The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-29

what ais her. True. the old man has
jag. but that is nothing new. Inc
oppression OF luxury seems To have
something to do with Wifey's misery,
for In ono iIlumna,!ve outburst she
cries heartrendlnEly;
THEY won't even let me 90 into
my own kitchen and make "A pie.
Naturally. she takes 10 drink, We
had no inkIing OF this taste before.
As soon as her guests have gone. she
makes a bce-line for the cocktaii
tray. When Hubby comes home. bent
on n happy night devoted TO dictatins
detenses Of the liquor trade, he finds
his fair Young wife with a strsngle
hold on decsnter OF brandy True
90 tradition. he seiGes II and throws
IL into the fire. words ensuei out
Wiley nevertheless goes out 10 u
dinner party.
The last curtain rises on the morn
ing after HUBBY has fallen asleep
over his own tracts and Mrs. Bac-
days OF Militant Woman. the old
ballad should really be altered 10
Where Is My Wandering Wife TO-
night5"
UP. She must feel terribly. but she
carries IL of with all the dignity and
martyrdom OF Dusc I'm Greek tTag-
edy Having mixed champagne with
cocktails. Scotch and brandy, she rs
rather vague about the previous
ed suIior WAS at the dinner and that
he took her home with him.
Hubby declares he viii XII the man
Failing TO find favoritc paper,
with brass shovel. However, the
corpse elect opportunely turns up.
And 10 make long story short, ne
saws he took tho lady lush back 10
her condition too bad for domestic
use. and because there he could leave
her In the gentle care ot-can you
suess?-"ME MOTHER
WHEY Is a better woman, and We
leave her resting her throbbiug head
on the manly bosom OF the wholesale
liquor dealer.
be n second "ren Nights In Bar
room; but Il cannot hope TO last ten
nights Oh Broadway.
A GAIN the classic and the modern,
"a the formal artIficiality OF
eighteenth century literature in con-
trast with the grim, uncompromising
realism OF today. Last week It was
She Stoops to Conquer" and Hin
Rivals" and the new and oYcrWhelin,
Ing domestic tragedy called
Chains
In the third and final revival OF
Miss Annie Russclls interesting ana
credtable season of Old English com
edy. we Of today see Sheridan's bob
Acres for the first time, How
about Joseph jefferson? That's lust
II. F'unny and delightful and engas-
ing as the great comedians sniv-
cring little coward was. he was no
moro like the character the dralnatlst
created than was Ada Rehans wo-
manly and regal Lady Teazle a faith
ful realization OF Sheridan inghtF
Ill tod l,tF
frivolity OF fashionable London.
Tho correct Acres is little more
than pumpkin in good clothes.
close kin to Tony Lumpkin: ana nS
Gated little inventor or apt oaths that
Jefferson presented
George Giddens brings Sheridan
back to us: and VIC welcome MIN al
most as a stranger. For the great
est tribute to tho power OF the char
acter that jefferson and Miss Rehan
recreatod from the lines or Sheri-
dan Is that they literally crowded the
author from the stage IL did not
occur TO players who had the toner
ity 10 measure themselves by the
popular Bob and Lady Teazle, TO 90
so far as to read the characters In
different light. Within the last quar-
ter Of q contury few actors have
Acres In New York at all: and those
who nave. tlptoed in for one or two
performances. half whispered and in
a corner.
\. c. Goodwin ventured only one
act, and that at benefit" The
late Louis James appeared in the
role but once. at an outlying theater,
and on the last night OF his weeks
engagement. possibly so that ho could
get out of town before tho Jeffer,;
sonlans tracked him down. Lionel
Barrymore .sidled In. With a meek III
Ito vaudeville version, and William
Collier tried To laugh the matter Off
by revealing his Acres for single
night In juno. wrapped In the cloak
of charity. and In association with
burlesuuers. Marie Dressler was the
Mrs. Malaprop: Ada Lewis: Lydia:
Henry V. Donnelly, Sir Anthony,
Andrew Mack. Sir Lucius; John G.
Rice. young Captain Absolute, and
the droll Dan Daily. Falkland.
THIRTY years ago, before the JET
ferson Bob Acres had routed all
others from the field, George Cid
dens's was the recognized embodiment
That was in the days OF the famous
IT, 81.