The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-07

Titled 'Ine song Bros IN WHlCh Iuh -
made of the opposition opera houses OF
Heinrich Conried and Oscar Hammer
stein. That is the portion of the enter
tainment provided by Herbert and HO-
bart, and in il C9nried and Hammer,
stein put their celebrities. CaruSO and
Bonci Eames and Media, with the rival
choruses through a singing match The
caTicaturing is good, and as New YORK
is keen to the d-Hammerstein con-
troversy, the burlesque makes humor-
GUS appeal.
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Chicago was the city of THE Land Of
Mods s" start, and I can't tell you about
its process Of development. AS given
here it has Mabel harrison and Helen
Bertr2m to lead its ballet-chOfus, besides
Carrie De Mar-Hart to put in her re-
pertory of songs, dances and mutations
me battery OF comedians Is numerous
and II its talent could be concentrated n
one of them the show would be better
OF. However, they work together as Z
team effectually in a comic illustration
or a TenderlOin spree. For those ten
minutes of fun they put on the evening
suits prescribed by fashion for gentle
men between New NOrk's dinner time
and breakfast: and judging by their state
OF inebriety, II is an hour or two past
midnight when they round up for a bib
ulous song and chorus with a refrain
Just One More meaning one more drink
before dispensing. For an encore the eight
jewellers march in carrying each a street
l3mp-pOst across his shoulder, the lamps
SHINING fortl into the dimness Of the
darkened stage. It is scarcely a good
plea for total abstinence. or even for
dlCOhOllc temperance, for the bUmmerS
seem to be making a jolly night Of it.
with a be-d3mn to headaches ia the morn
ing After the uprooted lamp-posts have
mad their laugh out, the merriment IS re
neWed by what proves TO be the highest
bid that The Land Of Nod" makes FOR
a Broadway kind of fun. Four of the
FOUNDERS pull an ENDORSED br1ugham into
view, while four push it. They put their
cOnViVlal leader into the vehicle, and
sing him on his way; but whether his des-
tinatiOn will be his bachelor apartments,
or a police station is left to conjecture
In the displays Of beauty many ingeni-
Gus things are done. with the girls in
their Land of Ned" adventures, but the
most effectual is one which hangs the
stage i'm the plain gray of night sky,
with Mabel BarrsOn the only girl in
sight. She sits aloft in crescent moon.
with stars tWinkling all around her. and
is driving a flock of birds with glistea-
ing threads for reIns.
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Ermete NOveli has acted sixteen roles
! here within three weeks: but more than
half Of them. being unknown outside of
the Italian language. have not seemed in
teresting topics to write about. and by
describing his Shylock, Lear, Hamlet and
OthellO as lacking dramatic greatness [
may have beHttled his art unfairly; so
permit me TO tell YOU that PetruChiO. the
wife trainer in THE Tanning Of the
Shrew, his oddities are delightfully."- in
genious, because they are in Shake
sperean comedy whichever Edwin Booth
and Henry Irving used 10 present in
farcical spirit. This Petruchio evinceS 4
love Of Katherine that is more than hope
ful from the outset: il is so confident that
no shadow of doubt that he will conquer
4 her falls for an instant on his ioviality.
and therefore all Of his bullying looks
good-humored to the audience. no matter
fEfawu~ hat II
lshed and beWildered bride. When he
has brought her 30 the bridal journeys
end, he is careful to not let her perceive
his pity of the tired creature. but makes
an ado over his own fatigue only. with no
seeming regard whatever for her exhsus-
ton. So careless of her does he pretend
10 be that in washing his hands. he fins
water into her face.
His most persistent device of agSrava--
llOn. however, IS TO hum a ditty1an ItaI-
ian peasant tune OF exasperating monOt-
ouy-which makes her believe that he is
utterly oblivious Of her sufferings from
hunger, thirst and fatigue. As thew take
their seats at the supper table, he saws
grace at a silent length that maddens
Katherine, and while with one hand he
makes signs of the cross on his breast
he holds her in her chair with the other
II has been customary with Petruchio to
become mock angry at the table over the
food and the service but Booth and IT.
wing together never broke as much crock
cry III twenty performances as NOVeii
does in one. and by the time that the
meal is over the floor is Uttered like the
stage of a vaudeville theatre after the act
Of Sparrow, the mad juggler."
After the repast, which has not yielded
q mOuthful to the starved bride she is
dragged up a stairway and along a bal
cOny to the bridal chamber Presently
ner screams and other noises of a scrim-
mage are heard. Petruchio filings the door
open and losses out the pillows. sheets
and counterpart Then he drags forth
a mattress and drops it on the heads Of
the servants below. The poor wife. de-
prived Of food and drink. and now with
out even a bed on which to rest emerges
from the room dejectedly. comes down
the stairs and takes a seat by the fire
place limp in body and crushed in spirit
PetruchiO is moved to relent, but. lest
he stop the curative treatment too soon
he begins again with the tiTesOme song
which Novelli has interpolated in Shake
speare. But Katherine is now too weary
to be annoyed any more by a tiresome
tune she falls asleep in her chair. and
then he kisses her hair fOndly and ten
derby covers her with a cloack
NOvelli has died for us in several diff
ferently awful ways / have described his I