The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-23
pictures OF the prize fight between the
Irishman and the negro.

MO less grim and vital. il hardly
~ so significant. Is Maurice
liarte. q two-act tragedy. by L. c.
Murray. Coming simultaneously with
the death OF Pope Pius's beloved,
though totally uneducated, sister. 1t
brings home to us the wholesale sac
rlhce Of family in order to edu-
cate one son for the priesthood.
which is not unusual among the
peasantry "t the old world Such
has been the case with the parents
and brother or Maurice II1Tto. \ lit
tie time before his ordination, he
hnds he has no vocation for the
church. But after long and agonized
pleading by his family and the par
ish priest-but most especially by
his mother-Maur!ce gives in and
returns 10 college Some months
later, With fresh examination lTonors
won and ordination AT hand, he is
expected home again. The mother is
almost frantic with pride and JOY.
But the priest comes 10 tell her the
boy Is, not well. He Will have to be
mother cries, tell me the truth--he's
dead. But the calamity is worse
than that For when two college
friends bring Maurice home, 1t is
clear he has become inbecile be-
meath the strain And the curtain
falls, as on tho final scene of
Ghosts" on the blank stare OF
ora!nless boy and the hopeless moan
ing Of his mother. again trI-
umpA for Fred O'Donovan and Miss
Allgood-a climax of Theatre misery
almost too painful 10 be borne.
A COMEDY OF romantic charm and
N literary grace-,hat Is The ':Ro-
nance OF Edward Sheldon. perhaps
the only American dramatlst since
Clyde Fitch who is always interest
Ing. no matter what faults he may
10 f..t AW.1
OF The quality of Romance. ade-
quately produced ond adequately
acted-and with ali actress Ike Doris
kcane coming into her own with ex-
ceptional success. after years OF
promise is refreshed with d
reminder that an evening at the the
ater can be eminently worth while
For with its very definite shortcoIn-
lnss. Romance" is still a least 20
per cent better than such record
breakers as ''Within the Law and
THE Argyle Case
A YOUNG man OF today an OF.
phaned descendant OF the best
stock OF New York. comes 10 his
arandfather venerable bishop. to
an actress. evidently Of doubtful
character. It is New Years eve.
Instead OF demonstrating with the
hoy the old man draws him 10 his
size Oy tne urG, ana, showing MIN u
few white Violets. long faded. and a
dainty handkerchief from which the
scent has died. he tells him a story
OF the long ago. And Us he awalles
the past from It's slumbers and its
graves, and lives again his own past
in 1t, the walls or the modern T.
brary fade away. The nigh, air VI
brates with 1.-The Beautiful Blue
Danube" and the waltzes OF forty
years or so ago, We are In a stiff
drawing room of the days when fash
ion centered around Fifth avenue
below Fourteenth street. Bellies in
waterfalls and crinolines and heauN
In mutton chop whlskers and peg
tops arc laughing and flirting. Il Is
an evening party In the late sixties.
4 distinguished ageiDg gentleman Is
the host; q beautiful Italian prima
donna, singing regularly at the Acad-
enIy OF Music, the chief attraction. A
handsome, innocent. ardent. almost
fana teal clergyman appears, and.
after half an hour with the worldly
woman, is her slave. That boy is the
bishop OF today,
~. To-. tgaz L., IL.