The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-15


in sober drama against summer heat
in New York. The plays that have
LISTED into July are THE Lion and the
Mouse" with its showing of Rookie
Teller millions, and "The Girl of the
Golden West with robber of miners
for a hero. This weeks reproductions
by stock companies are Men and Wo-
men," with a sOrdid wrecking of a
bank, and Jack Sheppard" with old
time deeds of highwaymen. At Coney
Island, THE Great Train Robbery is
one of the big affairs of spacious and
pCpulous realism, and / counted, in
walk through that seaside city of coin
coaxing, seventeen sideshows In which
hold-ups of Rocky mountain stages and
trains are enacted in various ways,
from moving photographs in beer halls
to mock adventures of tours on gravity
railways. And the crude comedians in
the dozens of open-door extravaganzas
play all the familiar tricks to get each
others money without earning it,
Even in 1.-THE Mountain Torrent"
new combination of gravity railway
and shOOt-the-chute on a magnitudin-
Gus scale, the popular interest in wrong
wealth processes isn't overlooked. A
mountain side is so picturesquely built
and painted that it looks a mile high;
and so much water is pumped from the
sea up to the top, there to be tumbled
down in cascades, that the free view
advertises tremendously the 10-cent
trips to the apex. You are lifted in an
elevator to the starting point Of a grav-
ity railway, on which you ride up, down
and around the crags awhile. Then you
get into boats and float with the slug
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vines. Again you are on a train, and
suddenly it is held up by bandits. And
not without a touch of reality is this
incident The point of your detention
is hard by a mountain inn where re-
freshments are on sale. You don't have
to buy? How about 1t if a fellow is
making the journey with his best-be-
loved girl, and she remarks that it is
awfully warm up there?
The money that yields dramatic in
teTest in Three Womens Gown" a
new play in a Yiddish theatre of the
Bowery section. is triple tainted. A He
brew keeps one of those stores that
are stocked with clothing cast off by
women more fashionable than wealthy.
He has purchased a fine gown from a
respectfully married belle of the smart
unwedded belle of the smirch set.
Again it comes back to his store, and
again he sells it-this time to pure
poor girl to wear at her debut as an
actress. The maiden finds in an OBJ
scure pocket of the dress five bank
notes of a thousand dollars each.
Whom do they belong to? The wifes
millionaire lover may have thrust
them there to tempt her when she
should find them. He was a temper
airy owner of the siren, also, and may
have put them into the garment when
she had it on. Anyway, as he was
plundering officer of a life insurance
company, the money was surely a
part of his swag. At the time of the
play, ne is pursuing the Hebrew maid
en-. But she wouldn't take his polluted
cash even under the described circum-
stances. What shall she do with it?
ut is tainted Christian money" she
says. Il will purify it. l will give it
towards the building of a Jewish syna-
gogue."
Let me frankly confess that, while
August will bring a lot of new plays,
stage novelties in August make a hard
hunt to find. Else why should l sail
down the bay to Staten Island to see
"Kiralfy's wOndrOus resplendence of
farce, comedy, tragedy and spectacle
A Carnival in Venice admission only
twenty-five cents?' Oh how good old
Kiralfyte it was! A hundred ballet
girls, when viewed with naked eyes
across a pond in a light that wasn't
bright, costumed in gayety and frolic-
some in maneuvers, looked like two
dollars worth. How foolish to use an
opera glass on them. Brought nearer,
they dropped in value to the quarter
dollar quotation. The faces presented
an astonishing average of unloveliness,
and the range in ages was such that
many woman may have had her
mother at one side and her daughter
at the other. The costumes had an
equal variation in years, from new cot
ton to old satin. 1t seemed possible
that some of the garments and their
Wearers had begun public service to-
gether in the first production of The
Black Crook" The management might
we'll have searched folks at the en-
trance, to take away every glass and
pistol, lest a use of the firearm should
follow that of the magnifier.
However, TO those who let distance
CT cate enchantment this was a rare
bargain in theatrical spectacle. And it
was so Venetian. Palaces along the
canals and bridges across them
swayed lightly in the evening breeze,
and cathedral towers swung dreamily.
Gondolas floated buoyantly on the
lake when they didn't scrape the bot
tom with overlooking. The pale efful-
gence from a row of calciums struck
the moon that was red in the opposite
sky. There was the Italian carnival,
too. To be sure, the singers in the
boats were German yodlers, the initial
ballet was Japanese, the first set of
chorus girls were American ragtimers
with negro antics, a spell of panto-
mime introduced an English clown
with Mexican burro. and the music
that came from a Roman Catholic
church was a Protestant hymn. But
Kiralfy-he darted them down to Ven
etian business after awhile. A grand
duke of exceeding height came in with
one procession, his lean daughter with
another, her fat lover with a third, and
they went into the church for mar
riage. A quartette of bass bandits lay
in wait to abduct the bride. But the
army marched upon the plaza to res
cue her, after which there was military
pageantry, and for a climax the re-
joiCing Italians sang 1.-The Star
Spangled Banner"
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