El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-23
I. Serious Business

American in the near future il seems
possible. Just who this man viii be
I am not prepared to say.
The immediate effect of the new
combination on New York city has
been the opening of Days theater
Zone of the veteransl as a burlesque
house. Miners Sunshine Girls" are
kicking their heels there. The theater
is to be run as part of the Progressive
Burlesque Wheel q circuit of variety
theaters, which operates thirty seven
houses. widely scattered. j. d. Barton
Is president.
Another of NJ. BrieuX's over intimate
plays, Maternity has followed Dam
aged Goods" to Manhattan and has
been put on view (fOr those who do
not consider it too strong a POTION at
the Princess theater.
Brieux's principal fault in these two
plays is one sideness. In his eager
ness to convince his audience of GER
tain faults of mankind, he goes too
far We are not all beasts; certainly
not in America and I think not in Paris
either
It is, I say, quite unfair to paint
wCmankind as mankind's victims in the
matter of children The opposite is
often true-the children are often
forced on the unwilling father by a
mother yearning for little ones to love.
In Maternity" the women are all
vain and dishonest dipsomanlac, whose
children have felt the consequences Of
his vices: Madeleine, who has lost her
first and only child b. neglecting it
in a vain effort to keep the affections
of her spouse; and Annette, in love
with a young man named Jacques, who
betrays her. The young women are
sisters and the scene is little French
town.
At the end of the first act Annette
learns to her horror that Jacques $
parents intend to prevent their mar
riage because of her poverty. In her
anguish. she confesses to her ister
Lucie. that she win soon become a
mother.
Later on Annette, after trying to XIII
herself leaves home with Lucie-
Meanwhile Brieux portrays in his most
brutal vein, Lucie's husbands insis-
tence, that there be no race suicide in
his family.
The final episode is the trial of n
woman for killing through a criminal
operation the unhappy Annette who
had been taken to her by the distressed
sister The midwife is nominally the
accused, but BrieuN transforms her
from a mere woman into q symbol.
And through the symbol, with the help
OF a rhetorical barrister, he accuses
society of the crimes and agonies that
come Of human selfishness-
Many things in Maternity are pre-
posterous but BrieuN shows passages
of the utmost art and delicacy. Ad-
rienne Morrison, as Lucie, was con-
vineing and satisfying. while her hus-
band, Richard Bennett, did excellent
work as the spouse of Luc1e- Mr.. Ben
nett is responsible for the production,
in which he used the English transla-
ton of Benjamin T. Blanchard.
"The hardest reputation i'm the world
to live down is the reputation for
beauty" sighed Pauline Frederick, now
playing in 'Innocent7 at the Standard
II mean it's hard, indeed practically
impossible, for one like ne to aspire
really to do something artistic before
/ die.
i've spent ten Of the best years OF
my life trying to become a real ar
fist and while like every other woman
in the world ] want to be as attrac-
tive as nature win let me, my beenest
disappointment is when valuable time
is devoted to a description of my looks
instead of comment on my work
Many of the greatest actresses in