The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-29

that the licenses of theatres can be le-
gally attacked by the municipality only,
not by individuals or societies, and the
mayor approves the open Sunday door
Tor all save the wholly dramatic houses,
because that policy pieases many thou
sands of voters. But there has to be
some recognition, once in a while, OF
the perhaps equally numerous Sabba-
| tartan voters.
| The last proceedings were comical
The police department made a raid, one
Sunday, on a genuine concert at the
Metropolitan opera house where vocal
and instrumental music was given
without the faintest semblance Of act
ing. and arrested the manager, who was
discharged from custody by a magis-
trate next morning, of course as no law
had been violated The police accepted
that decision as covering vaudeville
which really 1t did not touch at all. No
doubt full-length dramas would have
Sunday performances if there was
much demand for them; but all the ac-
tors and a majority of the managers
are against the Sunday opening of le-
ultimate theatres. The Germans are
the only people privileged in that re-
spect. and the Sunday performances of
plays i'm German are not advertised in
English print.
Once more we Will return. if you
please, TO the show given by the Green
roomers. 1t was great in the promise
and small in the performance. The adj
vertisements called II a dress rehearsal,
but unlike dress rehearsals of salaried
actors under discipline, there were no
fines for non-appearance. Sam Bernard
was promised as the middle man in the
instead We got James j. Corbett, and
perhaps the audience was as well
amused by Jim as they would have
been by Sam; but it was said that the
presence of the former pugllist account
ed for the absence of some other volun-
teers. OF the four pledged end men,
Marshall p. Wilder was there with new
Jokes and Billy Clifford with old. but
Raymond Hitchcock. Robert T.. Ora
ham, Charles Dickson and Henry Lee
were missing. In the emergency, Harry
Buiger and Gilbert Gregory were
brought in from the audience, to hastily
blacken themselves and try to be funny
Bulger's memory is so impaired that he
fSSontly retired from the stage, and he
couldn't recall a single joke, but he
sang some parodies that were lodged
in his mind. Gregory had passed
through the San Francisco earthquake.
and so he blurted out an adaptation Of
a Sacrilegious story. He said that, be-
ing scared from his bed by the convul-
sion, he prayed to God for help, and
added Come down yourself-don't
send your son this time-this is a mans
job The audience was SO shocked
that it didn't encourage the comedian
TO say any more.
Further on, Jim Corbett was struck
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ony of old material. Ethel Marie Par
ker was to sing a ballad.
Would you mind, Miss Parker" he
said, ''if we do a bit of fooling with the
piano before you begin?"
She said that she wouldn't. Then |
he had about five seconds of rehearsal |
with John Hart. Al Wilson, Nat Wills |
and Marshall Wilder. They seized on
the piano. made cIamOr of conflicting |
directions in the wing, and with siren !
uous pushing and pulling against one |
another. rolled the instrument out to its |
place, Miss Fisher meanwhile affecting |
to be alarmed by the conflict. Not |
worth writing, say you? All the same. |
it was the one new and original act of /
the evening.
The program said that the entertain /
ment would end with 1.-The Squabzits," /
presented for the first and only time on
any stage. Up TO that point. eleven l
promises had been broken and eleven
had been kept. What if THE Squab-
zits" should be, as minated one of |,
those jolly stage frolics into which ac-
tors sometimes fling themselves on oc-
casiOns of benevolence and goodfelIow- /
ship? I'm that case. wouldn't the people |
who had given up three hours and $25G |
be so tickled at the finish as TO forget /
and forgive the succession of familiar
specialties brought i'm from the roof l
gardens? But. alas, there were ito |
"squabzits." The show closed without /
a glimpse of them.
During the several days up TO this
writing. 'squabzit' has passed into l
slang as a synonym for person VINO l
fails to make good. For illustration: 1
why didn't you send that bunch Of l
roses to the stage for me, Johnnie, as |
you said you would?" a show girl asked 4
with a pout.
%I-I-well, l." Johnnie began to II
stammer and maybe he was going to
plead that the White. Thaw case pro- Il
vlded an excuse for being wary with Il
stage fairies.
But she interrupted him angrily with: Il
"Oh. but you're nothing but SQUAD Il
zit. That's just what you area squab-
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