Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-09-21 | Page 38 | 'Her Own Money' Cuts Martrimony to Basis of Dollars and Cent

HER OWN MONEY CUTS MATRIMONY TO BASIS OF Or DOLLARS AND CENTS HEU OWN 0 MONEY IO k 1 Tt E E- SWAN SWA p. ld evidently nth wrote the 4 lIi 2 J M HK la pla lay at at- the thc Come Comedy d theatre yesterday yes yes- Cf to ii afternoon In the firm beI be- be I Jle that the world orld and his wife wIre are 5 forever tJ at o odds ds over O monc money Maybe he he S IS IC rl right ht perhaps this unhappy state of affairs does t t. t In any event fur lut Own Money Ione certainly reduces S matrimony to dollars and cents Not S only do two married couples ln JI living Just th the court from each other In Int inI t I nn In uptown flat fiat make monc money the tile real l qt mo In the their 5 r unhappy lives lI but a a. Irl IrlI I t J who talks lIs 11 shies like at 1 an nn ena engagement rl ringS ring S a financial a agent ent to the y youth h Who ls Is willIng 4 to work for her 1 Thu Th author U uses all hl his characters to make hi his point Not since Eugene Eugen i Walter wrote Paid Pal In Full has there been lieen a pla play so completely given shen to that domestic economy onomy which robs housekeeping housekeeping house house- keeping of QC Its Hs quit t and restful charm It Its It's S all aU vcr very practical no doubt 1 but ut It ItIs itis Is Is Just the sort of or thing that a great man many people l go iO to the theatre to get getaway getaway away from At the thc same Ramo time It mo may appeal to wom women n because of its aim to put the wife on an ai independent financial luau finan cial footing In this particular case th the wl wife feels cels It humiliating to rak sk her husband for fOI I money monc Although he has ha neglected to repay oo 00 she has lent him loam d d is 13 the word always used USeL In tho play pIa she site hasn't done don so had badly I for tor or she has managed cd to save 2000 out of or the household allowance When hen ho needs this U amount to save e himself In a n. real estate transaction n she feels eels ho will bo ho more likely not to lone It I if he believes the money has been advanced by a lL neighbor Harvey Hanc Beecher so she acts accordingly The writing of chocks checks involved in in 11 the transfer rouses the suspicions suspicions suspicions sus sus- of Beechers Beecher's wife and she ral raises cR cRan an awful row that leads Alden thereal tho the real estate broker to demand an ex explanation explanation ex- ex from his wife Ife This Is so fetched far that you OU feel teel you could step across the tho footlights and settle the matter In a moment It ItIs itIs Is 18 the weak point In the play Then rile 11 Alden loaves leaves his wife Instead of oC taking I her out and celebrating their good fortune fortune for tor- tune tunc as ns any man would do in the circumstancEs cir cir cir- His only nt excuse for Cor going Is that she he has humiliated him before the Beechers Beechers- S O as S I If they mattered ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is obvious hat that th the purpose o Isto Is isto to work up a big that ends M ITC HI Is 0 with tho wife vl Moreover cr she h has rv t 1 ly lr y and ancI confessed ed herself herselt In the thc wrong w when cn she h q hs-q i most certainly been beci Ii in inthe i the tho right that site she loses o oses es your jour th thy As 8 for the husband he simply proves himself an ungrateful ass All this led to a chicken farm aria where Mrs Ir Alden AIllen hlen seemed scorned cr very much butter bolter oft off a year later Wo We 0 had hoard her hersay say silo she longed for a home homo in tho thit country coun coun- try and try and there thero she was happy with her chickens In order that we might seeth see se e th them m who site kept them In tho the front yard ard Happily W we were spared the tho sight of ot a reconciliation J when the husband came cam e back She Sho went out through the grate gate to meet hIm leaving u us with the chickens The vulgar wrangling Beechers Beecher s turned out to be the best characters char In Inthe Inthe the play As An the greedy nagging wife always hard up and making no secret secre t of It Miss Beverly gave ga a Performance that It was a Jo Joy to watch Throwing to the winds that distinction which ordinarily marks her work vork she fhe played this terror to husbands with a delightful sense of character Tie Her r Clara Beecher Is nothing short of or a 0 rea real l creation As AR th the husband who was forever tor for ever er telling her to Shut up George Georg e Hassell Hassen was sas quite as good in his own way He tie couldn't have been hotter better Art After r ridding herself tr of certain affectations affectations Miss Julia Dean made Mrs Irs Alden Alde n I fairly human thoU though h her emotion a athe atthe at atthe ne nt t the end of ot the second act made mado th the e character seem decidedly a extravagant ant t In at least one respect Sydney Booth thanks to his good taste made mado Alden Alde n appear at an any rate and th the ne nl e youthful lovers ers o were played cd very ery welby wen well l by Ernest Glendinning Glendinning- and amI Miss Louise e Gras Grassier