Show E 1 i ir r s i T f r 1111 f I i 1 r t J Jc c THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES 0 Salt Lake All week matinees Wednesday and Saturday Com Corn Coming Coming Corning ing the Rye C Orpheum All week beginning tonight matinees daily dail vaude vine Grand First half of week be beginning beginning beginning ginning tonight matinee Wednesday Wednes Wednesday Wednesday day In a Womans Power last half halt of week matinee Saturday The Devil New Lyric Matinee and night all week the tho BY FRANKLIN FYLES New Ne York Tork Oct 2 Father and Son SonIs SonIs SonIs Is the title or of are onu or of the weeks new plays another Mater might well be called Mother and Son a third The Offenders has for a subject the protection of children against parental neglect a fourth Mile Mlle Mischief has hasa a principal character who is a n real daughter and a pretended son and The Fighting Hope described last Sunday sets forth a n mothers des desperate desperate desperate endeavor to save her boys from their fathers ignominy that a batch of coincidence Yet the five bear bearno no further resemblance than to treat of parentage and progeny ri It Is true of Mater ater too to that it is whimsically freakishly wildly differ different different ent nt from any previously acted play whatever so far as I know or have been able to ascertain Steele Mackaye was eccentric in New Yorks theatrical affairs a third of a century ago He was wac an actor who had studied the then celebrated system of dra dramatic dramatic dramatic matic expression brought it here from Paris and taught tau ht it in a school of act actIng actIng acting Ing When he personally applied it to several everal roles at though It failed to prosper him much He next struck out as an author but his for forgotten forgotten forgotten gotten All for Her was admittedly a paraphrase of Dickens A Tale of Two Cities ClUes and his remembered Hazel Kirko was a plagiarism from an old English piece The Willow VilIo Copse He had more original conceits ensuing ly as a manager for he built one theatre the theatre theatre 1 atre with a stage so as to avoid delays between acts forgetting that most plays are so constructed that the actresses require intermissions dur during during ing which to change their clothes and his second theatre had an ornate structure structure structure ture to be let down from above to oc occupy occupy occupy cupy the tho front quarter of the stage with a band of musicians in it to while away awa the waiting time with brief concerts not taking into account the heavy cost of this superfluous enter entertainment entertainment entertainment These two houses have been demolished lately latel and few who stopped to look at the places of A M H Palmers and Daniel early earb endeavors recalled the long Ions ago discarded two story tor stage and orchestral elevator Steele was a z companion gen genius genIus ius lus with Dion in the last third of the nineteenth century Jc 1 a son oJ of o such a Steele Mackaye be worth while in something literary or artistic Why Wh yes and he heIs heIs heIs Is a poet pot whoso whose verses craps if written when American good bood pmt PCt was scarce r might have hala him for a panel in our Temple of Fame up there on the Hudson In the neighborhood of Grants tomb Thus much of fanfare for the entrance of Percy Mackaye author of Mater Henry Miller who for a long while was a coming actor b t never came is now a manager Who has rung the bullseye bell several times by pro producing producing producing peculiar plays triumphantly yet he got the newspaper critics away from the cynics of opening nights in New York Tork and sand sat them down of an afternoon a r people to make their Estimate f of a play so queer that a motile mother at 40 is so fresh In it and a daughter of 20 so stale that the parent is token to be bethe bethe bethe the offspring The whole scheme sch me of the fiction rests on a premise so preposterous ous as that Mind you too neither the time nor the place is far away aw y but right here and now nov in an American city Michael Dean and his sister Nary Mary are drab dun darkly brunette and utterly reason reformers in society and politics Their widowed mother is bright gay and blonde with the inconsequential joys of life Michael Mi Michael MIchael chael gets gete a nomination for the legis legislature l lature and expects to purify exalt and ennoble the making of laws Arthur Cullen is a political boss who tells Michael that the price of his candidacy is for the campaign fund Mi Michaels Michaels soul revolts at the sordid idea so does his sister Marys and besides they the money but their ma mater mater mater ter aged 40 yet looking younger than her daughter of 20 see the ques question qi s stion tion from their aesthetic point of view She is sure that she can befool and be devil Cullen to forego the assessment and accept her blandishments instead Now No there say Is the making of a jolly joUy farce 4 d 1 r n r Percy Mackaye has as no such trivial purpose He writes poetically Uj with his characters feet never flat fiat on the ground nor their speech colloquial and their heads are In the clouds except excepting ing the mother and she has verbal flights of fancy fanc Even Een the utilitarian Cullen is incited by b love loe of the mater thinking her all the while to be the th filia filiato to discard his ordinary vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary lary and soar into fantastic diction along alon with the four other personages Yes only a quintette Last week I mentioned four plays plas that were get getting getting getting ting along with casts of gf six or less and here comes a fifth with five and no changes of scene That means big bl profits if the people will take Mater Materas as a brainy joke in stage literature a apiece apiece apiece piece of pleasantry pleasant on a par with W WS WS S 8 Gilberts whimsical comedies and let it sharpen their wits s s t P Margaret Mar aret Anglin was to have been the mother but she went away to get j Australian dollars and Miller Iiller cabled to Isabel Irving to come from Paris His Hi choice was lucky for the actress and the play Isabel began to act at Dalys so long ago that she may easily have the 40 years ascribed to the moth mother er ere but she bas has held on to the blonde beauty of her girlhood so remarkably that she makes the merry widow look younger than the daughter as personated rightly yet gloomily by b Hazel Mackaye a sister of Percy Isa Isabel Is Isabel bel bet skips and ambles through Mater later wheedling Charles Stevenson who de depicts depicts Boss Cullen as s a n heavyweight politician so wafted off his feet by b the volatile woman that he takes a hope of gher in lieu o her sons payment pay payment payment ment of a campaign assessment while Frederick Lewis hitherto a player pla er of old men moons mopes and declaims as the son with a socialistic grouch The dialogue of the mater and an anthe the filius fillus becomes so like Hamlet be berating berating rating mUng his queen mother as a matron who flirts as a pretended maiden with the politician that the author deems it well to put Shakespearean quotation I T j f N NL Jy L F o f CAMPANARI The great baritone who comes to sing si ng at the first Orpheus club concert October er 19 marks on some of It Still this js an original and Very odd composition During its first first act a t Father and Sou Son behaves like a problem drama of labor l bor versus capital The New Jersey villagers vil villagers villagers lagers who gather at a postoffice are mostly d discontented and in inan inan inan an impromptu meeting they resolve to strike against their employer who on the spot defies them to do their worst or best according to the point of view The act ends without any expo exposition exposition exposition of the rights and wrongs in involved Involved involved in the th contention and that sub subject subject subject is not taken up again The real question asked and answered in Fa Father Father Father ther and nd Son is the sons fa father father father ther The author of this play is Edgar Edg r Selwyn rn a clever actor and his theatric keenness saw dramatic tension in a son setting fire to a mill owned o ned by his ac actual actual actual father in a strike caused by his putative father In that complication the scheme of the play works out with force The son son is the loved lover of his real fathers niece No one in the play save aye an Irish serving woman whose mouth the author keeps keens shut until the time chosen by him to open it knows that the sweethearts are cousins The audience is taken into his confidence though and guesses what hat the upshot will be bethe the marriage of the young oun cousins but whether this consanguinity consanguinity in wedlock begets freakish off offspring offspring offspring spring cant can well be shown in the play pla plaNo No more in mimic than in real life is isa Isa isa a nursery close behind the altar When you ou are an undersized un actor yet dont desire to be bea a comic come dian what can you do about your ur lack of height for serious roles If you are arc area arca a boss of productions pro you ou may do what Edward H Sothern does have no man In his company himself no woman whose topknot comes above the tips of his ears and grades down the furniture to give stature by b comparison William Nor o oris ris rs who starts starring in Father and Son as the supposed father is a little littleman littleman littleman man while the son the sweetheart girl and the real father are tall and his device to save himself from belittlement belittlement belittlement dramatically as well as phy physically physically physically is to be white His hair is r wy t q z zb b a aA A y ya yr yF r a F 1 z 4 4 t l 1 w l 1 I STEVENS j At the Orpheum Sunday and all Week I white his hat and summer suit are arc white and almost white is his pale paleface paleface paleface face Recent usage keeps the stage rather dark during serious passages and nd so the whitened Norris contrives to stand out more distinctly than his bigger companions in their dark cloth clothing clothing clothing ing However that qualify I Norris who has been a dapper alert active comedian to act divertingly a quiet apathetic motionless but loquacious loquacious cious clous old village oracle What a Den Denman Denman Denman man Thompson might do with Father and Son is left to be guessed at It Itis Itis Itis is withdrawn at the end of its first week T Next The Offenders Klif King it would seem was just as firmly set seton seton seton on a moral regeneration in four acts and a halo as Owen Conway whom I recently described as a sinner saved sayed in the person of Arnold Daly and in inthe inthe inthe the play i of The Regeneration Owens cousin in type t pe is Robert Ede Edeson Edeson Edeson son as Klif personally handsome and histrionically admirable even before he scrapes off the woeful but not prison grime in which he first appears in the drawing room of a very noble charity worker married to a very er ignoble ignoble political boss That is we are arc assured of their extremes of virtue and an vice but we see little of either That Thatis is the peculiarity to use a kind word of The Offenders written with morel more of good promise than n accomplishment by a new dramatist Elmer Blaney Harris The evils of child labor la or pro provide provide provide vide his large and political subject but he makes the mistake of keeping it until the last act all in the actors tors mouths instead of in the audiences view Klif KII dashes into a darkened drawing room room slugs a Japanese butler to unconsciousness and is discovered by a charitable lady of the house That Thatis is a jiff start for the drama Judging by y her Immediately compas compassionate compassionate compassionate actions this Helen North Street is at heart the ennobling Mamie Rose of The For it appears that in a socialistic melodrama ma a Mamie Rose by any other name would act as sweet She returns to the revolver he has robbed her of taking her money during the scuffle and defends him from his captors when he is revealed as an escaped con convict conIct convict vict This inevitably leads to KliCs Klirs regeneration as persistently if hardly as lucid as Owens further down the street of theatres After Aner thousands of words our first Actual experience with the child labor problem the avowed purpose of the play comes in the third act Klif King brings a young oung girl to a noto notorious notorious notorious rious restaurant to use her as an ex example example example ample of the abuse of young oung girls em played daytimes in factories Klif now regenerated is careful to convey coney th the right idea i ea about this Maudie and has hasher hasher hasher her loosen loo en her hair for or th the look of youth and even remove her long skirts to be more convincing in a short petticoat Then he hides with her in an adjoining room and bores a in the door to spy on the wicked political boss Aiho ho comes in with the mill owner and his wife A little of tee ensues touching on the in interest interest interest terest in cocktails and other drinks Unfortunately the wicked politician pays pas for this refreshment for with his change he receives two I bills a bribe to pro protect protect teet the resort in its harboring of girls I under age The spying Kill Klif breaks in inand Inand inand and accuses him And from then the scene works up and up with a wordy word intensity to illustrate the awful con consternation consternation consternation resultant from a man tak taking takIng taking ing excess change for a drink check The cocktail wife the mill mm owner the girl of 14 the the wicked politician and the philan philanthropic philanthropic philanthropic wife all become embroiled in inthis inthis inthis this awful case of a waiter giving ex excess excess excess cess change Finally the police pollee become entangled too Then it is that Klif King his noble eyes shifting between the Mamie Rose Pose sort of lady and that part of the stage land where The Regeneration showed Owen Conway beginning in sin and ancl ending in handcuffs holds out his wrists for the manacles It used to be bo that eyes noble as Robert and Arnold Dalys were rolled beatifically heavenward only as little Eva dies or as the brave soldier boy bo thinks of his mother but now com complete complete I ocular perfection comes only as the handcuffs are clasped upon the re regenerate regenerate i irn generate rn Lulu Glaser is a puzzle of parentage in Mlle Mile I lie Mischief also whether she is a son or a daughter The audience knows she is a reckless Vienna girl an artists model who makes a i wag that she will get into a 3 military bar barrack barrack barrack 1 rack and stay there a day without her sex being discovered That suggests a Parisian farce but Viennese stage sen sensuality sensuality sensuality is blush worthy too and Lulu gets ample opportunity to be bewell well piquant She takes on the name and clothes of a young oung fop overdue for Austrian military service reports at atthe atthe atthe the barrack for dut duty and goes through a sequence of predicaments As a raw recruit she is to be bathed by a rough sergeant and hazed naked by b jovial privates so she confesses her sex Ma tda t a lieutenant who saves her from the others but tries to acquire her for himself To fend off the ardent lieu lieutenant lieutenant tenant she encourages a more ag aggressive aggressive colonel To elude the she tolerates the odious advances of a senile sensualist civilian As s a refuge from troIT these aggressive devotees she flies tIles to the arms of her naturally jealous artist sweetheart Several years ago when Louis Mann brought out The Girl in the Barracks an adaptation of the original comedy on which Mlle Mile Mischief is based he made a rather serious character of the theold theold theold old man and his wife Clara Lipman was not immodest as the venturesome girl The 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