The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01

pats, and pack the pats into pots, all
in an hour, and they are interrupted a
lot at that. No such celebrity Of process
is possible in American farming. but
this is in England, as a bit of punning
dialogue, such as hasn't been risked in
America these many years, gives proof
1t waited my memory back to the time
when one of the proud sisters in the
extravaganza Of cinderella" used to
say to the drudge Of the cinders, when
she hesitated to clean a pair of kid
shoes for the ball: docs the kid shoose
to disobey me?" / don't know why, but
that has stuck in my recollection as the
worst therefore the besD that / have
heard in stage punning. Gilbert, in his
llibrettOs for SullivanS music, limited
himself to a single pun in each play.
In "Pinafore," you remember, he made
Ralph Rackstraw say, Il have no
birth to recommend me-" and Dick
Deadeye responded, "Pshaw! You have
berth aboard this very ship" But
those GiIbertian puns, along with the
kid shoOse" one, are wiped from the
tablets of my mind by the positively
worst-best in THE Dairy Maids" An
amOrous fellow hugs a girl who is
working a churn, and she turns away
in anger.
"Oh, do not" he pleads. "churn your
back on mel"
The humor of 1.-The Dairy Maids" is
left English, except for some local al
lusions in topical songs, and such
American actresses as Julia Sanderson
and Bessie De Vote seem to breathe in
English atmosphere, to emit it with an
agreeably slight English accent. Th~--
young women aud a ballet dance in the
London stage fashion of agile strength
hidden in supple grace. This is show
of selected girls A London pet come
dian, Huntley Wright, has been
brought over, but New York declines
to laugh at him, although he does lot
of ingeniously new things-like this:
He goes cunning for birds. A pair of
big wings fiutter above a hedge. He
fires. The wings are blown TO bits. Not
the body of a bird falls, however, but
instead the head of a girl, whose
winged hat has been destroyed. rises
into view, from where she has been
spooning behind the hedge.
The better half of 1.-THE Dairy Maids"
| is not while the maids are at a dairy,
but when they are pupils at a boarding
school. They wear natty white frocks,
with hens level with the knees, and
white stockings below. They go
through their exercises demurely until
their teacher quits. Then they get
| frisky. Their antic disposition becomes
| violent when three new pupils are ex-
posed as young men in skirts. The
girls fight the interlopers with pillows,
| but make peace, although outnumber-
/ ing the men forty to three. Then come
songs and dances, between which the
comedians tumble downstairs, and
/ have mishaps with punching bags,
| fencing swords and other apparatus,
while the girls change their costumes
several times, at last getting into night
gowns. One of the new things set to
music is a song about girls chased by
"a soldier and a sailor, a tinker and a
tailor, a merchant, a parson and a
thief" each OF those being paired with
reluctant maiden in the action. In
another ditty a soubrette leads a
saucy bevy with the catch-line, Hey,
little strangerT' One verse tells how
there are no more youths, as boys be-
come little men with no adolescent pc
Rod; a second describes a similar fem
| mime jump from infancy to bachelor
! girlhOod: and a third is directed at an
imaginary fellow in the audience, whom
| the soubrette sadly misses at first, but
espies gladly, and greets merrily with:
Hey, little stranger" 1 infer that the
singing out of one man to sing to has
been exported to London. But It comes
H.
tie stranger" whom the actress greets
rapturously is located by her in the
center aisle, where there isn't any
body. -
A brand new trick is played. A
dancing girl filings her arms and legs
wildly in the spotlight for five seconds
| and disappears. Onto the dimmed
stage come four trios of similarly Co.'S
TUNED figures. who dance at first as
the soloist did; but their feats become
wildly impossible, and at length we
see that each set consists Of a live one
in the middle with a dummy at either
side.
There is no deceit about the new
song that is pictorially all alive with
what, technically, are called show
girls-the tall and straight creatures
who began vogue in "F1orodora," and
have reappeared in play after play
until eyes and ears are weary of the
| Gibson girl. The new eight are San
| dow girls. They have the Gibson out
| line, but their drawing room gowns are
/ off, and they come into the gymnasium
in trailing white underskirts, and what,
/ I guess, are corset covers. / am sure
that there are no sleeves. and that
their shoulder straps slip down. while
they exercise with small dumbbells,
and sing the obvious fact that they are
Smooth and slim and supple;" Also
| that they have gone over from Gibson
! to Sandow. They declare their ability
to make Knockout hits with fists as
well as sentimentalily. and some of
them succeed tn f1exing their biceps
sufficiently to affect the contour of
their soft arms. So the newest show
girls are, Sandow girls. Next?
What Is advanced vaudeville?" To