The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-18
Theatrical Gossip of Greater Gotham
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

IN which ne circles the stage Win ny
ing leaps, filings his arms and legs all
around him and tries to wig-wag his
head off-had been located in the cor
ridor of ball room and purported to
be a bit of preliminary exercise in two
step waltzing. He and we were equal
ly obdurate We wanted more. He
wouldn't give it. The play went on
and so did the applause. Three char
acters acted their scene With voices
siIenced by the hubbub, until at
length Conan won his way.
IT was during that hubbub, / guess,
that I lost the plot of George WASH
ington. Jr." Up to that time / had
learned that two members or the Unit
ed States senate were striving to down
each other, that the son OF one re-
fused to marry a foreign title ana
chose instead the niece of the other,
that there was something doing with
a very fateful paper, and then the
noise of the disagreement with conan
about an encore drowned a discussion
of the momentous document AFTER
that the two old enemies and the TWO
young friends mixed it up in a WASH
ington hotel and at Connecticut
homestead. reconciIing me with songs
and dances to the loss Of the plot. ana
justifying the plays title through Co
hams rechristening OF himself as the
Junior Of the Father of his Country
through cumulative loyalty.
Some of "GaIlops," which introduced
the new Garrick stock company, was
acted in front of the footights' Inc me
ticket-taker at the door wore a red
hunting coat, white breecheS and
spurs: so did the ushers and so with
manifest pride did the ice water boys
The orchestra played hunting airs,
with taIly-ho toots and yo-ho exclama-
tions. To complete the inventory OF
the appropriately unusual doings IN the
auditorium, the author did not go 70
the stage to respond to call, but salG
''Thank you' from a box. "Gallops,
the comedy, is made by David Gray
| from his stories Of cross country rld-
| ing. He still looks young and blonde.
Some Youngsters are venturesomely
| impelled to try novelties when they
write plays, but it has not been SO with
| Mr.. Young Here in "GallOps is the
| love story OF ourselves of our parents,
/ of our ancestors for many generations.
| The hero is a little too good and the
villain little too bad to seem real ana
earnest; and their qualities as written
| clearly by Mr.. Gray are emphasized
! deeply by Charles Richman, as sure a
| personifier of virtue as 1 know or, ano
w L. Abingdon, famous Engllsn
embodier Of vice. They come into OPP
/ d
hickman rides handicapped by lack
| of good reputation, for in previous
contest he has had bones broken by a
| fall and has been accused OF dishonest
tactics. while Abingdon has contrlved
/ to profit by the mishap and the SIAN
/ der. There is a girl In the issue-a
very typical society girl as acted py
Grace Filkins. Indeed, the representa-
| ton of hunt sport as practlced at our
| modish country clubs IS as truthfuliy
shown on the stage as 1t has been In
| the authors books.
| However, with all the stage shows
] of horses racing madly on treadm1lls
to say nothing Of the newer motor car
realisms, we are hardly satsned 10 see
/ a steepIechase through the eyes OF pre-
| tended spectators, even though they
do make a handsome group on top OF
/ a coach and describe the running with
/ the excited yivacity of so many Lady
! Cav Spamkers 1t is a good scene OF
| itself. however, full-siZe drag, nearly
/ filing the stage, the men and women
decorating it brightly with their hunt
| costumes, and the hero showing him.
/ self on the back of a real horse before
and after the race. Anyway, the au-
thor couldn't see from his box any
/ more of the running than we did from
/ the parquet chairs.
| More satisfying to those who cant
] believe anything unless they see 1t Is
an incident at the hunt clubs Dali
The real set of Long Island steeple-
chasers are unconventional for fact
and cut up queer pranks at Their
dances. In the play Mr. Richman pro-
poses to lead a cotillion in the saddle
on the back of his winning horse. TC
be sure, we are not permitted to see II
| done. but we do hear a tremendous
crash of crockery in the dining room
and then, some drapery being drawn
aside, we. get a view of the horse and
the rider in a commOtiOn-