The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-22

entertainments as .'rbc Iura'' ,l
within the Law" II is as the prs-
COCK 10 The sparrow.
'liE handsome thcater that bears
the handsome Maxine EIliotrs
oi yle white slave" plays, and IL
looks as though 1t would end with
ine (dare We hope?l last OF them.
haSt august. when The Lure was
making impressionablc New Workers
SsSp. drama called Help Want
ca was doing the same thing IN Los
Angeles. Rumor had IL that he lat
Ter piece. by Jack Lait. ChiGaso
!newSpaper man, would be FASTENED
cast. leisurely, not reaching here til
a nisht or two ago. 1t stopped in
chicago. whore such large sized audi
chces Hooked 10 il, and continue 10
no',i lock without sign of let up, that the
new new; one orsa nized for the metropolis
rms Is headed by Lois Meredith.
a pretty: very youthful actress. and
charles Rlchman. who has been
lucky enough TO fall into So many
good roles during his twenty years
on the stage that a tradition has
grown up that he can act. Jessie
Ralph, Katherine Emmett. John Mil
tern. Charles Ruggles and Vivian
RuShmore are others i'll rather long
Mr.. Lait, with IL shrewd eye for
the mentality and emotions of the
masses has given us wide-cyed vir-
tue, lost In the wicked business world
OF men. This Little Red Ridinghood.
slraying bllndly in the dense forest
OF downtown" meets wolf in the
form OF iinancier who wears vio-
lets and pesrl-Sray spats. aud has a
penchant for pretty stenographers.
She is only II. and is Just out OF husi
for job. "'rhat old Romeo" as
one of the wise applicants terms the
hnancier. sits at desk and passes
the girls IN review (The author.
makes us believe that Jcrrold s
Scott, beneath his foppish vanity. is
a. man OF force and character.
though we cannot erase from MEM
ory the picture of him. going out to
button of his closely fitting cutaway.
throwing out his chest. and Tipping
his bamboo cane with n debonnair de-
light In himselfO One OF the Sirls
mits that she left her last place. be-
cause the firm failed. the one before
because the police arrested her en-
ployer. the one before because the
building collapsed; and she is Shooed
off as a hoodoo
arc ongaged-thc one who char
acterized Scott so aptly, an obvious
ly efficient young woman who. how
ever, is placed in the outer office;
and the pretty, wide-eycd incompe-
tent who is installcd-as his private
secretary, True, in the first letter
she 'takes,' she asks whether there
are two RS" I'm tariff, the meaning
of which word she does not know, be-
cause she doesn't know much about
tai ha Inff w
my foster-son appearing as my
faster SON" "You write the Munsey
system" says the Wise Guy Girl
from the outer office. ~ write it.
says Rcd Ridnghood. "hut ] can't
read it."
Anybody who knows anything
about the business world naturally
knows the financier will Immediately
set about the ruin OF his stenoErapll-
er, He does. But-curses on it!-he
TO see Little Red Ridinghood to love
Of the second act. who bursts into
Step-Pop's office just in time to save
the virtue of the dear little thing,
who had never known man before
who doesn't have to wait for his
nav envelope on Saturday night.
The last act. In two scenes. be-
gins with the most convincing serious
passage of the, play. The young
II,
mayed has rushed from her employ:
er's Office. She has come directly
home, trembling. TO her mothers
arms But that old woman does NOT
welcome her quite a, as ,oinT. Sne fNpeenee rNnance
sentiment, all the finer feelings worn
away nv years of toll. as a laun,
dress, 10 secure the needed food ana
shelter, and a decent educa uon Tor
her. daughter, "aTTi Tndrt the sbs sft beei,, io
to protect her virtue before II had
beep attac acked? Mightnt she have
fenced and parried for a little time
at least, while they rested for nrleI
Brought? Finally. of course, ti1e
mother in the woman dominates ~, n
ie dne scene. and superbIy acteo pS
Jessle Ralph. as the mo{her. @ VIII
Competent assistance from LOIS mere
ditl1. as the girl, ~ -oason 70
doubt that "Help Wanted" tommy
rot though much OF II is-or per
hans. for that very reasonG"iii LINE
lis place among the SOLO mor.eS .s so,
makers Of q none 700 Ssnt. SsiueA so what
Gnthe,,o" carg with Favershnm in
townIwe should worry
DABIEs and a polar eNpeoir,oh a." =,
ID putting art into vanaeVirfeE Hie ~ E,beI
was not until after the pir'h III y, a',e
Rarrymore's third cnllo ,,acr I, af-
came TO feel she couid no .o"S oS $4,000
Sard ~ refuse the useful sum oil s9oU'
week to venture In the tWo-a daaISs
One child proved enough NJ NJ Barrie
s,,, Da. seen giving Peter Pan IL l0ul, ano
toIna ta to london and wads OF sng,vVo s,,,ws
90 1rcIie explorers without ilIan,tss
money, Therefore IT comes 10 Sir
,hot ih,o Miss Bates appears ~ or
Iarnos,s "aalf an Hour, ~h'eh nrtie
,,o,,,.ilv 5m,o' intended for her, y hlt,e
olle Tranres Virginia Creel, no
is, inset that plan, and TrdTu -,
~sSre,n nIayod the leading r roie ,,, ="
,,,nes,,c Rates CrceI's stead Inc ~.
i;n t,' rama. which is not IN Sa.Iie
hezt tue styIe, Is better suited 10 y
,,sndeyille bill than his superb r,a,,,d eurn
ad,, callod "The TwelVe-r uuun .',,ra
Goso,x GGus =. with which MISS barrS,ii,,iT,ee
rnoJc the plunge. There IL no1n'Iis
subtle about the later pay, is,odrsus
Straight from. m.the- -shoiloer nne,Uu' ,et % II
fhat the dullest mind couiu hoff f The
TO grasp AZ the very ,InpiaD It5 ,,Is-
cui, iS choking his arlstocrauc WIZ,
2sHo n,lnuo ri the blucst blue blood: sHs
ae,nS sts this attention with irlsiu
aeE1p't i,n mat maddens the lowiy oorm
C,,. cal,,, rhen alone does she give wa!
ohis. We Then she decides TO go 10
10 tea ,n who loves her ana elope
tne ILL., san, THE second scene, III tlis
VIII III, reveals his tenderness anu
IotSits,da for her, He goes ou' ~ y
sonurlu ,ra a taXicab To take them 10 tno -
ssatSon and is run over. ~ Pdo' no