The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-07

1t that partisans of Forrest and Mac
i ready fought each other to death in
Astor Place? Time changes our the
atrical tempers. We regard the drama
with less awe and more respect. Mock
heroes are not real heroes to us any
more Booth and Salvini played with,
not against, each other. Who would
get angry, or think of striking a blow,
If Mansfield and Tree were to act at
opposite sides OF street? The COM
motion in New York over players near
est to contention is when Fay Tenn
pleton and Marie Dressler come out,
as they did on New Years day, in new
shows simultaneously. But they are so
jolly and fat that it wouldn't be posi-
bic for them to convince any one-al-
| though It may be true-that they feel
cross to each other. The Tenderloin re-
/ CARDS Fay and Marie as big examples
OF burlesquery in bulk, and questions
and answers might run thus: What is
| a ton in weight? Two thousands
pounds What is a tun in capacity?
Two hundred and fifty gallons Can
/ you name two tOn-tuns in dramatic
art? Fay Templeton and Marie Dress
Ter.
The two plays in which the two bux-
ON burlesquers cut holiday capers were
| 'Forty-five Minutes From Broadway
which was sure thing, having had
| good spell in Chicago, and ''Twiddle-
| IWaddle, which was fresh, somewhat
raw, from three nights only of practice
! ups ate That gave an advantage to
ray usually unready on opening
nights; for whatever she had done ap-
/ provedly in Chicago was bound to
/ please in New York No two Ameri-
| can cities are more alike in theatrical
] taste than the largest two. But Ma
/ les antics were new and uncertain
There are those who won't let her fun
! excuse her vulgarity. But they don't
! include New Workers who keep along
! with stage and society's gait-that is
the portions Of stage and society that
go rapid pace hand in hand "Twid-
/ dle-Twaddle" filed Joe Weber's small
/ stage. so snugly with pretty girls thar
! it didn't look possible to squeeze an
! other on without making room by TAX
ing more of heir skirts off; yet three
/ comedians contrived to get space
among them for clowning: and then
! Marie. six feet high and four feet wide
/ hurled herseief into the midst of them
/ But they were elastic creatures and
/ compressible, and the impact didn't
throw any of them across the footlights
TO the lickerisb show girl chssers who
sat in their usual rows of desire. For
/ this was great exhibition Of beauty
IN the Weberfields' manner
/ But Marie was taken for good-fel-
/ low woman. not a big sensuous, but
very COMPULSORY. AS the big daughter
OF little Weber, searching in Europe for
a nobleman to buy for toy husband
! she picked up her parent by the nape
| of the neck. tucked him under her
! arm. threw him over her shoulder and
/ laid him across her lap for a spank
/ ing. When she swung her massive hips
/ in Spanish fandango and hit Weber
and Charley Biglow, they flew right
| and left from her sides like rubber
no AfeN hot 80 Il
| When team of footballing coIlegians
/ taught Weber their game, and piled
| themselves on him. she flew into the
! scene s though bounced from a spring
| board and struck on the top Of the
/ heap, to balance there paving and
/ kicking as long as the audience kept
| laughing That is the kind of a come
/ dienne that Marie is.
A year ago. George NJ. Cohan brought
/ Little Johnny Jones" as close to
Broadway as any theatrical boss would
/ le+ him, and its first audience was IN
/ clined to think that its serious drama
tization Of Tod Sloan's jockeying i'm
/ England would weigh down it's song
! dance and gaieties; but the experiment
| gave a new twist and turn to extrav-
/ aganza, and since then Cohan has been
/ tagged Ike the bellweather of a sheep
/ ish flock of shOwmen. On going to see
! II VI I've -1Atiub0S rom BTOaQWdV-
! we knew that he had followed his own
| lead and gone further: that the char
/ acter created for Fay Templeton
/ while mostly a iovial .housemaid would
have some serious aspects as a million
/ heiress under a VIII stolen by malefac-
/ tors in burglary mOOnlit at midnight
! The TendeTlOin has for so many years
sworn by Fay that, no matter what
she might do. it wouldn't swear at her;
/ so IT applauded her when she became
! melOdramatic quite as heartily as it
! had when she was farcical I won
! dered, though, if she liked 1t when the
| laughter went aside from her to a Vic
/ tor Moore, just promoted from vande-
| vile. COhan has the Hoyt knack of
! finding obscure talent. There couldn't
be a more fit actor than Moore for the
role Of a Chuck Corners talker Of
| slang-the Kid who moves UP from The
Bowery to that New Rochelle which
is ''forty-f1ve minutes from Broadway
and blends his hunor with the affairs,
grave and gay, Of suburban commu-
| ters.
The New Years day drama Of dig
nifty or at least Of strut, did not main
! tain its pose of Importance. 1.-THE
/ Crossing" by winston Churchill. novel
| fst and Louis Evan Shipman, play
wright, did not miss failure by enough
| TO meet success; nor did Julie Bon
Bon," which Clara Lpman had writ
ten; yet the faults of those pieces were
/ interestingly dissimilar. The two men
had stuck so close to the beaten path
Of romantic melodrama that an audi
ence eager for newness couldn't get
engrossed in an old, old story told again
in an old, old way. And the woman
had dashed so boldly away from the
rules and regulations Of play-making
| that her work was patchwork of small
| aggregate account. Much Improvement
seems possible in both cases and so the
ventures may yet be saved.
| Winston Churchill is a homeopathic
novelist. His doses are sugary pellets.
| It is a Churchill idea that even the
most casual-minded American should
/ know the history of his country; that
/ intimate impressions Of natural events
may be taken into the system and re-
! tanned if swallowed In pleasant drops
/ of fictional romance. The picture of
| New Orleans in it's French Spanish
/ American evolutionary period, which
was the purpose of 1.-THE Crossing in
both book and play, does not make the
/ CaTvels idealize the historic fllustra-
ton with love. That worthy family,
/