The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-08

will i,e seen I'M "If ] Were King on Fri-
DAY evening and AZ the saturday matinee.
and 'Hnnlot' saturday night
Il have never been IN Bagdad.' con-
ieS-cs Otis skinner. Who i'nper,olhtea
the bcssar ol Bagdad On Edward kno..
blauch's ALsbian Nights play. hisnet.
and what b. more. do not especially
care ~ | never 20 TO ia -dad! I'm con-
tent with the BaSdad provided by INC
raintcrs. costumsr- and property makers
wao took hand in creating the BaSdnd
Of kisueL Should ] actually go 10 Bag.
dad should probably learn = LOT ot
IA facts-dusty and disHgTceahie facts-hui
doubt very much N I should get nearer
10 the truth about the ancient city ana
the oriental character than ] have cot
ten through study OF the play and through
close reading OF the works of such orr
sntallsts as sir Richard Burton and An
toino Galland.
Truth and fact Il seems 20 nc are
very different things The Photographic.
the s,atisticisn and the honest news
"a per reporter Civ" YOU facts the painter,
the novelist and tho poe; give YOU truth.
OF course truth j. merely well dlEcStsd
fact plus imag!natiou-dnd tina ginduou
~. after all about the greatest thing In
the world. In commerce and artisan-hip
as we'll rs La art o. \ skilled actor pre-
sentS a more truthful stage figure OF
truck driver than the truck driver could
present OF himself Tho truck driver rs
lact-ihe actor. oy adding iulsEipailor
10 fact. presents irJt.l. The trouble with
! . good bit Of the stage realism Of the
, dag Is that " s. untruthfui hy reason
% its adherence 10 TACT.
During the past qusrtor century We 80
been having \ sort OF u11ria for TACT.
not only IN the ;hcatcr. but In literature.
| in music and in the other arts. The
writer's Of muck n king fiction In our
maga zines arc strong on facts. but has
any one ot them presented as truthful
picture Of the he and manners O! our
period rs Dickens and Thsrkeraf pre-
= -tT.AW Hg,rz nr la =
| ter OF ;he kitchen reproduced IN strauss
Domestic symphony present the truth
| OF donesticity7
mere fact Is coming very soon. ! think
Science itself-as represented b. SIT
Oliver Lodge--is beginning 20 wonder II
/ fact is everything. Science has come 20
/ be a good bit OF a hully-a bully armed
with a hs gful of fact=. And v has been
/ the ha Dit OF science 20 hurl those facts,
like so many cobbiestones. az anYthihS
and eyerything that " cannot understand
Usually. of course. II is delusion or
superstition that is snla shed; out nor IN
! Frequently Il is truth--a splendid. beau
tiful truth. smashed by an ugly htte
But 10 get back to Bagdad Suppose
! went there for a week. month or
| even q year To learn how 10 play lLaJj.
| the heggar 7 would see a mosque or
narrow street and / should hear the
muezz!n calling from his minaret and u
thousand voices on every sloe crsIms .s
seen and heard in Tunis and Algiers But
| T saw and heard them as an outsider
Just as I should do In Bagdad-and IN
the building up Of the cnaracter rae ,d o. Iaa2S az
( but little The spirit of N NIL remains
in my memory. OF course. and " is the
spirit rather than the facts that have
! endesyorcd o to put into the characterize
tion Fortunately. nly visit TO northern
| Africa occurred several years before !
| encountered "Kismet." so that I brough,
TO the study Of the play an ldeanzedi -
array OF everyday facts. Old Father
Time does that much for us he sifts
out the unimportant facts and preserves
the spirit of truth-and so doing hs
shows himself 10 be the greatest artist
of us all. ="
The reception accorded Richard Ben;
nett and his co-workers in "Damag ged
Goods which will be seen here late in
| the sea son. in the large cities In the
east has been phenomenal. In only three
cldes-Boston. Clncinnau and Newark. &,
did any opposition develop. but in no IN
stance were any OF Mr.. Bennetts per
formances stopped or interfered with,
In Cincinnati the director OF public
| safety appointed a committee OF NV
censors, comprising the health officer,
| Clergyman. a newspaper critic. college
professor and the president OF the WON
ans clubs. Four OF the five censors, IN
tive indorsed the play. In Boston th'
mayor took exception To one character
but as The police commissioner failed u
agree with him Mr.. Benefits engage
nent was fulfilled without molestatlon
In Newark the situation was directly re
! versed, the mayor finding nothing oblec
| tIonablc and the police chief considering
! the play immoral. However, the latter
fearing dafeat IN the courts. refra!ner
from interfering with the production.
- A., ~. t.,o=
A milionaiTess composer is Inc lates
| thing on Broadway. she is ANITA vi
Baldwin daughter OF Lucky" Baldwin
the famous California plunger She Nrot
the incidental music for Omar. the Tent
maker" in which Guy Bates Post Is dp
peariuE at the Lyric thea ter. The music
which Is part of the Persian atmosphere
has attracted a great deal OF attention
hut the name OF Anita Baldwin on tn
! proera mine did not suggest to 5nyou
The California girl who Inherited th
Baldwin millions. She was given the com
mission to write the music by Richar
Walton TuIlv. author OF the play, who /
also a Californian.
Miss Baldwin was divorced recenu
from II. l.. McClaughry. whom she mar
rIed shortly after inheriting millions from
her aather. II is said that she turne
10 music as a relief after her MARTA
troubles Several OF her composition
nave been given In concerts IN Los An
geles. bu. this Is the first time that sh
has written music for a play, and II !
the first time that her compositions haV
been given IN New York.