The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-01
Stanford White the Target
for a New York Comedian
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.


ures as to be show pieces ty them
selves
Maie's and Lalla's spectators are in
teresting studies. balla's prove that
Broadway roof garden assomblage is
ashamed to applaud a shameful exploit
This Spaniard is so refined in face and
exquisite in mould that she looks as
though she has come from a palace in
Castille-until she drops her gown off,
and shows herself in a swimmers shirt
and trunks knit all in one. The muir
muir Of admiration is instantly husnad
to silence, the hundreds Of opera glasses
are lowered and there is not the spat
of a hand to recall her after her per-
Torrance is over. l don't mean to say
that Lalla doesn't draw people, but
none of them has the cheek to approve
the exhibition.
MAZE Provanie is French girl of the
intensest vivacity. OF course, her garb
isn't ladyliks. but Ii is suitable to her
work, and it doesn't let you see the pre-
else shape of more Than a reasonable
portion of her at any Ole time. She is
roguish and prankish, veritable SOU
brette of gymnast. She throws so
many smacking kisses with both hands
from her smiling lips that every man
in the house feels as though one has
the other az devilsh as a siren; and
the point / would make clear is that
while Broadway may consent 20 be di-
verted by indecency. 1t won't make any
show of satisfaction thereat. So there
is no encore for Lalla. but MAZE is called
back again and again. / am afraid
though, that Lallas salary is about as
much as the troupe of six containing
MAZE receives all tolG.
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A woman who lives by Ter wits and
a man VINO lives without much of any
are the mos peculiar two persons in
the New York roof gardens. Eva Fay
is brainy enough to operate new puz-
zle in pretended mind-readng. FeodOr
MachnoW is a Russian peasant so near
ly brainless that his importer contrived
to have him detained at the immigration
office, to be officially tested for idiocy.
For NachnOw is a giant, and showmen
are as keen now with advertising tricks
as they were when Barnum exploited
| Chang, the Chinese big fellow.
1 wish L could tell you how much CT
Machnow's asserted salary of 1000 a
week is real; as likely as not it may be
$500, for this is his first time round
and he is a genuine wonder; and any,
way no person ever got so much money
on the stage with so little labor There
is no sitting sixteen hours in the
twenty-four on museum platform for
him. He is a five-minute exhibit twice
day in a roof garden. After a few
Introductory words. spoken by a small
man, of course. for the sake of contrast
Machnow rises lazily from a chair
bows awkwardly, and then is conducted
through the aisles of the theatre to
shake hands with tho Doonla Ie can't
or won't speak a word in English. and
| he acts as though he couldn't talk in
| diligently in Russian.
| How big is this giant? The Snowman
| says he is nine feet two and a half
| inches in height His actual stature,
| between his own crcwn and soles, is
! close TO eight feet or equal TO Chang's.
His boots are massive enough to hold
four inches of false heels, and on his
/ head he wears a tall shake. Those
devices heighten him apparently 70
something like the altitude claimed.
! Eva Fay is a faker and 1t is praise
| to say so, as her fake has set the town
talking. She is a handsome daughter
in-law of those Fays who used to do
| stunts in cabinets and call them spir-
| itualistic phenomena. Young Mrs Fay
hundred or more persons in the audi
ence write and sign questions on slips
| from pads passed around by a half
| dozen assistants; or ones own paper
may be used and these questions are
! pOcketed by the writers, without ever
! letting them go for an instant out of
| their possession. Mrs. Fay sits blind
! folded on the stage, and rapidly gives
| the names of querists, tells the nature
of their queries and makes replies
thereto. Isn't it profoundly scientific
| Isn't ii awesomely occult? Well. no.
Yet Mrs. Fay's puzzle is not hard to
/ solve. The paper of the pads is thin,
the backs are celluloid, the pencils are
sharp, and so what you write is apt
TO be traced legibly on the slip next un-
derneath. The deft chaps who pass the
pads are able to retain many of these
duplicates. How about the questions
on the writer's own paper2 Even those
! in some instances may be caught in
part by the keen-eyed assistants and
| the rest simply are never answered.
| Mrs. Fay claims the right to per-
| centage Of failure because she cant
! read the mind of an unSympathetic
| person." Every audience contains many
whom spotter can identify. locate and
list in case they write questions, so that
she gets tips to at least their names in
| numerous instances where she can't
get any inkling of their questions. To
provide a further supply Of extra-con-
vincing cases, twenty seats are reserved
| in various parts of the garden for con-
| federates in the guises of ordinary visi-
| tors.
Conclusive proof that the returns
| from the several sources are assembled
and carefully arranged for Mrs. Fay
use is afforded by the fact that there
is an interval of half an hour in her
performance. After the questions have
been written, and the writings are
| slowed away in the writer's pockets,
| there comes the usual intermission of
a vaudeville programme, and at the
resumption of the stage show not Mrs.
Fay but some other specialist takes
time. When at length she seats herself
| in a chair, and is blindfolded and
draped, she pushes up the bandage from
| her eyes and is free to con her men,
| Oranda under the cloth that conceals
| her work, yet is so thin that she gets
ample light through it. She is ready
witted and able to utilize every bit of
| information gathered by the tricks I
| have described. Here are sufficient IL
Illustrations of the methods.
John Smith sits here at the right,
she says. You asked. Mr.. Smith. if
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