Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-05 | Page 34 | The New Plays

I THE NE NEW W PL PLA A YS YSBy By Charles Darnton D a r n t o n t RUTHERFORD SON TRUE TO LIFE AND AD FINELY ACTED 1 NEW N DS' DS YORK Jan 4 The Tho holca holiday season brought forth a 3 largo large number number num num- ber of v new ew productions The Lit Lit- the tle te theatre has turned from the thc gay ay to the time gra gray phase of ot life with wIh Rutherford and Son a n hard working pla play b by Githa Sowerby who has devoted the greater part parlor of her young oung life to writing Cair fairy tales for tor English readers Oddly elou enough h Ml MISs s Sowerby's M first play Is quite another stor story a a. n drama dram of such strength th that H It I has made malc it Its wn way across the water seater Slowly but ut surel surely the stage Is get ot- ot tint ting down cown to life If If I. I however er you look for only amusement In the tho the thc I atre you OU will see nothing In the pIa play i that p Anies Anet mes with wih his hla almost I I J defiant J managerial erla Intelligence has had hind the courage to produce Ruther ford lord anti and Son Is as hard as iron an and an n as remorseless as IS fate atE But it Is true tin tr to life anti and finely tInch acted As s ford tord brutal dominant and S blind t I teer to eer everything but the good of oC tho fit firm CIrr that carries lila his name in letters of ot lea Joa lead Norman h is the finest that England has hag sent us since Forbe Forbel Robertson This In Itself should mea inca mead something But tho the play ida 1 means mue muc more It I is a play with mud on tt It heels heel arid and it gets gels down to earth with wih 1 I 1 i I I I 1 I j- j 1 n n. n John Juhn nuth Rutherford y dorl dorlen en vengeance that leaves es nothing to th IM or of F people who arc re not obliged ed to work worl for tor a a. n l Jn living 1 l' l Rutherford Is Ig a power In himself himself and he recognizes N no other oilier power UIS hl business 33 Is s jl his r religion llon Ife Ho lie represents represent f th the n smoldering tires fires of or his factory HI hIl family Is IH nothing more to 10 him hint than f t ff from f tub Jle or of ruin shag he lie T To save sn tIme the firm ain seizes upon an nn Invention of ot hi hl son on an InS ingenious through lila most trusted workman who lies has led Rutherford's apparently spiritless dau daughter out of bondage i It I I Is this incident that tha gives the ploY I its most mot human appeal Th ThA faithful sullen Rulen spinster t a household who sets Eti the tIme tabi table and th then n takes tokes off off- h hor r fathers father's shoe shoes while ho draws up uP hl lust Mis chair anti and sweeps aside time the dishes dishes dishes- f to make room for tor his loiters letters has found her only onh jo Joy in life in a 3 clandestine clandestine- affair with her fathers father's IH man The Time hl highest dramatic i IS reached in the time second act net whon Janet tacos faces her hel father and h he gives her only another night under his bitt roof root This sc nc I Is splendidly 1 I I acted b by Miss Edith Olive and amid Mr eI vv As the workman who Is 15 the cause of ot this trouble J. J Cooko Cooke Beresford come comet in for fOl third honors honor lie lt realizes realIses perfectly per per- per tho t typo Pe of man who works out aut his lifo life In a n. mUl that grinds avail evert trace of or Indi individuality out out of or the ago ago This may mu- explain pO why his sense of cut duty tint to hl his hIl employer H Ic i M gr greater t than ln his love lo e for tor the tho WOma who has lies given gi him everything Sh j realizes this this' when she draws a a S Continued on Following Pa Pas Page e- e hll