The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-14

wegian subject to fiat In New York
city and a poultry farm on Long
Island In many other ways he brings
II so close TO the situation Of the
average American wife as To give II
almost an excellent appeal The wife
In this case who has been married
about six years, Is as happy and
contentcd as she could wish. except
on one score, She misses money OF
her own. Not that her husband is
ungenerous when she asks for money.
but Il never occurs to him that II is
humiliating to her TO have TO ask.
10 undergo continual reminders OF
her position of dependence. The hus-
band is a hard worker, putting every
penny he can spare back into his
business Then, one day, when he has
got In deep In an important deal, he
comes face to face with the fact
that unless he can IInm ediately get
hold of $500 more he Will lose every
thing. Now. ii happens that by dlnt
OF small but Vigilant, economies the
household and dress money. Her
ultimate plan was TO buy house
IN the country for her husband and
herself, At the present crisis, how
ever. her impulse is to tell her hus
band OF the money and To loan II to
him. Yet she knows, from an earlier
experience, that she would never get
IL back, nor Is she sure her husband
may not be angry at her secrecy. In
this predicament. she hits on the
a nciehbor. who will pretend TO make
the loan himself This she does; the
deal goes through successfully. and
In a very brief time tho husband re-
turns the money 10 the friend with
interest All seems we'll but, unfor-
tunately. the viXenish and jealous
wife OF the obliginc neighhor sees him
return the money and Immediately.
misconstrues the situation. She car
ries her suspicious TO husband No. ],
who cross-questions his wife. Think
Ing the truth might humiliate him,
she tries TO lie out OF the matter.
and then when she does come out with
the truth his confidence is too shaken
TO believe her. He leaves her That,
however, Is not the conclusion of the
play. Mr.. Swan goes further with his
Nora leaving us In no doubt as 10
her ability to struggle with a mans
world. She takes a farm and builds
up 81 successful poultry business: and
tho end Mr.. Swan was fortunate IN
having his play produced By Win
throp Ames And the cast. headed
by Juln Dean and including SYDNEY
Booth. Ernest ClendinninG. George
Hassell Maude Durand and Louise
tably In the case Of Beverly Sit
greaves as the neiEhbor's wife.
A FEW nights after the successful
N premiere of adele" newer
piece by tho same authors was acted
for the first time iu New York. This
was "The Midnight Girl" and. In
auguratnc the season at Adolf
Phlllpp's cosy little theater In East
Fifty seventh street, II also marked
the twentieth year in management
In this city OF that German-Ameri
can comedian. With the crush OF
other productions and win the Ike
IIhood that the piece will learn Eng
lish and follow Alma" and Adele
to Broadway. I will tell YOU no more
about the German performance than
that the graceful music Is both typl-
cal and worthy OF Jean Briquet and
that Paul Hcrve's farce IL Of the
usual Palais Royal sort. telling a
preposterous story OF confused iden-
titles
A f,islSy bachelor, living In the
country. explains his frequent visits
to Paris TO his family and his friends
by declar ring he has been nominated
deputy 20 the French chamber As
il happens. there * deputy OF the
same name Furtherfore the same
day that that Socialist leader meets
an assault in the chamber with such
courage as 10 make him n hero. the
Young buck gets battered up in a
fracas AT the Cnfc Montnartre. And
more. Fearing these condolences arc
too few. the trained nurse sent TO
tend the bachelor turns out 10 be the
midnight girl he met at the cafe,
now determined To reform. At least.
that 's what the play seemed to be
about In German-I may tell you an
entirely different plot when I see it
in English.