Show r I i I I I p t iI THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES Salt Lake First half hal of oC week matinee Wednesday Checkers 0 S last Is halt half of oC week matinee Satur Saturday Saturday day lav Peer i t Wednesday Madame f Nordica N 0 X Orpheum All week beginning 0 S tonight matinees daily dally vaude 0 illo 0 Grand First half alf of oC week be tonight matinee Wednes 0 5 day diy The rise Cowboy Girl last half hal 0 of o Cl week matinee Saturday Why by 3 0 Girls Leave Home 0 New e Lyric L All week matinees 0 daily laih the camera phonE 0 4 0 BY FRANKLIN FYLES New ew York Nov Noy 13 It Is easy to be believe r b lice lieve that Charles Frohman having made stars star of ot John Drew and William Gillette GillettI Maude Adams and Ethel Bar Barr I r morp may ma assign any an one of oC them to almost any role that his Judgment i hoo Mind that word almost though for If 1 this were the year of our ourI I ord 1324 and of at Ethel Barrymore 40 Instead of nf 1908 and 25 2 I doubt not that Ethll would pout If It not weep at pre pretending tending i ins to be the 37 3 ascribed to her In Lady Frederick As it Is however fhi Is willing and here is why The Tho Is stale with a lover fresh but buti buttricks Ij i tricks of toilet she makes herself k not much older than he heN N w tv If Ethel Barrymore were ere as asI asIn a I 1 In fact tact as she purports to toh h In this fiction would she Dimply hn I reveal the means by which sip II 1 age acre of ot the heroine Is dyed d ed and bleached b painted and powdered down I cant think so Actresses es an women and art go to the deuce But Butth th Ethels beauty still young and fit en l p years 3 ears to be added to her looks by b bak byak I rak ak up uI Instead of taken off why the he object to the task given to toi tor toor i or r I guess she is glad to get it This new play pIa is not peculiar in hav hay haya hava S a crescendo of Interest up to a clI axi tx third act but in stopping happily the usual diminuendo fourth t r Barrymore as an Irish maiden Tady jv old enough to have had a career r f various rious gaieties not amounting quite to I the moral commonly as ibid d to her has unwittingly got the thep Tire 1 p of ofa oCa a boyish boish fellow fen o The artifices h y v which she contrives to look about as asung asung ung ng as he lie are alluded to but very er one in the first audience oh ob such n audience with Its iLc carriages clogging V 1 block and far around the corners comets n 1 w that what was declared to be beug ug powder Ider and pigment on her face facet t nr TIn more than Her fr own facial love loe loves lover I s r rely prepared for the foot foott Ih t glare Ethel is a wonder let X 1 you She Is a welcome guest 1 th tw V ultrafashionable New e York k iM L 1 a hail hall fellow teUo with chosen hosen bo boIan boian Ian Im not booming her reck 1 T r T I dont rate rote her as the ac acs s that the IiD granddaughter of Mrs j I 1 Dr r anti and rul the daughter of Mau Mai 1 T r C rp and Georgia Drew but she is the pet para param m nr tl t t and lm f r ew pw York So to Lady T puri y ks s initial houseful of people pe Ie JJ q va pleasantry Pl to t see e ee their I to have swiped and andr lu r l j fifteen years yer off of her age ae ageT aeS T T stry S ran along alon to a point where SIT tv lY Frederick felt In honor bound to tot ton f n J nt t her boyish bo lover His In ratin was t so IO absolute that Us tact ii J mt j r and shrewd uncle strove stroe in ini i 1 i M t lift lirt him out of or it and as for the fl HaD she hi kept them guessing what F uld do lo with him What she sh did dIdas was as ti t bid hid him come to her at 10 1 WK k on 1 the th mornin aft at r his pro o or marriage age to get her answer had ad looked her artificial best that ne e and he h had no thought t of her herMIS herIc MIS Ic s nor lor She meant to show her to tl t hira hir so genuinely that the shock hoCk Disillusion would revolt him That Thata h Ith and Po point nt of this comedy by b a v Somerset s I Maugham He is ig the call him Maum if you la I l be 1 London right who has gotten Id n adulation over there as a dra genius In Truly Trul Lady r is a bright achievement in r comedy corned with every cery character rg m in epigrams a play tP mind nd but not touching the heart lrI rue pie McRae cRae Is in it closely resembling is str Ic Sir Charles Wyndham in and manner and Jessie Jessle Milward London association with Wil Yil r 1 Terries Terriss to uplift It toward high art arL artI I I f Bourse OUTS our the Idea of oC a woman bring K g 1 down dnn a boy from rhapsody to com corn comi w i sense euse is old She has bas been often r i actress aitres ft tre enacted by b an actress old to look the part from Mrs Irs Sid s c in m Peg pg dow sIo to Vir Vlra VIra a 1 In The Idol of at the Hour lU aU pla lct described by me mea o 5 l a a month ago And nd th ts the gist I of at Davy Garrick with the sexes re reversed reO reversed versed I c Discursive i Ill hike back to Ethel Barrymore e InV In ina scene of at Lady Frederick that be talk d about The too young oung suitor Is the too old ladys quarters at t 10 a m in inThe The audience audien e sees a room with a toilet table at the center A French Fr maid and an a English valet are fussing about abouL Ethels Ethel s voice Is heard from an Adjoining bathroom Let Lot In all the light there Is she ahe says M a and the shade of ofa a wide window is raised The suitor arrives Show the gentleman man In Int tell U him Iam Tam TamIn in the tub ask him to please lease wait Walt for forme forme I me He comes In an and l takes a seat seaL Good Ill be out in a minute min tc And she la Ii 1 But not the owned l beau beauty beauty beauty ty of the evening before but a two scored reminder r ml pf pt that lovely loel creature wrapped In a kimono mono from her bath her hair not fluffed fl down her ler back And nd her face oh her face The youngster gazed amazed am ed All Its tints w re wash washed d away wy The pink of oC cheeks che ks and J jet t of oJ O eyebrows and lashes were ere gone gone The bloom of counterfeit youth was displaced by the dull yellow of But the audience could have given ven that a tip My Lady Ethel Fr erIc h de deceived deceived hIm with her er semblance of ot 25 2 years rears during the previous two acts but was deceptive now In her false pretense of 40 Therein lies the sure popularity of this comedy here This is not an old actress with a young makeup taken off of but a young joung actress with wl h an old makeup put on Rapturous R applause greeted gr eted Ethel at this entrance It was such a od joke you know All opera glasses were ere clapped to toey eyes as the actress seated herself at the toilet table The Hie se from a morning win window window dow dew fell on her face lace I wondered red if it she asked herself Shall I look like this fifteen years from now Out In the auditorium no such thought arose ar se The absorbing sight was Ethel Barrymore Barrmore with her beauty of face effaced The Tho suitors ardor slumped while s e deftly den y removes the false lines tinted her cheeks and brows and fastened a bunch of some one hair among her own and when she said Kiss me now for forn forIn forin In n a minute be too late he respond and she smeared her lips with red paint I p f The upshot in Ld y Frederick Fred rick is that the heroine with a warm Irish heart cooled by English contacts mar marries marries ries ties the man who though a sweetheart long ago is Tier bet antagonist in a duel of wits during the action of ot the play The most amusing and characteristic passage prior to that third act is when she run down by creditors at Monte MonteCarlo MonteCarlo Carlo bets beta him that a pursuing dress dressmaker dressmaker dressmaker maker from London with a bill bUI for OO 00 will wilt refuse payment The lady lad wins by receiving the parvenu as a so social social social cial friend Inviting her to supper supper with aristocrats given in her honor and finally bluffing her to a refusal of ot a proffered check as a personal insult insulL I Iwonder Iwonder Iwonder wonder how boo many of the th extravagantly dressed women In the theatre were ere tak taking takIng takIng ing that as an object lesson l to tobe be pric practiced pr c x Blue Grass was Paul Armstrongs first play and is to date his last Dur During DurIng During ing ev evolution from a piece that was hardly more than a m to toa toa toa a full length drama its author has won success with two or three of at the numerous plays pIa s he has found time to write Six years ears ago Armstrong was an obscure journalist I fancy that The Blue Grass Handicap as this new drama of at the week was called when in its wee infancy had been written by him as a magazine story firt Anyway it went through the kindergarten of vaudeville before It tt served to a budding drama dramatist dramatist dramatist to New Ne York Mr r Armstrong uses his play playas as the fourth of ot the Uie five scenes which constitute the three acts of Blue Grass Gra s It seems seem here 1 I L t WW L A AI I ik j rM i w jr jrR J R r I I I I Wilson Bros at the Orpheum I only an incident but it retains its ef et effect effect feet with mth audiences The typical gehman of and footlight fiction is away at Louisville e watching the maiden triumph of fa a thoroughbred colt from his tables Cables While the faithful old negro vio uio had been his slave waits for news of at I the therace therace race he talks to a mare mate back on the plantation My M r Lady Is the dam darn of Blue Grass and as the man and the mare await a telegram telling of the colts race the old darky talks about him to her wandering into descriptions of her own trIumphs before she went lame J L That there was to Mr Arm Armstrongs rm strongs first play pla But he lie told the theold theold theold i old negro story sto so effectively that It makes the best Scene cene in his long drama although the success Is as much the actors as to o the authors George rge Marion loves to act His friends know it And he is an excellent actor But Buthe Buthe Buthe he appears on the stage rarely The reasonable reason is that Mr Marion Iaron can more than double the good salary salar he commands as an actor by staying off oft the stage There are many man good actors and few good stage managers With one possible exception Mr Marion is the most successful producer of musical plays pla s of at the period With many more calls for his service than he possibly could answer answer It is a sacrifice fice flee to his beloved art to take time off oft to act But I can understand the at attraction attraction attraction traction of this negro role dazzling an actor so fond of footlights as Marlon Marlen far beyond a glittering heap of man managerial rial gold Old Folks as the old negro Is called caned Is Paul Armstrongs substitute for a plot in his elongation of his horse monologue It Is such an easy guess gue s that the colt will win the purse and the northern lover will win the southern girl that we can hardly be expected to breathe hard In suspense For the rest we have Old Folks A neighbor and four motorists ts from the north drop In unexpectedly on the old Kentucky col colonel colonel colonel onel and his daughter there is nothing for dinner That Is the plot of the first of the three acts The ne negro neo gro gio o servant gives up money mone of his own o oto to aid his master even as did old Adam of Shakespeare In the two scenes of the second act we have in place of o plot the description of two races Of the first firs we are given a general Idea by the numerous people who watch it from froni the tho club house hous stand their backs to us while the Im Impoverished impoverIshed impoverished colonel risks all he lie has on the race Then the scene changes to the paddock and we see five thorough thoroughbreds thoroughbreds thoroughbreds led out The colonel watches the therace therace therace race and describes it for us That is the plot of the second act The first I scene of the third is the darke s recollections recollections I of My Ladys race days And An Anfor for plot in thelast scene the northerner assures the proud southerners that he gave the tha twenty dollars to the negro for fixing his hl hi automobile not to pay ir dinner r All Mi obstacles are swept away the moon shines the darkles darkies sing in the distance the beautiful southern maid mald sinks into the noble northerners arms and the curtain falls on what promises to be another suc sue success I Icess cess for Paul Armstrong It If you ou ever write a drama droma of horror remember what I tell you here Dont I Itry try to hold your our audience at a a tension of suspense too long What bat I mean may be shown In this way David Be Belasco Belasco lasco Jasco was working with his partner on The Girl I Left Lett Behind Me Ie The middle of a scene was reached In which a general was holding a life lIe conference with the officers of a northwestern army outpost be ie besieged besieged by savage Indians Concurrent Concurrently ly I a ball was going on Right here Belasco well have the soubrette snatch the stool out from under the general to give her waltzing partner The collaborator objected that it would raise a laugh what I want Belasco replied If you ou dont give your audience something to laugh at after alter harrowing it several minutes It will find a vent ent for Its feelings at something not meant for fun So the impudence of the farcical soubrette unnoticed by the tragic general has given every eve witness of that melodrama a momentary respite of levity I was reminded of that bit of craft when I heard outbursts of or laughter break in twice in the awful tragedy of The Submarine It wa nt ridicule it was simply that the overwrought strain of sought Bought surcease in unreasonable snickers that led to guffaws So then you say sa The Submarine mu mut t be a wondrously engrossing play pla ru rIl 11 tell teIl you ou about it Parisians have let iet it work them up to a frenzy be because because because cause it dramatized the sinking of ot a submarine torpedo boat with a loss of all the men aboard Not only at the famous Theatre Antoine but in a dozen other small Blouses of odd plays tragic brevities are enacted I recall Franc Mills MilIs as a nephew of Governor Ransom and cousin of the General Shatter Shafter whose fat hindered hi fame as commander in the Cuban campaign Mills did some minor act acting acting ing log here married Helen Macbeth and went to London where he got ahead considerably I dont know his main purpose In returning to America now for I cant think that The Suba Submarine Submarine rine rifle is all he brings but that Is the singularity In which he reappears and andt it t Is so short that he has to present it itin ItIn Itin in vaudeville If It it had been explained beforehand It might have been com comprehended comprehended comprehended but the audience in which h hI I sat laughed twice When the curtain is lifted the mid middle middle middIe dle dIe section of ot a submarine torpedo boat r I I is s shown Its floor is four or five above the stage level I el as though float floating fio t ting ing in a R space of black but a Z porthole dimly lighted water is visible as though the craft were near the sur surface face Cace fae of the sea Commander Mills In m Inthe Inthe the company of several subalterns is operating the vesel under water as a apart apart apart part of ot some naval maneuvers He is strangely exhilarated Needlessly he orders the pilot to dive the boat ten tea fathoms deep His commands tersely spoken and responded ed to by strokes es ot at bells b are Impressive He grows gay as the boat darts di down but his first as assistant assistant assistant gets dizzy and the second pro protests protests protests tests To fourteen fathoms the boss cries rles and he Is Js obeyed The swish of water ater is heard and its enormous pres pressure pressure presSure sure makes bolts creak Then the thedr dreadful dr adful truth Is revealed that the |