The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14

, numerous clergynnen in the audience
watched the development of the case
I with close attention and were manifest
I ~ thrilled when the poor fellow, after
/ performing the rite demanded by his
rival in love. saved dim from what had
! seemed certain death, made him prom
I ise to marry the girl and then stood
+ forth to be shot by d file of soldiers.
In this correspondence l described
/ now kyTie Bellew, in the first New
York performance. fell headlong down
q stairway at the portal volley ana
struck on the floor below. I said that
evidently the feat was in imitation Of
[ what the actor had seen TWO trained
eyInnasts 40 in his remarkable sword
fight with assassins last season in a
/ Gentleman From France and I pre-
dicted that he would get a damaging
I bump before long. A week wasn't over
/ when he had 10 quit the stage for his
bed for two Gays owing to twisted
spine. I noted at the matinee that he
no longer took the plunge, but instead
slid down the steps and caught against
the newell pOst-which was less dan
SerOus and more picturesque.
The good work of the Actors CHURCH
Alliance won't be hindered by a tellinS
of some inappropriate things that were
/ done at the matinee. Probably a cen
sOrship committee viii be appointed for
the next occasion of the kind. I saw
no clerical mouth curve upward with a
smile, while the rest OF US were merry,
at the singing by Thomas Q. Seabrooke
/ of a ditty entitled "A Little Street in
Heaven Called Broadway" in which the
Sunday school york Of the younger
John ID. Rockefeller and the religious
| benefactiOns of PierpOnt Morgan arc
ridiculed and the exploits of chorus
girls as sirens are jOked about without
a suggestion of eenSure- Nor did the
gentlemen from the pupilts evince any
satisfaction when Andrew Mack sang
of an Irish colleen whose brogue be-
trayed her nationality while she was
fTisking as a gFisette in Paris.
Some Of the parsons frOwned plainly
when, in Charles Bradshaw's mother
in-law farce. Fix in d Fix" q crushed
husband got drunk in his wife's abb
sence. threw off the yoke of conjugal
tyranny and made up to a visiting
danseuse. They grew uneasy when
.BradshaW's WhiSkey courage became
reckless and he invited the ballet girl
to show him how she could dance.
/ When she went out to change her cos
tune several Of them near me WTig-
gled in their seats as though they want
| ed to go out, too. but by different door.
And 1vnen she came back I'm sure they
wished they had some. Alta Gle ker-
men, w54 played the danseuse, Is one of
the dark timber, SensuouS actresses
who are picked out to initiate naughti-
ness on the stage, she did not adapt
her dramatic art To the semi-pious
character Of the occasion. Her skirts
! reached to her ankles in their longest
moments, but when she shortened them
with high kicks they uncovered her
| black-stockinged legs to above the
/ knees. You know how much wickeder
that sort of an exposure looks than the
I more reyelat0ry but conventional bali
/ let dress. Besides that, the mutes of
/ the ballet don't seem quite like human
/ beings, but rather like mechanical fig
ures. But Alta talked, walked and was
4 q real, all-alive creature. She shocked
/ the ministers greatly. Yes. indeed-the
: Actors Church Alliance viii need q
censorship committee if it gives an
other theatrical entertainment.