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

| tWo-thirdS of her name Powhatan has
| an ideal Indian kings bigness of mien
/ and voice. The John Smith is a breez-
InSiy brave adventurer. The RoIfe is
/ a romantic lover of the Indian prin-
cess All those behave, perhaps not as
! the originals did, but surely as any
student of history creates them i'm i'm
asination. No doubt the music of the
early Virginia Indians was only the
rude noises of medicine mems rattIes.
and the merely rhythmic whacking of
crude drums; but they arouse no such
1eelng of dread and apprehension as
/ do the modern orchestral celebrations
/ of the simple Indian song themes.
Ihere is no doubt about it. The Amer
lean Indian has to be fixed up a lot
TO make him an impressive parsonage
on the stage.
The opening scene of this "Pocahon-
taS Is IN PoWhatans camp, where he
IS an enthroned monarch; for the Eng
lish King James had to very formally
recognize him, and even crown him as
the sovereign of Virginia before he
could make any treaty with the whites
News of the English Colonists is
brought with accounts of their death
splitting firearms. and the chief calls
Tor volunteer scouts but none Of his
braves dare go, and his daughter I'M
n
trial of Smith: the intercession for him
by the Indian maiden; the love be-
tween her and Rolfe; various plots
among the English, and their battles
with the red men; all those and other
things are rendered exceedingly pic
torial. The dances mean something.
the scenes are DANGEROUSLY handsome,
and the point l wish to make is that
the real thing on the stage becomes
hIa-e rr-1,0
aggeration is to be encouraged, l don't
say that this "POcahontas" is a great
play; away from jamestown people
wouldn't take much interest in it. but
here within the atmosphere of the Vir-
ginian fair it is the best appropriate
thing 1 have seen.
Puzzle. No prize for the solution
There is one, and only one. other Poca-
hontas play. 1t is a big and bright
spectacle on an enormous stage, i'm a
building ordinarily used for horse
shows, agricultural fairs and occasions
of great concourse, but which is now
turned roughly into a namesake and
sizeable imitation of New York's Hip
pOdrome. 1t will make your guess
easy by giving one more particular.
This HippOdrome of Norfolk is owned
by suburban railway company, which
gets 1O cents in fares for every visitor
and therefore gives its rental free to
the manager of the show Query: Who
is the manager? Answer: Kiralfy. For
wherever has there been a great fair,
the whole world over, without a XII
rally spectacle pertinent to the his
toriC theme of the main exhibition?
Few of us remember so long ago in
theatricals that the KiraIfy family of
Hungarian dancers, three brothers and
three sisters, were brought to America
to perform in ''The Black Crook" The
girls married away from the stage. One
CT the bays, Arnold, wasn't thrifty and
the last l knew of him he was teaching
stage DANES. But Irme and Gollosy
went into the production of spectacles.
for many years together, and since
then separately. They became accom-
plished ballet masters, and it used to
be said that, given fifty young women
and fifty yards of bright cloth, they
would fill a stage with picturesque
commotion. The Pocahontas is Bollo-
sy. The pOrtliness of Bollosy's dancers
required more cloth than that for even
the slightest costuming; and I am far