| Show I rb I Ir r 1 l 1 f J 1 r c o oTHIS r THIS WEEK AT THE THEATRES Salt Lake Thursday Friday w Saturday and Saturday matinee Lillian Russell Rus 11 in Wildfire Colonial AH week beginning tonight to tonight tonight night matinees Wednesday and I Saturday The Rose of ot the Ran Rancho Rancho cho cit Orpheum All week beginning tonight matinees dally vaudeville Grand Gran All week McEwen the Lyric All week matinees daily dally i pictures and illustrated songs d dBY BY FRANKLYN FYLES New York 6 Two persons believe bellevo they have a third and anda a knowingly guiltless fourth claims the crime alme in A Woman oT Impulse A Ason Ason son soft of a Jewish family amil and a daughter of a 8 Christian woo to wed and r prejudice makes an ado about I it in Meyer Son A willful heiress to millions takes possession posse Bion of a bach lors ors home and raises the deuce with j his iS wedding in The Richest Girl Memories of The Black Crook are stirred by the th in a Crook show of the present pr t time Those These IM are the new disclosures on the New York stage II Out of some acme extravaganza I recall a Jack the Giant Killer Kilter who was a very naughty little boy and he be heus sang us of himself It is sad ead when a lad ladis ladis is glad he is bad Sadder is It when a serious serous drama know it k is bad until its first audience lets it know with laughter That happened with A Aloman Woman loman of Impulse and Meyer Meer Son The play with an impulsive hero heroine heroIne heroine ine separates one OJe of its acts into two parts without a change e ne of setting the curtain being lowered for a minute merely to denote a lapse lapee lap e of a few hours between a homicide and the coroners coroner inquest and that divides a spell of ef effectual effe effectual fe from a denouement of ridicule An tn opera singer true to her ber husband is asked by a libertine to be false and lie h repulsed would retaliate upon her young sister lister It is night In a maidenly maiden 1 pretty prett chamber The man intrudes like an ugly satyr in a gentle dell deli deliThe The maiden malden frightened and desperate I 1 state staffs him with a bodkin Immediately I the husband mistaking the girl for his hie wife deals the assailant a ing blow blo SO she thinks it Is her hel thrust that kills and he thinks it is his stroke Then the wife regarding herself herselt as the cause causo of ot the death and desirous tc to save them from undeserved penalty declares herself herselt the slayer It Is a incident well acted with Kathryn I der as the impulsive wife r t I The author of ot f A A Woman Woman of ot Im Impulse ImI Impulse I pulse is Louis Anspacker husband of ot Kathryn Kidder a college professor profeSor j and an erudite critic of ot the drama He I tried hard to be both scholarly and andI I popular in writing a play for his j I return to the stage after years of ot ab absence abI I sence She prepared herself herselt carefully I for a fine achievement and although it itis ItI I is a long while ago that Frank Mayo put her forth in Nordeck a tall slim sUm young girl with such a n glory of ot abundant abundant abundant dant hair that he had her fling it loose for admiration she is as handsome a woman woman and of t course cours an abler actress But the play is verbose illogical and while the curtain Is down the audience has time to think that the slain man being a criminal no one would be pun punished punished punished for the justifiable homicide The second portion of ot the act is an Inquiry by a coroner loquacious and meant to be humorous but he fatigued the open opening openIng opening ing audience and when after he had slowly ascertained that the stab or the blow was mortal or both there was a roar of ot laughter when He said Why need there be any scandal I will certify certify that death was caused aused by heart hearty disease y T Social separation of Jews and Christians Chris Christians ChrIstians is a difficult subject to broach in ina Ina Ina a drama without offense one way or the theother theother theother other and dangerously explosive for an aggressive theme Leah the Forsaken en Is a n play that wont wear out but its story is 15 a lone lo e story with a cruelly persecuted young oung Jewess for its Us pitiful heroine and it present the racial ra racial racial cial problem explicitly A Jewish cap generous loyalty to his Chris Christian Christian Christian tian fellow directors in saving a bank from disaster is the main thing in Men and Women but that was the least prosperous of the Mille col collaborations collaborations collaborations Zangwill meant The Ghetto to he be a purposeful depiction of i I modern Jews lives in the squalor of abig a abig abig big city but its appeal for general attention at attention attention was not responded to I recall no other serious dramatization of pro and feeling within my time until this weeks first disclosure of Meyer R Son which will be ephemeral al It has a merit however of making mak making makIng ing Jews characters not caricatures Neither the name of Thomas Addison ln nor his looks when he bowed to his in fn initiator initiatory audience indicated whether the author is a Jew or a Gentile I know that Thomas Klein Fitch and other American playwrights have con contemplated contemplated contemplated dramas on this Uti subject and andS scenarios S have been carefully prepared for managers consideration but the big drama Is yetto yet yetto et etto to be written Meyer Son are bankers bunkers the pro program program j gram says S S In a midwest city of a hundred thousand people Senior Meyer J is staunch st mc in his lils scriptural doc doe trine Irme oat mat me use Jews lews are tous GOds s chosen people poop Ie and intermarriage with Gen Gentiles Gentiles Gentiles tiles is repugnant to tl him Major Gray Grayan an operator in public utilities is equal equally ly stalwart in prejudice against the therace therace therace race Meyer and Gray Gra are arc fellow townsmen towns townsmen townsmen I men of consequence in business and politics charities and education ex excepting religion and they the come Into hateful collision when both strive for fora i a telephone monopoly In setting forth that controversy the author seems de desirous desirous desirous sirous of apportioning probity and guile equitably The Christian bids for the favor of ot a reform mayor maor by selling a plot for the plant at half its value and the Jew beats him by giving a better one outright Their sense of honor and their recourse to crafty graft are even een evenly evenly ly I balanced In religion that affect their pockets they are both high minded An affair of ot wooing and wedding is the chief factor in Meyer Son Li r 4 1 t tx ta x a III y j s Di I k T TI i ili li t iff 1 A I y f fw I II w I aa It 8 Ai t tz Y z w I 4 x 4 J 4 e et t s Lillian Russell at the Salt Lake Thursday y 5 J urda 1 I w Y Cp t 3 py j ss rry k i Y Y r y x x f s S ii t r S Mary Hall Hail as Juanita in The Rose of the Rancho at the Colonial staNI starting start staN startIng I Ing to night though and the progress of it is marked by b no surprises Junior Meyer Meer has none of his fathers lors Polish accent and not much of his Jewish orthodoxy orth doxy and he lie gets to with Major Grays Gras daughter who af affected affected by her parents racial prejudice against her marrying an Israelite They The Theare are simply a new Romeo and Juliet as asto asto asto to family restraint and northern and southern halves of an American loving pair with hating parentage I guess after all that the author is a Jew Tew yet et maybe he Is a Christian overdoing his wish to be bf equitable for fol he lie makes Junior Meyer too hood good hOO to Jive live or at least td t thrive in a modernly human and reasonably selfish community Junior Gray is a of the worst sort and a foul insulter of Junior Meyer but when a check for 1000 forged by Gray conies comes into Meyers Meers I hands he buys it out of his own o n pocket I and burns it so as to save savo hi ins nis sweet sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart from annoyance through her 5 81 liwag brothers crime Gray has fooled with a manicure girl Sirl when a collegian In New York she comes to the he midwest city to scare care him into marriage whereupon Meyer pur purchases purchases purchases chases her silence at 2000 so that a asuit asuit suit for breach of promise may ma not shame thame the sister Then again when I the manicurist to show her gratitude to Meyer gives 8 him a snug hug and a smacking kiss his sweetheart sees it and lest an explanation shall shame her with a brothers scandal Meyer lets her go on believing that he Is the para paramour paramour paramour mour Heaven save a girl from so self sacrificing a lover thought I Some others In the theatre took it in fun and laughed They seemed to regard him himas himas himas as ailing mentally with a monomania for defaming himself and declined to togo togo togo go with him sedately in so needless an estrangement from his lovelady Less suddenly than A Woman of ot Impulse yet as Irretrievably Meyer Son broke to pieces in ridicule Why give space to a futile play Be Because Because Because cause its plan and scope are far better than its ways and means Persons Pers ns think out loud in it and other persons overhear them Plotters pay no heed to visible eavesdroppers Not one vis visitor visitor visitor Is 15 announced before entering Not only a saucy society reporter and an un intrusive politician walk right in but the Gray girl saunters casually into the Meyer leyer fellows apartment without warn warning tog ing and other members of ot the th scrappy Gray and Meyer Mer families drop in un unbidden unbidden unbidden bidden and unheralded whenever they feel like a quarrel or a fight Nevertheless less crudities dont nullify all of the force of or this ethical or ethnological composition Hebraic pride of ot race and Jewish faith of religion are declaimed vigorously vigorous along with a similarly ob obdurate obdurate obdurate durate American bias and andone andone andone one hopes that the had the bravery to bring his play to somo some kind of a vigorous conclusion He almost does it courageously but slumps Cow Cowardly cowardly ow ardly Is he afraid of the Jewish por portions portions portions of his audiences It looks so 50 for he plant his sweethearts on stiff sUa legs for defiant marriage and parents be bio wed Nor does he ho brace the spines of the fathers father to make them stand up unbendingly for their convictions convIctions convictions All peter out weakly weak Junior Meyer says he will be e tickled almost to death If Girlie Gray marries hini but he will rather choose misery than be he an apos apostate apostate 08 tate tat Jew Girlie Gray says she will allbut all allbut allbut but die of ot joy to become Mrs Meyer but she will choose to be bo a joyless old maid if It the Senior Meyer refuses to approve ap approve approve prove Senior Meyer says he will be delighted to bless them in both a church and a synagogue if Senior Gray too will withdraw all an disapproval Senior Gray says he will tacitly countenance the wedding If he asked to be any anymore anymore anymore more explicit about it than Senior Meyer Love shall not be paramount to duty says the Jewish bachelor Duty must dominate love says the Christian maiden 1 Then it looks for a moment as though there will ill be a logical though unhappy climax But the author finding him himself himself self twist the two chairs o Jewish and I Christian prejudice let left himself down bump on the ground with this tag We Ve will twill wait walt says sas he We will lane hose says slid Sh She The yet et saucy saucy Marie M Doro has traveled six months mouths With if The Thc Richest Girl and ami New York is III the end of the tour instead of the Ule beginning so nei neither neither neither ther she M as s a star actress nor the play playas as a purl purified fled farce from Paris Paria provides a new topic Still SUII it gave a u first night to Marie and the company aswell as aswell aswell well as to the audience Nigh times had bad the piece been performed in fu over thirty cities yet Ct the players were vis at a nervous tension tion facing their Broadway acquaintances Why do actors 8 regard regain re New York ers as enemies keen to condemn when for a fact they are friends eager ener to ap up approve approve prove The mistake comes of a vanity which makes stage resent the kindest criticism and accept nothing but fulsome flattery fiatt ry ryr w r a II r The Black rk rr r k old In ht the date datI nf of f its blit 1 In r it Its Ih early carly aspects except in iii s 3 that Vint reach bark baCk to ton n 1865 when New York was as thronged by people With i money to spend spena and desirous of ot blowing it into theat theatrical theatrical theatrical gaieties Oldsters may know w but youngsters dont that the accident of ofa ofa ofa a fire turned The Black Crook from froma a sedate drama of o blank verse into a frivolous extravaganza Jarrett Palmer had Imported Marie Bonfanti with a ballet troupe and an outfit of costumes and scenery One week be before before before fore the date set for the show the the theatre theatre atre atro burned At that time Garden was still managed by William Niblo but It was having a bad bud spell and a forlorn hope was based on The Black Crook a dramatization by Charles M II Barras Banas of ot an old German legend Theatres were few In those days day and Jarrett Palmer were in a quandary Palmer not the dignified Albert M but a resplendent Harry hit hiton hiton hiton on the idea of ot amalgamating their bal ballet ballet ballet let with The Black Crook at They got the theatre easily by leasing I It but two persons stood In the way stay ay of the scheme Barras believed that his stuff in metre was literature and he objected to having it scandalized by a ballet He was disregarded and law lawyers lawers lawyers ers told him that under the laws then th n nhe he had no redress The other objector was Pauline Mark Markham Markham Markham ham a beautiful English girl giTl who had been brought here to be advertised with superlative adjectives as a lovely fairy airy queen in The Black Crook but not notto notto notto to lead a troop of ot marching Amazons in imitation nudity Pauline said ald nay nay to her artistic pride though when hen henI it endangered her job And Ind nd she I quit I dont recall that Charles Mor Morton Morton Morton ton or Augustus the Black Bla k Crook and the Zamiel made any trouble Anyway I remember their necromancer er erand and devil who bargained for the delivery ery at hells hens portal of ot one soul per year ear as exceedingly vivid melodrama The phalanxes of armored but otherwise un undressed undressed undressed dressed girls an instantly denounced new sight sl ht along with the first transformation trans transformation transformation formation scene ever shown as the fin finishing finishing finishing spectacle of a play with a hun bun hundred hundred dred denuded girls hung up among its shifting views gave notorious celebrity to the bold enterprise The dancing Bonfanti and the posing Markham stood for lor contrastingly active and inert exponents of beauty and a bie bl boost I was given by a clergyman man thereafter th known as 88 Smith who preached a violently denunciatory ser sermon sermon sermon mon and ami then encountering a newspaper news newspaper newspaper paper reporter who had come to the church too late to hear the discourse gave a synopsis of it over glasses of gin and milk in the back room of a neighboring saloon aloon A play pIa with Crook in its It title fooled m mt me some and I went away off Broad Broadway Broadway way ay expecting to see so cheap ch p and poor a degeneration of the famous old enter that it would be worth writ writIng writIng Ing log about And so it is but it resembled resembled resembled bled the original in nothing nothing else than displays of 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