The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-25
IN NEW YORK
u;Id West Performance for Her HI
'TIME' OPERA REVIVED
produced With De Wolf Hopper
ps o4her Noted Players in Cast.
Ry Vanderheyden Fyles.

cools off. Alphonse d Este, a
an awful state OF mind. He has
married into the Borgia family, IL
thing any modern reader Of
mediaeval history could have
warned him against. But, then. the
warning would have come too late.
The duke believes Lucrezia un-
faithful to him: has had her
shadowed, going to the house OF
one Geunaro, whom he assumes to
be her lover. But, alas It's far,
far worse. For Gcnnaro, not
knowing he is the nameless son
OF this same daughter of the
Borgias, has denounced her in pub
lie and insulted her by defacing
her name in the inscription above
the portico Of the palace. Not
guessing who has been so bold, Lu-
crezia obtains from her more
knowing husband a promise under
oath to discover the miscreant and
to kill him,
NOV for the third act! Cen
IN naro has been arrested and
is dragged before tho duke. I4u-
crezia is dunlfoupded. Then she
pleads and coaxes and cajoles.
Her husband, thereupon, denounces
her as a wantop. He makes only
one concession. She may Choose
the manner of her Glover 81
death. In her extremity she de-
cides on poison. Alphonse waits
long enough to see her put the
poison in a goblet Of wine and 10
make sure the doomed man swal-
lows it. Then he leaves her to
alive with him for his last
quarter Of an hour - And it Ger.
tainly is mauvais quart d 'heure.
Lucrezia implores Gennaro to take
an antidote she prepares for him.
He refuses, not believing he is
poisoned at ala subject upon
which one might think he would
have "inside information. - How
ever, after much agony-of five
star Bernhardtian brand-in the
course OF which Lucrezia tolls the
young man she Is his own mother,
he finally consents to drink the
antidote, Thereupon the Borgia
packs her boy off to Venice, the
air doubtless will do his com
pIaint' much good; and faints-
RS, indeed, any mother might, after
such an afternoon.
All of which recalls the line In
"Pickwick Papers, Mr.. Tup-
man said nothing; but he thought
OF Donna Anna and the stomach
pump, and his eyes filed with
tears.
AS Phedre, in which role Bern
hardt acted first when 8 member
Of the Comedie franchise, forty
years ago, and which she chose for
her debut in London, in 1879,
the great actress Is doubtless at
her best. 1t is because of her
power and nobility and exalted
elocution in such roles that mdcn
critical regret has been expressed
that she should have devoted her
best years to the clap-trap Of
Sardou-to what Bernard Shaw so
happily dubbed "Sardoodeldum.
Nevertheless, the vaudeville public
might not care for the turgidly
told woes of Phedre; the Broad
way public. indeed, never spent
twentieth Of the money to see her
kill villain with hat pin, or an
axe, or whatever was the latest
mode with Sardou heroines. So
the happy thought occurred TO ac-
ccpt the offers Of three leading
American actresses, to appear as
the silent bandmaidens. Laurette
Taylor, the life and soul OF that
great success, "Peg o My
Heart" volunteered; SO, too. Jane
Cowl, OF s'Within the Law" and
Elsie Janis, Of "The Lady of the
Slipper What price such a
trio for giving a lift TO Racine'
But Miss Janis had other troubles
of which, more presently;
though, as Marguerite Clarke
jumped In and filed her place, we
did not mind. Laurette Taylor
was game to the last but
Jane Cowl, il was said, found the
gown supplied too short for her,
and backed out al the last, SO
handmaiden had to be found in a
hurry. The only girl available
was one Evelyn Bloom, typist
In the business Offices OF the thea
ter; and she was hustled into cos
tune and onto tho stage. Tho next
day Evelyn resigned from ONCE
work, saying she was going TO
bloom out as an actress
NF rourss YOU could not eI-