The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-09
sublirninal

The subconscious mind is ac-
savant OF THE, Case of Becky as a
warehouse in which are stored tho inn
pre5slons OF lifetime, I'm which arc
many things that the conscious self has
naterialized, 80 to speak, or brought
out into the white light OF conscious
ness at an instant's notice by some
nary circumstance.
In the subcoDscious mind we store our
habits and our monnerisms and the dny
power or the VIII. The drunkard and
the drug fiend are slaves Of the sub
conscious self, Their reasoning power
can argue In vain and their Will power
can storm and rage and command, bui
suboonscious self will not release It's
talon grip.
An this is very we'll but many psy,-
biologists are not content with sucll
commonplace phenomena. They have
evolved the more refined idea OF dual
personality and they have endowed il
with many Qualities that strain our cred
ulity TO the utmost. Perhaps the most
notable quality OF this kind Is the real
or supposed fact that one personality
may be entirely unconscious OF the exist
ence OF the other personality except by
information conveyed through third
of such existence or of the antics Of the
other personality. In The Case Of
Beiky ahG io, there tn, is The good sweet kInd
the vil-mlnded, Vicious. cunning, hate
Iul and altogether unlovely Becky.
Dorothy knows that Becky exists only
ttor' by her sweetheart. by the nurse and
by her other friends. On the other hand.
Becky knows OF Dorothy's existence
In n sense insanity Is a dual personal
ity, but this is not the sense In which
II is understood by the, modern psy-
a serTS TSege ,yo cases IS
dual personality have been recognized
In law for hundreds of years. The IN
sane person Is @ absoyed OF respoJhsie,ilry Jsa
tain reservations. In the courts OF Law,
The modern savant. however: believes
that there is another kind of dual or
manifold personality In each state the
subject IS completely conscious and prac-
tically sane, but cannot he held morally
responsible for any vicious act, because
some outside force like hypnotism. auto
suggestion, prenatal influence or the Hike,
In The Case OF Becky, it was pre-
natal influence and hypnosis that trans ans,
formed Dorothy into tho odius Becky,
at the age of fifteen. Her mother had
been lured from home and husband by a
an hypnotic subject on his travels The
professional hypnotist claims TO be the
Ia ather of Dorothy, but the climax DIS
closes the fact that she IS the daushtgt
was his wife that had been lured away
by the hypnotlst. The final scene shows
the hypnotist hypnotlzed. conquered ana
ter In "The Bells" :,
Stevenson ''Dr Jekyll and Mr., Hyde,
was an attempt 10 show the world-o oIo
ciple in man Stevenson Was not par
concerned as TO whether there
was in any real sense such cond!tioill
as dual personality The ,o,,,noset Uase To- 70,
prove the existence OF dual personality
In the full sense OF the utter domination
OF complete and dissimiiar characters al
different times, Just as I'm tine case OF tne
temporarily insane. the drug hend; the
or the sleeping person. with the
already pointed out that tue
subject apparently is in entire possession |
OF the faculties when under the control
OF either personality,
A most difficult role has been assigned
10 Miss Frances Starr and the strain
wholly admirable is weak praise. II
would he more to the point 10 say that
she portrays the two characters with as
much power and fine discrimination as
the late Mr. Mansfield displayed in ''Dr. |
JekyIl and Mr.. HYDE Charles Dalton
as Professor Baizamo. the professional
hypnotist also reveals histrionlc powers
of the highest quality,
Albert Brunlng as DR.. Emerson. the
savant. who rescues Dorothy" from
Becky" by hyDnoticaily casting out the
Evil Sp)ril. presents IlIS clihIaStsi NitIi "
naturalism and reserve power that is de- |
nanded by the part
The final scene Is one OF the best pieces i
Of staging Mr. Belasco has devised. 1t |
shows tho savants laboratory, equipped |
with all the modern instruments for men |
tai and nerve tests Electric dynamos |
and batteries. wires running into and out !
OF fantastic machines, powerful lighting |
effects and, in fact, all that can be sup
piled from the laboratory OF the real SCI |
enlist, are presented to The spectators |
Last night the first glimpse Of the lab !
Dratory stirred the audience To applause !
"The Case OF Becky viii be seen to- |
night and tomorrow afternoon and |
evening.