The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01

denunciatiOn in other places. MIS-.
Fiske and Mrs. Carter have each q
large and loyal following In New York
not because they have suffered from
taboo elsewhere, but because they arc
great actresses here.
In this city as in others. a little vau-
deville is put in between the acts of
dramas at theatres occupied by stock
companies; but a novel experiment IS
that of one Of the Proctor companies
performing on old-time farce in a bill
otherwise composed of specialties. l
went TO see "Wanted-A Thousand Mil
Ilners's brought forward from the past
in that way; for l wondered whether
il would make an audience laugh as 1t
used 10 when such actors as Mayo and
Davenport coupled il on Saturday
nights with Shakespeare. Yes; those
tragedians clapped bonnets on their
heads and hung petticOats over their
trousers to force the fun of the bach
ellor who enticed girls to frOlic by
advertising for. young milliners. IN the
resurrection of a play so long dead IN
that few know il ever was alive the
leading man of the company IS the
chief rascal with the first juvenile for
a pal i'm skirts, and the leading lady
risky milliners, all competing with the
low comedian and the eccentric char
acter woman in monkeyshines. Alto
gether. it made 1905 look like forty
wears ago. There was some slight mod
ernization-a minute of cakewalking AT
an entrance. another of seXtette-1irt-
ing at an exit and another of song and
dance at the climax; but the language
of the obsolete Tom Taylor farce was
spoken I'm its classic entirety, and the
actors-none of whom was old enough
TO have ever seen tspeTfOrmed-must
have been coached in the business of
the roles by some survivor of a Mayo
or Davenport cast. ''Wanted-A Thou
sand Milliners" is one of the vivid
memories of my childhood, but | didn
miss a motion. and as to the hnes-l
, took along printed copy Of the farce
10 see about them. The audience
seemed to think it was new and laughed
satisfactorily.
Sunday is the short-play day OF the
week i'm New York. The law says that
no stage shows of any kind shall be
given on the Sabbath, yet twenty-fOuf
nlavs were acted last Sunday in the
vaudeville concerts Among them
"A Passing Parent" was new with
Henry r. Dixey for its author and
actor He didn't sing or dance in It,
nor initiate anyone. Lacking those
Dixey diversions, ii was not satistac-
tory 10 the audience Next bef0re
Dixey In the programme was Gus VII
liams with monologue, ali tunhXf DS
intention If not in fact, until ne got tc
a sentimental recitation. For that mn
| ish of his act he jerked off his yellow
nose and disclosed a head Of grey
haired dignity that might have be-
| Ionged TO a judge or a bishop. That
/ was Gus Williams way of letting hi'
| hearers know, beyond all mistake, thai
! he was going to be serious and they
were not to laugh any more DlXey
| too. Is an old stager, yet he look ht
such precaution. In his play he was Z
polite tramp who fooled a rich girl Il
! take him for her lOng-lOst father. L
| was fareical up to within two minutes
of the end and then it changed suddenly
TO emotional drama. But the people
didn't shift with him from grin to gray
| ity. and when he picked up bunch o.
| the girls money, handled II fondly
hesitated whether to steal 1t, resisted
! the temptation, wiped tear from eaci
/ eve. dropped the swag and went ava!
/ trembling With pltiiul d6AeeAtAOAif ~
KENT ON laughing until the curtain fel
and the actor was crushed by hi
| comic success.
A comedian and a soubrette sang
danced and talked with two young ne
| groes. Pickaninnies are frequentl!
aids to white performers in vaudeville
| hut in this case the blacks were grow
| una clownish IOut and sprightl!
| girl: and it looked odd when the whit
| woman, a beauty of draWingroon
sort, touched elbows with them no
| only but took their hands Familiarity
found that the programme calle'
| them the Jet Boys.
jet. yes. I said to the manager
but why bill the girl as boy?
because she is a boy" nc replied.
THAT shapely. graceful coduettisl
little creature boy? NONSENSE
IF that girl wasn't boy. that wo
man wouldn't be there with her. II
professional etiquette all right for he
10 work with moases but not Wit
wenehes. So that girl is boy, do yo
! comprehend?