The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-07

the cars locomotive is heard at the
moment that the limp captive is laid
on a lounge. The deadly lever is
turned and she sees it. The American
butts into the affair simultaneously 10
rescue his sweetheart He whips the
lustful villain, she pulls back the cleo
trio lever the king and the girl are
saved in one turbulent minEte and the
curtain closes in on q duplex situa-
ton that ought 10 be patented
It is worth while 20 visit an extrav-
8ganza again after it has been per
formed several months. TO see what in
it has been changed. Things in these
ductile shows which don't please the
audience are cut dowr or out and those
that do please are amplified. This IS
true especially Of the material given To
the comedians to be funny with, and
the competition among those antic gem
tienen is far more serious than their
behavior indicates. had watched fouc
of them. Bulger. McCaTt, Woodward
and Cawthorn. as they started out az
the opening Of Mother Goose" with
Just about an equality Of opp0rtuni-
ties Last night I observed them again.
one had gained a long lead over his
nearest rival who was well ahead of
the third, while the fourth was III
but distanced. For every toke that
the fellow at the front had cracked 1T
the outset he now had 3ozcn, and
I was told that most OF 1benn wefe
of his own make. He had added EeIEcs
TO his topical songs. too, and nurtured
every seed OF humor I'M his role into
a thrifty growth. The second chap
had done wen with the matter en-
trusted 30 him and was striving stur-
Oily to better his place. The third was
past hope of Overtaking the second.
The fourth was 8 discouraged laggaTd.
from whom unimproVed chances had
been withdrawn. Why don't / tell
which is which? Well. 7 lack both
the courage and the cruelty.
Those four comedians figure jointly
and equally in q five-minute good thing
that has been marked up 20 ten. In
the first performance OF Mother
Goose" they gave. for the encore Of a
song, a verse in mockery Of the ia
miliar Quartette-the kind which had
q boom in '"The Old Homestead, out
Of which Chauncey OlcOtt WAS chosen
10 be made william J. ScanIan's src-
cessOr in Irish comedy. Probably not
much was expected OF this worn idea
in travesty, but it was fresheued by
the fact that, while the actors made
fun Of the quartette mannerisms, they
sang melodiously with voices that bar
monized- The hearers liked that ard
called for more. The first response TO
the demand was to have the men re-
tuTr with banjog, which, instead of
strings to flip, concealed automobile
danger signals 10 touch off. That
wasn't much. but It raised a laugh
The next added nonsense was TO march
in with a bamboo tree on their shoul-
ders, set il up in the center Of the
stage, pose under It and sing 'Under
the Bamboo Tree" That wasn't much,
either, yet the gain in laughter was
considerable. But last evening they
made the people scream and screen
with what seemed to me q stroke of
comic genius. Do you recall that Char
ley Hoyt, in THE Midnight Bell" had
Il member OF q country school commit
tee tell the boy who recited Wood
man, Spare That Tree, that he Ought
IL illustrate the words with appropriate
action?
when you speak the line. Touch
not a single bOugh, said he, place
your hand on your heart and bow as
you utter the word bough."
The BulgeT. Mozart, Woodward,
CawthoTn quartette multiphes that
drOl1ery in a truly faithful and realis-