Show MADAM BUTTERFLY This can not be bo regarded In t the e nature of an advertisement No need ned of at that There will not be seats enough enough enough-by by half Only we ve hope the usual Savage habit will be maintained I and the confidence of ot the public will not be misplaced ed We Ye hope the Madam Butterfly will be all all' its manager manager man mau ager and itS author and Its promoters have haye led us to expect It is the most su successful play pIa of the generation And the reason for that success is perfectly plain John Luther Long told an exquisite story in the tho first place He Ho knew Japan at least well enough to know kno that Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lien tenant Pinkerton could go there and nd get a wife and wife and leave e her when he was ordered awa away Be He knew enough of ot Japan to know that sort of thing could be done without offending attending any of at the laws taws or customs of at the country county And he knew a a a- great deal more for tor forlie he lie knew it could uld not be bo done without breaking a human heart And there was the basis basla of his bis charming enchanting enchanting en chanting tear compelling story For years the tho thing lived Jived in the tho memory of at American and English readers They found the story first Inthe Inthe in inthe the Century Magazine when Magazine when that publication was the best in the country coun coun- try And the pathos and the tragedy of it lingered Then a musician caught tho the mysterious impelling influence atit of at it and mado made an opera of at it And with all alJ the tho embellishment of or art and sentiment with all the tho dressing of light and color and action the story of at Madam Butterfly has been told Here Is the tho message we want to convey That story does not live because because because be be- cause wives may be bo wedded and put away without offense to the laws lawa of Japan It lives Jives because John Luther Long told his story so well because he made a perfect bit of ot work In his narrative That Is what made mado it live U in the tho general memory memory- That is 18 what Impelled a composer to make an opera of it That l is what makes us weep for the sorrow of at the little woman woman- and want to go back and see her herand and and hear her again Up at t the U University o of Utah up at atthe atthe t the various S O colleges colleges' U g o of t te M f oa s. s I and lId at It Gor Gordon academy demy and aud Ud at Row- Row land land hall at hall at a many of other places are young oung men and young oung women lookIng lookIng looking look- look Ing wistfully forward at life They Ther want to succeed They do not want ant antto to be bo failures Take a lc lesson son of or John Luther Long Do something well Swell n ell No matter No-matter matter so much what it Is But do well one ono thing This one ono thing tiling I know kno said saida a man who Is n now w regarded as a saint And he did know it and he succeeded because he knew it It is the way ny of at men who know one thing well that they will know thoroughly whatever er the they make a pretense pre pro tense of knowing knowing- They will do thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- whatever their hands find to do That is the lesson of Madam Butter Dutter fly fIr A man did very well the one thing he had to do with it He told Impressively what he had to tell Let Lot the young m mea n and the young oung women In the schools get that lesson deep into their souls Dont Don't do it now unless you ou are read ready now to do doit it But Dut do it well That wa way lies success Is failure |