The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

GOOD man VINO owns the Ola Faro ILlAitS'
from which all the pay ore seems TO
have been dug out, and a sheriff is 60
ing to. sell the apparently worthless
hole in the ground. Hooker Is a bad
man who has sent Bedford hatefuHy TO
bankruptcy. There is a woman In the
case, but no matter about her. Inc
still more precious thing. commercial
~, is big deposit of copper, silver ana
gold that has been overlooked IN the
mine. The two men learn OF IT SIM
Ultaneously. They are half the length
of Montana away from the Old Pard
Hooker starts in q locomotive TO puy
it. Bedford is in despair His daugh-
ter obtains a court order to stop the
sale; but oh, how to serve 1t on the
sheriff L. time? But, ahai here comes
her brother Ia an automobile. Iney
set out 10 outrun Hooker's locomotive
through the Bad Lands. We see HOOK
er choo-choo away in a long lead; then
the Redfords honk-honk off in pursuit;
next the two vehicles are shown racing
side by side, and for awhile 1t is nip
and tuck; but while the locomotive can
nip the rails sixty miles an hour, the
automobile can tuck a hundred behlno
itself in the same time. It Is noisy
affair of whistle and horn, of whirllng
wheels that don't move ahead, but pan
oramic pictures that are speedy, and 1t
makes the melodramatic episode for
''Bedford's Hope" this week at one or
the low-priced theatres.
The local German dramatic company
that we brag of is sportiVe IN The
Road Burner" in which the main man
is an autoist on a tour Of Europe, and
sentimental absurdities arise from mo-
tor car mishaps Effie Shannon is COM
ing this way with 1.-THE Lightning Con-
ductor'' as an automobile traveller, with
Herbert Kelley for a loving amateur
chauffeur. Bernard Shaw's party OF
tourists in Man and Superman" are
still getting into and out Of a motor
car, and the other night it wouldn't
stand still to do It's dramatic duty, but
ran its front wheels off the stage and
had to be lacked back
Over in Brooklyn, the girl-grabber in
The Chauffeur's Crime" trows tn
nice gel into his autymobily, see? De
grabber has a gel pal in red wot he
won't make n honest woman of-same
as always, an she has it in fer him
good an hard when she sees him g1ttin
away wild de nice gel in white he
runs de autywagon over her on pur-
pose, but she's jest eZ tough ez ne is,
an she gifts UP an after him wild a gun.
She cuts across de grass, while he
skids around de road corners; so she
gifts L de tunnel in de park while mes
yit a-co,nin', see? She cocks her shoot
er an fades into a shacder.
But dere's a masher wots a smasher
in dis piece-a chappie az is sure right
| n ready L go ahead-an' he gifts onto
de swipin' of de nice gel; an bet yer
strip of long green, he's Johnny on de
spot all right-over de end of de tunnel
wot de autywagOn's t come out or.
Dye git de sitiwation? De auty's two
gIi1ns show up; den it stops, N de
grabber thinks he'll have go at de
nice geI-fer he's doped her an she
looks good n easy. He starts IN
kiss n hug her, but amt had time {
muss her up much Wen de chappie
hangs himself from de railin' over de
tunnel by his feet, takes a grip on de
gel wild his hans an lifts her out OF
trouble. Den de grabber's red pal-de
! one wot he won't make n honest wo-
man of-don't shoot i'm. Not on yer
life. She fires into de auty's gasserline
tank. n chunks of de gel-gra bier has
a mix-up wild de fireworks An all fer
! ten L twent' an no higher!
It is into Broadway itself this week
that the automobile makes its big
break The belief has settled down
upon the managers minds that extrav-
! aganza is on its chorus girls last legs;
that beauty shows have paled from
sameness; that other than sensuous
/ things are requisite to save the hop
/ and-skip entertainments from abOli-
/ ton; that they must be based on
/ something like real plays and contain
real novelties. Now, while automobile
/ accidents have been made stage fun of
! a great deal, there hasn't been music
| al comedy or farce with motoring for
/ its theme-not until now, when The
! Vanderbilt Cup takes up the Wander
biIt race of last autumn at MineOla.
/ AS in many a turf drama, jockey is
! bribed to quit the favorite horses sad
/ die and an amateur takes his place, SO
/ In this play a hired chauffeur abandonS
| his seat I'm the Ikelest motor car and
an unprofessiOnal volunteer drives the
machine to victory. Both make-belfeve
! and realism are resorted to. The trip
! Of some of the characters from New
| York to MineOla in an automobile is
shown, with a breakdown, of course;
and if we had never seen any motion
/ photographs, what a wonder these il
/ Illustrations would be to us. Although
/ they lack the value Of novelty, they
are amusingly well done.
Reality begins with the representa-
! ton of the race. The genuine Barney
| OldfeId is in it with his genuine Green
/ Dragon. The man grips the levers hard,
strains his body forward and stares
| ahead pOp-eyed, while we see the
wheels of the machine go round at a
| haIf-minute whiz; and the car that is
| in dramatic competition is operated
/ similarly; but there is not quite the
! illusion of speedy progress that has
! been obtained with horses running on
! treadmills-a device which Neil Bur-
! CESS patented for 1.-THE County Fair"
and licensed to ben Hur." Oldfeld
| contrived the apparatus that he uses,
| and began to show it in vaudeville, but
| its utility for 1.-The Vanderbilt Cup
| has transferred him and it to the reg
ular stage. Although the Green Dragon
hasn't the struggling activity of Abigail
! Prue's mare Cold Molasses at the yam
/ kee fair. nor of Ben Hur's four-horse
/ chariot team in the Roman arena, a
| rapid rush of roadway scenery tricks
your eyes-if you wisely try to let it,
! instead of taking an oh, pshaw! view
/ of it-and you get a vivid idea of how
| the Vanderbilt cup race excited those
| who saw it.
Elsie Janis is the star exhibit in THE
| Vanderbilt Cup" I don't call Elsie the
/ Ii,