The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-28

Spanish COstuming makes The rem
derfoot" and ''The Yankee Consul
match each other considerably in bright
colOrs. In both shows the young Wo-
men of the chorus and the ballet are
at times Don Juans and CaFmens. Vel
low searfs and red fans are fiirted, bull
maddening DetticOats are swirled- the
heroine in the earle play disguises her
self as a boy. even as Viola does IN
Twelfth Night" and fiunks as pref
tily in a duel with her lover, while she
is also a reminder of Bonita in Arlz-
ona" with her breezy western ways OF
association with men of the forts and
the ranches. Broadway has chosen not
to be hypereritieaI in this ease. ] don't
know exactly why not. Maybe II IS be-
cause such stage stand bys as tour
soldiers, each with his own specially
of stammering till he whistles, hfogue-
ing ike half a dozen ITishmen with
single tongue. farelipping his words
uninteiligently or mixing braggadocio
and cowardiee, seem more like inear-
nations than fellows who have never
been permitted by uninventive play
wrights TO die out of sight and mind
We hail them as though they were
strangers in this travesty of western
romance, We deign to be amused
when the dusty troop Of cavalry gall
EallOps in on its own legs, not those Of
horses, and keep up the gait while sing
ing OF the glories of border warfare.
The Indian camp with its captive at
the stake doesn't appeal strongly here;
it is sketehiIy incomplete and r. l.
HEARTS, Indian music isn't Indian.
But his air for the ballad about an
Alamo girl is ragtime negro with a
Spanish twist and it is in this song
that the best display is made Of the
chorus and the ballet.
The most humorous idea of Bios
SONS in The Yankee Consul is TO
have some san Domingo bellies thwart
a revolutionary plot, not for any dread
/ of sanguinary consequences, but be-
cause if the governor is taken prisoner
| that day he can't give the ball which
! he has prepared for that night. The
! words that tickle US more than any
other eight is when the Consul re-
marks to a conspirator: Il have in
side information. I want q cocktail
Hitchcock's funniest minute is that in
! which he and his hated rival join
hands to lift the eight-tOn Spanish
widow embodied at full weight by
Eva Davenport, from the ground 10
i which she has tainted. The tune which
g is agreea bly, forced on the audience, by
means Of snowy picturing on TIE stage,
by placing good whistlers in the gal
lery and having the orchestra play it
4 again while the people are dispensing,
/ is called I'm the OIden Time" The air
: is nlelOdiOus and reminiscent. A sin
gle couple sings it first but pairs come
forth for each additional verse till the
. scene IS filed by sauntering sweet
hearts in the latest of fashionable
, dress That Is a device invented by
Henry ". Savage. the productive
! manager, and he has used it with vari-
atoms in four plays.
Most Of the recent musical farce.
/ have been fully skiTted and in thi.
I one many gowns touch their hens Il
: the floor but several of its living pie
lures look like studies from It'll,
altogether as the late Triiby Of thi
Paris studios would term them. The
island Of San Domingo lies in the tor
rid zone and has a climate Of higi
Thermometer: yet / have never hear
that its army wears sleeveless OF
trouserless uniforms. But the ser
which sets for itself the task Of beins
beautiful should be humored. and,
it wishes TO idea1ize military tactics b.
marching through them in mere cap
and jackets. what is mere man that h
should presume to complaint