The Detroit times., 1914-12-15
NEW PLAY In
| new YORK HAS
| DOUBLE MORAL
"What It Means to a Woman"
Pictures Vices of Drink and y
Selfishness
MUSICIANS BATTLE,
NEUTRALS GET JOBS
Discussions At Persian Garden
Result In "Firing" of
an Orchestra
BY BEAU RlALTo.

written for the United Press.)
Il NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-It isn't so
much what 1t means to woman as 1t
is what 1t means to the husband and
the whole fabric or society that Is so
well portrayed In the nightmare-pro-
/ ducing melodrama, What II Means TO
a Woman" which recently opened at
/ the Longacre theater Despite the
Il sordidness or the play there Is q
nightly good moral appended, and a
mighty good picture drawn OF present.
day oonventionalities In middle and
/ uppor-middle class society.
A modern girl. brought up In the
h modern way, Is half way In love with
a young physician. She fears. how
h ever, that his professional duties Will
keep him away from her too much,
SO she married business man" Her
Husbands pursuit OF the dollar. she
soon learns, leaves her very much TO
herself, so she plunges into a whirl
n of bridge parties, poker parties and
afternoon dance affairs.
Enter the insidious cocktail and the
/ inspiring highball 1t gets so that no
party is complete without these &C
cessories. Everybody drinks and they
don't stop at one or two. AS the limit
is raised in the number OF drinks, so
II Is boosted In the card games. and
as the money limit goes higher, the
drink limit Is also raised.
Finally the young wife becomes a
n dipsomaniac--if IL was a working wo-
mans case, the doctors would call 1t
4 just plain case of drunkenness. She
\ has TO take treatment and falls In
love with her doctor, who fails to re-
spond He sends the woman to his
camp in the Adirondacks where she
RECEIVERS. Ignorant of the doctors
unresponsiveness the wife plans to
meet her doctor, and, after divorce
marry him. He goes To the mountain
lodge and angers her by telling her
/ that he has fixed 1t up with the hus-
F band who will soon be here.
Incensed at the doctor the wife
drinks deeply from flask OF brandy
Q friend has left and when the hus-
A wand arrives, she Is back where she
was before the treatment. She does
I in a drunken rage in the presence OF
her husband and physician.
Sounds pretty sordid, but the acting
OF Ritz Jolivet, as the wife. is superb
and much OF this sordidness suggested
Us missing. Also, there Is a moral
sGnd the picture.
Bag and baggage, The Girl From
Utah." will be on her way TO Boston
soon. Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian,
Joseph Cawthorn, and in TACT the ex-
act company that was introduced at
the Knickerbocker theater will be
among these present when the play
opens in the Hub Monday evening.
The Girl has had a really exception.
al run here OF l6 weeks. There's a
delightful concoction brewed from the
songs OF Miss Sanderson, the light fan
tastic tripping of Donald Brian, and
the humor Of Joe Cawthorn, not TO
N ention the dashes furnished here and
there by the rest OF really good COM
pany. It's real enjoyable show to
be handed out In one evening. Bos-
ton, by tho way Is the only "out-of-
town-place" where "The Girl From
Utah" will play this season.
At the New York theater the Uni
versal Film Co. presented one or the
greatest Aim plays seen here in many
moons. Damon and Pythias" Is the
piece. It Is even more spectacular
than "Ouo Vadis" and THE Fall OF
Pompeii'' and II has running through
II a plot that 1t "a far more interest.
ing.
"The Big Idea" at the Hudson the
alter, bids fair TO be one OF the big
ideas OF the Broadway season. The
show is thoroughly enjoyable in spite
OF It's mission"
y
On account of frequent war discus
sions and consequent internal dissen-
sions among the musicians at the Per.
sian Garden, Joan Sawyer, director OF
this popular dance rendezvous, has
dispensed with their services and en-
gagged an entirely neutral orchestra,
which, after three days of rehearsals,
will make its initial appearance this
evening Included in the new organ
ization which will furnish the dance
music at the Persian Garden are two
Spanish violinists, a Chinese clarinet
player, Swift cornetist, an Alabama
banjo twanger. Hawaiian trap drum