Show i WAYS YS O OP OF THE TILE WEEK The feature of the tho week has been Otis Skinner and his company In in The Duel at the Salt Lake with a weekend weekend week week- r I end engagement of three performances Earlier L Lev w S H Dockstader came caine with his minstrels for a like number o ot of Y and as minstrels go tho the engagement was a success d Pa Partly because Dockstader's voice had deserted him tern tem ii and partly because many of ot the performers were Inferior InterIor men the quality of or old time minstrelsy was not S 4 quite vre preserved McIntyre and Heath gave gave ga us a a. better show earlier in the seasonS season ason S S Of Ot The Duel though there seems teems little to criticise criticiseS once once you concede that sort tort of play If It it Is laughing S you ou want or the sud sudden en surprises of ot an nn intricate plot plotS cleverly worked out by capable people or 01 the soothing S 1 strains of oe music The Duel will not answer answer It Is som- som tJ V 5 4 f b ker ber r. r But Dut it docs does so appeal to the thought of ot the auditor t S that it I 1 is taken entirely entirely- out of oC the category of oC common z plays and made to stand b by itself So So that judgments of or i T it based on comparison with comedies or dramas In beni general general gen gen- i eral are Impossible as they would be bo with musical cx'S cx- cx S 'S tra It is different to And there Is such a wealth of ot human life lIfo and human humanS S emotion In It Here Is a woman who has b been cn an orphan ii trum birth II Il her r rath father r s she hc never neer Faw paw Her mother died r th baby girl entered tho the world Riches niches she had 1 v and social position and antI with these she developed Among S. S the she met after atter she had men entered society was a aa aduke a luke duke e fellow with all the captivating a- a assurance aurance urance of i i v of his tribe anI and she 13 married him in spite of or tho the warnings warn warn- ings Jugs of pf her reason She a n. fino line creature equipped with 4 m L. L over every faculty and attribute to for splendid existence in the S v h best st sense of oC that word he lie a a. a debauche devoted dc to drink N- N and excesses disintegrating his brain with his vices and tottering to an asylum before he reach reached d two score years Life Lite has given her hr every promise and denied her every realization She Sho meets a a. man who is a a. master of ot othis S his kind a man who vho has conquered with tho the force of ot othis S his genius who bows at no shrine anI and accepts nothing as proved unless the material be submitted to him He loves her because human nature stripped of oC S tradition and convention makes her love lo desirable And he wins her with ah an argument which will go be beyond ond a n I f womans woman's defenses whether she will or ot no Hearing him you cnn can not take issue with his hits logic It is ii refutable irrefutable All the Ow argument she sho has against t his advances advance amounts amount to nothing g Every t. t drop of or her blood every fibre of he 11 bol body every thought of her hel pile to plead 1 wIth wit him And AnI one ono knows that It I Is the tho great big hig answer o of human nature to the call of or Its kind This pleading admirer admirer ad ad- mizer Is no mio roue He Ire Is above licentiousness It Is simply a self reliant man n n. prim i live man maim seeking hiI his mato mate and the tho refusal is her beyond d power All that is worked out omit with clean methods Th rIme rho thought is not offensive o of tl warrant sarrant In condl conell- lions and the treatment Is very capable It becomes a problem of cour course course k e- e k social problem And It fl Is lifted t to 10 the Ute hel heights of or a a. spiritual problem by time the introduction o othe of the priest who detects the nature of the struggle understands understands understands under under- stands it tull fully an and sets sets his powers po tho the sacr sacred l warnings warning and abjurations of tho the church to reinforce the tho woman In her light for her own defending The rhe unselfishness unselfish unselfish- ne ness s of ot hil his attitude Is shown when he ho dl discourages ho her herre re resolve lo to devote her wealth to charity charily and amid herself to 10 cloisters He Ho tells hot her slip she ho should marry anti and adds adds- Thoten Tim Tho ten tiny lingers eN or of a 0 baby's hand Is tho tue rosar rosary p I oe you yoi ou may hold to your our lips 1115 And An tho head of oC the rich riol In iii lifo anI and capable of much love 10 bows hows with th the stress tress o oher of 01 her whole hearts heart's yearning Yet In the very veloy next tIa day ho he Is conscious of or his chan changed ed altitude toward her and the tho human love lovo of or a aman aman aman man for a w woman m n roused b by the tho Impetuous words of or his brother stands confessed before his astonished eyes Ono One Is compelled to champion tho the cause causo of tho the woman of ot her agnostic lover lo Why WI h should t she he be bo 8 sacrificed crl- crl on the cross ClOSS of a self self- self debased paretic of or a husband Of or course courso it will not do The rime Individual must b bo be sunk In tho the Interest of tho the sex sex In In the tho Inter interest t of or the race For FOI If we grant the argument of oC tho tIme doctor octOl we shall presently lung on one one by o elm ono all nil our other safeguards to tho time winds winds and and love 10 and anti woman will become abased Mr Skinner is to be he thanked for tor presenting n a lesson so worth worthy anil antl and so worthily I It is Js from tho time French but it is pure puro and elevating clo and h helpful in every lino And Amid AudIt It is such an appeal to reason as one one is delighted to o n fol fol- foh- foh lo low 10 The Duel Is a n ma masterpiece t and anti It has been pio- pio b by a n. master |