The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-30

AssblNdilAts BHi Is no Dlb't ibl q
Partisan wardrobe and Ellen Keys
1914 model morality. lnez goes there
TO meet the family OF a man she met
while he was studying architecture IN
Paris, and 10 whom she has become
enga ged. OF course. there Will be no
marriage ceremonv Such obsolete
ioolishness has no part in lnez's
advanced principles. But Delphi.
Iowa. does not see things that way.
4 love marriage" don't ''go' In
Iowa. The clash OF the girls mod
ern thought and the conventions OF
her fianCe's family and towns.olk
make tho drama. serious IN It's cen
trail theme and highly emotional *
in It's AUTHENTIC, keen studies Of char
acter.. In the end. Inez gives in 10
her ilance's mother, and consents 20
conventional marriage; though.
somehow. one feels that the author
brought his play 10 that conclusion
reluctantly. rs something OF sop TO
a public he does not feel has grown
up 10 his morality.
VIRGINIA BROOKS, who is Mrs.
Washbutu Of Chicago when not
prowllnc about slums or otherwise
putting the world generally 10 rights.
is unquestionably more widely known
as a social worker than Rachcl
Crothers, but she is no dromatist, nhr
has Arthur james Pcglcr her col
laborator In writing Little Lost
Sister" shown much theatric Skill as
her play Is not likely 10 carry her
serious message hait as far as our
selves" Out Chicago way, Mrs:
Washburn is known as the Joan OF
Arc of West Hammond. West Ham
mond Is dirty little town on the
border between Illinois and Indiana.
1t was a hotbed OF graft. and II har-
bored many criminals who lodged the
law by JUmp6S from one. state TO
the other. Then Miss Brooks. as the
newspaper woman still was. took up
her residence there. With militant
methods, she began exposing" right
and left, and generally set out 10 set
things straight. She did clean up
West Hammond, and her fame spread
widely in the middle west. y little
later. having moved TO Chicago and
married a newspaper man OF that
city, she wrote a serial story called
Little Lost Sister" telling some OF
road of her Investigations. The in
stallments were what surcharsed
souls call human documents"
II is from these newspaper sketches
like play. 1t is all about IA social
worker named Carolina Rivers. Caro-
lima Rivers Virginia Brooks, Virginia
Brooks Carolina Rivers; get the
point? Well. Miss Rivers Is a very
fascinating. plquant young woman,
which reformers on the stage should
he and generally are, though the type
does not abound In actually.
Indeed. when Carolina invades
with resolution In her heart but fem
inine allurement IN her glance, the
dishonorable capitalist is so far
thrown OFF his guard as to say: 1T
Is pleasure. Miss Rivers, to serve
n cause that has so charming a cham
Dion.'
John Boand lives to rue those
words. For is not his office such 81
repository Of illegal and vile facts
tnat a clerk gives up his job because
he found out so much there that he
was afraid he would be arrested for
knowing IT,?
Carolina Rivers, YOU must know. is
aatter John Boland because he rents
houses to proprietors of disreputabIa
restaurants and dance halls, Before
he and a grating Irish politician, an
other .'oily-tonsued rascal" know
quite what is happening to them, the
young reforner has pinned badges OF
purity on their coats and told them
a lot OF things about their personal
and civic duties. 'Begorrah." cries
the politician, ''snc's a better talker
than Father Dorney!' But wicked
fatigulpg. this trying TO reform
everything and everybody"
There is. need hardly say a noble
upright mayor in the drama. Broad
In the face OF bribery as of threats
His mlraculously appropriate name is
Goodman, Wicked John Boland. who
has Just melted white SLAYER TO de-
hauch d girl his son has declared his
Intention OF marrying. endeavors 10
buy the honest mayor. But Goodman
turns on him. and incidentally brings
down tne curtain to q roar OF vir-
ing words. 1T Will be q battle be-
tween principle and profit You may
win, but. by God, you'll know you've
been in q hght"'
TN the next act, In what the pro-
Il grammc calls IAN actual repro
duction OF a well-known Chicago
cafe Miss Rivers and the mayor
set out looking for something to re-
form They They might Pp55ottably begin
the remark OF the proprietor: say
around here. IT'S about time we
started somethins." After tho ragged
advertisement, sinister. Slim Simon
drugs poor little Patience Welcome,
as per his agreement with wicked
John Boland. Then somo OF the gang
threaten TO expose tho mayor for vIs-
itinE a joint. AT that, Carolina rings
for the police, some one dowses tho
glnls. there is a tussle In the darke
and when the lights aye switched on
again, IL is discovered that the cops
have handcuffed the mayor by mis-
take. In the last act. after having
set everything IN the world to rights.
Miss Rivers flows into the good mans
arms.
The progrs mme gives the period as
Now and Always,' which seems a
little pessimistic for n reform, II this
thus thusness is for always. why
work? However, II is the fashion
OF Tho day to bring home 10 us these
great moral lessons" by stamping
them with a title that seems TO In
volve us personally. Miss Crothers
calls her treatise on the difficulties
that all men throw in the way 81 a
GIRLS regenera ton, Ourselves" the
Princess theater's bold reproduction
OF an especially low type OF disorder
" house was labeled ANY Night:
and when Mr. BroadhUrst felt i'm
PEELED To assure VS. that the most re-
spectcd wives In the community
often pay their dressmaker's bills by
means Of visits TO n call house,
he stamped II To-day" The only
thing left appears 10 be 10 call the
next "crtme play You" or Me
with an imaginary finger pointing
straight at us. as In the picture In
the druggists windows.