The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-03
New York's Dull Season, Theatricallv
q FRANKLIN FYLEs
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs

| manifestly had taken greater, pafns TO
characterize the eight than the four. She
had given the better language to The
seFvile majority, too, so far as ethical.
/ social and political meanings went
And throughout there was Patsy, a
variant of Eleanor Robson's merely
/ Mary Ann, standing for a protest
| against class distinctions. yet giving
1 the evidence OF example that birth, az
| ter all, qualities a girl more than rear
/ ing does, to be a lady. The logic OF
/ The Girl Patsy is confused, but It
/ won't strike any iady's maid as being
other than perfectly clear and lovely.
! Few in His Honor the Mayors
! first Broadway audience knew, and
none cared, how the play had Jared in
other cities, under that title or as 1.-THE
| Pink Hussars." Things Of such import
ance, in the estimation Of our theatre
/ cal FOUNDERS, had been put into it for
its production that its previous condi-
/ lions was not taken into account. First
/ in vital moment was the vital question
] whether Blanche Ring had a new song
| equal TO The Good Old Summer Time
with which she had made her transit
/ from vaudeville burlesque to musical
comedy four years ago, or to THE Belle
of Avenue A. with which she had re-
newed her popularity. Later, and
mainly for lack Of a third one as good,
! she had dropped behind the extrava-
| ganza leaders Blanche is of small con-
! sequence os an actress, except when she
/ sings, and even then she isn't great IN
/ less she has suitable material. In the
new company for His Honor the
Mayor" although bigger than Maud
/ HOlIins or Madelyn Marshall in the
/ programmes type, she was smaller
than either in the performance until
/ she got TO an interpolated song, Come
! Take Skate With Me"
! 1t was not in that ballad Of skat-
/ ing, however, that Blanche Ring re-
/ gained her lost vogue, but in one of
/ dancing, and it's title was waltz Me
/ Round Again, Willie" Her character
/ in the play had been indefinite, but
( now she became a typical girl OF the
/ dance hall-nOt an impOlite outcast OF
/ the joints, but a hearty, wholesome
! creature, who would waltz all night till
/ broad daylight and go to work in the
store or shop Unrested but cOntented in
| the morning.
! The TenderlOin contingent had a high
/ old time with Blanche and waltz Ne
/ Round Again. Willie" Fast men from
4 the gayer clubs and rapid women from
/ the smarter social circles were there IN
! force; and Blanche was on speaking
/ terms with most of them. She got the
/ gallery whistIing the new tune at the
! second encore, and she invited the par
/ qUet to join her in the chorus at the
/ third. When they responded rather
| family, she called on individuals -
/ break out Now, Colonel Smith, she
would say, "WhOOp it up, Doctor
1 Jones'" Don't be shy, Mrs. Robinson, -
naming persons well known in our local
world Of social adventure. She was re
called over and over, until the audience
sang Ike a camp meeting congregation
/ led by a fervid revivalist, and she was
50 thoroughly exhausted that a physi-
clan was called to attend her behind
the scenes. But she was able to sit Up
at a restaurant table after the the
| atTe.
| Clarence Harvey, who of late years
had been a parIor entertainer for As
tors, Vanderbilts and such, had been
/ engaged to re-write and enact the
/ Mayor, and he reminded the old fellows
by his adeptness IN tricks Of fun, that
he had once been a singing, dancing
| and fOOling comedian. Harry Kelley
and Henri French had been brought in
from vaudeville to help make sum-
mer entertainment.
But the athletic runts Of the Pony
/ Ballet were the pets Of the occasion.
/ They had been off Broadway long
| enough to seem a novelty. Those eight
| young women, or their predecessors.
had come from their London trainer
six years ago, but no variation from
I the standard first set for size, shape
and manner had broken the original
! uniformity. They are just the same
human ponies, stocky, muscular and
practiced to such a precision that they
| impress you, not as an Octette, but, as
one concerted body. There is a Pony
/ Ballet maker in London, who selects
and drills his pupils to conform exact
ly 10 his fixed mode, and sends the
| graduates to maintain the Fights in va
rious countries. Each eight really num-