The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-26
"The Spy" Filled With Gallo Heroisms
Story of Potiphar's Wife's Perfdy Furnishes Ma
teria for Dazzling Pageant in
Four Acts
By Vanderheyden Fyles.
Four Acts.

otic colonel into betrsying his coun-
Try. Very cunningly. he has bought
up all the Officers heavy debts The
only escape from bankruptcy and dis
grace is the exposure OF the plans OF
fortress or The French frontier.
But the agent reckoned without
knowledge Oc his man. For in a
burst OF lcyal indignation, the colonel
Ieaped at the foreigners throat and
stranged him To death. And the re-
suit OF this ferocity? Naturally. I'm n
French play. gentle marital recon
ciliation. What woman would not
Forgive ali in man who sprang To
the defense OF that dear France with
such alacrity and viger? on they go
together 20 get the corpse carry IL
10 the dead mans own room. and
leave il there propped up In chair.
10 be discovered In the morning,
TIE last act talks the situa ton
into something like satisfac-
tory conclusion. For this. the legally
learned lover is TO be thanked. Rather
handsome OF him, say ]: when he had
just been embarrassingly stood up
by a lady who was enjoying her
second honeymoon. so TO speak.
carrying a corpse around the house
with her husband. The Young bar
rister wns sure a murder in the name
OF France was right couS, and should
dnu tSill ne IiuSnen UP. Ana, Tulle
properly. he withdraws all claims to
the love OF wife with such a virile
husband.
In conclusion, / can only echo tho
comprehensive estimate offered by
Rebecca OF Sunnybrook Farm, in her
earlier New England school days:
THE French are gay people, very
fond Of dancing"
IN these days Of frenzied dramatics.
when many good play goes to
the bottom after only Il week or
fortnight on the stormy sea called
Broadway criticism and prophecy
float very far apart. Yet usually the
reason for the financial failure and
withdrawal Of an admirable play
may be found in the lack Of any
thing strikinCly out Of the ordinary
plains the early death OF several
pieces I have praised In these col
ulnns, and feel no regret for having
praised: and Il Is my chief reason for
prophesyine a long and prosperous
career Tor Joseph and His Broth
rcn.' Not that the succession or
hewilderinc scenes in the latest
Century theater spectacle eAcels the
beauty Of the pictures revealed on
the same spacious stage in "Thc
Garden OF AliaR' and "rhc Oaugil-
ter OF Heaven" indeed. that would
be imposslble But the drama list
and tho manager, Louis y Parker
and George G. Tyler have approached
q delicate experiment with such tact
sincerity and rev ercnce that they
have turned out serious entertain
mont that will not only command the
attention of all hsbituaI playgoers,
but will attract thousands Of people
who rarely enter thester. In short
they have put n Bible story on tho
stage with; unprecedented faithful
ness, pictorial beauty, lofty motive
and dramatic movement.
THE pageant play, as Mr.. Parker
correctly calls his arrangement
oil the story. Of the youngest son OF
Jacob and Rachel, follows the BibN-
cal narrative with surprising fidelity.
One hardly could have believed a, play
so correctly formed, according to mod
ern standards could have been de-
veloped from the parable as told In
the Book. Only here and there has
the link OF authorial invention been
utilized to weld the tale together.
At crucial moments the exact words
from the Book Of Genesis have been
ing imbued with the same spirit.
but cast in a simpler form. And
solely in the fancied need OF giving
Joseph an experience Of pure love
and ultimate paternal happiness has
the. mention of his union with Ase-
nath. daughter of Poti-pherah, priest
Of On. been expanded freely.
T'HE drama Is divided into four
parts; The first. based on
Genesis ~; XNXN and XXXyH, is
Al dawn, amongst the tents of
Shechem, we see the hatred in which
Joseph's brothers, led by Simeon,
hold the boy; and we observe It
famed 10 flame by their fathers
ho 1c la al
10 whom he gives the symbolic coat
OF many colors. Then the scene
changes TO the wells OF Dothan, in
an oasis in the hot sands of the des-
liant. scorching background that
might have been conceived by Fred
eric Remington The cunning broth
ers entice Joseph 10 the spot: hing
nm down the Shiny, drled-up well.
with It's green monsters at the bot
tom, and smear the coat OF many
colors with the blood OF a kid OF the
goats, Passes. then. The gorgeous
caravan. conveying Zulelka. the mir
aculously fair. to Egypt, 10 be mar
ried TO the wealthy Potiphar. Her
slaves. demanding water for their.
camels. near Joseph crying from the
depths: and lower rope to him
Thus saved. he proclaims his trusf
IN Gods watchfuness and mercy.
and is therefore about 10 be put TO
death by the 1sllnaelites. when Zu-
lelka looks upon him and buys him
from his brothers for twenty pieces
OF silver A concluding scene OF fhe
act. in Jacobs tent. concerns itself
with tic terror and hypocrisy OF the
brothers and The overwhelming grief
of Jacob and Rachel These roles
by the w3y arc admirably PLAYED BY
james ONeilI and Olive oliver.
A pure drama. the second section
OF the play is far the best. o..
perhaps ] should say Impure dra ma, d"
as il reviTcs the old scandal about
Potiphar's wife. II il called "rhe
Tcmptation;' takes itg source from
Genesis NNXiN.. and admits OF the
best actin" of the evening Brandon
lyman rs Joseph is effsctiye through
ot,t. doing everything an actor could
To eflact that element OF lnonoionV
almost Inherent In a character con
ceiyed 10 typify patient trust and
that th" actress OF Potlphar's wife.
were she WORTHY in the least. would
carry off The Shower success And
no living actress colld have realized
the teinptresg more superhly than
Pnuline Frederick. Her long black.
snake-like har; her pallid face and
red lips; her bare arms and throat
and feet; her gorgeous oriental trap
pings. combine in an inccmparably
sensuous and sensual serpent. Jo-
Seph said that she was like tine
green and slmT crea turcg at the
bottom OF The well. and Joseph there
| In showed power OF description
worthy OF one KiDliDg She rear