The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-25

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/ Pointing under the table to a very badly
| frightened little animal Bernard said:
/ Why. Watson. you never sang that note
You stepped on the cat.
The College Widow is an old creation
of AIDES As far back as 1852 he attended
| class reunion in Purdue Lafayette
] Ind.,) and read some verses entitled The
| College Widow" In Justice to Mr. AIDE
| it should be said that they are not repre-
sentative of his present literary ability
comprehensive view of the widow" in
| his story and for that reason have time
| ly interest. 1t may be said in this con-
| nection that Mr.. AIDE had THE College
WIDOW in mini as comedy before he
had begun his career as a playwright
That it was an entirely spontaneous eff
| fort is shown by the fact that he COM
low: - '"''' "A'; -"' verses i'
When ] was but freshman, and that
1 saw her first, but did not learn her
name.
She was at lecture, bsiieve. in the
first or second row,
And the junior with her seemed to be
| her flame.
| He held her fan all evening and gazed
| into her eyes;
Thought ], Now they're engaged or
| soon will be-"
| But afterward they quarreIed, as I
learned with some surprise
That very spring a rumor in the college
| circles spread
| That senior had her young affections
SHARED,
And after he had graduated the two
would surely wed:
Twas even said her trousseau was pre-
| pared.
But this turned out a false alarm; when
| / returned next fail
She had a young professor on the string
1 flpWnvq nd
quently would call
And gladly turn her music when she'd
sing.
The Prof. received an offer from some
college in the east
And left quite Unexpectedly one day:
ing I'm the least
When I saw her with a freshman at the
play.
She had n gay Irritation with special
taking art:
I went with him to call one Sunday
right:
He kindly introduced me and played
For I made a hit and knocked him out
of sight:
Oh, charming college widow. never can
forget
The night when you tut on my college
pin,
l pressed your hand end told you that
the act you'd not regret,
And YOU said you'd stick to me through
thick and thin.
1 remember still the pIcniCs and that
moonlight promenade
Just t-s night before 1 paid for M de-
gree,
When we exchanged such sacred vows
and declarations made
Tasr we'd owe each other through
Aternity.
heard from Won unite often: 7 liked Your
letters, too
They were spicy and chuck fun of COL
iege news
But the interval between them soon be-
came a month or two
And our courtship seemed its interest
to lose.
1 didn't write for full three months, and
one day i received
BY express, collect, each lovesick billet
doux,
And thoIg-l ] swore that I had been
Tilted and deceived,
l returned your letters-paid the charges,
too
Last commencement 1 revisited the scene
of college life;
Six years had brought about a Won
drOus change.
I knew few professors who we're glad to
meet my wife,
But Che students all seemed out of place
and strange.
There was little to recall to me the olden
time so sweet.
And so it was a pleasure, you may
know,
| At the fieId-day exercises Unexpectedly
An acquaintance of the happy long ago.
] She looked but little older, her laugh was
! Beside her was a gallant sophomore.
Who held aloft her psrasOl and gushed
the self-same way
I h7d q
yore-
merely tipped my hat; I feared to in
trOduce my wife,
lightly fall,
Revealing to my better half chapter OF
which Id rather she would not suspect
A foreign dancer has this TO say about
American danCing;
MY dancing dates back 10 only few
wears ago" says Miss Valli Nalli. when
7 left the legitimate stage to go into pan
tomine al the Drury Lane theatre, Lon
don. When | first engaged with the
Drury Lane management / knew little or
nothing of stage dancing, but by hard
work and study | now pride myself on
being able TO master most of the national
dances Since coming to this country
with the 'Veronique' company ! have
been devoting all my spare time learning
the American dance OF Tagtime steps
| pride myself now on having mastered
almost every known dance. Physical
training is one of the most essential
things for successful lancing. Ever
since going on the stage | have taken
long walks every day when the weather
permitted). and upon returning TO the
hotel l take systematic exercise.
THE American dance or Tag-time,
interests me very much The nearest
approach, ! am Iold, TO this buck and
wing dance is the European dance Gar
dac. or Hungarian mazurka. In this
dance the syncopated time is used TO a
great extent. ] am now studying the
Russian dance. 1t is simply lugubTious
step in which the heel and toe are used
mainly to music not particularly Thyth-
mic, hut strong and clustering. I am
also taking up the Oriental and French
dances and expect to master them in a
very short time. Strictly speaking, there
is no American dance. but common GUS
tom has given the sO-called rag-time
dance that distinction. And, in the opin-
ion of fancy dancers abroad, it comes
very near heading the list"
David Belasco tells an amusing story
of one of his experiences while a man
ager many years ago in California. Mr..
Belasco was staging Augustln Daly's
M he q nd