The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08

goods all right, but he's been mafNe,.
up from nifty 10 five hundred per"
The musical farce IF TON. Dick and
Harry is coarse and very violent. Our
smart set goes stunning to It. at =
theatre where the prices, ordinarily no
higher than Is cents. are raised lis
week by lobby peddlers to a GJ1bse
rate for the parouet. The frs cut
break is Bessie Clifford The scene is
at West Point. A dress parade Of
ballet-chorus cadets is going on, with
the girls belted small and elsewhere
Curvilinear. in comely caricature If Tie
boy soldiers, and with more tautal2-
ing tactics. l guess they W.. re
cruited at Coney Island, at the close
of the summer season; their iree2.-
ness is so briny and their chee~'Iess
so beery; and they are of that VIM
age which is barely more THAI tie
Is which defes the Gerry society.
And Berrie Clifford is their Queen of
Cheekiana. their Empress Of Sassy
land, She bounces in like a omb 3Eat
is sure 10 burst. She is a West PC;nt
cadet as 10 cap and coat & PARIS
Vivandiere as to skirts and stockings,
and a Brewery soubTette as 10 grins
and goo-gOo. She transforms the milf
tary maneuvre into a cakewalk Wild
er than a skirmish I'm wartime. She
gives coon song and screeches and
yells louder than shot and shell. Her
voice is exhausted with the final high
note, and she is left gasping for wind
Ike a pugilist with a knockout blow
twiXt stomach and lungs.
What can the poor girl do for an
encore? Surely. she can't catch her
breath for another scream. All, but
she can dance as loud as she has
sung. The soles of her shoes are wood,
perhaps iniatd with brass, for never,
even in the days of minstrel clog dan
GERS with legs of steel and feet of
adamant. did the boards get such
pounding as Bessie gave them. And
the gait that Bessie struck wasn't
slackened to the end of the show. A
whirlpool is a pan of milk with the
cream calmly rising, a cyclone is a bowl
OF pudding barely bubbling with its
yeast. by contrast with Tom, Dick
and Harry" Watson holds the center
of commotion most of the time, but
Biekel and Wrothe are right with him.
They are Three Workers from willing
Vile, and their home was next door
TO the Boiler Factory, just behind the
Insane Asylum.
, The second act of the play (Which is
by Harry Williams. Aaron Hoffman
and Egbert Van Alstyne. and good
work in its CLASP is placed in Porto
Domingo, where any man who puts
on the presidential hat is the president
as long as he keeps II on, and no
longer. OF course, Dick the Tramp
gets his head into that hat The Irish
man and the German duly grOvel and
koWt0W with the rest of his subjects.
but whenever he doffs the beretta, if
only for an instant 10 turn il right
side in front. they kick him hard.
There is no slap-stick, no siphon squirt.
no collapsing stairway, nor any of
the familiar devices of maltreatment:
but Dick the Tramp is Kicked wish
I had counted how many times he is
kicked, but / suppose the number is
recorded i'm his contradiction curtain
up 20 curtain down on the second act,
and from the middle of his back to the
calves Of his legs; and If Watson is
ahead of Bickel and WrOthe profess
sionally, they are close behind him
with the means of getting even per-
sonally.