The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-05
AMERICAN WOMEN
SEE PARIS PLAYS
Dramatic Critic Says That
They Refused to Be
Shocked.
YOUNG GIRLS PRESENT
French Girls, Says Critic,
Would Not Have Re-
manned Through.
YOUNG GIRLS PRESENT
BY GEORGES DUFREsNE.
'cial Cable to The Tribune.

BY GEORGES DUFREsNE.
Special Gable to The Tribune.
PARIS, Oct. Allow your women
must love thrills and blood -curdling
stage dramas! I went to the Grand
Guignol theater 4 few nights ago and
found the best boxes and the front
rows Of the orchestra occupied by young
Americans, many Of them evidently
still In their teens or just out OF
them, calmly and unconcernedly en-
Joying plays, which would havo driven
even the most blase Parisienne mad
with fear, for this little theater pro-
duces only the most horrible mclodra-
mas and it takes nerves Of steel to
sit through an evenings programme,
The night when l was there the first
drama was "Gardiens de Phares"
(The Lighthouse Keepers), which
shows q young man who, while tend
ing a lighthouse on the lonely coast
of Brittany is suddenly seized with hy-
dTophobia. To save himself the father
Of the young man is compelled to kill
his son, and the scenes of madness and
some and realistic details that several
times I felt the color leaving my cheeks
and beads Of perspiration covering my
forehead
Girls Enjoyed 1t.
I rather hatter myself that I am
not hypersensitive or impressionable
person, but while repeatedly shut
my eyes to tho scenes Of horror and
secretly wished myself miles away, your
young and beautiful country women,
without single exception, as far as
l could see, seemed to enjoy the drama
1rh1 -
young girl, with a face of the most
angelic beauty, who sat in the Same
row with me, actually told her COM
panion that she was rather disappoint-
ed, as she had expected something much
more grewsome.
I sincerely hope that she did not I'M
derstand the next play, "Master
Tom," written by M. Jose de Berys,
the witty. secretary of ola vie Paris
ienns,'n, the plot Of which is quite nn
printable and whose dialogue is the
most daring that has ever been heard
even on Partisan stage, Certainly no
French young girl would have dared TO
sit through it.
Emotions Are Shown.
The last drama, however, did stir up
the emotions of the Americans and
they certainly would not have been hu-
man if it had not. 1t was "Le Baiser
Dams la Mutt C'The Kiss in the
Night') by Maurice Level.
A young man has become blind after
friend, little midinette from the left
bank Of the Seine, has thrown vitriol in
his face in fit of jealousy, but he
bears his fate and his sufferings with
heroic patience. He refuses to make
complaint against her, and she is &C
Quilted by the jury. Hor lawyer comes
to thank the noble.minded young man,
who has only one desire-to hear the
voice of his beloved once more.
In the next act the young girl comes
TO him, penitent and crushed. She i'm
plores him to forgive her and trembles
when she sees his horribly scared face.
He begs her to let him have one more
kiss, the last. She shudders at the
thought of kissing his dreadful face,
but she consents at last. He pulls her
down on his lap and kisses her into the !
eternal mig hit. His hand grips the back
of her neck as If in vice and deaf to |
her cries Of despair he takes from his
pocket bottle Of vitriol and blinds her |
slowly, one eye at time, enjoying her |
maddenlng pain.
Great Self Control.
1 watched the young American girl |
next to me several times during this re-
voting drama. She was staring at the |
stage as if in a trance and she looked |
perhaps trifle paler, but rs soon as
cool and unconcerned as ever. The |
drama had left no lasting or at least
no visible impression.
/ admit that to certain extent she
aroused my admiration by her wonder
full self-control, even if it seemed to
me unnatural in ono so young But /
asked myself if your wonderfully beau.
and I pitied the man who
will some time marry her.
Would Bar Johnson.
The people Of tho little community
OF Asnieres, one Of the most charming
Of Parisian suburbs, are shocked at the
thought that Jack Johnson, the heavy
weight boxer, is going to live among
them permanently, and n movement is
bar the negro from France as fugi-
tive from American Justice. But it is
exceedingly doubtful whether there is
any paragraph In our code which we ,
,an apply to rid ourselves Of this un-
desirable creature, who is even think
ing Of becoming q French citizen, as
ne has already become Free Mason.
IO lCll tho eauVli, hiAolAAo aIG uShr-
lily ashamed Of themselves and the ',
foolish enthusiasm with which they re. |
,oived this colored man, To our ex-
,use, lot mo say this; We have not !
md much experience with negroes, !
race prejudice Is absolutely unknown '
lere, and we are wild about sports in
my form. When Jack Johnson arrived, G
ve saw in him only the world Is cham I
,ion boxer, and very few of US knew /
lnything about his record.
We discovered very SOON that he S