The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-19

Scotia" were brought to New York:
and Miss Goodrich, it would appear.
mandy 10 Nova Scotia, and back and
forth again. so that she could steep
herself in the Atmosphere" Liter
ary records OF Boston i'm the days Of
sacked: L. Il. Rice was scornfully
dismissed; Mary Anderson's name
was adroitly brought in. as a sort OF
predecessor so TO speak, 10 Edna
Goodrich. thoughts on love, ascribed
to Miss Goodrich (Mrs. Nat Goodwin
No IV) To Thomas william of the
Broadhursts, to the producer. To the
INDUSTRIOUS press agent and, for
aught l can remember, TO the office
cat, were distributed with free
hand. Finally some actors were en-
Saged-100. count 'em, 100
George II. OF the Broadhursts has
not much time for poetry. tfe knows
argue that one good drunk is worth
fifty stanzas OF correct verse; any
way, the drunk scene made him inde-
pendently rch A year ago Minnie
fifteen years ago than now, happened
on drama played In Yiddish, on the
BoWery. She purchased the English
rights: Then she looked UP Mr..
lation: and urged him to adapt IT for
our stage. To-day" Is the result
II tells the story OF a young wife
whose indulgent husband becomes
bankrupt; of his struggles and grad
ual restoration to his former posi-
tion; OF her distaste for the conpara-
tive poverty in which she Is plunged:
OF her desire for dainty clothing and
amusements which her husba nd is
unable to provide: Of her temptation
and fall in order to secure these.
In the original play she is killed
by her husband when he meets her
In the house of ill-repute which she
frequents But such violence is not
curtain falls on his being led away to
his home by his parents, while the
erring wife Is left to her fate.
NJHERE are the scandals OF yes
w terday? Just when New. York
is sitting up like an expectant ter
rier, to see the second play by the
author OF THE Lure Olga Neither
sole returns-"Sapho,' staircase and
ALTO revive our bushes of Il dozen
years ago. But do bushes ever quite
revive? Most OF us recall that, on
issued warrants for the arrest OF
Marcus MAYER, producer of version
OF Alphonse Daudet's "Sapho' by
Clyde Fitch. for the owners OF Wal
lacks thea ter, In which 1t was being
acted, and for Olga Nethersole and
Hamilton Rcvelle, star" and Head
ing man. who participated i'm the
offending scene. II is that portion
OF the play that is now brought forth
as the chief Item of the programme
OF vaudeville at the new Palace of
Varieties. where Sarah Bernhardt was
the dramatic star last spring, In that
connection. Miss Nethersole remarked,
on her arrival: Vaudeville is an un-
known experience to me. While |
was considering It, went to lunch
Mld la Tfli
was enthusiastic about it.; told me
OF the audiences she met, the ap-
probation she received and the alto
gether delightful reception, I made
my decision at once"
ID UT we are bounding 153 months
ID ahead of ourselves! After a
hearing. on February %. 1900. Maeis-
trate Mott decided againstt he de-
PENDANTS, who were held for trial In
special sessions. a fortnight later.
bill" Devery, then chief of police,
Walack's theater. pending decision
OF the higher court. The district at
torney. thereupon. laid the matter be-
fore the grand jury and indictments
were returned against all four offend
ers. Sensation reigned No vaude
vile or burlesauc show was com
plete without allusion 10 "Sapho' or
travesty of 1t; hastily assembled
companies sprang UP through the
country, In serious versions OF the
novel quite as hurriedly prepared
four companies were presenting 1t at
one time in New York city alone. In
addition to Saphos speaking English,
OF one sort or another we had Ger
man, Yiddish and even a Japanese
Sapho And Weber e Fields; then
al its height put OIL "Sapolio.
clean burlesque.
TN the meantime Miss Nethersole
l. fell i'll; OF, at least. was reported to
have succumbed TO the persecution"
Presently. however; she rreopened
WaIiaek,s with stop gap; zap md anda
was "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."
the scandal OF 1898. When the ''Sapho'
case reached trial. before Justice
Fursman and a jury in the supreme
court. the defendants were acquitted.
"Sapho'' was put back on the stage;
Olga Nethersole was cheered by some
as a suffering martyr. reWled by 9TH
ers as disgrace to the stage, and
discussed by all; and-she rapidly be-
came a wealthy woman.
ITOw tame this all seems now, Yet
J. for one. see no reason TO re-
verse my judgment OF IL years ago
because ] believe now as 7 believed
then. that the Fitch version OF the
novel was designed deliberately to put
as much nastiness on the stage as the
law would allow; In short, TO shock
the public into a rain OF gold But It
is Impossible to prove motives, how
ever much, one may believe one sees
the true ones. Miss Nethersoie pro-
tested ''high artistic purpose;'' Clyde
Fitch, as / remember, wisely refralned
from talking. Now poor Fitch, the
first American dra maist to write on
plane with the leading dramatists
OF Great Britain and the continent.
IS dead; and Olga Nethersoe appears
to be settling rapidly into n nice.
round. comfortable old age, resembling
the Mrs Kendall OF the "Sapho" pc
riod, rather than the most seductive
siren OF Paris.
GEORGE SCARBOROUGTs second
" play is really his first. BY
which I mean. before "The Lure"
called forth the attention Of the po-
lice, his name was unknown to New
York playgoers, However, he had
had n play called "At Bay pro-
duced tentatively. In an outlying city.
ChrystaI IIerne was the leading ac-
tress, as she Is now. and others re-
tained from the cast are Edwin
Mordant, Marie Majeroni. John
Herne (son of the famous Mr.. and
Mrs, James a. Herne and brother of
Chrystal and Julia Az. $. L, Hines.
Charles Mason, Harry s. Hadfleld and
Phyllis Young. But Andrew Mack
who undertook the role of next I'M
portance to Miss Herne's, has been