The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-30

! hadnt seen them in vaudeville, where
they had come from, had any idea how
they looked when not Enthusiastically dis
guised. Their sudden popularity didn't
bring the glory of having people stare
ct them as they strolled in Broadway.
1t VIII be different henceforth, for they
are now taken out of tin and straw
and introduced in q human condition
They appear in "The Red Mill' as row.
ers from New York stranded in Hol-
land, where Montgomery becomes a
waiter who serves Knock chicken"
soup and oysters, as to which, when it
is remarked that this is not an oyster
month"; he replies that they ARE not
this months oysters" while Stone, al
though utterly ignorant of any Ian
guage except English of the Tenderloin
| kind, engages as a guide to tourists of
various nationalities, and makes such
plumbers as sending to Jail girl who
has been hurt by an automobile in
stead Of the guilty chauffeur.
The red mill of this extravaganza
isn't the notorious Moulin Rouge of
Paris. but a Dutch windmill which is
haunted; and so, when a girl is shut in
| it overnight to keep her from marry
| ing, her grief is aggravated by fright
| However, her distress doesn't prevent
her posing in the moonlight that falls
on the structure and singing a charm
dental TO Victor Herberts score. Her
voice assemblies the villagers, who cho-
rus an appeal for her release. But they
can't sing her out. The Americans
thereupon attach themselves to the
big wheel of the MILL circle up to the
girl, and bring her to the ground, in an
exploit that is acrobatic and grotesque.
yet picturesque and melodramatic.
Henry w. Blossom wrote the libretto
xr~i4n ,Io,-c f.,r, IfY1cr
that Montgomery and Stone are comic
pantomimists more than speaking
comedians, and the rescue of the bride
, at the mill is one of his many ingenui-
ties to reach and not exceed the limit
of their abilities. Charles Dillingham;
was the original discoverer Of them in
variety show, as it is he who COM
missioned Blossom and Herbert to
make The Red Mill" probably he has
had a hand in the work; but the pro-
| gram gives no list of rhymsters and
, musicians as helpers, for Blossom and
Herbert don't need and won't accept
> assistance such as Is usual in the turn
ing out of musical farces.
An odd thing about THE Red Mill,
and morally a good thing, too, is that
= none of its success is due to superla-
, tive feminine beauty. 1t fills the stage
with comedy girls, In quaint Dutch
dresses and refreshingly demure Dutch
7 behavior: but not one of them is g
show girl in the Broadway meaning OF
, | the term. which has become a synonym
of viciousness. In only one instance
is their lack of physical loveliness Diet
D rimental. That is when a song de.
{ scribes the streets of Network, which
calls for a representation Of smar
Fifth avenue maidens. Those who per
l senate Rialto soubrettes are funny will
Y their exaggerations, and the contingent
, Of Bowery bellies wrinkles in it's fee
:, If It doesn't shine in it's faces. Th'
: Whites and Thaws may go but once Il
I see this show, but it is bound to pros
e per without them. And MOntgomer!
and Stone are lucky fellows to be in II
> in view Of the danger that they nigh
die out of popularity with THE WHARF
: of o."
English sOng-makers excel Ameri
cans in daintiness and delicacy of style
: We know how TO put ginger into
show, not only in cake-walking to rag
time, but in the Partisan spirit of frol
ic; but our ballads, sentimental am
Comical, are inferior to those made il
It London. The admission is pertinent t
n My Lady'S Maid" now produced her
o with due regard for it's original man
ner. Its songs are it's best element
: It's author, Newman Davis, is a Brit
| ISL ARMY officer anu Il SI1dTI SOClcL.
o man; yet his play treats those inter
twined phases OF London life with n
more accuracy than if he knew moth
q ing personally about them. Paul Ru
e bens tried to write the Davis librett
into a second Three Little Maids" an
didn't succeed very well with tn
words, but he provided many delightful
e tunes.
l. Colonel Davis, if that is his rank
cfo ID xr-ftt %
: engaged in a sham battle in cOuntr
town, and becoming implicated with tn
daughters of the rural gentry at a gar
d den party and again at ball; but h
drifts into the commonplace by havin
a beautiful young Lady So-and-s
20 change clothes with her maid to wi
e the young gentleman who is disguise
W as a butler. Some Americanization, o
it might better be called Broadwayinl
e was incongruous. For example, one c
s. those dialect fellows-French, Italian
J. Spanish or BraZilian-carries his duel
20 ling swords in a golf stick bag, and ex
, hibits them as weapons with which h
IL has killed insulters of his wife. An in
IS tensely English trooper desires to &c
DR. him into trouble, and being Broadway
lied, advises him to compliment som
ladies by handing them a lemon.
IL Thereupon follows topical song of tn
d Tenderloin that would be unntellig
II BILE in Piccadilly. The incident close
with the trooper explaining that til
duellist's insult lay in giving" instea
III of handing" the lemon-a very fin
l. distinction I'm Broadway slang. TIL
=, three London girls who justified the I
tie of Three Little Maids" Della Ma
J. son. Elsa Ryan, and especially a lar
he guorously agile and delicately prett
n Madge Creighton. have been brougt
. over and put into my Lady's Maid"
20
s In very dignified contrast with til
jollities of those two shows on the Ne
York stage is the bloodshed of two RI
&c ligious tragedies. The reason for M
!, describing THE Prince of India" an
III "Mizpah" is that accounts of thel
lie went forth when they were introduce
ne in Chicago last season. The massacl
y of Christians by Mohammedans in Coz
stantinople, as narrated by Gener
IL Lew Wallace in his tale OF the war
lie dering Jew" and OF Jews by Gentil,
In Persia, as recorded in the Bible; a.
the themes of plays written in blar
-. ~ IL.