The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-08


TT would give me much pleasure TO
Il send. you detailed description OF
1.-THE Parrots Cage" q, brief play,
yet the only wholly serious one OF
the week. 1t was written frankly in
movement; and 1t would command
respect If for no other reason than
the fact that 1t comes red-hot from
the v!triolc pen OF that. resolute
reformer and accomplished actress.
Mary Shaw. But, you see. though
its one performance. Rlchard Ben
nett was the only man admitted And
II is said that even he retired In
confusion before the ecstatic praise
ater club for his spirItedness
in producing Brieuxs Damaged
Goods" That discussion OF diseases
not usually mentioned In mixed as
semblages. which was put on for
single matinee, has proved SO popu-
lar with the general public that 1t
has occupied a leading stage for two
months and is announced to run
indefinitely" Something new in the
line of summer shows you must
admit. Yet when one observes the
expressions of eager curiosity and
nervous expectation on the faces OF
the women who crowd the Fulton
theater nightly to drink in doctors
results OF a bridegroom's disease. the
relation Of this latest Summer show"
TO the zIegfeld 'Follies" is not ut
terly untraceable- And, Just as the
''Follies" entertainment is to have a
rival In "All Aboard. the latest
Lew. NJ Fields spectacle of cymbals.
Goods" is not likely to nave it's own
field all to itself for long. "Debo-
rah," which was recently stopped by
y..,1f In, nf
formance, is understood 20 be COM
ing rapidly this way What a chance
for Charles Ram Kennedy! Chicago
has seen his drama Of ''The Neces-
sary EvIr'-wlth the chief role en-
nobled by the histrionic power OF his
wife. Edith Wynne Matthison, who
should be devoting her splendid Sits
to Shakespeare and asserting her
rank as the greatest classic tragedl-
while New York must be content
with tho printed text of "The Neces-
ssry Evil and with BrieuN and the
zIegfeld "Folies."
THERE is no doubt that Mr..
L Kennedy was serious ,,h3 when he
deed Mr.. Kennedy is always, Sc
rlous with only the printed
page to judge by il would seem that
in performance his latest drama must
be somewhat bewildering combina-
ton OF realism and the symbolic. We
start with our feet on the ground.
safe enough. An innocent young girl
is preparing for birthday party,
while her father. an unworldly mu-
siclan. PLAYS a Branms lntermeIzo;
Storm clouds gather with the arrival
of the son and brother. bringing the
atmosphere OF free living and the city
with him, but the storm does not ac-
tually break until the entrance OF the
dark woman. Mr. kennedy, as ~
his custom. gives a fictitious weight
and mystic Significance TO her Wis
dom by Identifying her. through un-
mistakahle suggestion. with Mary or
Maedala. Her presence stirs the son
TO shams and to a new resolution;
and Incites the father TO unlimited
unburdeninSs on the necessary evil,
his boy having chlded him with be-
ing an inexperienced. innocent old
dreamer To which the old musician
answers: Don't YOU make any mis-,
take about that, my boy. I know all
about II. | know everything these
men Of the world know. But know
something else as well. That there
is a man In this world-a real man,
an alive man-who Is the power unto
salvation from sin.
MOST OF all, however. The dark
lSl woman" concerns herself with the
girl whose mother, like many another
mother, confused ignorance with in
noce3ce The woman tries to take
that dead mothers place. to make the
girl on the threshold Of womanhood
understand that purity is not pas
sive but an active element In ones
nature. ''F'irst. then. your inno-
ccnce." she said. Cherish It. keep 1t
unspotted-wlthin. mind YOU, deep
within; and let u grow. Seek Wis
dom and understanding with 1T; Don't
be content any longer TO be babies,
playthings dreaming dolls. Grow up.
Learn 10 be. Next. save your men.
The men around you. the men you
have TO 90 with. every one OF them.
even the worst. Then. when the time