The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-18

"Audacious. brilliant. chic, droll,
ebullient, fetching, graceful, heavenly.
ineffable, jaunty," and so on through
the alphabet down to zephyr like"
One characterization was dazzling
little devili"
In my mind" said Richard earle to
a party of storytelling friends a few
days ago, the most interesting and
hardest to interest playgoer in England
is the gallery god. He never hesitates
to express his feelings in unsolicited
language, and his opinion is invariably
audible throughout the house.
| "A funny thing occurred one night at
A London music hall where happened
to be among the audience. There was
q vaudeville team, consisting Of a man
and a woman. who did a very pretty
knife-throwing act The woman was
young and extremely attractive, with
a winsome face and Venus-like figure.
The man was a big, swarthy six-footer,
with brownstone features and fierce
purple-black mustache.
| After the usual musical entrance
and bowling Acknowledgements OF ap-
plause, the man bound the pretty girl
against a sort Of upright easel. Then,
retiring to distance of about fifteen or
twenty feet, he threw knives through
the air that embedded themselves in
the easel within a fraction of an inch
of the body of the fair target, until she
was literally surrounded by fence OF
glittering steel.
With contrast between the beauti-
full girl and the fferce-looking knife
thrower, there was an element of dan
ger in the performance that made it
extremely popular, and every night the
team enjoyed half a dozen enthusiastic
recalls at the close of their act.
ION the evening l was present, how
ever. the beautiful girl CHANGED to be
/ i'll. and the knife-thrOwer was forced
to substitute his wife as a target. She
was a complete antithesis of the girl,
with f1fty-year-old figure that had
never known the benificent results Of
an enforced fast and a face that had
seen every part of the world and at
which every part of the world had
evidently taken a crack.
| THE pretty little poses affected by
the girl on her entrance became gro
! tesque when the older women attempt
ed to initiate them. When her husband
| tried to tie her on the easel the woman
proved TO be SO fat that the thongs
were passed about her body with
difficulty. To make matters worse, the
pair grew fretful, and it was evident to
the audience that repressed but angry
words were being exchanged.
Finally the lady with an excessive
embonpoint was firmly impinioned
against the panel and the knife thrower
came down from the stage to arrange
his 1avelins. AS he did so the audience
caught a glimpse Of his flushed face
1t was evident his domestic arrange
ments had suffered a jar.
| Selecting a shining knife, the big
| fellow carefully poised the weapon
abouve his head, rested his body on one
leg, little to the side, and-fiash! it
was gone.
With unerring aim the knife shot
! through the air like a streak Of light
and imbedded in the easel within an
inch of the wOman's skull
The knife was quivering in the panel
so close to the woman's head that it
touched her as ii Oscillated.
THE house gasped with wondering
admiration of the mans skill.
| Everything was so still that the pro-
verbal pin dropped on. the floor would
have sounded like a cannon ball, when.
out Of GREATNESS silence, came the
growing voice of a gallery god:
"'Oh, II, Els missed err"
During Mr.. Sousas tour Of Europe in
1905 he visits Leeds. and while there re-
/ cefved a communication inquring if it
were not true that his real name was
Sam Ogden, and that he was born in DUd-
/ ley Hill, Yorkshire. The bandmaster's
as fellows:
Dear Sir-Mr Sousa begs to state that
| 1t was q source Of amusement to him in
! his travels over the eastern and western
hemispheres TO find the ingenuity dis
/ played by photographers in writing about
| him. He hates to spoil a good story, but
J desires to state that his name was never
| Sam Ogden, is not Sam Ogden and never
will be Sam ogden; that he never was
born in Dudley Hill, and never Will be
! born in Dudley Hill, and the fact of the
matter is that his name and his family
name has been Sousa since the time
where the memory of man runneth not
| to the contrary If you viii go down
into the dawn of the world you will find
| that the royal city OF Persia was called
| Sousa. Then it became necessary to
plant the seed of civilization in the then
| tenighted Europe. Mr.. SOusa's ancestry
| came to Portugal, and even unto this day
| the name is the most famous in the POr-
/ tuguese history and nobility Mr.. Sousa's
| father, Antonio de Sousa, went to Amer
| lea as an exile in the early forties, and
| In Washington, D c.. the capital Of
America, on a bright 9Th of November. in
| the good year of 1884 the subject of this
| letter was born, and If he had ever to be
place and the same parents"
| Lawrence D'Orsay comes of a family Of
| well-known English lawyers Mr.. Dor
| say himself was educated to follow the
| family calling, but after his graduation
| from a London college the stage offered
him more attraction than did the legal
| profession. and he consequently became
the first of his line to desert the profess
sion which his predecessors had followed
| Tor some generations. His stage career
! began in the usual way-small at first