The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-14

shy of showing any fondness in pub
lie. The ceremony has ali the impress
siVeneSS of a wedding rite performed
by Squire Grass at Punkin Holler for
BOBBY Buckwheat and Pinkey Glover.
That completes the performance"
says the man who has talked the peo-
pie into the theater, and who is now
relied upon to talk them out without
any unpleasant incidents of resent
ment. Without extra charge you may
pass into our exact reproduction of
the old jamestown fort, which we have
built at a cost of twenty-five thousand
dollars, and there you may examine
the genuine, original and absolutely
priceless stone which was used in The
interrupted execution of John Smith.
Understand me, there is no extra
charge beyond the trifiing dime you
have paid"
Think what a good and suitable fea-
ture for the Warpath might have been
provided by training those young IT.
dams rigidly in well-mOunted repre-
sentation of the PocahOntas and Smith
ROlfe episode by the remnant of Pow
hatan's tribe.
In the Pine Beach extension of the
Warpath, where there is no censorship,
is a side-shOw of an oriental dance
hall, a flaming canvas says, and a loud
shouter repeats it, that Alulia GloTi-
sinO, famous in Egypt as an impersDn-
atOr of the beauteous Cleopatra, and
in England as Lady GOdiva in stage
spectacle, and in New York as Salome
in the dance before Herod. may now
be seen in "A daring and original rep
resentatiOn of PocahOntas saving the
life of Captain Smith. But it cores
rather high. Few of the catchpenny
shows undertake to catch fifty cents
from each spectator. But the time of
unrestricted indecenCy at Pine Beach
may be cut short, if local clergymen
prevail against the town officials, and
the showmen are making all the hay
they can while their sun shines. Alu-
liza GlOrOsini is a swarthy Egyptian
dancer such as tourists see i'm Cairo;
but instead of oriental drapery, she
wears the dress of an American In
dian. squaw, with her legs bare. and
the middle section of her body SINH
larly exposed. A man sits on Il throne
for Powhatan, like Herod in "Salome,"
and before him the woman wriggles,
twists, and squirms like a Cairo
cOuchee creature, yet unwraps herself
in the manner of Salome in the now
dance of the seven wells"
l chatted with the manager. Was he
ashamed? He was proud. For hadn't
he devised a positive novelty in this
Cleopatra, Salome and Po-
cahOntas? And wasn't he taking in
more money than any other show on
that street?
X X K
Because in honesty to my readers
have had to describe one Pocahontas is
pitiable and another as
Outrageously indecent, don't take it
that there are not excellently respec-
table exhibitions on the Warpath;
there are many such; but l am devot-
ing this letter to Pocahontas, the god
dess of the jamestown fair; and to
find plays worthy of the subject l
have had to go away from the fair to
the nearby city OF Norfolk. At the
best of the theaters is a drama entitled
'Pocahontas," and it illustrates, to
those who have seen the puerile efforts
Of Powhatan's descendants to portray
their aboriginal ancestors, the neces-
sity of trained skill if anything like
dramatic effects is to be attained This
is a cleverly constructed and ably act
ed play. The Pocahontas is a Louise
Carter, who has fully one-third of the
celebrated Mrs. Carriers ability, with