The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-08
By RANKIN FYfES

cetteu nAle@n itlluleS dLttT the play ;
start. is tardily reached And the last
act, pTotracted by trivial incidents. is
a bore.
1t was at this trying point. about ten
minutes before the fall OF the curtain,
that Mrs. Haines caused something
like a sensation. She had been Wis
ible all evening at the back of the
theatre. a lovely figure in a mOdish
gown of brown chiffon and silver
spangles. She was leaning over the
rear rail. gazing intentIy at her hus-
band and Miss Coghland fwho, by the
way. had gratified the expectation of
good performance when several
persons arose to leave the parouet-
sit down. she cried in a tragic
voice, and let the play go on
Then she ordered the ushers to shut
the doors But she made her own way
to the stage in time to appear, hand
in hand with her husband. in smiling
response to the call for the aUthoTess
when the play was done.
The girls of the singing ballots in
the twenty-five musical plays in town
this week, from comic opera down to
female hurlesque count up full thou
sand. Most of them are girls really,
CT youngish women, and in looks many
are beautiful while few are not at least
come3y. One who is ugly, or old, has
&c have an exceptionally good voice, a
ford some other personal reason for
covering the average of pretiiness.
These creatures of our thea tTical pleas
IRE are required TO 90 plentiful va
riety of hard work, and their employers
are all the while devising new exeT-
oises for their exhibition. Just now
George AIDE is the means OF putting
them into football. The game as he
introduced it in THE College Widow"
is being travestied here and there al
ready, and soon will be everywhere,
III all the grades of the folly shows. 1
told you a fortnight ago that a foot
bah game rushed, bumped and tum-
tied the girls of "In Newport''-how
they fought for the ball with vim
mat wasn't mere prctense. though of
course 9rearr2nGed and sprawled in
Eeaps like genuine cOlleglans- This
week a burleSque OF the AIDE comedy
IS inserted in 'Eigglcdy- Piggledy."
and II is funny with little Anna Held
of one team tacl6ling big Marie Dress
Ter of the other team. and feather
weight Joe Weber getting caught and
tossed in a melee of showgirls.
The most ingenious footbaIling
Fave yet seen Was done by chorus girls
in Me, You and l." a musical farce
whose tour brought it into the Harlem
edge of the town. The soubrettes of a
company were introduced on a wharf
at Seattle, taken thence 20 Alaska on
a yacht and stranded midst snow and
zee at Dawson City. But their cold,
cold luck didn't chill them at all. They
wore some FUR at times, TO be sure,
hut it was in caps and muffs, wrist
lets and anklets. suggesting whim-
slcally clipped French DoUdles. In one
TantlStic gulsc they had on the ears
names and tails OF horses and moth
/ ing else but flesh-tint tights. In an
| other display they presented surfaces
Ct black bearskIn right along with an
equal amount of hare skin that was
pink OF course then. the rigor of an
Arctic winter didn't keep them from
Use OF the newest AIDE for burlesque.
! They didn't trRmneI themselves with
50 much as the pads and shields COM
snon to the game, but were very light
ANA breezy as to costume. There was
one girl, supple, nimble and rOguish,
who kicked the ball all over the the
| atre. even up into the gallery and
Usually she caught 1t when il was
thrown back to the stage. Finally,
she made a long run with tor seemed
10, for speed and distance were simu--
| lated by a panorama drawn rapfdIy
hack of her and her chasing compan-
ions. And for a finish one of those
| Jlgger lights was thrown on the scene
rom kaleidoscope. The racers be-
anne chaos OF contention. like imps
oil mischief in a demOniac steepIe-
| chase.
For furious activity. accompanied by
| uproar it would be hard to outdo tht.
hlshineff masquerade that is put into
siberia There alW avs was an anti
Jew mob in hat melodrana but moth
I ing like the one created by William
A Brady for this weeks production.
| II l remind you that Mr.. Brady used
10 manage prizeGShts, sometimes
Couldn't keep himself out of the ring
AT exciting 1unctureS. and once reached
] tOOfOeS a Tit
| simmons face. l do il merely that YOU
| may comprehend how energetic a stage
/ Clrector he is. MObs are his dra-
lhatlc specially He had 4 violent one
/ lh Ihe Pit, with maddened wheat
Samplers tearing one anOthe1's clothes
on But that was a Sunday school pic
/ hfc, Quaker convention. beside This
| massacre OF Jews by Russians as trans
| ler1ed 10 ktshineH for the sake of
! uInellneSs and EagnIficd so as to size
! Gp with the RUss-Jap war interest.
| ne victims OF the outbreak were rep
| resented by genuine Hebrews from th-
| east sid2 quarter of New York where
/ thousands Of them are massed. and
| among whom it has beer easy TO find
/ men, women and children fitted to
/ STOW, without any articles of aspect
| the WlstSul. hunted, hungry appearance
Of their oppressed lace in Russia
/ SO much for the passive portion of The
i
| required professional actors able to as
| sumo hateful mien. making the cars
/ soldiers scowling villains and the ci-
/ Villains ferOCiOus ruffians Brady him
/ self was the loudeSt and Hveliest of the
! murderer BY frantic words and fren-
! zied gestures he urged on the mob to
use their clubs, knives, bayonets aud
/ bullets on the doomed Jews and enc
! enthusiastic Russ stuck Il blade into a
| Hebrew so really and truly that the
wounded victim had 20 be sent TO a
! hospital right Off
! Il the long dead and gone BARLEY
( Campbell saw. from wherever he is
\ now, this revival of his Siberia" the
/ bit Of actual blocdshed may have de-
| lighted him-unless his spirit has re-
/ covered from the mental disease which
killed him. Campbell was a crude but
! forceful author, who believed inpIfc-
/ lily in himself and his work, and one
1 Of the consequences OF his great poDu-
! lar success was paresis- He had been
sane enough when he wrote his first and
( best play. My Partner" and his brain
was yet all right when he turned out
| this melOdrama OF Russian cruelty to
/ the Jews in Siberia. But thereafter his
/ IDEAS became fanciful. cxtravagant and
/ finally irrational. As he bad ever been
cratic these Va carfqz didn't