With the intro
|uthfdk kith references to occurrences not
"anyet cold, it muckrakes the Celes-
81 stial kingdom mercilessly. Indeed.
I Sra sas If Charles Klein had slanting eyes
Is oi md the telltale marks of short,
} N, iBharp shock where a pigtail blooms
no more, we might believe he wrote
cHlsit. Truth to tell, the authorship
ha1was little hard TO learn.
|, II The producers Of the play-its
W. l; male roles were acted by Columbia
oT II, ,<tnniversity students, the perform
nd sence being for the benefit Of the
hsiEA central China Famine Relief fund
the hEwould say no more than that the
agpramatlsts were the programme
Sm Tvm 1ommittee; though investigation
i finally penetrated far enough to
rRs Hscover that Y. II, Tsai, Y. r.
hg dEang and Y. l.. Tang were respon
II the tble for the terrifvingly correct,
comeiolite and formal English of the six
he r}cts. None of them seemed to feel
se - nonstrained to come before the
he hs mrtain TO Il crv Of author. au-
ou,1- Dor nor, indeed, did the ac-
draupmpished programme committee
eu. tbON lhbp VIEW W bDhRe a SIccCn,
N "Thc Sultan of Sulu" George
B0At AIDE pointed out that, while the
! anatconstitution follows the flag
Ee sTlhe cocktail follows the constitu-
J. vitlon. Nowadays it would look as if
|f mhe muckral5ers pushed in ahead
fG Il the dry martins. And in keep
=, ssig with the Chinese nation the
He[lnekraliing pens that wrote From
Euie1A Aonsrchy to Republic concerned
I'd themselves with scraping off the
well pst Of ignorance, prejudice and
"aI fadition from the custom of an
l.ae,sn,,estor worship. Everything old was
frong and everything new was
OF fght. Indeed, the drama left one
Fas 1appy in the confidence that. with
be Of he dawn Of the new republic.
PMas9 o. sas9 fhina had changed its name and
Iine mmbcr to Utopia
md wonder if il could be possible
ID errSpiat the Honorable President Yuan
.n keeps play.writing press agent
. 'bhC, asC,, bout the pace Not a bad suc.
! ,sat testiou for 7. r. Why not commits
me- scfon George NJ. Cohan TO bring
bsauii ihakespeare S "Julius Caeser' up
ee "Rp date, with his strenuous self as
II lsNarc Antony and Bill as Marcus
io's apa Yrutuso r. r. would surely he the
% ol ii Big Noise in the famous Forum
eyes peech beginning, Friends Rom