The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-18
DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT
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phestophelean in appearance but moral
in his admonitions. called Nobody. He
rs something between warning and a
pun. He warns and he puns, but he
IS always serious, and while the audi
ence laughs at some of his lines, the
moment they do so they feel that they
have been guilty Of irreverence
EverYwoman is the title of the prin-
cipal character of this unusual play.
Literally speaking, she is the sum OF
modern young women, endowed with
beauty, wisdom and grace. The scene
is the present. The audience is given
a glimpse of her summer garden, redo
lent with flowers, and behind vista
of beautiful landscape, shrubbery
whore birds are chirping on beautiful
spring morning with all nature glad.
The orchestra plays an invocation to
spring, while in the rear are seen a
score of PRETTY maidens in Grecian
draperies, attitudenizing to the music
Among these graceful figures three are
easily ecogniZed-Youth, Beauty and
Modesty, the landmarks Of Every
! woman.
Here, be it understood, is the first
| steps in the symbolism in which the
play abounds. Youth is a young girl,
| but she symbolizes Everywoman IS
| youth; Beauty is a beautiful girl. but
! she symbolizes her beauty; and Nodes
| ty is shy creature, quiet and retir~
ing, but she symbolizes Everywoman IS
modesty. To thoroughly appreciate the
aim Of the author the audience must
consider these three characters, not as
separate entities, but as the integral
qualities of Everywoman. This idea
once established and the singing logic
of the morality is sent home with ire
| mendous force.
Everywoman enters and greets her
companions. lovingly placing her arms
about them. She addresses them affec-
! tionately, when she spies the tall, an
gular, monlish figure Of Nobody, who
| is regarding them. His presence chills
her, but summoning courage she ad-
vances upon him and orders him from
| her house He goes, but not until he
has thundered at her majestically these
| words:
"There shall come a time when
thou, deserted by Youth, forsaken by
Beauty, and with Modesty forgotten,
shalt know that Nobody is thy friend
"A time when worn and weary with
worldly cares, thou shalt love Nobody.
To thee a time shall come when at thy
| VTf JOI HcIp, JOl CpllipIJ. 4NpDUuy
come-when thine aching head shall
lie on this breast, when Nobody shall
brush thy tears away
! His words frightcn her but she tries
to make light of them and, summon
| ing her companions once more, she
| tests of Nobody's warnings With
| Youth, Beauty and Modesty beside her,
her unrest vanishes and, going to her
mirror to admire her face and form, she
is startled by strange apparation
which appears there The surface van
rises the splendid figure of a man
dressed as a courtier, in satin and vel
vet, who bows before her.
| Recovering from her astonishment
Everywoman demands his name and
| the reason Of his visit. In honeyed
words he announces that he is Flat
terry and that he comes as herald of
King Love, who would have Every.
woman as his queen. He commands
her to 90 forth into the world and
seek this king. who, on being found,
throne He disappears, and Everywom-
an charmed by the seductive tones of
his voice. can think OF nothing else.
! She is filled with unrest She an
nounces that she will go ut once to
find this king, TO reign beside him
forevermore. She will start at once,
But wberel
From her inexperience she asks her
companions where Love may be found.
! One of them advises her to try the
playhouses OF the great cities. Modes
| ty heseeches her to abide at home and
forget the mad quest, but the words
of Flattery linger like the memory Of
sweet music in Everywoman s ears and
she announces that she will at once set
out upon pilgrimage to find King
Love and that her three companions
may 60 with her. Youth and Beauty
are overjoyed at the prospect, but
Modesty pleads with her in vain for
her to remain in her home, AS she
starts to go, Truth, who is garbed as
n witch, hobbies upon a crutch and
carries nine-lashed whip, appears
She is followed by her son, King Love,
| in simple attire. He loves Everywom-
an and pleads with her to listen TO
him. but Flattery appears again in her
mirror and, blinded by the sight of
him, she cannot see King Love. In
vain he urges her. but she needs him
not, and Truth leads him disconsolate-
| ly away,
The scene changes to the stage OF
metropolitan theater, It is morning
and rehearsal time Several months