The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-27
II HE; most notable feature of the


as presented at the Salt Lake theater,
was neither the lines, the morals nor
the music, but rather the company Tt
seemed as if all the women had been
selected for their beauty and all the
men for their speaking voices Walter
Brownies play is written in sonorous
blank verse that permits the men and
the women to display their elocutionary
talents with great effect and the elo-
cution was one Of the most allurinc
elements of last nights performance.
In an age Of dramatic prose it is pleas
ant occasionally to return to the poetic
drama.
The easiest way to reveal the merits
of Everywoman is by comparison,
and the only production Of this sea
son in Salt Lake that bore a resem-
blance to Brownies play was "The Blue
Bird of Maeterlinck. The writer
must confess frankly that he finds
Everywoman decidedly superior as
dramatic production, whatever the
advocates of the Belgian bard NAV
claim for his poetic reveries. This may
be due to the fact that Everywonau -
is the first morality play that is in.
fused with the American spirit and that
points It's lesson by the use of we'll.
known American types
Inc morality play comes down to us
'ron the middle ages, when the church,
WHICH mao employed music, painting and
sculpture 10 guide men IN the paths OF
virtue, did not disdain TO employ the
dramatic form OF art for similar pur-
pose And it Is noteworthy fact that
the same morality that was taught by
the writer's of the morality plays, by
Dante In his Inferno" and bv Milton in
Paradise Lost" served Walter Browne
OF New York in the twentieth century
Tor his great drama. The name of the
Deity is not heard once during the per-
for!nance. but when Bea uty departs from
EveryWoman and dies her funeral is held
according TO Christian rites. and the
chuTch that appears over against the
Great Willie Way Is very like the Lit
tie Church Around the Corner" An this
Is said by way OF pointing out that In an
aSe when virtue and vice are held by
SO many teachers of ethics TO be relative
terms and morality Is declared to be
merely a question OF the era or Of
geography. the ten commandments are
still the only system Of ethics that can
inspire a playwright to evolve modern
morality play.
The play is divided into five canticles
and the scenes are as follows: A room
in Ererywoman homes on the stage OF
metropolitan theater: EveEywoman S
apartments In the city, Now Years eve
on Broadway. and again room In
EVcrywomanS home
The most impressive scene is New
Years eve on Broadway" George Mari
on has staged the play In such wonder
ful fashion that the creator OF middle
age morality play would die Of envy
could he be revived long enough to see
White Way. In this scene vice is por-
ira yed in It's most attractive form. but so
judiciously that there is nothing to offend
driven home powerfully to the MIND OF
Eyerywoman that vice is the deadliest
and most futile Of all pursuits.
BY way OF the chorus that served the
classic dramatist to introduce or explain
their scenes or the conduct OF their
characters. Walter Browne employed a
quaint conceit In his symbolic parsonage,
Nobody" The name Is used with tell
Ing effect In many lines Of wit and
wisdom In fact ali the names In the
drama are played upop by the author In
serious OF comic vein, For instance,
when Bluff and Stuff. the stage man.
ayers, are debating how they shall cut
down expenses and are considering whom
they shall eliminate from the cast, Bluff
objects to the dismissal Of Everywoman
with these words, But Everywoman is
STAR end Stuff replies. "Eyerywoman
thinks she is a star.
The role Of EveryWoman Is taken by
Adele Blood whose blonde beauty seems
| especially suited TO the part She Will
| be seen in the role at every performance
J this week except Friday night and AZ the
| Saturday matinee. when the role VIII Dc
| interpreted by Elsie Jane Wilson.
The chief speaking characters among
| the women are Youth. Beauty. Modesty
and Truth and the roles are taken by
| Marion Dentler Lea Lecture. Ruby Both
nour and Kathleen Kerrigan- Ihese tnree
young ladies are possessed OF exSeilsnI1
voices,
The character Of Conscience Is taken
by q beautiful young woman Miss Char
lotto Van, Wickle, 70 whose lot falls the
chief singing role. The enchanIment OF
her sweet soprano as she sang the plain
tive warnings that Conscience addresses
| to EyeryWomau at the poignant crises
| In Everywoman's career won 1or MISS
| Van Wlckls rapturous applause. She is
| undoubted one Of the NOSE captivating
| singers who has been heard In Salt Lake
I To recount the merits Of the many and