The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-11

nearby. Mrs. Raer is paid hundreds Of
dollars, possibly near a thousand, for
the use of her maiden name Of Mabel
Mckinley, along with which is en-
blazOned the fact that Baer is the mar
tyred President McHinley's' brothers
daughter. Doctor Baer is but mOder-
ately prosperous. and Mrs. Baer ASSOC
ciates with people Of mode and money;
SO il is likely that she finds the salary
a handy thing TO bring into the house
The report Is that the Mckinleys OPP
posed her exploitation of the family
name. I was born 10 it," she IS
said to have replied, rand have
a right to use It."
She meant / suppose, TO draw a dis
tinction between her case and those OF
Mrs. Leslie Carter and Mrs. James
Brown Potter. who retain for the stage
tho names of husbands from whom they
have parted. Wei and anyway, Mabel
Mckinley indicates neither vanity nor
audacity in what she does at the mu-
sic hail. She sings with a rich, strong,
finely trained voice, which she has been
accustomed TO use in social gatherings
and occasional concerts. She is
young woman, not beautiful, nor even
handsome, but feminiuely pretty in
plump, hearty, wholesome way. She
has a smiling face. an easy demeanor
breeding. She is a cripple and cannot
walk at all, but swings herself along
between white clutches. Having placed
herself at the fOOtlights, however, she
stands a cOmely, graceful figure, in "A
gown that would be appropriate in
drawing room of an evening, but she
makes one vaudeville concession with a
SLOWLY spreading hat. she begins
with a selection from LA Traviata,"
Fsa1 N.raII NJ
Of love in moonlight and ends with a
jOvial ditty about an 'AnOna from
Arizona" described in the rhymes as
the one particular Indian maiden of a
certain ardent braves heart Mabel
Mckinley would be well worth a hun
dred dollars a week on her vocal merits
as a vaudeville vocalist. That she is
the late presidents neice multiplies her
cash value, of course. and the. Circle
has been crowded where before it was
sparsely occupied.
The law Of Sunday stage entertain
ments in this city fOrbids anything but
concerts. As 1 went to see Mabel Nc
kinley last Sunday night, I was amused
incidentally by the ways in which the
statute was evaded. The watchful Pc
lice. guided by court divisions and dis
posed to be lax, would not permit aero
battle feats, dancing, the use of a cur
tain or any changes Of scenery. So the
stage was open 20 full view from first
to last. It was set at the beginning
with all the furniture and most of the
properties 70 be used in several sketch
es and a farce. An open desk with
writing materials, a dressing table with
mirror, a telephone box and a step
ladder seemed to contradict the as
sertion Of ak the sofa, chairs, centre
table, music rack and piano that the
apartment was a drawing room and to
indicate that it was an auctioneer's
shop. But as fast as the incOngruOus
articles had served their purposes they
were carried off so that when the time
came, near the end Of the programme
for Mabel Mckinley to appear, only the
piano and such furniture as harmon
lied with It were left The only por-
ton Of the entertainment after her was
one Of those musical acts' in which
zylophones are pounded and strings Of
bells are pulled. Much apparatus was
brought on for this, but the police ruled
that IL pertained to a strictly legal
scored concert" which had included a
knOck-about farce, but which closed
with four cOrnettists in a row blaring
the hymn of The Palms with ear
splitting fervoe.