The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-28

white girls in. singing. dancing and frol-
icsome intimacy with the same NUM-
Der of black and brown men? The girls
have negro blood. TO be sure, but not
enough to more than suggest negrofsm
in their features. or to curl their hair
! in anything like kinks; and as to COM
plexions. paint and powder had turned
their tawny skins to Caucasian pink
and white. All the other negro COM
panies that I have seen were mingled
black and tan in the women as well as
the men, with soubrettes shading off
from black as Mrs. Stoves Topsy TO
nothing lighter than her Eaiza~~f But
these sixteen evidently had been chosen
as human documents to prove how far
miscegenatiQn has been carried In a
whitening direction
1t was easy to believe, also. that by
coupling the sixteen black and brown
men with those pink and white girls,
Mr.. Dudley had intended to exhibit the
| fact that practically white girls need
men, IL they are brought up TO It. His
own real color was hidden under cork
| SCOT to enable him TO act the darkey
funnily, and the effect was when he
stood alongside his remarkably pretty
wife-so free of African faint in her
delicately pretty features that her lily
and rose of artificial complexion looked
| found in the actual life of a southern
town, probably would cause something
or other In the way of protest.
Once in a playlet. E. H. Sothern had
| q dog for his sole companion. He told
the brute about cruel sweetheart, and
/ got railways and tongue-licks by way
Of sympathetic response. Dudley In
1.-The Black Politician" brings out a
donkey, who has kicked horse just
before a race, and the man explains to
| the beast the damage that he may have
1 done. the dupIicity of the act. the
shameful lack of comeraderie that it
displayed, end the donkey wig-wags
his ears, rubs his nose against the
scolding negro's arm and looks contrite.
Now. ef youah's sorry FIR what
youah's DONE" says the man, at the
end of a confidential heart-to-heart
| talk "gO back to de stable, an we'll
nevah mention de unpleasant subtec'
tween fren's again"
The dialogue, with negro loquacity on
one side and jackass silence on the
other, fills three or four minutes with
laughter, and that makes it worth tot
me, though, was that most of the con-
versational teams in vaudeville might
be bettered by substituting a dog, DON
key, monkey. parrot OF cat. for the one
of the human pair who never is anus
ing. 1t would give all the pay to the
real comedian. and yield more diversion
to the audiences.
The comedians partner in dialogue,
as you know if you go to vaudeville
shows, may be woman who sings and
perhaps dances by herself; but in the
comeback stuff" as they call the
repartees in the conversation, she
serves as a butt for the mans jokes on
her age and weight-for she is apt to
be neither young nor slender. AS they
are husband and wife in private life
or ought to be-he takes their wedlock
also, as a topic for jest. But 1T seems
that it isn't safe to twit on facts. In q
show, the other night, the gentleman
said: ''Who was the chump that bought
wine for you last night? Not me-" The
lady didn't mind the bad grammar, but
she wouldn't stand for. the bad taste OF
referring in public to Ter own social af-
fairs. She drew off and swatted him
| He fell fiat. And that was the finish OF
their comeback" act for good and all