The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-31

! atrlcal pastures not only ordinary heruing
sheep, but bell-weathers, too, follow
| Ieaoer over the wall.
But started TO tell how the shortness
| OF Mouian and the tallness of his wife are
! turned to account. The song is about
Sirl shirt waist and a mans vest that
| hanging on a clothesline through night
| OF changeful weather, snuggled close to-
| gether alike in still moonlight and windy
storm. Coupled in the chorus of Nestle
BY My Side the comedians comic head
comes barely up to the sopranos comely
| shouider, and the contrast when they nes-
| tie causes half a dozen encores. By this
| tline those who know she is his wife have
| tod II TO those who don't, and SO the fun
| Is prolonged Then the little husband
| comes on between two chorus girls of his
own size, and the big wife pretends to
| Ds Iurlously jealous, and when the antics
/ OF that are exhausted, Mrs Moulan re
| sponds TO some more recalls between two
chorus men of her own stature, with the
eXasperated runt of a husband tagging on
behind. In playing to win at the theatre
car game, no trump card can be wasted;
oqt wonder If Moulan is really happy
while taking tricks in which he is Jack
low ana his wife is queen high
| X X
The scenes of THE Grand MoguT' are
| Ilrst IN Honolulu, where hula girls dance
| sehsu0usly in a beautiful garden and two
| stranded circus men make a balloon as
| censlon and disappear skyward with a
party OF aeronaut tourists. In the second
act-you could guess il if 1 didn't tell it
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the comedian becomes the potentate.
Lelgns a while high-handedly and is then
o9throned. OF course he has a harem of
! aIIurlng girls, and one ugly woman who
| purSues him; of course he is condemned
70 dreadful tortures; of course a United
states Warship brings company of ma
| rlhes to save him with a patriotic song
ana chorus, and the show is so beautiful
ana meiodious, so witty and humorous,
that New York accepts it gladly. But why
| was II built on the familiar plans and
! specifications? Perhaps because when
| Plxley and Iuders struck out for oddly
IN woodland, and made the characters
satisfactory. There is safety for Moulan.
| Daniels, Hopper, De Angels and their
kind IN the haTd-luck monarch.
The Barnum & Bailey circus has made
| its start here for 1907 Let me put YOU
onto the new annual Joke that is PLAYED
| on the audience before the show in the
| ring begins. Last year it was operated in
| this way: A man in mOdish evening dress
was rolled into the great enclosure in an
| lnValds wheel chair by a valet A fash
| tonably dressed young woman walked be
side the vehicle and showed solicitous at
/ tentiOn to its occupant. She had coupons
| for reserved seats in her hand, and the
! ushers sent the party here, there and ev-
erywhere. with misunderstanding, COLI
SlOnS and otner hlndranceS, until the
| whole cOncouTse became interested in the
/ disabled gentleman's efforts to locate
| himself for an evenings surcease from
]
| valet awkwardly tumbled him out of the
! vehicle. he belabored the fellow with a
cane, and the thing was exposed as one
! of the stunts of the clowns assigned to
! the task OF JOIiy1ng the people before the
I regular program
/ Well, with a bag Of sidewalk pedlar's
peanuts in. my pocket and regret in my
mind I would have to do without pink
/ lemOnade-those things not being vended
| in Madison Square Garden-l sat and
! waited warily for 1907s initial trick of the
/ rln a Tp0irRpmQn G1nnTprad
/ fro. Some one well up in a tier of seats
cried: Hi. Harry The officer was in
stantly alert. A loud response Of Hello
/ john" came from another section. The
| policeman started towards one cutlery and
| then towards the other. He knows how
| little thing may cause panic, ex-
planned TO my wife land he doesn't mean
/ to let those fellows cause a disaster
| Good man. that" Again the loud call by
John and the response by Harry rang out
! The officer running to and fro along the
/ audiences frontage to discover the dis
/ turbers of the peace. Next he bounded
up the steps into one of the crowded sec
! the open arena. GOOD work" ] said to
my wife. Right then my pride had hard
| fall. The policeman and his prisoners had
| a violent tussle, and they dragged him
| not he them-out of sight. Fooled again!
| Really, that was the most salient new
thing of the whole evening.
No doubt Barnum & BaHeys is sun
/ ''the greatest show on earth, and at no
| time has il ever been COstlier, but the eX-
! ceIIence carries little novelty, because the
| utmost possible limit has been reached
| by the spring-board vaulters, because
double sOmersaults are common. and a
| treble sOmersault would probably break
| it's thrCwer's back; by the flying trapeZe
! gymnasts, because the law compels them
! to eliminate danger from their teats by
| spreading nets underneath, so that they
| have to display their skill without peril;
/ by the trained beasts, because the accom-
/ plishments of dogs. monkeys, seals, horses
I ole haY,4~ ar,Tf ha
| ther, and by the equestrians, because pads
! are obsolete, and bareback riding is no
| longer astonishing. When l was lad.
| and no circus had more than one ring, my
/ dream of ambition was to be Robert
I Stickney, for he threw flip-flOpS on an
| unpadded horse, and therefore was cir
Gus idol; and my next choice as hero
| of my wild longing to duplicate was
| James Robinson, and 1 put him second TO
/ Stickney only because he was older,
smaller and less handsome. The Barnum
and Bailey show has eight men who do
| all that Stickney and Robinson used TO
1 do, and besides that there are ten women,
| whose horses have broad, flat backs, but
are bare of anything save rosin to give
| a sure footing.
This years show displays more than
ever before the attractive Termination of
the circus, The various troupes of aero
| bats and gymnasts are fully half made
up of women, who do muscular mems
work with the additional grace of their
sex. The old ballad of the daring young
man on the flying trapeze" would seem
| ungallant now, for of ten trapezists who
| fling themselves through the air at the
| height of Madison Square Garden six are
| 1.-THE. symmetrical and daring young
women. Here is place in which beauty.
if combined with Drawn, has an advantage
| of sex over men. / guess there are half
a hundred women who get no less than
$50 week to as much as $3.50 apiece in
/ this show. At the top figure. in my es-
| innate. 1 put witchy runt of an eques-
| trienne. Josie Demott, and pair of horse
| back coquettes, the Meers sisters. The
most novel rider gets nothing but board
and lodging. without even clothes, for it
| is a seal, which. while clinging on a
/ cantering pony's back, losses and balances
things on his nose as wonderfully as any
jUggler with hands.
| X X x
You may be surprised, after reading
what the program says of Isabelle But
/ Ter, that she shouldn't stand near the top
of the salary list "A diabolieal devil
wagon driven down precipitous incline.
| says the description of her act; "a dizzy,
dreadsOme, dauntless Dip An appallinsly
perilous aerial flightiv' What the circus
adjective means is the dip of death" or
| looping the loop with an automobile.
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