The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-08
ABOUT MELoDRAmA.
How the. Lurid Play Is Prepared
Made in Haste-Full of Action.

(Chicago Tribune)
The manager OF the company was talk
ll,s 70 inc angel The angel .chewed q
eisar nervously and with his right hand
Kept tight clutch on his pOcketb0ok
Inc manager had found a nlay that he
thought would De a sure winner The
company had been formed ~ rresenf al
play which had finally been discovered TO
pc hopeless and for a week she rianager
ma sfSuIilel around 70 melloWdrama
Mo1 ksnpps ln search Of something that
port
SAY, we got a sure winner" said the
manager, enthusiastically. zen kin 'em
ocad. just the thing for cur company.
TOO N We got the greatest feature YOU
ever heard Of IN your Ike. Never been
worked IL a submarine torpedo boat
that goes down under the water. The
ploL works around that. Great, Great
Hump gr0wled the anreI Il can't
see IL. Hain't enough action
Acllont shouted the manager. Great
scott. man. II you knew anything about
sle erahlmer YOU would see this in a
minute Actlon2 Say, there's more action
70 the square inch in this drammer than
LneIe IS IN any thlng Shakespeare ever
wrote and thabs no pipe, either The
torpedo boat stunt is Ike this. In the
third act we have netting down in Oi4e-
waving YOU unQerStald-and then a solid
green crop down in four, that gives us
lhe Wno-e staSe, with the wavy netting
In front and the green backing behind
ana ROCKS and pieces OF wrecks and
things on the stage to represent the hot
De Just as though the audience were look
jag right into the sea. Understands
mere II De lot Of property fish swim
nin8 around, and shark, but that comes
Create Great" said the angel
You bet it's great. Wen. now YOU
see, the heroine of the play. she's got al
date with the herO-he's a navy officer
TO so down in the sea and look al the
scenery on the bottom Of the ocean. I'm
Great. Great"
Wen, the villain, he slips on board the
torpedo boat while it's lying at the dock,
ana ne fixes the machinery so that when
the boat gets down on the bottom WHY
~ VII stay there Then he sneaks away.
and mere comes the hero and the heroine.
ana they gets in the torpedo boat and
shuts the door business on the TOP and
he starts the electricity and the boat
selIles down in the water right before the
Great Say, that's great gasped the
sure ms great. Say itll kill 'em. Jest
natcherlly Kill EN-. Well the boat set-
ties down on the bottom OF the ocean and
YOU can see right through the glass win
COWS ON the boat at the hero and the he
rome and the Sallor-he's the comic Irish
please. The boat settles down and then
you can see the heroine and hero talking
aoout gQinS back-great pantomime bust
expression on the hero's face that there's
something doing. He pulls and TUGS at
or twice. . just like it was going 10 the
Top put IT settles down again
Oh. great business"
flner n silk. Well. the comic Irish
man and the hero and the heroine an
nave lot of pantomime showing that
lhey re up again it and that the boat is
6Siiis 10 stay right down on the bottom
or tne sea until further orders Then the
heroine commences to gasD and show
tllaL Jhey re getting shy on air Then YOU
S 54n see tne nero getting into a patent
IS
ar on his back, and tubes coming around
20 ms mouth for him to breathe Then
Ins heroine disappears, and when she
comes back again, why, shes got one Of
them olving armOr suits on. too and so
mas as the !rishman, Great stuff. hey?"
Great. Great"
We'll, the hero throws open a door
aIlC the three walk out right on TO the
bottom Of the ocean They walk alone
ana the hero is pointing and motoring
vi the audience gets the idea that the
three are going to try to walk i'm to shore
now comes the greatest business that
Mas ever put on the stage. A whole
larned school of man-eating sharks-bfg
papiermashay things. YOU understand.
lowered down by invisible wires from the
.tes-c0mes sWOoplng down to eat the
three OF EN- M. The hero grabs a cuf-
lass and hacks away at en-. and the
ltlShman fights with an ak. and they
hlIs some Of the sharks and drive the
rest away, all except one shark that has
been wounded and is swimming up to-
wards the top of the ocean slowly. Now
-heIl Ior the hot stuff. The Irishman
sIaDs ,hoid, of the sharks tail and is
pears. -P
Great, Greatr' Issa9ped the angel. jump
.i;s w ana walking around the room in
Then suddenly here comes down the
lrlShman with two or three rODes that
Is IasJens TO the hero and heroine and
gives the siganl and the whole bunch are
iraWn safely M. How about it2''
~ ~ iisetilest thlLg ever heard of in my
ne snQuJed the enthusiastic angel eco
ahead. Tx It up and put it on What's !
me rest of It going to be2''
W ell, resumed the manager. eft don'f
make AXE so much difference about the rest /
W e II Just fill in on both sides of 5ne
5IeaS thlrd act, but that's the thing you (
Great stuff!g said the angel "But
on We got nothing left for the fourth I
lct- how Y you wind IL up without maxi I
ng II too tame?
Fine and dandy. You see the boat /
Villain prOphesied. The hero didn't make !
!, ooL-see Inc admiral and everybody 4
.ninks ne s a fake. The fourth act is n /
scene on the docks at the naval academv 1
lots of gold braid and pretty eovJns ana I
very thing on the crowd of people Tho
Zero is gong to make one more stab
ne ne aaI .Ei wont let the girl so down /
sam ana so she stays on the dock The /
zero sale he would be back in five min
ties. The admiral holds a watch and
FerybOdy watches the water for tbe
,ody thinks 1t will The heroine she
Yeeps and the villain gloats and ali that.
~ ~ L4at5y, Just as the villain takes a
ooH at the watch and says: Five min
iIes are IN; he has failed the heroine
FONTS out and says: You lie, there ne
Great Greatr' murmured thu apgeI
mere 500 to start on. What was thai
,2 SAID, KILN EN- deadY That's rIght
Wen kill EN- dead"
OMAR FOR HOUSEWIVES