The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-13

'sts Smith .......,....,.... Teresa Micbeien,
IN Rutherford Dean s..,.......s Helen Orr Dal.
T.upersmcntsI LADY ......,....., Lillian Dixol
|s'ssr Poroo ............-s.......s Edward Davl
ss'iior Kirby ,......,....,,....... Henry Harmo
MOT a flower that blooms In the
~ spring. tra-la. is the least
Whit sweeter than Grace George In
'Dlvorcons. in which play she has
Ieappeared after an absence from
New York of far too long a time.
No performance she has ever given
Is more charming or vivacious than
her CypTienne, the young French
wife who thinks she is weary OF her
s,aid. reliable. aging husband: wants
70 divorce him and marry her ire
sponsihlc young puppy Of a cousin.
ard discovers her real feeling only
when. as n pretended divorcee, she
soss out TO d tete-a-tete supper with
her husband and finds him the most
delightful OF companions. BY win
somsness and freshness of personal
rs and by nice, artistic discretion
Miss George lifts this chars cter above
The shallow. rather vicious firt she
Actually is: and she does this with
nlt dis,ortinC the plaY-at least. not
Tor American audiences AS IL was
acted for the first time over thirty
rsars ago. I can tell YOU only from
hearssy that the Partisan favoritc.
rienne, suffered no such scruples, Nor
does II appear That The first actress
10 play the part on our side OF the
Atlentic-Aliee Dunning- Lingsrd- =
lrled To modify the rlsque points
Mrs Lingard was Gaby Deslys-ed,
tarliest peroxide blondes. | have been
fod. And among subsequent Cyp-
nennes, few appear TO have sought
lhe Georgian refinement, an eNcep-
Ton being Eieauora Duse, Among
the more famous Of the plavers might
% mentioned Anna Judic. Paola
Marie Hedwig Niemanp Raabe, Hell
ena Modjeska, Minnie Madden Fiske
aud Gabrielle RnJaue.
GRACE GEORGE lacks confidence
VI mot that anybody asked my
o6lnicn In the matter: but lhere IL
sl She hesitated six years ABOUT
Waving Cyprienne: yet when shc
Screwed her courage TO the stick
lg point" she gave pertornance
hat marked the turning point In ner
Sreer. Up 10 TINT point. msn% SIN
'er opportunities than her proven
abilities deserved Nor apparently
dd New York s approval of her Up
rsnne entirely give her commence
lor not until she had shown II IN
London and been bountitully praised,
did she quite achieve that sureness
and authority that arc essential 70
q foremost position on the stage
Then came another period OF hesl
Ialion before she attempted Lazy
Ieazlr, her second best performance
~ indeed. IL Is second to her
cyprienne And now she is hanging
her head and pouting over Beatrice,
u Much Ado About Nothing She
mas played the role in one or Two
y,meii cites, but appears TO fear New
Mss George. And especially ss your
company includes. Frank Reicher
icast as the talkative walter IN
'plvorcone''l, who, with Annie Rus
seli earlier in the sea son, proNed
himself one Of the best Benedlcks oi
THE burning question. How ola
= IL Ann" has been solved az a..
last. 4 drama called Ann Boyu
mas come 10 town. and from the inc
slrics unconvinciug story OF %onl-
neyod way In which II tells ", shouiu
younger than Lady Isabel and
Madame Vine of East Lynne
memory, At the end Of the thiTu
sst. Lucille La Verne appesred s,., IN
snswer TO loud calls from a friehuly
suolence, and ultimately clutched AZ
vance o'Nei. actress OF the tltle role
and told us her own troubles in get,
ing The play on the stage. she nau
Isad the novel of the same il9l,o
ssVeral years ago and iminediatelS
saW a play In II. She tried TO az,
range with such established dramat-
m,s as George Broadhurst, Ch9ries
Nleln and the late Clyde Fltch Lo
make play Of It. All were 'otner-
rlse engaged She sought Lee Slu-
oert. TO plead with him 10 mud some
o,her ''bie man. 10 do the work. re
rauYlsed her first TO make scenario
rSirselt. For three days and three
Isnts she worked on this sMiSs
snl. @ termSD Then she took the re-
aapt apt, to Mr.. ShuberL, and he SAID
bn,se up. woman OF Verne. for, verify.
nTe Is d play already made
r'orus 10 that effect. And she din
,se up and 60 forth. even unto the
Nace where Nance O'Neil was. Ana
'ehec did the rest
n THOUGH all this, the name OF
no,,, Will Harben. author of me
hove', was not mentioned. or the
ooos ] cannot speak You may have
Honnlt Han w. Many have. undereta no.
iI"ever. isI, | have not. and 40 can 2n'y
Ar Ar you that one who had read IL
SSh5TSrioed II as railway reading.
II%,e another declared q "a partlcu,
!, q nhe novel" SO there YOU are
s tlme that the literary qualitN OIL
n@9Vel has little bearing on the play
fses.ee f1e from it, Among the least el :
',rsuai dramas OF the lust decade VIZ
WE. House OF Mlrth.' from raill'
III Tissllon s masterpiece. But. II Mr..
|M oor,pcn h not responsible FOR in'
'''y Phrases In which some OF t"e