The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-28

a pugle Nall summons tho soldiers ,o
.t.e"eo ,,st.f carnage; and the play ends
-. VIC ifnpeclle lighting candles on
the tree, starting the gramophone with
CHRISTMAS hymn and babbltng In
hhuolin satisfaction at nnding every-
oody gone, leaving himself-ths fttast
as sole survivor
A FLAf called "otheIlo" promises
=, to be ono OF the most popular
GENEROUSLY acted dramas OF the
seasoH; As many companies are being
!o'!ned TO act II as for such winners
as ne Lure" and To-day" IL Is be-
neVed TO have been written by one
iliiah Shakespeare. Most people who
eno know that: but playgoers who
d,epend upon tho acted dra ma for their
knowledge IN such matters may be un-
informed OF all Shakespeare's great
er tragedies, "Othello" has bcon the
most neglected in Now York For over
Sweuty years-that is TO say. since
Edwin Booth and Lawrence barrett
dled-it has been practically unknown
on Broadway. About eighteen years
$50 an eN-clerSymaD, desiring TO act
laeo' engaged tho Broadway theater
ana secured the professional services
~ NIFTY onaw and Henry Jewett for
Oesdemona and the title role: and
tW!ce Robert Mantell produced the
pay. IN the course OF repertoire sea-
sons that must have been disastrous
financially, judging by the meager au-
olcnceA' on the second OF these oc-
chsions Mr. MaDtell alternated the
roles or Othello and Iago, as was Ed
win booths habit, and as that famous
actor did with Henry Irving, during a
notaDIe engagement at the London
Lyceufn. That.- OF course, was in the
long ago. New Workers whose his
trionic memories go no further hack
tian two decades, have seen no Eng
nsh-spea King actor OF the first rank in
eltner OF these characters Once In a
great while the drama has bobbed up
~ some outlying theater. as when
kathryn kldder. Frederick Warde and
the late Louis James filled the moro
important parts. about fifteen years
ago and when the late Creston Clarke
played lago as stock star" with
the cut-rate company that supplied
demona,, But now "Othello" is all
the fashion. Sothern and Miss Mar
lowe planned to put IL on this winter,
but found their present repertoire
strong enough without II, and John L.
kellerd and James X. Hackett NAV
have TO postpone their appearances In
the title role; but two revivals Of the
first rank re assured. One Is In re-
hearsal; the other has been made.
A LTHOUGH Johnston Forbes Rob-
crtson adopted "Othello'' into
his repertoire in 1897. he delayed
producing It in London until 1902,
when Gertrude Elliott, Lena Ashwell
and Herbert Waring were the Des-
demonas. the Emilia and the AN
cieut. and not until last Monday
evening did he appear In it in Amer
lea, Last spring. during his fare
Well 10 London. a question arose
as To the advisablity OF putting on
"Othello" unless an actor OF excep-
tlonal ability and renown could be
was invited to fill the role. and. at
first. he planned to do so. He had
already studied II exhaustively. in
asmuch as he purDoscd acting II this
sea son. However, no rcconeidered
tho London appearance, and. by a
coincidence, put tho tragedy into re-
hearsal this very week, with Julie
Opp TO be his wife In the play. as
she is in fact. and Cecilia LOTUS and
r. u. MacLean to play Desdcmona
Forbes -Robertsou's Othello was
bound 10 stir np violent discussion.
Elderly playSoers remember Tom
maso Salvinl in the character and
10 accept his method and embodt-
ment as the standard. Othello has
come down TO us as sort OF saw
age. a terrifying, maddened bull.
glowering, huge mass OF brawn and
muscle. whose believing was like the
thunder or the voice OF Ieus. IIis-
trIonic history is fairly bursting with
anecdotes Of how brave men trem-
bled and fair women tainted at the
spectacle OF his overpowering fury;
OF how only the most fearless actress
would take the bodily risk Of playing
Desdemona with him, Of how II wes
not extraordinary for him TO h!ng
the actor OF Isgo clear off the stage
and into the orchestra pit In the
ecstacy OF his rage. may say at
once that I never saw salEinl-he
had acted In America for the last
time before I was old enough TO re-
auire any punishment more terri
fylng than 4 dark closet or q ma
ternal slipper. However. in later
years I DID see bull nght and "
aid not impress me as the highest
conceptlon OF poetic tragedy.
IT. HE older critics. as was to have
Il been expected. have bonn
harded Forbes Robertson with Sal
yinl II must be one OF the few