The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-19

wv cried voice from fas the gallery.
The audience, which crowded
a Dig. new Broadway theatre on Its
opening night, was startled, for such
q Loiicon Kind of outspoken criticism
- uhAioWn IN New York: and the ac-
.or, usually self-complacent come
oian, was so feazed for a moment that
ne was dumb. He had been talking
VoiuDiy, but the words hadn't meant
anything worth while, and so the query
rom the gallery, though irnpolite
wasn't impertinent. ssThe Athlefic
Girl, an hour OF new extravaganza.
was so dun and slow that il seemed
twice as long II had been written
IN the erroneous belief that a lot of
p % OSIRIS IN a gymnasium would be
so entertaining at their exercises with
oumoDeiis, Indian clubs. punching bags
lrapezes, swinging rings and rowing
machines that it wouldn't matter what
was said or sung.
But there was another hour of Tho
evening devoted more pleasurably TO
Ine Duel in the Snow This house
is music hall, the Colonial. on the
LONDON plan, and "A ballet pantomirsie
mas oeen brought over from the En-
pre- Ipe first scene shows the sta gA
or the Paris Opera Comique with q
costume ball in progress. The faces
OF the women are half-masked. That
is TO say, their noses and mouths are
covered, and-have you ever thought
OF it!-noses and mouths spoil many
otherwise pretty faces. In this spec
taeler therefore, We see the generally
satisfactory foreheads chins and eyes
of hundred presumably fair crea-
lures, whose hair is uniformly glori-
Gus, and whose arms and legs are
altogether enhancing i'm their actfvi-
TIES. A 1.-THE premiere leads a band of
nmber corypheeS. and all are equal
lzed In eomeliness by the partial con-
sealInent OF their viSages. Are not
those Oriental sirens willy when they
ven their faces from their roguish eyes
downward, thus leaving their beauty
10 mems imagination? Similarly. we
can't know. but are made to fancy.
that these dancers are lovely; while
the concealed fact may be that the
one you pick out to adore has a crook
ed nose and an askeW mouth under
her mask. and that the supple figures
next TO her in the line are her mother
and grandmother
Two men quarrel in dumb show over
woman at the ball. and the one who
is a normal gentleman challenges the
one whose face is whitened like a
clowns to go out and fight a duel.
The scene changes to a forest in
snowStorm. The gentleman is soberly
brave The clown is comic coward.
They fool awhile over a shift of weap-
ons from foils to pistols, and there
is a sort of harlequinade of hide and
seek around a Snowbank, but the end
is the death Of the funny fellow. And
then, while the victor is departing in
a sleigh and the victim is lying life
less on the ground, the view opens up
at the rear and through the falling
snowfiaxes we see the dancers still
making merry al the ball.
a big black bear is noteworthy in
the vaudeville portion of this music
hall entertainment, and not so much
because he Wrestles like a human pro-
fesSiOnal with his keeper as because
he is an example of tricky advertising.
He has been trained TO the catch-as-
catch-can methods of the wreStiers,
and at a rehearsal he took a sudden
notion to hug a show girl and throw
her down. He meant no harm, and
couldn't have done much, as he was
muzzled and his claws were cut off.
But the press agent was on hand, and
he telephoned to the newspapers, in
an agitated voice at midnight. that the
girl and "A gallant reScaer had been
clawed, bitten and crunched awfully.
All the journals save the Herald treat
ed the matter as a joke, yet they gave
space TO il. We gave TO the bear what
showmen like to call an ovation. 1t
wasn't hard to imagine that the beast,
as he surveyed the audience amiably.
and stood on his hind legs with bears
always ralxish swagger, had human
sense of humor and wanted to shake
paws with the show girl whom he
had Rugged so valuably.
A $4,000 vaudeville show should yield
more than a paragraph, the reader may
presume. yet the one given by the
Green Room club last Sunday night
had but a single novelty TO describe. y
seat was a good enough purchase at
So as that was only 81 an hour for
"a pid succession of songs. dances and
monOlogues, not many OF them from
the variety stage, but mainly selections
of the best from current eXtraVaganzas-
The one new thing was a sketch pre-
pared for the occasion, and even that
was of merely Tenderloin interest.
RAYMOND Hitchcock was disclosed as
Ventriloquist, with figure on eacn
knee-the usual Irishnlan and negro,
who insult their operator and quarrel
with each other, until the black Eel
low is shut in a closet But Hitch
cocks figures were dwarf actors VINO
spoke for themselves. The audience or
FOUNDERS was fooled for a minute or
two. so deity was the trick played,
for Raymond is droll and Franz Eberr
and Will Archie are good little bits or
comedians. A second portion OF the
sketch introduced a dozen men of note
in the theatrical community, some ap-
pearing as themselves and some in i'm
ltAflOn or QI0eIS- 4 WAS HI OH fSffidA
conceit amusingly carried out
In the way of serious new drama We
are short this week with one from
France given as a curiosity at mat
inee and one from Russia introduced
transiently. in German, for its peril
hence to the political crisis in the
cars country. THE Night House" was
written by the man whose pen name is
Maxim Cork. who is now a state pris-
oner in St. Petersburg, and who would
cost our newspapers more in cable tolls
than he does if he went by his full real
name of Aleksyei MaksimOVitch Pyesh-
kcv The composition is not an actable
play, as il tells no story. and has no
dramatic movement. but is series of
characterization illustrative of Rus
sian miseries-a nobleman ruined by
gambling, an actor degraded by drunk
enness. a consumptive woman who has
been beaten by her husband, a girl who
has been left in the streets by a liber-
tine and other types of unfortunate
humanity-gathered in a thieves cheap
lodging house. where they make their
plants to one another and are told by
a wandering priest that hope need be
extinct in none of them. | should say
that a dextrous playwright might make
Gorkis material the basis of plotted
raelodrama which would have a chance
of temporary popularity in,these- times
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