Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29
THE PLAY IN NEW YORK.
ALBERTA GALLATIN,
In Dorothy Vernon Of Haddon Hall"
by CLAIMING POLLOCK.

| sandwich In a qulck-lunch room on
| Sixth avenue SO basely material are
we IN this year OF our Lord, 1906!
The subject of theatrical antiquities
| brings us easily and gracefully TO
| Dockstaders Ministries, now playing an
engagement at the New York theater.
It's a pity that minstrelsy Is dying
out" said the lady who goes to the
! theater with me. mo other form of
entertainment is so Characteristic Of
our stage"
That probably was the opinion OF Lew
Dockstader. He went farther. He rea-
soned THE ordinary Elack-faced show
OF today has nothing mI1strelsy about
t. except the burnt cork end the first
part. All the rest ia simon pure vaude-
vile. | Will get up a minstrel perform
ance that will be a minstrel perform
ance, and nothing else"
He has succeeded. There Is no club
swinging or mind-reading In the AL
tertainment at the New York; none OF
the specialties that used to be huddled
together and called an "ollo." The
acts following the first part are regular
minstrel acts. presented by the comedi-
ans and dancers Of the company. and
there is no gainsaylng that they are
the best OF their kind But. oh! how
tlresome they get to be! Before the
evening is over one has resolved never
again to hear & song sung or see a Jig
danced II one can help II. There are
two sketches OF the kind that used TO
be extremely popular In the days OF
Thatcher, Primrose & West, but that
seems silly and childish now. Is 1t that
mlnstrelsy has gone back or that we
have gone forward?
Lew Dockstader himself is extreme
~ funny as usual In the first part
he has two excellent PAROLES, re-
spectively on "Dearle" and Waltz Me
Around Again Willie" while his mo-
nologue. entitled THE Editor" In
PRODUCES the comic references to cur
rent topics that have always been the
salient feature OF his skits. So far
as mounting is concerned, the produce
ton Is one OF minstrelsy de luxe. No
comic opera could have been more
tastefully and deliberately staged.
To realize how weak and ineffec-
tive Ia The Daughters Of Men," even
as sermon, one should see THE Man
OF the Hour" at the Savoy. This play
by George Broadhurst. depicts politi.
cal conditions In any large city In
America" though the intention to
snow up New York is so obvious that
audiences laugh heartily on their way
out OF the house when the orchestra
plays "Tammany." MIR. Broadhurst's
comedy doesn't beat about the bush.
after the fashion OF Charles Klein's'
The talk of corruption and graft in
The Man or the Hour" is not only
trenchment, but faithful to the sort OF
thing that is said under such condi.
lions.
In the first act, Charles VAIN
wright, capitalist. tells Richard Horu.
gan, boss. that he wants n street rail-
way franchise granted. Here is the
dialogue that ensues.
Horrigan--And how does this in.
terest me?
Wainwright am a Arm believer
IN Inc present administration and I
thlhk II would work great injury 10
the city to have It superseded. a,
am willing to give $500, 600 toward the
expense OF the coming campaign to
Keep the present party In power
Horrigan-That's fair enough I'M,
-taps himself significantly on the
chest y" 'he
Wainwright--Well, whenever have
enything which looks particularly
good, i am never averse to giving
friend chance to make soma monay
so | VIII carry 1900 shares OF re-.
rough stock TO your account, market
price SO. "e'
Horrigan-Well--
Wainwright--Two days after the
franchise Is guaranteed that stock