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

est musical farce, tells that Ii IS a
stage imitation of Partisan gayety. An
American Snowman Is seeking French
novelties to import. He is a free opener
of wine, and out of one enormous bot
| tie springs Mamselle Champagne, an
incarnation OF alcoholic spirit In the
form Of a woman. There is nothing pc
culiar in the phenomena. except that
the bottle is not labelled to advertise
a brand of wine. In another play near
/ by twenty walters serve to twenty din
ers champagne lettered big with the
| name of one vintage, while the COM
pany sings its praises. Perhaps no
wine importer can be persuaded that
the bottle which corNains wicked
woman I'm solution would be q valuable
advertisement of his brand.
| The slightest and most brSZen adj
vertising just now done on the New
York stage is In this weeks introduc-
ton of Daisy Gown" song in an
extravaganza. The stage is unlighted
at the start of the chorus. Suddenly
/ from the hlackness shines out eight
posters on a row of billboards iilumined
with electric lamps. Each has a young
| woman goWned and hated in white
and gracefully posed as though for an
avenue promenade. Above and below
each Daisy Gown is the assertion ad-
vertised that one cleaning establish
ment. and one Ihly. is able to keep
toilettes as unexpectedly white as those.
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| The company that introduced Nam
selle Champagne" contained not one
member known in New York, nor was
the first audience aware Of Authors
Woolf and Freeborn; yet the FOUNDERS
were there in force, and this was the
evenings only new play. Not long
ago ! wrote about Arthur Dunno and
Stanford White at vaudeville theatre
where Dunno was leading dozen cho-
rus girls In a parody of the scene In
Peter Pan" Maude Adams runs for
ward and implores the audience to say
yes to her very emotional query, do
you believe in fairies?"
as Stanford White in the house?"
cried Dunno.
He is" replied White.
| "Mr. White the comedian contin-
ued. edo you believe in fairies?"
There was a roar of laughter, which
prevented the good-humored Whites
retort from being heard; but he might
have said for he was an inveterate
| first-nighter at shows of girls. 81 am
making a thorough study of the SUBJ
ject."
Stanford White sat at a table in the
roof garden where "Mamselle Cham
payne" was introduced Harry Thaw
and Florence Evelyn Nesbitt-Thaw sat
at another. Just as Harry Short, the
! comedian, got to a songs refrain, 81
could love a thousand girls" three pis-
tol shots rang out. Thaw killed White
in the way, and for the reason, that
you have read all about.
| What was done on the stage, though,
/ Hoe. t. Sc.
! in cases of disturbances in theatres to
assure the people that there is no dam
ger, whether there is or not. But the
| stage manager in this case did his
worst to incite a panic. He rushed
down to the footlights in q state of
Wild excitement.
There has been an accident" he bel
| lowed. please vacate the theatre as
quickly as possible. Clear the stage.
Get out everybody
OF course, a stampede began for the
| elevators. Women tainted here and
there, and many men lost their heads
for the moment, for the accident" was
surmised to be a fire. But the orches-
ira leader struck up coon tune and
cried, Dance, girls-dancev There
were five on the stage. Four obeyed
with an energetic effort in buck and
wing dancing. That halted the panic
| little, and the word went quickly
around that there had been no peril
except for Stanford White In being
killed and for Harry Thaw in having
killed him.
The farce ended in a gruesome TRACE
dy. yet / shall ever recall as comic the
| fifth girl who was on the stage She
| began to dance with the Others but
she was at the corner nearest the muir
der, and her woman's curiosity over
came her obedience. Her feet slowly
ceased to patter. and STOPPING until she
was almost down on her knees, she
peered into the crowd to see the utmost
of the horror; and having seen, she
tainted.
Girls for stage shows are now made in
quantities it would seem, beyond the
| demand. One trainer has twenty diff
ferent dozens ready for next winter. If
you need something in the pony ballet
way. he will take you to a hall where
he exercises and exhibits his girls pri-
vately. Each set has its own songs.
dances costumes and scenery, and is to
have a fsurehead; but for these trade
displays the trainer himself serves as
q leader, while they go through with
| their performances without emitting so
much as nod or a smile. 1t will make
you feel foolish. though. if you are not
a Snowman, to have them go through
their tricks of witchery for you alone.
Some of these dozens have been put
into the roof gardens already. A fair
example is called Rain Bears" and
it's girls are smallish of stature, timber
of limb and fair-faced, although no
one is a beauty. Neva Aymar is the
soUbrette who sets the rapid pace for
them. At first they are hidden down
to their waists in enormous false heads,
while their hips serve as shoulders to
bogus arms, so that for the time being
they are hideous dwarfs in a demoniac
orgy. Suddenly the big heads turn in
side out and drop dewn behind the
| skirts of neat rustic mSideas. the scene
changes to cornfield and they dance
| around shocks of the grain. A second
| shift is an arctic view, and the heaps
Of corr become snow, behind which the
girls alter their dress to that of Es-
kimos for a polar song and dance. FL
nally, there is a rainstorm. with thin
frontage of actually wet water, in which
the rain dears gambol under tarpaulin
hats and rubber overcoats like ideal
lied fishermen.
1t is curious what difference a few