The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-04

that generally passes for incorrupt-
lble morality.
a SPECIAL piouancy is given to
N "The Flirt' by a certain recent
story which the press agent of a
certain handsome Parisienne does
not mind il We believe in toto. The
actress. not essentially bad and
thoroughly mnmercenary: but bound
to have a good time And when
she does not get it-a good time"
much masculine attention-she pre-
tends she has. She is an adept at
plain and fancy lying. For instance,
a cheap filtration with snowy
drummer posT9es ason S hear vss her fS Sa
king OF Portugal. And Hartlehen
conceived that actress twenty years
ago,
0CooD-BYE TO THE REGI-
O MENT'' is tensely dramatic.
san Pieces ss Of S'"iI the PHHg triogy '
captain OF infantry is preparing to
leave his old regiment He has been
forced to secure his transfer because
OF the candalous relations between
his wife and another officer 1t is
the last night. They talk the situa
ton over. He is very bitter. she con-
fines herself TO sneers, But the at
tltude fills the purpose. Goaded on
throat. as though to choke her.
She screams Her waiting lover
dashes in from the garden. Even at
this crisis, they had arranged an
assignation. The men draw swords.
But the rage and grief. and strain
have been too much for the husband,
and ne drops forward, dead from a
stroke Of apoplexy.
NXIELL, we'll, we'll! What an in
w valuable invention the Ameri- b
can department store" Isl Ever
stove or a Corot, bodkin or a hi
cycle. a can OF baked beans or a
grand plano. About fifteen years ago
the proprietors of one OF these en-
New York, building and stocking a
similar huge store. The essential
point at starting was to make the
public understand that the salespeo-
pie were ready TO fulfill any order
to as readily accommodate the GUS
about her shoulders and hurried over
for a paper OF pins as she who was
shopping for an incubator, Among
the articles exhibited at the, grand
ready to be wrapped up and sold
across the counter, so to speak.
pUT dimes have changed. and our
IL wants are not SO simple as in
those days. Not long ago a large
store here exhibited an aeropiane in
q showcase, where but yesterday a
fine line In teethlng rings had tempt
ed weary mothers; and now, a rival
offers Its customers flve-act tragedy
IN verse. Not in the book depart
nent, mind you; but acted right out
IN And rh9I'S
more, every part played by college
girl, guaranteed the genuine article
or your money refunded. Nor. was
the tragedy one of Shakespeare or
Ing second -hand-all new goods. The
play was, indeed, no other than
Sherwood; or. Robin Hood and the
Three Kings" oy Alfred Noyes, the
English poet. who made such noise
on his arrival in this country recent
". about making poetry pay. Inas-
much as ne spread broadcast pictures
OF himself Tennysonianing little son-
nets ON a typewriter and telling
newspapers how much money could
be made out OF the manufacture OF
ballads Browning had forgotten TO
write. it seems not inappropriate that
his first tragedy TO reach the New
York stage should not have been
the erstwhile New York theater. but
should be rendered" first just back
of the cotton-goods counter,
TTNFORTUNATELY. 1 can't give
" you a straightforward account
OF the story Of the play. I had SO
drama started well, with Robin Hood
and his band OF outlaws making
merry in Sherwood forest. And there
was a ballad 7 liked very much, set
TO charming music by Eastwood
Lane:
Knight on the narrow way,
Where wouldst thou ride?'
Onward, I heard him say.
Love, TO thy sidei'
Nay" sang a bird above.
Stay, for ] see
Death in the mask OF love,
Waiting for thee"
Death? What Is death?" he cried,
81 must ride on,
On to my true loves side,
Up to her throne"
Pretty thing. isn't III. / thought
so, Indeed, I took my shopping list
right out and made note TO buy
several yards of Noyess poetry;-to
80 bare and plain since the Waverley
novels and William Black, in sets.
went out OF fashion. And I can't
possibly AFFORD any more OF these
Swedish or dscadent French poets,
in morocco binding, with all the ex-
penscs OF the summer coming on.
WELL. ! was getting on very
w well with the romantic old
tale Of the gallant Robin Hood and
the lovely, artful Maid Marian, not
to mention Richard Coeur de Lion
and Prince John and funny old F,riar
Tuck: was really having as pleasant
an afternoon as I ever spent In a.
department store. But IL came over
me like a flash that I had no end
OF orders to place in the canned goods
department, So I got right up and
without another look at Blondel
(Mls5 M. Alden, Vassar '12). who was
singing. or at Richard Occur de Lion
tMisH NJ Fuller also of the class OF
1870 who was not hurried out.
II took me long time to get
through my grocery list-canned
goods are 30 essential In the springI
At least, ] have heard moro than one
good housewife say that. But In nv
case, the canned stuff was toward a
short cruise several Of lis boys are
going on. Up amidst the food there
were 40 many pretty girls. in yel-
low and white booths. with colored
1ellics and other things to sample,
that I forgot ell about the Vassar
girls and Mr.. Noyes's tragedy of old
England, / felt sure three or four
acts must have passed ms by, but
fairly compared that a moderately