The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-19

stage, ne was bound TO think that he
had done quite as we'll in the role as
the Englishman was doing Therefore
professional jealousy. That same day
had seen Henry sighting no point in
clyde Fitch's. comedietta, Frederick
Lemaitre." and no point had been lost
on an audience of a good degree of in
telllSence; but ii hadn't worn as fine
clothes as the other audience. and it
hddn [ looked nearly as well from the
stage. And to lapse even tTansiently
from the legitimate into varieties 4
lot of them 90 it. but they don't like it.
SO Henry Milier's pride may be less
this week than il would be if he were
still playing in Joseph EntangIed.
but his purse is bigger. and vacation
time is coming.
The salient new thing i'm that vaude-
Vile show was Dida. She might as
We'll have been named Didoes, as there
are two of her; and she is accompanied
by fifteen men-One as the exhibitor
who begins by demonstrating that
glass tank is empty, and fourteen TO
form lines and pass buckets of water
for him to pour into lit. \ hose might
be used to nil the tank. of course. but
that wouldn't also fiji five minutes of
time SLOWLY The crystal reservoir
rests on four less. and the exhibitor
crawls under it and around them to
prove that the space isn't an optical il
fusion produced by mirrors. Next he
covers the tank with a cloth. which
doesn't for an instant obscure the view
underneath. Thus it is sure that Dida
doesn't get into the water through a
trap. Yet when he pulls off the cloth
she lies there submerged gracefully,
looking like d mermaid. except for
maids legs instead of fish'S tail She
is a beautiful creature and, as she
holds her breath a minute and a quar-
ter before rising to the surface and
Sprnging out, she must be one of those
now nearly obsolete water queens"
To make the exhibition last longer, the
boss talks a great deal about the mys-
terry, and then repeats it with the old
time wizards joke. Just to let you see
how it is done. The second Dida is a
double, but not a duplicate-perhaps
the others mother-older, not pretty,
and evidently a veteran in water
queening. she stays under almost
two minutes II BelascO We're the stage
manager the order of their introduce
ton would be reversed. SO as to render
the attraction cumulative. Moreover.
it looks disrespectfuI in daughter Dida
| to Drecede mamma Dida.
The dual sOida may not seem To the
reader worth the space I am giving to
her, but she is such a novelty that she
is going to be burleSQued i'm a musical
farce next week, and such a puzzle that
people go by hundreds just TO try to
solve her Few of them discover the
trick. because few really want to, but
prefer to come away and talk of the
impOsSibility of any explanation. Yet
il is easy TO see how it IS done The
lower front edge of the tank is a strip
of metal five inches wide, and right
next below is strip Of wood, also five
inches wide, connecting the two front
! legs of the structure. After both DidaS
have emerged, the man removes those
strips to show that they didn't hide any
apparatus. Nevertheless. they have
hidden the two thin women, lying fiat
on their backs side by side. till the
time came to show them in the water
When a stage show looks hopeless in
! the way of diversion. try to peer
through its wOrthleSSnesS and see
something amusing behind lit. 1 did
{ that at a concert hall, and was re-
warded for the effort. "A burleSqHe Was
undergoing painful opera tiOns instead
! of a plea surable performance. by one
! of those cruel companies of 'Way-Off
comedians and nOt-nedr SOUbTetteS that
! travel for the torture of the public. 1
| had become discouraged. The ballet
| chOrus was extremely depressing, be-
cause there WASH a smile on one of
! its twenty faces. Have you sometimes
! fanCied that you were tired OF the show
! girls dental grins and wished that. for
heavens sake, the corners of the ever
open mouths would turn from upward
|
/ Believe you would regret the change
| 1t was such an unusual sight that al
most drove me from the house. The
| score OF visa ges. blankly expressionlesS
| or glOOmily glum. were like Over-paint-
! ed masks of tragedy, although the
/ young women were singing a chorus in
which they declared themselves Jolly
| Yankee Doodle Girls and were taking
| skip steps to illustrate their jOllity. I
| sat in a box. from which my view of
! those smilelesS mouths was crOSswise,
/ and therefore took in the entire sulky
! row at a single look, and / was about
/ to quit, when OF a sudden every one of
/ them showed it's teeth to the gums in
! a violent cOntortiOn of geniality. What
| had happened? All the show girls were
| looking down at the conductor Had
/ he cracked Il private joke? No. He
! had raped the music rack with his
/ baton and WAS Srinning up at them.
| not 5Ovially, but threateningly, almost
| hideOUsly. like a savage faun at scared
! wood nymphs, That was his way of
! rousinS them from their neglect of duty
! as professional grinners. And il kept
me amused to the end of the show.
during which they didn't again hide
their worries.
From my box seat I was able TO OBJ
serve, also, the ardUOus service of Mir.
| Jolly Zeb. oh, but he was the willing
| worker. The quality of his work is a
| tity is a matter of fact. He started in
as a Yankee farmer seeing the town,
| shaking real hayseed from his false
whiskerS, and being bunkoed at every
I turn. Within ten minutes he fas a
| city-bred man himself, Dragging of il
i'm song and selling gold bricks Ten
! minutes more and he was "A SOggy-fOOt-
| ed tramp lighting a goat and a bulldog
His next role was that of a topical bal
| ladiSt, with so many verses. sung AT
| such strain of voice that he was
! winded before he got through and
| had to take a stimUlant behind the
! wings. A little further along he was
one of four knOck-abouts in a burIesdue
! of melodrama, III which he fell down a
| long flight of stairs. flung himself over
/ six chairs in row. and on retiring
| from that Interpolation had to hold a
| barked shin in pain. Between these
special activities he got but brief rests
! for lungs or muscles. until / saw hin
! seated in a chair just off the stage
| for fully five minutes, lax and linn.
| wondered if he had cola pSed. But he
| had not. He was pulling himself to-
gether to lead the famous Zeb Zarrow
Schrock and Rice cyclists and acrobats
| extraordinary" in a quarter hour OF
| violent and dangerous featS. Who saws
that Joe Jefferson is a reSourceful com
edian? Who says that Dick MANSFIELD
is u versatile tragedian? Who says that
Mr. Jolly Zeb is not the most active
! IN Ga rtb9