The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-08

lent with drama and Significance,
mastery commnSling OF the symbolic
and the realistic that places Charpen-
der high up among dramatists, had
he never composed note. Mont
martrc Is revealed. even 10 the Moulin
Rouge. Sounds OF revelry I'LL the
night. Only Julien seems disconso
laie \ girl OF the streets accosts
him II Is the last phase of Louise.
Last scene OF all, the Place Blanche.
in which has been erected Theater
OF the Ideal. Midnight revelers rush
OH in the madness OF song and dance
and drink. and Julien joins them.
They wreck the Theatcr Yet above
the orgy. a mirage Of the Temple once
more appears TO Julien. lie is trans
fixed inspired. But in "a moment IL
disappears, and lie is staggering glass
in hand. among the night birds. Sud
denly everything disappears. Dark
ness and a silence. Then We see
intoxicated And. as he falls TO earth.
three heartreDding sobs OF despair
arise from nowhere. the lament Of the
Ideal that has fled forever
Thus does Cbarpentier answer those
sossips who nave been saying. this
last dozen years, during which moth
ing has come from his genius, that
he had lost his reason. or, at least,
had proved light that failed"
n 'si lIie Ie" pays Ol lue week
are farcical. One has the odd
still more extraordinary in being a
New England play from Paris, That
last statement is not 10 be taken
quite literally. La Demoiselle de
Magasin.' is one Of the reisning sue
cSesses OF the French capital, where it
has already been acted more than
900 times, II is by Frantz Fonson
and Fernand Wichcler, the BeIgians.
whose first play. lie Marriage de
Mile. Beulemans.' was equally sue
ceSsful in Paris few seasons ago.
Billle Burke appeared in il here in
translation called Suzanne" which
leit the scene OF action, Brussels, and
retained all the fine local distinctions
and points which had been so en-
joyed on the other side. but were
mea ningless 10 us; and, OF course, the
comedy was a failure
IT was obvious then that the popu-
llarity OF the original piece could have
ooeen duplicated here had a clever
american adapted IT, substituting
for the smart Partisan placed among
middIe-class Belgians, for instance, a
polished New Yorker in some small,
remote American city. Colonel Saw
age has done. just this thing with
La Demoiselle dc Magasin.' He
has put the manuscript in The hands
ol Holman Day, whose New England
stories and verse are authentic and
well known, giving him permission
to retain Only the plot OF the orig
inal, II he liked, making everything
else typical OF the locality he knows
so well,
So 1t is 10 Oldport, Me-. that Ruth
comes along, She Is alert, allurIng
and ambitious-when ! tell you that
she actually Is Irene Fenwck you
may be sure OF the allurement. She
has studied 10 become a school teach
er. but she aims higher than the
shooting OF the young idea. IL would
hardly seem as though she were go
ing, about things the right way by
seeking employment in Israel Put
porium.' and having a pretty hard
time to get II, too, inasmuch as bust
ness IN the slow old town is bad
But perhaps Ruth had seen Jack
Barrymore in The Fortune Hunter"
or Willie Collier in "A Little Water
on the Side" and had taken noto OF
what smart New Yorker can do in
sleepy town. For Der experience
is the same as theirs, No sooner has
she got behind the counter than bust
IL stop until she has taken the whip
hand and built up tho emporium
10 an up-to- date, buslIing. prosper
Gus shop has put her employers
family on East street; has got him
elected first mayor OF Oldport, and.
from It's sonnoIence. Only her own
love affair fails 10 prosper: hut,
frankly, we are moi much worried
about that We hardly share Ruth's
doubts about how il will come out.
"Too MANY COOKS" is the
- happy title of the frs, full
length play by Frank Craven. joy
ously remembered as the fresh young
Jimmy Gilly in Bought and Paid For.'
In IT he has written somewhat such
part FOR himself widc-awako
american clerk, engaged To the girl
OF his choice and determined TO build
n home to take her to. This house
's the, scene OF the three acts. but n
changing scene. for 1t is shown in
three stages of It's construction.
At the start there arc only tho
founda tions. among the trees. on the
outskirts OF small town The car
Denters are at work, with the BRIDE
groom-elect bossins the Job. His
chum--and later his girl and her
They all have suggestions and ad-
vice. but that does not matter II is
when Alice Cooks family begins to ar
rive and boss that Bcnnctt loses
patience. There arc nine Cooks In
all-too many cooks, Indeed. And
every one is born Mr.. or Mrs.
FiN-1t."
In the second act the house is about
hat finished. The Cooks In fun force
arc sun criticlsinS and advising Ben
nett Is almost at the end Of his self
control. Then comes trouble from a
new quarter An uncle Of his own
comes out with the genial proposition
OF purcha sing the house outright for
them and living with them. Then The
workmcn go on strike. Bennett rims
on his coat and sets about finishing
the house himself. Fur flies gen
orally he tells the Cooks what he
thinks OF them. and Alice breaks the
cnga cement. Too Many Cooks have
spoiled .he wedding cake.
10 me final act the house Is COM
nleted, and there II u "E'ore Sale"
sign on II. Bennett, with a dove
cote. but no wife to put In 1t, Is dis
Consolatc. His chum arrives, saws he
ls going TO marry Alicc's chum, and
proposes to buy the house. This gets
Bennett out of some of his trouble
But when the girl arrives she refuses
TO live in the house. Finally. of
course, Alice Cook rclents. and Tho
cottage seems destined to fulfill It's
original tender purpose, after all
THE same authorlal combination
that hit the popular taste SO
1auaTely with Adele" and "Alma.
Where Do You Liver seems TO have
MidniGht Girl In each case. Adolf
Philipp. the German American actor
mana gcr-suthor-c composer who has n
coy little theoter bearing his name
in East J'ifty-seventh Street. took a
Partisan farce by Paul Hervc. had II
set 70 music by Jean Briauet, with
additions by himself and produced 1t
in German. Later. he and Edward
Paulton turned II into English And
In the case of 'The Midnight Girl