The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-29

same that 1t was in Chicago. except
that what is done I'm the theatre is
different i'm the direction of deCency.
The Cairo girls are on the stage, but
only a pair of them, and their dan
cling. though wicked. is less So than il
was iu Chicago. The bosses of the
fair have censored this show. but
maybe they VIII get too busy with
other affairs, when the crowds come
to keep tab On this one. And the
weather has been cool i'm May. The
temperature viii rise I'm June. The
sirens are ready and willing 10 go as
far beyond consciousness into saIa-
ciOusness as the authorities viii let
them. Their pots are boilin and the
lids. now held down so thai only a
little steam Is visible, may fly of bye
and bye. If that happens other n
gr0sser members of the troupe viii
be introduced.
The two chosen to begin wear blue
tunics and loose red trousers I'm the
harem fashion. Until their time comes
they sit dToWsily in the row of eight
native musicians. Suddenly the Curl
ously suggestive tune of the Egyptian
Wiggie-Wasgla dancers starts up
that air which. with some r~earTange-
mcnts and acC~eutuatlOHs. spread over
the country from the Chicago fair
with q dirty Of the poor little country
maid who had never seen the street
of Cairo and ION the Midway she
had lever strayed.' At the first IA
miliar notes the spectators wake up.
80 do the girls. Their each i'm hen
turn, and afterwards together, they
go through what isn't a dance at all,
as we regard dancing, but a success
sion eff pOstUriugs, with hardly any
movement of their feet, and a plenty
of CONFUSION of their bodies. But the
cOuohee-cOuchee has remained So well
known through q decade of traTesty
and imitation. since its Chicago In
PRODUCTION, that no description Is now
needed. As productivity renewed at
st. Louis, the muscular jerks n
Quivers are the same as before. Dut
briefer. and the meaning of them
is again indicated, Il not with The
former leWdness.
AT present two men make more of
the show than those girls do. One
fellow gives q dance of religious GER
em0uy which rises to soulful ecstacy.
He tears off his cloak and is naked
above the waist. After dancing awhile
in half-nudity. he lights two torches
and thrusts their flaming ends.
after the other, many times into his
mouth. That exCites him to a delir-
H'aA VA
then 7 must how the trick Is worked,
The fire is from alcohol. and the
torches are So coutrived that. by pres
sure of the fingers at certain points.
the currents of air are reversed and
the volatile flames are sucked i'm In
stead of being hared out. Thus they
are practically eXtiUguished when
thrust into his mouth. A second ia
matte of s%elf-torture may as wei be
explained while we are about it, He
is naked. too, except for trOosers.
While dancing he sticks two poin-
ards into his body. His face is wrung
with pain. bat he slowly presses the
blades in far enough that they stay
when he takes his hands away and
when ne draws them out some blood
trickles down. A part Of the decep-
tion is old and simple. The blades
recede into the handles, but the fell
low has two small Sits cut into his
flesh and kept 0pen tin healed They
are deep euOuh TO receive the points
of the p0inards and tle mock blood
that follows them when they are
Withdrawn.