The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-22
"THE DUCHESS OF DANTZIC"
A NEW oPERA-By FRANKLIN FYLEs.

they are not disposed to regard his ex-
position OF 1t as either good sense OF
good nonsense.
Not more than 10 per cent of Mrs.
Leffingwelfs Boots gees to osteopa
THO waste. All the rest IS fun arising
from a husbands jealousy. To that
extent il is like French farce but
/ there is the very pleasant difference
: that no one save the chap with the bad
/ SPOT in his neck Is morally awry. He
h2te1ully places Mrs I,effingWell's
boots under young Corbin's window
thus making Leffingwen believe she
has been sly visitor to his room: and
C0rbin 5 sweetheart, who is Dicks Sis
ter, Is convinced also by the false evil
dence. The two pairs thus unccupled
are guests together at a dinner in the
house that Dick breaks into. and a ire
mendous blizzard SHOWS them in
through a night of turmoil. Their cross
purposes are shown in a most ingeni Gus
succession of comic Incidents none of
them hackneyed in stage used and all
so clean that we get farce 80. per cent
iauShab bic without indelicacy-even
though Fay Davis. Margaret Ellington,
Dorothy Hammond and Jessie BuSley
do utter in and out of its action in
night clothes.
Ida Conquest closes a chapter in the.
history of the New York stage by pen
ing as star actress i'm the new play az
The Money Makers Don't imagine
that this metropolis is turned tOpsy-
turvey because OF a change in the size
OF the type TO bill her suggestive name
OF Conquest. Ten years ago, more or
less, fiVe girls-Maude, Ethel, Clara.
May and Ida-lived together in Il
boarding h-uSe and were known to the
DuDlic IS coming actresses. One by one
they arrived at thea trical fame. and
nov the pubic is Familiarity aware of
Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore. Clara
Bloodgood, May Robson and Ida Con-
quest In a way Miss Conquest takes
d backward step in being starred, for
she has PLAYED far better leading parts
with John Drew. Richal q Mansfield and
william Gillette than the one she takes
up EJw in The Money Makers" This
farce is of the English type that kept
US laughing for years a Jane and
has put Us to sleep i'm some of its other
examples. In it Ida is nice but impe-
cuniOus girl. with a sweetheart who
hasn't the money TO marry her; so she
and 4 similarly situated chum decide to
become -tlpSteTS or horse races, selling
advice through the mails and basing {
at random on a horse entered for the
next days event. b. a mischance
their selection is so worthless that the
horse is scratched, and the girls are
besiesed by their angry Gupes. The
tipsters' utter igu-rence Of the turf and
the predicament that their temerity
gets them into are shown in incidents
OF violent faTcicality, SO that the
quietly refined manner Of the actress
doe.n't count for much in the measure
able success which the piece by itself
is likely TO gain.
Two musical farces born and bred IN
Chicago are brought to New York full
grown But they look considerably
foreign in spite of their native growth.
"FaDt2Ha' takes a party of Americans
to Japan, and The Forbidden Land"
to Tibet. These tourists have the kinds
e experience usually seen In extrava-
ganzas. They fall into the hands OF
AGiatic potentates. who deal foully with
the men aud fondIy with the women.
OF course the chief comedian in each
play assumes the disguise of a mogul,
and for his impoSture is sentenced u
death by torture: and, again. OF course.
tho prima donna IS chosen for royal
cOncubinage- For third time. Of
course. there are gaIlants naval officers
in white uniforms to sbnaIly rescue tf.@
prisoners. and chorsrs girls 70 wear
many shifts OF raiHent and behave &C
cOrdingly. from Yankee bellies to ia
PaHese seishas or TiiYetan aIleres-
There have been so many japanese
pieces since The Mikado," and none
of them so GOOd, that you go to new
one with a feeling Of dread. But some
times there is a pleasant surprise, as
happened with "The%Geisha," for in
stance. and now With "Fantana-
However, only one OF its three acts is
III Japan. and even there the girls don
toddle monotOnousiy, but run and
dance free footed some Of the time;
nor do they wear fabrics of crazy quilt
designs and JOseph's ceat cOIOFs, bat are
dIaped mostly i'm black, white and yell
low. Our old acquaintance, the Mikado,
once amusing, but grown bore, is
present in the persoRlOf a despOuc gov
ernor. but he stays only to sing once of
his autocratic power and doom Jeffer-
son de Angels to be boiled in oil And
Jeff doesn't deserve Il. He is one of
those arduous comedians whom you
don't mean to laugh at, but he soon
compels you TO. Here he is a valet
Companied by the ugly little Katie
Barry as a lady's maid. They are a
violently funny pair of knocka bout
testers, licensed to do things not from
the pens Ct the authOrs-wnO. by The
way, are Sam s. Shubert, of the man
againg Shubert three brothers, and
Robert B. Smith, one of the play writ
ing Smith, two who are brothers, and
by Katie is to tumble heels over head,
and Jens is to chase q tasSel that
bangles from the brim of his hat Their
highest joint triumph is when Jeff
throws Katie into a trunk. which he
rolls and bangs i'm baggage smasher
ever, that he misses a point
by, not first spanking her with a slap
stick. Deplorable? Well. don't You
laugh at the clowns in circuses? Then
why frown at antics which help a mu-
steal farce TO success? And ''Fantana"
is an accepted success in New York
Notwithstanding that it did come from
Chicago.
AS sober truth let il be written
that New York hasn't a particle of pre-
judice against whatever comes from
Chicago. That is as false a notion as
the one that we are predisposed to IA
Vor whatever comes from London
There was a welcoming assemblage cf
Smart Settlers and Tenderloin Round
eTs on the first night of "Fantana.r
and the relations between the stage
and the auditorium were intimately
cordial Adele Richie, the dainty doh
who led the femme playthings. is
Broadway celebrity. and she gave
glances and ncds of recognition to
friends who greeted her home from four
months absence. And it seemed as If
some of the show girls were about to
reach across the footlights to shake
hands with fellows in the front row.
There was one who made the biggest
eyes ] ever saw at Johnnie Joirme
when he clapped his hands for her, ami
another who murmured, "Howdy?" to