Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-20
Red Lemonade, Bankers and All
The Other Adjuncts Hold
Full Sway.
SOME LUDICU0US SPASMS.
Big Audience Grcets the Burlcsque =
Accident to One of the Trapeze
Performers on Stage.

Red lemonade. barkers and all the
usual adjuncts TO circus were in evil
dence at the Salt Lake Theater last
night. 1t was Elks' night, and those
purple Il. p. o, Els who could not get
on the stage occupied conspicuous
places in the parquet and dress circle.
There was not a vacant seat down.
stairs. Above, the attendance tap
cred off toward the ceiling,
To attempt TO give In detail the ag-
gregation of talent which went to make
up the entirety of the big show would
be impossible. Ludicrous "spasms"
followed 80 fast on the heels OF events
that all track was lost of the plot.
The affair commenced with slide for
life from the third circle TO the stage
by daring doll and wound up with
the extraordinary feat of Madame
Macaronl on horseback. incidentally
there were other features which had
been secured at great expense-of pro-
found thought. Lester Freed's Grafton
at the opening was In Itself a Marc An
thonesque gem, prolonged and resonant,
Jim Leary, arrayed as a sort OF George
Washingtonian ring master also made
some announcements that had Tor the
burden OF their refrain that the ush-
ers will now pass among you WIN TICK
cts for the grand concert and after
piece"
Everybody worked hard especially
the orchestra. BY l0.45 Director Shep-
herd exhibited signs OF collapse. Pos-
sibly one of the most unique features
Of the evening was the selection by inc
country orchestra" OF Annie Laurie,
ben Bolt" "Swanee River and other
wel known melodies In fashion that
gave the audience musical neuralgia
and made all squrm in their seats.
The joyousness occasioned by the
antics of the performers was some
what marred, however, by an untor-
tunate accident which occurred during
the high trapese act by the La Verne
BROTHERS, two Salt Lake boys. Bert
Cushing, one of the performers, crashed
10 the stage below and was picked up
In n semi-conscious condition and car
ried to the dressing room IL was
during the climax OF very good act
that the accident occurred, when the
knotted rope was released and the gym
mast shot through space. Through an
oversight the ropes were TOO long anu
when released to their full length tne
Young man struck the stage WIN ms
hands and face. He sustained bad
scalp wound, but states that ne VIII APP
pear again tonight. 49,.
Topieal songs and local gags were not
featured by the Elks. The circus was
n straight buresque on the real thing'
Among the turns that bordered on the
professional were the Toreadore dance
bv Harry Loiselle, the cake walk by
the Feeny children, a banjo duet by
Donaldson and Kenyon, and charac-
Ter song by Kenneth Kerr George
GRAY also furnished a clever trick,bi-
cycle riding turn.
The fun naturally centered around
the well known people who appeared.
John S. Crltchlow, the erstwhile sanity
Eva OF Tom Show fame, with one
George Westervelt, led the supes re-
spectively as Reuben and cynthia
Critchlow also sang. Then Parley
Christensen manipulated the grafter
dial as to the manor born. II. q. Sher-
idan was very much in evidence as an
Irish cop with pair OF comedy 'ess.
In the side show Fred Dern was the
snake charmer, Ben Luoe the rljl
islander Billy Barnett the Circassian
benuty, George Ames the man-eatins
Zulu, Tom Pitt the fat lady and W. l..
Haskell the spieler. Incidental TO the
aide show Dana Smith and Frank Red-
man gave burlesQue on the Corpett'
Jeffries fight. .l
THE performance viii bc repeated
this evening, and indications are that
Inc receipts OF last night VIII be duph-
cated