The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-17
the season. in lev silence. Oh, Brieux.
BrieuX, see what you have done.

the season. in lev silence. Oh, Brieux.
BrieuN, see what you have done.
A MELIA BINGHAM has made her
= debut under canvas. The play
was THE Fearful Fate OF Fair
Gwendolyn Eitzhugh'' and was almost
as narrowing as Everett Shinn's
More Sinned Against Than Usual
IL was acted. for one evening only.
as part OF a wild west show given by
the Atlantic Yacht club at Sea Gate.
Mrs. Bingham. who coptented herself
with the minor role of a cowgirl was
the only professional in the cast, un-
less one eXcepts her husband. who
was made UP as Buffalo Bill. Lloyd
Bingham transfers his energies from
Wall street to the stage and back TO
Wall street SO often that I really have
no Idea which hollow sham claims him
at the present dat te. Fair Gwendolyn
Fltzhugh, lmpersonated by ]. Stuart
Bla ackton, the hefty commodore of tho
club. is journeying across the plains
with her parents in a prairie schoon-
er. The party is attacked by red
Is dragged off TO their encampment
and there offered the choice OF be-
coming squaw OF Chief Big Fea t1er
or death at the stake. Gwen doesn't
hesitate. Stake for hers. Still. 1t
might be because the temptation is
girl TO be taken as a broller! How
ever, she DELAYS the burning for A
time by producing a phonograph and
initiating the braves into the fasci-
nations of the turkey trot. Indeed,
SO delighted are they that they for
get to light the fire at all and are
overtaken by Sheriff Jack Range and
his rescuing party. who. In turn. are
truly overwhelmed by the fair Gwen
dolyn. who falls in a faint that pins
nj no Y.fl tn Ia
A LETTER from NJ. Brieux to Mr..
- Bennett on the subject Of Dam
aged Goods" makes rather interest
Ing reading. "On my return from my
long journey In Asia" he writes,
my eyes fell by accident on n New
York paper where L found an ac-
count of your tribulations and strug
giles before the public in America ac
cepted the presentation OF my play,
Damaged Goods l was touched
more than can say 10 have inspired
such faith and ardor, and / consider
myself greatly honored.
1T Is necessary to come to the
point, to say and repeat, that the
idea expressed in Damaged Goods
was suggested to me by the works of
our great scholars, the great French
physicians. Diday. Fournler and Jul
lien. I was nothing but their inter
prefer, and did nothing but bring
their knowledge to q larger. surface
under & dramatic form, that which
was expressed In these special works
where not everyone would look at
them.
1T seemed TO me. as 1t did 10
you, that nothing was more simple
or more honorable than to teach the
masses those truths which would re-
suit in rendering the men whose faith
is most pitlable most altrulstic, re-
spect their own health and the health
OF others. But the social hypocrisy
In France was long opposed to II;
In Paris. where in certain cafe con-
certs inept scandalous jokes would
make one blush; in Paris. where the
liberty in this respect reaches the ex-
treme limit sometimes-it was impos-
sible TO get permission for presenta-
ton of Damaged Goods. II was
not until after d great number OF
presentations In Belgium. after lee
ture In a Protestant church in Switz-
erland and in a Catholic seminary in
France, and after many years OF eff
fort, that presentations were author
lied in Paris and all over France.
They were given without scandal to
the applause OF those very people,
less well informed. who had already
approved of the prohibiting of this
piece that they did not know I see
that the same thing happened in New