The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-08
ADJUSTMENTS

CHASTITY wounds. hunger. thirst. pow,
der, trenches. dirt. rags. sickness. suffer-
ing, DEATHS this war;
Not so. Witness when JOHNNY Comes
Marching HOre" and learn ths facts
Here We have plump. weil-fed. We'll
groomed and well-dressed soldiers Il
they suffer. it Is produced solely by love
sickness induced by proximity to IN,
charming southern ladies who far from
picking lint. knitting socks. etc, as the
unreliable histories of civil wan w0illo
lead us TO believe, seldom appear exceni
TO participate in ii waltz with the fedora
invaders
Watching. when Johnny Comes March
lne Home one cannot but look mo-
mentariiy for one or more apparitiOLs iu
tattered gray breathing hot words and
flrlng many shots. 1t is hard 10 believe
that the gallant sons of the south WOuh
have allowed small trifles like federal
armies 10 keep them from their homes
n they could know that the girls they
left behind them did nothing much eN-
cept waltz with the cursed Yanks. But
no avenging confederate appears Yet
stay There is One-a mere lad, Wild
declares he is a spy. thus shocking his
sister, and takes part III chorus 81
TWO. Some of the ladies mention. I'm
passing, that they are true daughters %
me south, vet somehow, one gels the
ldea that their cases Of southern loyalty
are not Of the severe type.
There is nothing in the attire of tile
chorus IN Nv hen Johnny Comes Marching
Home 10 shock ones sense of propriety
yet me make-up OF those girls is truly
shocking. They wear hOOpskirts. aud
long p-wel. their limbs are covered AIDE
quately.
See wartime portraits of young girls
Tor further particulars.
AFTER watching one of those many
waltZes in when Johnny Comes March,
ms Home il is easy TO appreciate that
the rising generation has never known
real sorrow. Imagine trying to waltz with
{ u fg,rr L.. q
square yards of dress goods distributed
so as to cover maximum floor space.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
is billed as a military comic opera.
which may help to explain the oDeu-
hearted ana Open-handed treatment ac-
corded the Yankees in Dixie, the peace
tul character of the war and the almost
uhcanny absence OF the cOnfederates. who
are said to have been fairly numerous and
reasonably active along the lower Missis-
slppi in the middle sixties.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
moves through two acts with much noise.
waving OF flags, singing Of the Star
Spangled Banner, Dixie" etc Every
thing Is unreal. impossible, but that is
what one expects in comic opera There
isn't any plot worth considering. II
would be foolish 10 spoil the sport by in
trudlng plot. This confederate SPY adj
Eerted to above. does purlOin General
military secrets with view to sending
them 10 General Lee across the river This
pocketbook. having fallen accidentally
into the possession. of. the. Iong,Iost son. of
minutes at the finale. He gets relief i'm
singing biz and in receiving careSses
Irom his adOred Kate Pemhertou.' The
careSSeS conferred and received BY
Kate" otherwise Miss Gertrude Vaughn.
are more than ample compensation for
The limited suffering endured by W Z.
Carleton as johnny" ..-.--s..
ASIDE from ITS amazing revelations con-
corning soldier life in the civil war and
the novel costume effects. there ism I
much that IS radically new to comic opera
Home. The piece swings along at a
lVely pace much of the music is Spright-
" and some of it is well sung. w r
carleton. head of the company presenting
self IS General Allen. He wins the
Widow PembertOn along toward the
close Of the evening. Miss Jean Sails
bury as the widow was altogether TOO
the departed and the general proved the
souhdness of his judgment by never Civ
ing up until ne got her
W. Z. Carleton as johnny" otherwise
Colonel John Graham" of the United
states army, made a magnificent appear
ing officer big. stalwart and handsome
hts baritone easily leads the other male
voices of the c0mpany-a fact appreci-
atod by the management. which allows
him to do most Of the solo work. James
Francis as Jonathan Phoenix improved
the Dflet interval allotted to him to re-
lease some good character work not dis
daining To work in a few good dance
stops ha knows.
No less than fifteen songs exclusive
OF SuWanee River star Spangled Ban
mel" and others that have rendered long
service. are worked in during the pro-
gress of the piece. No Opportunity for q
song IS permitted TO pass unnoUiced or un-
improved.
Wv hen Johnny Comes Marching Home"
went 10 a good house ut the Salt Lake
theatre last night. 1t. viii be given
tonight, tomorrow afternoon and tomor-
row night.
There is q kissing episode in the third
act OF The White Caps which opened
at the Grand theatre last evening which
IS almost startling. It is not intended
IN the beginning for an affectiOnate en-
brace on the part Of the wounded
mOuntaineeT who CLASPS the mountain
maid, Iitella. TO his manly bosom; far
from t. it is the grasp Of a man who