The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23

: Sir Harcourt Courtley by Arthur r.
Lawrence He gives a performance
! finely similar TO Eben PlymDtOn's S.
which was the single old-style enbodi-
ment in the Jeffreys cast; and he dis
guises himself as the moth-eaten beau
as nearly like Plymntom as the fash
ions of now viii liken themselves to the
fortieS- / name Edward Lyons and 7.
II GilmOur 10 Indicate further the truly
Wallackian manner OF the whole rep
resentation-at so cents per best seat,
by the way.
Looking backward at the past and
gone, and recurring TO the question of
good looks and good acting. there was
that never pretty yet ever adora bic
Maggie Mitchell She was in an audi
ence at Manhattan Beach yesterday
afternoon. where she had gone 10 see
/ her sister, Mary Observation-Disclosures s
son John, act on a vaudeville stage.
However. the place was not a free mu-
sic hall, but a theatre that you paw a
dollar to sit in, and the play was not a
fareical sketch, but a legitimate old
English comedy. 'Betty's Highway
man., in which the Junior AIbaugh was
a Sir Harry BeIl2irs, hite-wigged. vel
low knee breeched and ejaculatory with
''egadS' and "forsoOths" And Henry
Guy Cartons once wife, Olive May.
was Lady Betty MOdish, whom Sir
Harry surprised in her chamber at
night in the mask of a robber and com
PEELED at a pistols point to dance with
hiT>1, so that he might win a wager. But
he lost for she took her turn at coercion
and compelled him to write himself
down an ass; and then again he won.
for she at last Joined him willingly in
minuet and agreed to marry him.
Maggie Mitchell in her time had PLAYED
Lady Betty to the senior Albaugh' s
Sir Harry.
Midsummer vaudeville experiments
include two new plays OF a. more than
tOlerable art-and-literature quality
Maude Harrison gets in among the spe-
cialists with THE Lady Across the
Hail." by Julian Street, a neat come
dietta of neighbors in an apartment
houSe-a divorce who finds herself
locked out Of her rooms on returning
from the opera and a bachelor who
gives polite yet aggTessively senti-
mental refuge to her in his. Miss Har-
riSon was with Crane and Robson in
their first joint venture. Our Board
ing House" and in the interim she has
had time to get dim. yet she shines
brightly Notwithstanding. She is placed
on the bill between a clown athlete and
a glee club. OF real negroes; and the
audience liked her Just as well as it
did them-which means very much in
deed.
At another vaudeville house 7 saw
THE Migrate" d serious drama by
GenevieYe Haines, who is of social &C
count. Tt was performed after some
featS by trained dogs and monkeys and
before a dialogue by jOkers who cUffed
and kicked each other for emphasis:
and it held its own against them with
unimpeachable dramatic dignity. The
salient fact about it was that it did not
advantage its star actor, Robert
Haines, although his wife had written
it with that object Haines had been
leading man with Mrs. Fiske, Mr..
BelaSco and Viola. Allen, and so his
entrance into vaudeville riDDles the
lazy surface of summer theatricals. No
doubt Mrs. Haines meant TO create a
dominant character for him. but she
hasn't done il. She has made him a
wealthy man rather obdurately bent on
exposing for punishment the young fell
low who, coming from the pure country
into the evil city, degenerates to proflig-
acy and FORCES his friends name TO a
check. OF course, she SOftens the
mans heart to forgive and protect, but
not until the desperate boy has attempt
ed suicide. In the meantime the cul-
prit gets all the sympathy we can
spare from his hOmespun father and
his rustic sister. and we haven't any
left when the man ought to receive
some consideration for rescuing the
family from disgrace.
Fort George IS the city's highest hill
and where Washington once overlooked
a battle a clumD of amuSementS now
make an undignified din. The least in
significant of them IS q. variety show
which you get into for nothing. but
have to get out of if you don't buy beer
How often? I put that question to the
manager, an old Snowman I had known.
'tOh, WE'LL he said, ION a busy day
we run on an eight-minute schedule.
IF you don't order a drink as often as
once in eight minutes the waiter gets
busy with you"
The headiner in the otherwise dread
full programme was a comedian of ap-
preciable ability. But he is Sinking
his work" remarked to the manager.
He isn't doing more than just about
half as well as he can"
That's according to contract" was
the reply He wanted 500 a week for
his act said I'd pay his price if he'd
do four turns every afternoon and four
every evening. He said no-that was
twice too much work for the money:
but he'd do the eight turns half as well
as usual SO he's giving me a. square
deal II he puts the value of four turns
into the eight.
The drama is being depIorably com
mercialized.