The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-01

after her arrest. which she said was
grossly discourteous because the po-
lice would not allow her to ride TO
the station in her OWN limousine, she
said: Il read you the manuscript OF
The House OF Bondage a couple
OF weeks ago and you all said YOU
wanted me 10 play IL. ] have n jury
OF 10000 mothers 10 decide on the
plays / present. | believe this is a
good play. think u carries les
son. | want TO ask a favor OF you,
l want you 10 write to the mayor
and tell him what you think about
H. Il you like this play and think
II Is all right, then tell him so. II
YOU don't, tell him that"
The play indoTsed by 10000 moth
ers passes for the most part. need
hardly tell you. in houses OF ILL.,
fame. The first act might be the be-
ginning OF any one OF thousand
mclodramas, In which the country
girl is lured to the city by travel
ing mans promise or marriage. The
second, however. brings us no fear
less hero TO rescue her and press her
TO his bosom. /; is as sordid as the
intrigue OF Romeo and Juliet would
be IL written In the fashion popular
at present. The scene is Madam
Roses house. in which Mary. ruined
and deserted by the temptcr. is llv-
ing the life OF q white slave. \
young politician manages her escape,
or personal sympa thy. but 10 pay or
a score against the mada am. Then,
as In the novel. Mary secures en-
ployment as a servant. only 10 be
hunted down. her past life flung at
her, and TO be dismissed.
All this is told In episode flashes.
with none Of the art of the novel,
which gave Mr.. Kauf(man's work a
certain literary distinction. IN spite
OF its obvious appeal 10 morbid SEN
sa tionalism. But even the lnexpeTt
dramatist and the more than inefii-
Client acting OF Miss Spooncr could not
rob the cllma scene OF all Of its
power, that passage in which Mary,
diseased and bcSotten. fallen so low
that she cannot even gain re-entry 10
Madam Roses establishment, meets
the cadet who enticed her To her first
sin lures him to her squslid room In
the pretense Of soma lingering spark
OF love and. in the morning, tells him
OF the hideous disease with which she
is infected and which. In the very
ecstasy Of revenge, she has transmit
ted 10 him.
this latest copcoctjon OF filth comes
forward under the auspices OF the
Medical Review Of Reviews. Also,
there is something said about the
association There would he. For
the most part, the stuff Is far better
acted than it deserves to be, though
Miss Spooner is quite as far removed
from art a the play. Tully Marshall.
whose performance In The City"
proved him 10 be A marvellous imDere
soma tor OF such tenseiy nervous.
frenzied roles as some OF those In
which Henry irving and Richard
Mansfield secured their earlier fame,
wastes so much fine art on the sketch
OF the cadet as TO almost make one
fancY that some character is there.
and Elita Proctor Otis. as the madam,
is. II she will pardon my SO saying,
little less than perfect, Lucille La
Verne Olive Grove. John Sainpolis
and John Maurice Sullivan MI other
roles: audiences of curious women fill
the thester; and the mana cement and
authors fill their pockets. In the old
themselves with museum displays OF