The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

pay IN broadway 10 write about reekS
or the Tenderloin. or. If that word in
olcates stencil. l will say instead that
IL Is redolent favored, scented with
the Tenderloin's immoral gaiety.
The final act is set scenicaIly with
q copy or the newest of the TenderIoin
restaurants, the name of which is Civ
en- In the program; and / would like to
tell you whether the owner of the real
one pays something for the advertising
value of the mimic one; but / don't
know, can't find out, and may only
guess that ne does-else why should
MS place be exploited so explicitly ere
1t has become well known as feature
or the midnight town. This restaurant
or missionary mirrors to multiply it's
snowy embellishments, with its dim il
summation coming from shaded cleo
troliers on the tables, with the water of
fountains tinkling here and there, and
bogus stars twinkling in a counterfeit
SKY, is duplicated on the stage with
considerable fidelity. And as to the
people who, in the theatrical repre-
sentation, sit at the tables when the
curtain rises, they include a full set
OF such Show girls as may be seen aft
er the performance. i'm the resorts of
actual hot birds and cold bottles The
dinerence is that the girls mates in
the play, excepting several actors able
and willing to disport with them off
the stage, are but impersonators of the
men who pay the bills later in the real
restaurants
DON'T blame me for the rakishness
or the play which / am bound to de-
scribe. Kindly remember that. only a
week ago, 1 gave full accounts of two
new religious dramas, each with a
CHRISTIAN revivaiist for its hero, and
9 Do. L. n
may add-also pitifully-that The
Evangelist" and THE Struggle Ever
lasting have failed utterly to gather
remunerative audiences, and are to be
Withdrawn quickly, so as to stop the
hed~y losses as soon as possible, while
The Gay White Way" is lil1elier than
not TO crowd its theatre from autumn
till summer. The general taste is
vicious? Not at all. Those religions
plays were not entertainments. and the
lrrelig1ous one is: so the two don't
please people, and the third one does.
The American stage isn't running
down L hope TO write next week about
some seemly things on it,
X *
Meanwhile, take my say-so that the
Ienderloln restaurant scene in THE
Gay WhiteSWay' is unlike anything
usual on the stage. Melville Ellis takes
a seat at a piano. and plays several
tunes, just as he might in the genuine
place, and the convivial guests sing
and whistle the choruses In an Off
hand, Jovial way, he gives ditty about
trunk being held for charges at a
railway station, and another at a no.
tel; but on opening them they are
found to contain some feminine lin
gerfe only and. as the chorus put il.
What's the use of such things with
out the girl inside them" The stage
ful OF people join in that chorus not
only, but the sympathetic portion of
the audience does, too. As the make
believe Jollities grow active, Blanche
Ring leads sextette of Irish Gibson
girls in a song and march, Maud Ray
mond gives negro melody and dance.
Jefferson De Angels makes some fun,
and throughout ii all Ellis stays at the
piano, the orchestra is almost idle, ard
nothing breaks in on the illusion that
1t is ali impromptu in a past-midnight
resort
One of the roysterers is David War
held as impersonated by an Alexander |
Carr, another is Anna Held by a Laura |
Guer1te. and these two are table COM
panions. Carr has recited from War
fields role in '"The Music Master" and
Miss Guerite has Knocked Miss Held In |
Il can't make my eyes behave" when
Sidney Rosenfeld's wickedest point in |
his Hbretto is reached. Very daring
the original Held has been in language. !
behavior and costuming, but the tray-
esty OF her is positively reckless in all |
those respects. Warfields Jew is be-
deviled by Held's Parisienne, but he is
stingy in buying champagne for her.
until she covertly pulls her skirt I'D to
her knee; whereupon he gives her a |
diamond ring from his finger, and or
ders a magnum.
X x 4;
The other changes of bill at theatres |
on or close to Broadway are to Monte |
Cristo" with James O'NeilI, and THE |
Old Homestead" with Denman Thomp- |
son. But my job with The Herald is |
10 describe new things in new plays. |
OF course, in the weeks lack of dignity |
IN the divulgences, / may take space
TO tell that, in all of O'NeilI's long use |
of Monte Cristo," never before has he |
presented it in Broadway, nor has Dem
man Thompson given 1.-The Old Home |
stead directly to that thoroughfare |
since ii was a mere sketch at TONY
Pastors. O'Neill has fallen back on |
the French melodrama as a conse- |
quence Of having failed to revive pop |
ularity for "Virginius," and Thompson |
has recourse to the Yankee comedy
TO further capitalize his Swanzey farm |
up in New Hampshire; but what more |
is there to be said of the men or their /
plays? Perforce. l have to dwell on |
1.-The Gay White Way
The newness of this review" as |
such an extravaganza would be called |
in Paris, rests on the dozen-years-old-I
ness of THE Passing Show" the first !
of the distinctively Casino shows. That |
was hodge-podge of travesties of the i
successful dramas of the previous year !
My scrapbook tells me that Sowing /
the Wind" THE Second Mrs. Tan
queray" and THE Amazons" were the |
plays principally burlesqued that then,
as now in 1.-The Gay White Way"
Jefferson De Angels was a detective |
officer assuming many futile DISCUSSES;
but of his chief companions, Paul Ar
thur and Madge Leasing have become
Londonists, and others have dropped |
out of stage life Only the merest
shred of the original plot is retained,
but the same scheme of assembling
characters from cOntemporaneouS plays
is worked anew. limitations of Favor
sham from The Squaw Man." Abeles
from Brewster's Millions" Margaret
Anglin from ''The Great Divide" ALA
NaZimOva from "a Dolls House." Rose