The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-11

pors, put the poor players 10 rout.
TT is hard to shock us nowadays.
but Anna Held and Mimi Asuglla,
eminent mothers both. are doing their
best. You've got TO give 'em credit,
boys. While Anna IIeid's Daughter
Cher own name appears in only the
smallest type) is appearing In one
music hall on Broadway. the elder
chanteuse-that is to say, mamma
is heading vaudeville show at an
other. But mother, as BELTS ma
ternal dignity. has diamond stock
ings.
II want another child" said Mimi
Asuslia TO an interviewer the other
evening. between spasms as Salome.
hut | am not sa tisiied They were
born In South America, but | hope the
next will be a North American, a real
Yankee. Ny Oldest girl Is named
Argentina, In comp,i imcnt 10 the peo-
pie Of the Argentine Republic, where
| have been acting for ;he past two
years. My Youngest ! cali Albina,
after my old home In Sicily. My
next baby l shall chrIstcn America
All Of which sounds more like Mrs.
Wigs OF the Cabbage Patch than
Salome.
For the second week OF her en-
gagement in New York the Italian
traeedienrc moved on from Salone
to Electra. She did not give us ex-
actly any one OF the classic Greek
tragedies about the wocful dsugh-
ter OF Clytemnestra, but the ''futur-
istic' adaptation OF the S'opbocles
play made by Hugo Won Hofmann-
stahl. in which Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell and her son and daughter acted
in New York "a few times. four or five
years ago, and on which Richard
Strauss swooped down with sounds
lNA IL y.- a Il
takes a little less than an hour In
performa nee. and is not wholly di-
vorced from the Greek spirit of cX-
altcd apostropheS on terrible and un-
avoidable fate. with gore and lns,
and patricide kept somewhere in the
offing. As was the custom with
Greek dramatists (Dy no means a
bad one. as Ibsen and other moderns
have eXemplifie1), we get in only Just
in time for the end OF the story OF
ClytemDestra and her children and
her second huband. Orestes has lived
in exile and Electra has been housed
among the serving women in the pal
ace Of Aegisthus, her step father, II
was many years a 90 that her mother
and this man, her lover. killed her real
father and mounted tho throne to-
sether Clytcmnestra has been trou-
hled with bad dreams, foreseeing the
return OF her son with rnurderous in
tent, and she applies TO her daughter
for an Interpretation. The rest OF
the play goes TO show that when
Dreams Come True might have been
its title instead Of being saved all
1ph Santley's affable entertainment.
Orestes turns up full of words and
vengeance. After considerable talk,
he gets down TO work. and he makes
a good job OF IT, ending the wicked
lives OF both his mother and his
60 Il IL
that she breaks out into a wild dance.
showing that customs in ancient
a thens We're much the 80 me as nova
days. and the play ends with her COL
lapse
But If you name the next baby
Germany feel slighted?" asked the
interviewer OF the ITALIAN queen OF
dancing tragedy.
"Oh." said Mimi -Salome- Electra.
with shrug, those countries need
not worry:-.1 may he able TO honor
Mother Held. in diamond studded
stockings, is doing much the same
as she used to do. She has given
up corsets-not, you understand. to
rest her, but because It is the fash
ion-and she still can't make her eyes
behave: She appears. at the frolic-
some Casino. In a tabloid operetta
called Mile. Baby an excellent
vaudeville show. with which she has
been touring the country. Her vehicle
is q spangled entertainment in one
act, written by one Stanley Murphy,
with music by Henry I, Marshall.
which is no better or no worse than
the numerous full-length. opulent
plays In which she has been popular
many years, except that 1t is brief.
The scenes. I may reassure you, are
In Nice. one outside the Jardin de
tleur and the other In the Cafe
Paris-Nice; Mother Helds gowns are
as gorgeous, numerous and astound-
Ing as of yore; and. though she has
i've songs and the title OF the piece
is Mile. Baby she fails to sing
Go TO Sleep, My Baby" But per-
maps, In these days OF wireless mes
sages and electric heating, mothers
scorn the time lullabys
NEXT to Maude Adams, no Amer
lean actress Of the period could
a attract as many people in an indif
ierent play as Billie Burke This is
fortunate; for THE Land Of Prom
1se" I needs al the help it can get
an excellent idea. intrinsIcally not
new but set In an unfamiliar, Inter
esting environment. He presents
Miss Burke as an English girl OF re-
hnement and good education. who
however. is without resources other
than the meager salary she earns as
companion to difficult old lady.
After ten years, the employer dies.
She leaves no money whatever to the
girl who has served her faithfully:
nor can that girl secure another
place, She decides to. ''go out" to
Canada. where a brother, her only
relative, has been farming for some
years The next act finds her in a
pretty forlorn farmhouse IN Mani
toba Her brother Is married TO n
cranky, hard worked good hearted.
Winnipeg, whore she nursed him
through an Illness. she and the
sensitive. refined English girl cannot
Understand each other. Each brings
out the worst traits in the other.
They quarrel continually; and, after
the others. the sister is turned out
She has also ouarreled. In a super
hcial. quite disdainful way. with a
farmer from another settlement who.
to recoup after A bad year on his own
place: Is working at her brothers rs
turn to his own farm. now. and pur-
poses getting q wife To keen house
for him He even asked the English
girl, who was cnraged at his imperti-
nence., But now She calls him in and
says she has changed her mind. The
remaining acts, IN Tie shack TO which
he takes her as his bride. suggest
The Great Divide" being purely
theatric. rather gross rehearsal Of a
woman's natural revulsion from n
british man. his dominance over her
by force and tho devotion to him that
develops in her
Mr. Vaughan. who has succeeded
MANY times with such frothy. super
hcial. witty faTces Of the London
smart world as Mrs. Dot and
Jack straw" fails 10 make The
Land OF Promise" as appealing as Il
should be because his eNpedicnts are