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Show MGAflY IS SUBJECT OF PLAT' y&orie Rambeau Takes New York by Sformj pro Mick 6 bo Much for bo Much' Scores jfon Broadway, Edwird Sheldon, Former ' Silt Liker, Successful Dramatist ( L By VA NDERHE YD EN FYLES 'jr w lork D K. iir A pU t f u a jotWo IIorrt ' vv 1 t fit, iw"8 aK5$T Ho sard M st a Howard K le "2m Fr0 M t e S?a ecrftarN l Mstford iSTeSpl Arthur Bar Ohrvstal Heme 'GST Katharine Ki e iiETrnM Ulo Hud so er KelB Pa line Ci r e tLi Tanner Mar haw t5Tunr Am Hodge FVuiiw Marie Fl kirM rJrU Marte H i n K, Stow M na K h Kijuj oa Lucy Loa EiS FOR SO MUCH pi n Katti tT WUlard 11a k (Longa r ffLw WUlard M k s,edman Joseph K U.our Snnaa Charles Conip on fLrrfsanan Jack Je ne F WUUan Norton lj Edmund W n srfcoin Marjorl Rambeau t EwmM Julia xil -ot E gramas Ruth Perrj 1JHE EARN" n Idyll in t'iree fc. kr AnJiony P Wfcarton. (Coued fe hTtonlany W iraham Browne JiiiwuJ - E. n r s b. Crane Franklin D a ai Levis Gu Newe euStevart Ken yon Musgra e vias Herbert Ross fcfUdr Marie Temper Hives Kate ergrean son Kxoore Lilian Ca -a ash Brrerelyaii Nellie Moore JsKAKDEN OF PVRADISE mteotkr play n n ne scenes, b Anrt saedVo, from Hans Chris an trans story of The Little Mer ii" (Park theater ) Henaan Emperor Uttledale P w . t-S at the B.ue Mountains RR oeorge Ra p m Dtlu Ashe on To ge j iMnce of p ce and Lionel Bra an I fiaal Vlner Han? Ne e msva TVl I lam Brown I i Qaa s Heriid Richard Ha e 1 Mncess Swauhlld Emllj e ens W tch Blanche W a Enpress Dowager Jessie ars Pincess Thora Minn e Tern Pttneeas Lona Phyl is That her Q-eai of the outhland Ik Renee Ke JTJtie end f the third at o lfM5tainy -when as tnthusi rodnce called loudly for he 1" Jlary 15 haw Instead came B& and. after a word of tha ks Jt behalf, jdded the crisp o WTCttt they ha undertaken o f"tlat pdygamy is an atterr jpttcore out of life than the e s tf- The dramatists had left ro nbt of their contempt for the Mor dOTph. Indeed so tgorou M boldly had the approached and uM their subject tha a rumo atwrt town t-at a group of Mot sympathliers in New York would Jteake to prevent the perform or it feast to register Uielr p o pajainst it by some hostile den fWoon at the premiere Not- ng Vnther sort occurred Fob gam fx on to tu conclusion without an m erroption than occaslona idler In the wrong place Of a ter and its psychology more Eas Is not the first adventure n 4 Wt of Mormonism byHarve OHIsjina. the JournaLst, who In ins public mightily by becom 5 one of the most searching and JTOBgh magazine Teform writers fast decade Latterlv he has a more genial celebrity as a of me odramatlc plays that with up-to-date metropolitan "res. touched oft with w t and sympathy In writing these which The Dummy" Is un fuahly the best, he has had the -i31 co-operation of Harriet . x actress and dramatist of long Wence and she has couabora ed Jf valuably with him n th s st Instance Sf" "Tltlng for the stage Mr SwV" associatJon with former f"f Trank J Cannon of I, tab ""JJ1 .rtea of aescript e JWf called "Under the Prophet n .IV "i the matter then collected uoeen drawn on for the drama consideration Bv the critic know edge of alt Lake City -r,rl Kalned only as a Sl 2tor and how alike the of afferent cities can be the TJX of many details must re n on faith. N Jrter knit their story close 4.tt nS0 f "Polamy ha e hao?.R tn confused by the fam v Sin 1 tt two en and two in tavo'Ta Daniel Wh t Snt?8 (?0"e bora 1" Sat m """embers of the Mormon 2- They are bringing up their i,1'! Klrl In that faith too 5b V.! abtra,:t, they e en 2 !? Principle of plural rtirj;,thouh the thought Is en efiES tPnt t0 tnem as regards ZZl 1 Tney Pt the id-a ttem but Zina Whitman U well tu o . S.at her husband s et t fmmt' t0 Washington as a sena J ,ate is less because of "P tlcal ambition than It Is to t2iS Jthemseive, from a union SlmJ57,the e de As opposed to wmtpoken d.beUef In polygamy 'almrt i tenement outbursts t S ' made frequentl and with wSSe hV. byana 8 mother an neti t,t .V s abhorrence for som mil i,.Jfe ch"h espec ally for tav? ha8 been h s ru n am. . asa'nt the prac Ice on "ons making powerful en U Kn5?ase ot hl" frank dlsbe ef . iT. 0 v'ae denied the privi TJThL yl bfor f marr ng aeWV!?r?n and environment t Itrnfl.1'?' was no other way r lathe? ""1 to the commands of 1 hfSL d Snltary of the ch rch T7fT5iJ,.ni' of the nume ous loan k..dl5lnsi""hed 'oer That s widow But In the meantime M!rimb ha recome a lter SS?ari from unhapp ness ther.",of the church Its jLer ti0? ar' more "w ' h.. "e n.nls from he r SE he narry car?. 1nt at ends The "hose ntruetel to Lizzie Hud n Col an 1 Mar haw The ure Mor u n 1 s of an ea Her ge tlo h u ke o n e aita nat e xvs e hat n oat o ho ire n e obvl uslj ro d js P fro f he 1a od Mr . e as i a o he ai e ed o I fa ned atro ' Ilex rred t i es n t ) re e uuthorlt of h heads I t e h nh Mii SI an tl splenie. ar strj I dl tes he n oMe k fla e hut ill I bra h en af e a quart f a e t f ubn lsslon B t ess m e a e es did n ore tl a a lr va ta w h a ured sk that n a le e n st of It nl oppor n es e a emmd the llnu loi of a d en e to la gh at e r n en lion of won an as onl o e of e e "a es f o e ma No ore nan a rt ght so I vro e t j abiut a pa ca ed What 1 Men s o W n a whl h the raged of hah al runken ass was greeted v th la gh er Ju because It s e u o o la gh at the Idea of drink m h taj.e so la th p al arnufc Man ma ears ago hei a a i ce-fil Mormon lr n a al ed The Danltes. 1 was I before n time but 1 belle e was tt e mo- tha front er n e odrama h h the no e obvious strugg e between 1 fe a 1 detth took n grip on the a erage pK goer W hln the ast twen ears or more po gam as a subjec for he stage hai been re egatel to a few turgid n 1 odrama designed fo 1 fe or Intetl gence and 0 fare a en ertamments. s ch as The Irl From I ah rpHE second a of Pojgamj s a. s be T e ene s a se ret council n the ten pie The prophet, realised a tn au horitatl e eader a d unn nir hemer b Howard K. le pres is o er a mee ing of e ders wh h a reaching pol tt'a snd nninc a s hemes are tou hed on a wars on he pretense of a divine re elati n h ng gu ded the dec alon He e again the audience aughed a man passages apparently intends o be aken seriousl The dran at p rpose of the act waa the nnnoun e ne b e prophet of a 1 ne iv d tion co m&ndlng Dan el W hitira o take n Is as h sec ond w fe anl he ang s caused b th s to s.nn and he man who o ed he husband A. ret rn n h third act to the Wh man ! ome re ea ed the general r e here on he wedding night. But after a a ng settled A.nnls n the br da ham be and locked the doo Dan e went elsewhere for he night and so we remembered that a wel tha ends wel when Zlna stened at the door behind which here wa noth ng to hear and pres entl co apsed In a faint The next morning found her still In a heap on he floor Tnen her brother returned ound nn s had been alone al night and Induced here o run away from Ltah with hm and remain as long as they li ed The suggestion sounded sensible o Zlna and Daniel too Then as ie eft. a runawa wife or two jo ned n the excursion east ward Unfortunate! this so utlon eemed so simple and so obvious that we wondeced whv theyJiad not re sorted to It In the first place and he finale of the drama rather went o pieces. I Is very difficult to gain s -m pathv for or u I belief In a storv wh ch some great human emotion made to col apse before a social ed c o e en a powerful sec arian p-inclple and It s doub v hard n the case of a re Igion subscribed to b so small a section of the people That t can be done, howe er that e e more can be a hie ed by a great art s has been pro ed b Edith Wharton ln The House of Mlrt when she made us fe 1 at east fo the time that La hart s oss of he position ln New York society was no less great a matte than Lu ifer s expulsion from heaven. But excel lent in many was s as Mr O Higgins s work is It Is not Edith Wharton s The reason for engaging an actrea. of such skill and high prestige as Marj Shaw for an Incidental char acter appeared in the final moments when she came to e rescue of Brig and Annls with money enough to get them out of I tah This Bat sheba Tanner had no remained will Inglv one of several wives fo jears he aved and sa ed the little money ehe could get her hands on with the one purpose of running awav Finally when she had enough she was get ng o d and she ga e t to the 5 oung o k These parts were played wel b Katherin Emmet and William B I Mack the latter as Brig ha ing the best oppor unities n the p ay and Chr sta Herne and Ramsey Wal ace we e ent r y satisfactory as Z na and Daniel Whitman THE best thl g about So Much for o Mu h s Marjorle Rambeau No hat the plav Itse f he second by W lard Ma k to reach Broadway h n two months doe not possess man elemen worth of high praise but he lead g actress s quite ex cep ona For some years I have heard from fne ds and cr tics in the far wea ch en n bat Lake C W and San Francisco of a remarkable young actress but Broadway gener ally is not much given to harkenlng to much be ond ts own nceasant up roar so Mis Ran beau enjoved the un sual and nestlmab e ad antage of taking most of her aud tors comp etel by surprise She had appeared i New "iork onl once before and then n a vaud le sketch The most striking me t of he acting is Its ease Its freedom from kp1arent artl n e its air of be ng a 'character and not acting one That same 1 lus pn of actual ty s a salient merit 1 Mr Mack s drama H s persons talk Just as g lb y and co oqula y as would the Harlem bunch they are supposed to be The achievement of such ver bal natura ness s often missed by dramatists of ong experience and Is ; qu te extrao a na v n a vuuUR huj second play Usual It takes an cf fort or two af e that before a new author get beyond flue writ ng e en if e endea o s t If So Mu n fo So Much does not achle e the popula uccess n New York that It deserves the reason wl 1 not be hard o find Its theme Is trite at best and last season we were forced to swallow repeated doses of it that w 1 last us for a ong time It resembes all the Wh te Save rtuous though poor stenographe plavs ln general and Help Wanted fn partlcu ar Wh le a better p ay from ever po nt of lew than He p Wanted that s lly business d d reac l New York first and have a long run Once more we have the stenograph t er whose employer's gifts and atten tlons can hardly be n lstaken for as interested But one of Mr Mack s improvements on the talc as usual y told is In not making tha girl a n credibly Ingenuous o n foo hut showing her to be as sophist ca ed as she is virtuous She knows how 1m possible it s o bo dty rep Ise such a man a 1 yet hold her job but she thinks she can manage t e eltuat on Then too at home are dependen on her a del cate s ste a wort ess brother end a mother who m g t c ose h' 0 O In e wo a tl e II r u k its be e th rd up -t ent bo o t ei trl n rt Jos I Ian H epedfo nag r path of na n ess n al role does n t e p n at ern as e llbertl e n t M Ma k h oung ne snaper e o te s 1 t I Ihe nga t gallo u I e VI I In dlst ess h a S er I so apt to ste sbrated n k of time M Ma i nu I re I terestl g as dm a t a than as to A TIUFI H ght as air la V thon 1 ar on a o edy cal ed At the Ilarn and app y It waa scured by Male T peat Thu n akea al t e differs co n the wo d 1 nglan 1 a queen of der x c st be weary of honage e dalnt art. ho s e n st have g ow t shudde at the phraae arils her finger ps B just as a e y as n ost acto s are nude or ef u mado by tl e u tl ora they are p t o play Miss Ten peat akea er a t o I ether I e w I or no Tl en too s e has the sou d seise b! e Ih 1 er own nanager) to surrou d herse f w t the best procurabl co npany I add tlon to W Orahan Browne e om nal lead ng nan and Kate Se gean son who i lay the h ractera hev created 1 t the B rn I lxn don and to Fra k I 1 a d otl e sk ful aotors sho broug t o er for 1 er repertory season sh 1 as a 1 ed to her con pa A F Ansin o f the oat a co p lshed actors of o ne The resu t is t at overv drop t h I mor and of charm Is extra od fro a fl my little comod that ndor o er clrcumstai ces doubt ess wou d a e died at b rth One thinks of b Burke and th custon ary cos of Broadway favorites and shudders But appreclat on of Miss lempesta ar and all It doea for a p ay n us not be pusl ed too far The greates act e s In the world must ha e bo hlngr ho vever smal to ac w h Duse. 1 eraelf could not extra t en o t o from a laundrv list Mr Wharton has In ag ned a group of attract! e persona, pjaced then in a most al urlng en Ironn ent and de laed a pleasant little con p cation that Is none the less engaging because h happy outcome Is obvious from the fl s word and ne er for a moment In doubt A 1 one Is ca ed upon to do Is to mee the tdvll ln three acts halfway with the co operatl e flplrlt of make believe The Barn la a quaint old Eng Ish countrv house not far from South amp ton, set back from an English ane amongst protecting trees and ln t e center of an. old world rose gar de It rea lsea one s Ideal of peace and quiet and remoteness from he weary world When I tell you that tame white p geons fly about the gar den In the friend lest fashion 1 sho Id no add tl at at the first performance perhaps having heard about the popularity of the chickens on the runway at the Winter Garden one of the birds f ew out Into the audience because such a Iteral deta 1 takea us from the Land of Let s Pretend Three rather gn mpy bachelors 11 e ln this retreat from womankind the oldest an artist the youngest a news paper scribbler and their host a no elist Mr W barton obvlouery does not mind If we Ident fy the last named character superbly realized by Mr Anson with the actual John Mase field for we learn that before hla literary success he knocked about the world a lot largely ln America rough ng It among cattlemen and miners, serving ln the Northwes ern Canadian po 1 e. tending bar n a New York dive Into this group en tlrelv unknown unbidden and unher aided bobs a vivacious frt gl 1 f-om London. At first, she appea s as flimsy as her dainty summer dress as fragile and unreal as the curls that play about her forehead and at the back of her exquisite neck. She Is an Impudent voung minx too for it is not long before she bland announces she has decided to spend a fortnight at The Bam She and two male com panlons were motoring In a car that broke down half a mile away Pres ently they come In search of her But ln the meantime after her vivacious badinage with the three men she has had a more serious chat wi h the no e st alone bhe does not let herself speak seriously of course, but the facts are there. CHE is the singing girl who has " made a hit at the London Fri ol ty (How often we hear of that theater In plays and books But let us be frank and call her a Oaiety girl even if we hesitate to notice the likeness of her name of Molly Blair to a certain actual divinity of that theater) Two years before Molly was in the chorus of a tra eling company playing ln Dubl n underpaid friend ess lonesome A young English nobleman was at traded by her entertained her brought brightness Into her dull fe He offered to go further and secure a London opening for her He would make a star of her within two years But at the end of that time she must pay his price The time has come She Is about to burst forth as the star of Poor Miss Plantaganet- In the meant me she Is to go on a cruise alone with Lord Clonbarry on his new yacht which they ha e been to Southampton to Inspect The upshot Is that Mofty sta s a The Barn Of course she develops all the do mestlc virtues mending the bache tors' tattered clothes cleaning out the .dusty and disordered house even darn ing socks. And though they growl and grumble during the upset, of course thev apprec ate the greater comfort True the rector's elder and unprepo sessing sister objects to such an lrreguar household and calls to register her protest. But Mo ly Qea s with her with neat d s patch TV 111 you take tea sa s she on the arrival of the spinster 1 have not come for tea Is acid retort. I ha e come to d s charge a duty Oh, says Mol well perhaps you 11 have tea later when ou e made room for It That same day Molly wires for he lordl ng and three other livelv Lo don friends proposing to moto ba k to town with them C onbarry as been miserable w thout he convin od that she could not have embarked on such an escapade unlesB In lo e w t one of the three men Despera he changes his proposition to an offe of marriage Mo ly refuses tho g dec arlng she will keep to her origins bargain If he ins sts From tha point on At the Bam which has been enjoyable from the fl it chiefly for its Beatrice and Bened ck duel of wits becomes nothing else at a I It Is entirely bes dethe, point to specu ate what It might be without M ss Tempest and Mr Anson As it la t offers an evening of h gh corned acted with a perfeation of artistry and aUureme t of personality very ery rare y to be seen. I regret that a multiplicity of other and after all more interest ng sub Jects has left me no space to describe The Garden of Farad se, a spectac u ar elaboration In nine sceneB b Ldward She don who also be ongs to the Salt Lake City theatrical clan of the beautiful Hans Christian An dersen story of The Little Mermaid Even in theEe days of great spec tacleef It Is remarkable and at some later t me I hope to find space for i more than th s record of a creditable success |