The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-26

Descending from the spiritual elevation
OF The Passing OF the Third Floor
Back" MIR. Brandon lyman appeared
iast ias night at the Utah theater as the
fiighty musical genius. Gabor Arany. In
the American version OF Hermann Bahr's
comedy. The. Concert. The type Is
familiar enough to the American public
because we have been importing 1t In
large quantities from Slavic and Teutonic
countries since shortly after the Declara-
Is still much in the character as presented
on the stage that Is foreign to the farth-
est flights Of the Puritanic ina gina ton
and perhaps-if the real truth be told
Imagination.
Inasmuch as the play is a comedy. It
Is not we'll to take ii too seriously; but.
looking at the character OF Gabor Arany
out of prosaic American eyes. one is led
to remark that temperament Is frequently
a pose to excuse immortality. The writer
OF the play, however accepts the pose as
absolutely veracious and Introduces to us
Gabor Arany, the brilliant but childlike
musician, whose soul is so filled with
emotion, passion, music and romance
that he must needs run away for brief
time with every married woman who
happens to be his student and who adores
him. He has what the American version
portrays as "a sensible American wife"
He has often run off to the bungalow in
the country with "other women" but
they have no part in the play. The
other woman" In this play is the gay
foolish. vain and emotional wife Of mat
ter-of-fact DR.. Dallas.
Why Mrs. Gabor Arany should get jeal
Gus Of Mrs. Dallas is not made clear In
the play. inasmuch as the musicians wife
scarcely even said II should worry when
informed that .herr. husband has become
the victim, of his ''eccentricity,,", On this
occasion, however, she Is told of the
flight to the bungalow by Jealous
woman student, who also takes pains to-
acauaint DR.. Dallas with his wife's esca-
course. It is an escapade. or worse, be-
cause she is not a genius and has never
even thought Of proving the alibi Of &c
centricity"
Dr., Dallas and Mrs. Arany confer quite
nonchalantly and they agree to try an
old trick on Gabor the Genius and little
Mrs. Dallas They rush off to the bun
ealow and come upon the runaways just
after tea, They talk about how fortunate
is the love affair of Arany and Mrs Dala s
I'VE. too, are In love with one another
and all Of us can get divorces and marry
something to that effect
Gabor both genius and tempera
mental. really ought not to act like the
He ought not TO be Jealous or any other
vulgar thing like that, because II isn't
genius and 1t is not bit eccentric. But
he falls for It's just like the ordinary
cIOu NeSuIL-dlteT many huuSlue Slt-
uations the good doctor gets back his
wife and Gabor and the 'mssus" are
reunited in a perfectly lovely and per-
fectly impossible mutual understanding of
genius and eccentricty. AS the curtain
falls they are a picture Of that sweet
domesticity which genius and eccentri
city, II true to its pose. should desplse
as painfully dull and conventional
Whatever of truth there is in the part
is brought out with fine discrImina ton
by Mr., lyman Whatever is false and
artificial not even the greatest actors
could conceal with any refinement of art.
In spite Of the flaw in the play-and.
after all. It may not be a flaw, because
the writer is neither a genius nor an
eccentric and may, therefore, be wholly
incapable of understanding-the situa-
tlons are funny and the lines are often
brilliantly witty, The most unjust criti-
cism of the play would be to say that
it is tiresome or uninterestnG. And last
night It was presented most effectively |
by those who took the leading roles |
Brandon lyman as Gabor Arany, William |
Fl BOYD as Dr Frederick Dallas. Rich |
ard Vivian as the Irish caretaker of |
Arany's bungalow. Miss Florence Stone
as the Sensible" Mrs. Arany. Regina
Connelli AS Flora Dallas, Miss Fanchon
Eberhardt as Merk. AranY's secretary,
and Miss AdeIa Rogers Eva Wharton,
the Jealous married woman who tells
on" the master. Special mention this
week Is due 10 the skill with which Miss
Connelli enacts the role Of Mrs. Dallas.