The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-20
FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.

a young man at recent dinner
asked Cbauucey OIcott if living was
cheap i'm Paris. He said he thought Of
taking uD his residence in the French
capital. and he wanted to know the cost
OF food there
Paris is, perhaps. cheaper than New
York" said Mr.. OlCOtt. Good things
there. as here. though. come high. You
can get cheap things in Paris-CheaD
rooms. cheap dinuers-but they won't
satisfy you as more expensive things
would
"A friends of miue dined with
young artist in the Latin quarter at
famous table d'hote-
The host at the end of the dinner.
saiC.
Pretty good dinner for francs.
eh2'
First rate returned my friend.
Let's have another
Charles \ Mason of Mason and KCl-
" tells the story of q girl and book
maker.
There was d girl who went TO the
races and was attracted by the bet
ting.
she mingled in the crowd about the
boOkmakers. the excitement prevail
ing there communicated itself to her
spirit. She approached bookmaker
and said:
If I put dollar on a horse and it
" ms how mucn do I get2'
If the horse starts at so to l. the
bookmaker answered. you get SCI. If
it starts at 20 TO ]. you get $21. If it
starts at 10 to 1. you get S11.'
But she said. suppose it starts at
/ o'clock
Hap Ward. the star of The CRATER
company had Sarah Bernhard as d
rival attra ction during one of his en-
gagements this season. The next morn
ing he met d friend of his, a genial
horseman, who is also a great lover of
the theatre, and the following CONVEX
satiOn took place:
Genial HorsemaH-I saw that French
woman, Bernhard, last night.
WaTd-HOW did you like her?
G. H--She was great
Ward-GTeat, was sheT-iu what
way?
G. H.-Oh-she was simply great,
Ward-But can't you give me some
idea Of her acting2
G. H.-Why. see here, you've been to
a horse race, haven't you?
WaTd-Yes, often.
G. H.-WelI, you've seen a fine look
ing mare step onto the track. holding
her head high and making a picture it
does your eyes good to see. and when
she starts she does her mile in 2:10. /
Well that's an American actress. Pref
ty- soon some fellow drives a lean
looking black FLY onto the track. She's /
not handsome to look at but she does /
her mile without break in 2:06. Well /
that's Bernhardt.
Joe Weber is wearing his broadcast /
smile over the cOrdiality with which |
the double barreled burIesque in his lit |
tie music hall has been received, says
the New York Sun It is many a year
since a burlesque has been so happily /
done In the writing and the acting /
Of THE Squaw Mans Girl of the Cold /
EN- West much good talent is revealed. |
At times Edgar Smith writes with /
spOntaneity and nimbleness of wit 4
equal to both BelascO and ROyle at 1
their best. It almost seems a if Smith 4
withheld his choicest humor from /
Twiddle-Twaddle" so that he might /
axDend il on this effort. There is not 4
dull moment in the hours run of the /
piece, which has several situations that 1
rise to the dignity of real satire What 4
could be heater or more applicable than
this rebuke- You've got TO stop that /
sWesTing-you' not in Wallack's or /
oeiaSCO ) HOW mere IS a sung ana a /
aUgh in that line. In the last few
years profanity has become common in |
he first-class theatres. Managers and 4
Dlaywrights say that damn is not an
path, but there has not been a single 4
Instance in which it has not been used /
Is such. How then shall it be defined? /
The worst Offense in this respect is in |
1nc Objectionable scene in Brown of /
Harvard" What pity il is that these /
stage writer's, even when they are in /
he most blithesOme humor, must /
-hink it incumbent on them to stir a !