The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30

was no especially designated maid in
1t, nor any millionaire at all; but il
was produced in the roof garden
where, a1year and seven days ago, the
opening performance of similar sum-
mer extravaganza had been interrupt
ed by tragedy; and so the design of
the name. THE Maid and the Million
aire," surely was to attract people to
the place through curiosity. At the
outset the scheme worked well. The
roof was crowded by people who had
| the show-girl tragedy in mind. They
sought to locate, as they came in, the
| table at which White had sat when
Thaw shot him; once in their seats.
they glanced up at the tower in which
| White had maintained q studio of ar
| tistic vice: and it seemed to me that
they were vaguely expectant-not
| dreading, but rather hoping-that
something or other not in the pro-
! gram would take place At about the
| time when, in the memorable even
| ing, three pistol shots had rung out,
the gong of a fire engine changed in
the street below, and i'm an instant the
| latent excitement became manifest,
not in noise. but in utter stiffness, con-
trasting with the preceding buzz of in
attention to the stage
1t was no wonder that The Maid
the audience that its matter hadn't the
| remotest connection with the Thaw-
| White-Nesbitt case, failed to keep the
people from talking among them
selves The Broadwayites wondered
where on earth the company had been
gathered from; for they don't go to
theatres that are visited by the tour
ing female MINISTRIES, and therefore
didn't know that this show was a
patchwork from several of last sea-
sons cheap burlesques, with a copious
| intersection of the latest songs i'm the
rival music publishers outputs 1t was
show that would have been scoffed
if it had dared come near Broadway in
winter; but on a roof i'm summer, with
smoke in the air and beverages in the
glasses, it was scOTned too laZily to be
Kissed Indeed, 1t seemed to be enjoyed
in d way
In among the utterly intolerable
comedians, and the barely bearable
soubrettes, were eight girls not drafted
from female minstrelsy They were a
fresh pony ballet" of short young
girls. not only low in stature, but
plump of body. with arms and legs
pudgy to match; so that here was a
departure from the slim creatures in
stage vogue during the past few years
To accentuate their fattiness, two con-
trasting leaders were assigned to them
in songs and dapces-a Toma Hanlan
the only actress in the outfit, and slim
enough. to look like a boy when in
trousers, and a Lila Brennan, so skel-
etonic that she looked like a fleshless
wrath of prettiness. The octet of ju-
venile roly-polys were a novelty that
would have pleased the Thaw-White
set of show-girl chasers if they had
been there Shamed into something like
shyness by the scandal, they didn't
presume to take front seats at this Gel
ebratiOn of its anniversary The few
present were scattered inconspicu-
ously.
1t looked strange that the eight lit
tie ponies" hadn't danced their fat off
in the training for their gymnastic
dances and violent capers. If they are
to remain distinguishable from the
dozens of other small ballots, it won't
do to let them lose weight. 1t may
become necessary to put them on a
diet of sugar and starch during the hot
season.
Here and there in the summer shows
some of the interpretations are worth
while When a plain girl displaced a
pretty one in Fascinating Flora the
FOUNDERS wondered why, the role being
into one of those girl mimics that are
now liked so much. The program
named her Edna Luby. She had much
of the accuracy of Elsie Janis, though
none of the keen satire of Cissie Loft
tus and Fay Templeton's reproduce
tions She depended only upon a quick
change of hair-dressing for aid in her
illusions; and that was novelty and
the best point in her work. For her
start with Edna May, she simply
brought a thick braid of hair down
over her left shoulder; for Marie Dress
Ter she dragged a whisk of hair to her
nose, blowing it aside as she sang; for
Anna Held, wriggling about eyes that
won't behave, she deftly massed her
hair into a huge pOmpadour; and, for
Vesta Victoria, she tousled that POM
padour and put a grotesque cockney
hat on it
A new picture alive in lie Jardin de
Paris" is a copy of the painting lately
excluded from the Carnegie institute
at Pittsburg on the ground of indie
cency Thus advertised, 1t was put into
the series quickly A woman who looks
absolutely naked, so skilfully tinted is
her skin-tight enclosure, is about to
battle in a brook, and a bestial satyr
of a man is cropping towards her. What
can't a beautiful woman be hired to do
on the stage?
X X
The most remarkable new actor is a
mOngrel dog. He is a comedian. Your
grandpa may tell you that there can
not be a portrayal of inebriety to COM
pare with John s. Clarke's in
''TOodles." He fOrgets that our stage
has many clever mimics, and that act
ors are apt to give themselves ample
opportunity to study intoxication.
But about this dog. He is the star
member of a company of dogs and
monkeys in pantomimic farce. He is
steadily erect on his hind legs when
he enters a barrOOm, but wabbly when
he comes out, and his manner is tipsy.
He zig-zagS across the street, stands
irresolute, returns to the barroom, and
again comes out. This time his jag is
more than he can carry, and he falls
down with it; then contrives to get
on his hind feet, reels to a lamp post,
clings feebly to il, and finally slumps
on the ground. TO be arrested by a
monkey policeman and then taken
away I'm a patrol wagon driven by an
other monkey and drawn by a, dog
team. The audience laughs so much