Show J ITTAIINS iTilE EAST I 1I I 1 f The Rank Absurdity of the Play A Mormon Wife Victory Bateman Refused to Play Its Leading Role 7 and Is Being Summoned for Breaking Her Contract Doings of the Utah Folk Away From Home L Iy lyw lY Ncsr York Auir 20If It be not III rIghteouS It Is at least human natureal o to wish that your enemy seem rldlcu to lou and the Latterday Saints who saw The Mormon AVJfo at tho Fourteenth S Four-teenth Street theater last night went II L jiwas laughing as they had a right to J c do it was so extremely evident that the writers of the play Howard Hall md Madeline Merll knew nothing r about Mormonism Mr Howard Hall f tall and silkhatted and scholarly 1 r whom I met In the foyer between acts h o admitted that But a friend of mine J f told me a great deal about It he said 1 y Miss Merll wrote the play originally and it stood tho moneymaking test on r the road last season Messrs Blaney ih J nnd Vance conceived the idea of ridding 1 rid-ding It of its absurdities before submitting I sub-mitting It to a New York audience It was little else than absurdities last L night and made one marvel at the very 1l1I forest of them It must have been before the ridding process It was Mr Hall II who led bv the friend who knew L Achieved the doubtful ridding I It t was Miss Vicjory Bateman whov having signed a contract to play the leading role before she read the part 1 1r discovered that The Mormon Wife did not ring true Think of a Mormon wife planning to got rid of her husband l by having an oldtime lover kill him and promising to marry him if he did Everyone I knows what patient selfeffacing heroic he-roic lives plural wives lead The part Is false and hideous besides Why I would be hissed and I wouldnt play It I If I they sent me to jail for breaking I Sltf my contract Blaney and Vance did the nearest thing to sending her to jail K possible They lodorcd a complaint S4 against her In theActors society i and the society has with much unrolling of R red tape notified Miss Bateman that she must answer the charge Meanwhile th events of last night I proved Miss Bateman a prophet Miss I Meta MaynarcU who played Sallie Wise I I the Mormon wife was hissed until the 7 big theater sounded like a den of serpents ser-pents And poor I slight Miss Maynard W looked as though she were truly sorry r for herself j c a These are some of the Incongruities Jn A ilorm n ViCe First John Turner t Tur-ner having become a Mormon tried toy to-y keep the wife he married under the old i and the one he married under the new faith under the same roof Gertrude I Hayncs and her celestial choir which phould be suppressed as a nuisance are I Introduced Into the Tabernacle The I purpllccd choir of caterwauling wholly untrained voices seemed as much out 1 of place there as the proverbial pig In the parlor And the Utah statutes were quoted to prove that a man must maintain I main-tain all his wives under the same roof A man who sat behind me and who j had evidently spent a day or more In Utah which these authors had not I laughed uproariously at this line and stopped the action of the piece for a few mortifying seconds In the end John Turner the man of two wives dies to the fearful singing of that misplaced and miscalled celestial ce-lestial choir Tho MormonjWJte js so fearful so1 I wonderful horrible an example of what Mormonism Isnt that I respectfully I respect-fully suggest It as a proselyting agent c a S v 1 Miss Helen Boyer Sprlngvllle who I will be pleasantly remembered in Salt If Lake City as one of the brightest of the University students will make her h dramatic debut at Kleths on Friday 11 with Nell Moran in a oneact play The 1 Government Claim They will also be seen In Washington the week beginning c September ICth Miss Boyer came to New York eighteen eight-een montljs ago to prepare herself for I a position as a teacher of elocution She 4 studied with Miss Thompson and with the noted Sargent Incidentally she has made something of a social success The opportunity has come to go atraveling In the playlet at an excellent salary for a beginner and it would appear that the career as a teacher Is In abeyance If It has not been quite abandoned t > a 9 Mrs C A Ilopson formerly Mrs H S Krouse left on Saturday after a pleasant fortnight here to visit her Cousin Mrs Carr of SL Louis Mrs Hopsons lends are urgirg her to return re-turn to New York and open a studio here It Is not Improbable that she will do so 0 OJ On Thursday Mrs George Snpw and daughter Miss Vera Snow started to Salt Lake City via Buffalo and the PanAmoilcan exposition t > I i 1 Miss Mary Gray who has been t spending the summer In New York and Boston In the study of vocal l music will leave soon In order to resume her professional duties In Salt Lake City September 1st o Mr Alfred G Swenson spent last wce nere sightseeing and shaking the hands of former Utahns Next summer he will leturn to Join the Utah colonys contingent oCsth gc spirf nts1JlS friends here predict that he will he the next dramatic star to blaze out from Utah i Hr Orr S Cash has signed with Sam Schubcrth to play a part inAus trallaLa new play soon to be produced r pro-duced Mr Cash was with Richard Mansfield last year The 13e Forest Whirlwind Dancers I c fis they are known to the stage world I I t tctebratcd their wooden wedding last I week Mrs De Forest was Miss Pearl I I sharp a Salt Lake girl Among the I guests from 1the profession was Kite t iMlclcson the son of Keeper Erlckson I or Liberty park Mr Erlckson will I twinkle Into stardom next season In Yon vlonBon the play that made i Gus Heoge famous I 1 V yjhe RIalto has been much concerned I > a w < ck with the rumors pC the pro J feSSlonul losing of Ada Rehan But Aaa rjehaii has not quite passed A I Play Is in preparation for her and 4 She will play again probably under the mnnascment of Klau Erlaiigcr nunough the date of her appearance has not been fixed Miss n han Is one 01 the tragic figures of the stage Ill ncaith and the depression following the u iicn death of her manager and iriend Auguptin Daly have not added to her aru She la i a woman who lives hut i hair In this world The other and ornJimnt half Is a world of memories of the struggles and triumphs that knittell the lives of the great manager an l his star Augustin Dalyf made Ada Rehan no more than Ada R han made Augustin Daly and their rJLChip Wan founded upon a mutual rnUtudo and mutiinl olm I TTntrot lif > r they had Dassed the mile 4 posts f youth I I ana of middle age and together they I WCre moving slowly down the hill whose foot is always shadowed In mist Two years ago the manager disap peared In those shadows and now the Rialto Is raying the star Is weary of the journey and would follow him thither o When William Terrlss was killed In t the London theater Miss Jessie Mill Ward1 his leading woman retired from ic rf X < N v V r r lhe I stage She said she could never play again without the sustaining hand of their lifelong friendship But Jessie Mlllard was still young Inaction chafed rather than soothed her She emerged from her country seclusion and became the leading woman of the Empire Em-pire Theater Stock company Now she Is leading her own company in a tour oC the provinces o Ifr could not eat out my heart In Idleness she says i The RIalto once echoed with London whispers that Sir Henry Irving would not Indeed could not play again 1C Miss Ellen Terry ended her association associa-tion with Is company Which shows that the Railto recognizes the might of a long and close friendship the tragedy of one life becoming necessary to another an-other even In the sordid stress of I moneyearning and for f-or holding > S To Manager Davis of the Grand Operahouse of Plttsbuig goes the honor of having the largest and most t expensive stock company in the United I States for next season The leading j woman will be Miss Sarah Truax a Utah favorite The company will open I its season September 2nd I Tom Moore will be the vehicle for I Andrew Macks opening at the Herald Square theater August 31st It Is another an-other straw Indicating the direction of the dramatic wind toward the perpetuating perpetu-ating in plays of characters from history his-tory Dear old Impressionable Tom Moore should be a figure that would grip the hearts of the public If the 1 playwright shows him as he was and I Andrew Mack reflects him as the playwright I play-wright designed Tom Moore singhlg his own Incomparable melodies should be a sight to provoke sentiment ADA PATTERSON ij |