The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-02

being the only bright mum Der, and even
that shone out but dimly into an aU-
ditorium too vast for anything short
Of grand opera to ilumine. But such
stars as Blanche Walsh. Amelia Sing
ham. Blanche Bates, Phoebe Davis,
Robert Edeson. Francis Wilson. Henry
Z DiXey. jefferson DeAnEelis and
David Warfield figured as applicants
at a vaudeville agency, each seeking
job. and giving a song, dance or reel
tatiOn as a sample of ability Such
rare fOOlery gave a full moneys worth
to the audience, and there was eli
max of delight when Hattie Williams
sang a dirty as she does in THE Girl
from Kay's," but with a dancing chO-
rus of ten couples made up OF leading
men and women from the legitimate
drama.
Mahtilde de Tiers in The Dip Of
Deathr' Mathilde is of herself an en-
trancing sight. The Dip Is horrify-
ing, and together they are the chief mar
vel and humbug Of this years greatest
Barnum show on earth There is no
deception in the beauty Of the woman
She il a big, glorious creature, with
jet black hair, clear white skin, and
the air of queen When she comes
out wearing an evening gown ana
wraps Of white, seated in spacious
carriage and bowling ETaCiOuSty as the
chariot circles the arenas she seems
a monarch going to a royal function
rather than performer going to do
an act IL a circus The eQulpdEe stops
in front of a 'lOop-the-lOOp' structure
which 5S different from those hitheT-
to in use Instead Of a circle with
q bicycle track on its inner surface,
there Is an automobile track ON It's
outer surface, and when the gap Is
reached the vehicle. upside down, leaps
across the open space to section
which finally lands il on the ground
right side up.
Now. bear in mind that this is a
beautiful woman who takes her seat
in an automobile at the start of that
ride eighty feet aIoft; also. that the
advertising agent has published a tale
of her Willingness TO be killed, because
her lover his been faithlcSs. and you
may imagine the intensity of the 5000
of S, 900 spectators interest. Down darts
the car Now the woman is one end
up and now the Other-Over she flies
across the chasm-nOW she reaches the
safe incline and disappears behind q
I screen. She hasn't thrown away her
life in THE Dip of Death this time
She will have TO try again for sur
! cease from her sentimental sorrow
/ Meanwhile. she reappers. bows, smiles
and escapes from the enthusiastic rush
of admirers.
Let US now consider The Dip OF
Death" as a Barnum humbug; and not
without the utmost respect for the
great ShOwman'S memory as perpeJu-
ated by Bailey: for Barnum was proud
of his fake What-iS-it2 than of his
/ genuine Living skeleton Mathilde de
! Tiers Is fastened into the automobile
! so firmly that the centrifugal force at
/ the turning point can't throw her out,
4 and the car is secured so strongly TO
/ the traCk-that il can't jump the rails
! till the gap is reached. Mathilde might
| as we'll be block Of wood as human
1 being, 50 far as any skill IS requisite,
| and there Is no risk in the ride fur
! Their than the faint possibility that the
! machinery might break In this same
{ show two daredeVils have Imperfect
| their lives really by looping gaps sim
/ ultaneOusly on bicycles. for the shake
| of muscle or the CULVER or Il nerve
! might uubalance the rider But they
! are merely men and ugly Mathllde
| Is a woman and beautiful. and so We
! are glad To get tremendously excited
! over her ride. which II hardly more
| periEouS than a tTiD on the elevated
! railway i'm strike time BaTnumS sue
| ces -or knows his Barnum business
| And. having written like this about
| The Dip that is not of Death |
ought to add that the Bdrnum & Bailey
show for 1905 is truly the greatest on
] earth.