New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-24
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9, tairlv representative gathering
80 piqhters may be considered
osc;entlv sophisticated IN the warn.
so.'C nSosos Of urban life 10 judge OF
g .ss ,seri:s If a play having Broadway
- ;ts background, then THE Sala-
,5er which was presented last
.-Is AZ the Harris Theatre. IS not
~ r,igbt be called an overwhelming
We. ss or course, there is always
~ feasibility that first nighters can
-, view their habitat as II appears 10
- alien eve, and TO an audlence re-
lid from the suburbs the play
.;sbt offer delights and thrills NOT
.nssrent 20 those Of us who attended
~ nremiare performance. This may
~ proven by time alone. AZ any
~, the conception Of zippy life on
, y.ss5wav rs IL is lived by so-called
..f-supporting girls disclosed by the
.sboT bears many signs o. suburb
a viewpoint.
,.S~son cave his "Salamander" 10 the
.a,l5 in hook form. One can easily re-
ali he event by the advent of Sala-
sss,Ssr shirtwaists which were sold
/, All the leading drygoods shops at the
tire Dodo. the freproof heroine, made
Lsr liying-and s very good one, too
nv acting when the fancy seized her,
~ Grating from her men friends and
.Smirers. She made II a rule to know
Iii sorts Of men. to do all sorts of
-rs, and 10 give i'm return nothing but
ne Soubtful pleasure Of her gracious
ssouaintance. She was a technically
yirtuous girl Of twenty-three, with the
craft OF an experienced woman OF Tor
". She let men visit her rooms whose
rsnutstions stank TO heaven, and then
IA their presents. She upset the do
nestle peace of q prominent Judlclai
Tgbt and threw him over for young
STunkard whom she had miraeulously
reformed. In short, Dodo was rare
specimen Of q rare type.
Her girl friends, too, were odd
ceatures. This group consisted OF
trsined nurse. with penchant Tor old
men patients; a newspaper woman,
in clothes like society belle; an
Ilgstra;or's model, with a taste Tor
no, dogs: O sister actress, not quite
20 freproof. anC a Miss Snyder, who
lsta terrible past and a little daugh-
tsr Al and each Of these girls either
tolerated D0dO's system Of grating a
livelihood or won't her one better IN
GeYising new systems.
Ethically the play presents pretty
problem "Ntver take cash from your
men friends, girls abjures the vlrtu-
Gus DodO, "but get them TO buy you
dinners and sci their presents. The
silly things love 10 do it, SO every
BODY gratis. and just as long as they
remain Saiamanders they have a com
Portable time indeed. Ii is only when
they cease TO salamander that unhap-
pines sand misery creep INTO the board
ing house Therefore. we fancy the
noral is, be a sa.amander and be gay.
The only difficulty In the way OF put
ting this scheme into practice IN real
lie would be he men. 1t would ap-
pear to be difficult 10 find just such
Ht Of victims as we were intI Oduccd 10
last night. However we do not pretend
70 know Broadway, so the author may
le quite right about the whole affair
What is more important than the
ethical problem involved in the play
is the interest aroused by the play
Itself. And on This subject we submit
that If you are so constituted That
few well-staged episodes in Dodo's ca
reer seem to promise an evenings
pleasures, 60 thenf to the Harris Thea
re and revel in the mechanism Of her
daily life. You viii find Carroll Nc"
Tomas as 8 pretty Dodo, sometimes
convincing and sometimes not. Bever-
ly Sitgreaves viii thrill you with
tale Of how Miss Snyder acquired a
laughter Orme Caldara viii cease
being drunkard in your very pres
enee, and A. L. Anhon will enter the
.Oom as a judge Of the Supreme Court
and announce, among other things,
that be "adores" Dodo's method of
converting a trunk into an article Of
furniture. OF the large cast, Becky
Bruce 8 sthe newspaper woman and
Wilton Taylor as the shrewd theatri-
cal manager gave very good perform
tness Il is the lines spoken by the
letter that will furnish the bulk Of the
comedy.