The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-11
Kyrle Bellew in 'Brigadier Gerard
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.

look into the scowling life behind the
smiling scenes of theatre.
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And as to THE Blue Moon" itself
there is not much TO write. 1t is mu-
steal comedy made i'm London without
scrap of new material i'm its libretto
British army men are in Burmah with
some English wives and sweethearts
native singing girl, nicknamed the
Blue Moon, doesn't want TO marry a
burmese prince. as she is fond of an
English officer, whose difficulty Of
caste in wedding her is removed by the
discovery that she is the lost daughter
Of a nobleman of his own land. Pretty
much all of the text is as worthless
as the plot. But beautiful show is
produced. and Jimmie Powers. with no
whit of help from the four authors
forces a lot Of his own droflery into =
Tommy Atkins bandmaster who Is a
coward playing futile tricks to con-
vince MS sweetheart that he is brave.
Several of the many displays give
fond satisfaction i'm this new extrava-
ganZa. While Jimmie sings OF his ex-
PLOTS with fearSome crocodiles. the
green CARRIED and shiny spangled girls
wind in and out and around and about
the scene in wriggling column pref
tiiy like the ugly reptile in movement
This monster may have been vicious,
put was of no hideous mein, and in the
Johnnies front row were several WOr-
shfpers who looked as though ready.
like those Zeaiots who throw themselves
In the Gauges by way of sacrifice to the
deVour1ng crocodile. to leap across the
footiights and be eaten up by this hun
ored-legged creature with the wide
open and truly crocodilean smiles
Horribly IbSen is the drama with
4 Paul Armstrong for its author. and "
g Goodwinl for its principal actor
given here last Sunday night with 10
more definite title than "A Study of
character from Life Goodwin had
tried IT on the nerves of a Pittsburg
audience once, / believe with a result
so prostrating that he retired II NJ
once from indiscriminate publicity. But
the Lambs club had a "gambol" with
Sir Thomas Upton as the guest of hon
or and with no feminine sensitiveness
10 be raSped by the grim, CHASTITY piece
II was put in the bill.
An Ibsen drama hardly ever makes
anyone weep, and never is laughed at
unless sarcastically. This quarter-hour
work caused the Lambs to pull The
wool over their fearful eyes, and al
the same time to show their grinnine
teeth. 1t was said that in the tentative
performance there had been excisions
But here, when the curtain went uD. a
sheeted corpse was seen on a hospital
cot.
That fellow was coward" said ar
orderly, as he finished covering the
body
Il never saw man more afraid &c
die, said the physician.
The remains Of the person whom
death had frightened were carried out
and the cot was put in order for its next
occupant. 1t was empty no more than
five minutes. The clang of an ambu-
lance gong approached and stopped A
messenger came in to say that the ar
irving patient was to have ANYTHING
and everything possible done for him
regardless of cost.
Nat Goodwin is an adept in make up
No tramping hummer was ever frow-
sier, blearier. raggeder or dirtier than
the wretch who was brought in on a
stretcher and laid on the cot limp and
insensible- The ambulance surgeon
said that the poor fellow had snatched
| little girl from the boots Of n runa-
way horse, but they had struck him a
mortal blow. The surgeon stuck nv
podermic needle into his arm. and an
injection reused him TO consciousness.
Am / up against ito" he asked.
Yes" was the reply
Good n hard?"
Yes"
N I can't beat it,"
You have but few minutes 10 live. -