Show INCONSISTENT MADAME X XIn XIn XIn In the best patronized play that has been seen In Chicago Madame X T tho the principal woman part is that of a young mother who deserts her hel husband and baby boy in Paris and runs away to America with a sporting man After twenty years of wandering about the world living a fast life and habituating habituatIng ing herself her if to drugs she and her latest guilty guilt partner return to Paris where the man discovers the present station of her true husband a Very rich man and proposes s to blackmail him The woman to prevent kills her paramour and on the trial is defended by her own son grown to manhood and become proficient in the law The woman re refuses rea refuses fuses to speak a word even to giving a name It lt is a small part of the action that the son secures an acquittal for her herBut herBut herBut But the success of the plot hinges on the noble reticence of the woman And that argues a strength a constancy a response to fine sentiment which are re entirely impossible in the drug slave siave which she reveals herself to be beTh Those Th e who saw Mrs Carter in her last appearance in Salt Lake will re remember remember remember member the agony agon of the victim of the drug habit That representation was true as most police officers and ma mo matrons matrons know In all the world there Is no weakness so hopeless as that of the drug fiend Constancy is impossible Nobility of purpose and honesty even of speech are quite out of the question The drug fiend is a wreck All AU of which does not at all inter interfere interfere interfere fere with the success of the tho piece It has been taken from Chicago in very vel height of a successful run and transplanted to New York where it is delighting crowded audiences nightly Which if It it shows anything shows that the eastern people e are willing to I pay for being deceived I |