The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-16

opened wide and warm on Memorial
holiday, but closed with Il chill last
night. and remained shut until this
week brought the first weather TO make
people break out In Derspiration from
city heat TO seek seashore solace. As
much as ever possibly more, Coney is
city of shows. Buffalo Bills Wild
West. which has swept through the
country like he Barnum or Forepaush
circus, making great ado in the towns
along its route. Is to stay at Coney all
summer as merely one of the enter
tainments. But in a survey Of thu mile
square of shows. / sought for things
new this season, and dtsregarded those
that are old. A fortune awaits the
man who invents a summer show as
popularity novel as the Wild West when
William F. Cody, after trying various
ways i'm vain 10 cash up the fame which
Ned Buntline had melted for him as
the Buffalo Bill of MANY dime novels,
hit upon the idea of putting himself in
TO a big Illustration of the rough life
which he had led in the Rockies. The
most spacious and picturesque show
this year is but one more of the many
limitations Of that original.
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However. "The Days of '49" owes
more to Bret Harte than TO Ned Bunt-
line; for ii is a concentration in one
hour of as many eXcitements as any
mining camp in California ever had in
a whole year. It is an outdoor melo-
drama in pantomime, with such a spa
cious setting of scenery as the stages
of twenty theatres wouldn't hold; and
these enormous paintings are so well
done that, even i'm garish daylight. the
illusion takes hold of the behOlder that
he is in an actual canyon CT the Sierra
Nevadas. ROadwavs lead down between
the surrounding peaks. a creek makes
a pool at the bottom Of the gorge, and
the thorOughfares are so siZeable that
not only hprsemen, but full-siZe wagons
traverse them A post-rider leaves and
takes letters at a snack of a general
store; miners fight with pistol at a
drinking shed. and carouse with dane
ing girls mounted soldiers. patrOling
the region, have encounters with In
dams and highWaymen. a white girl IS
carried off by the savages, and rescued
by a party of rough-riders: an OUTLAW
is hanged, cOnvivial bad man is shot
and a bridal party is jOvially NAL
treated: there is a rafting battle with
Indians. and for a rousing climax a
bridge is blown up by robbers, letting
a stage coach. with a had of passen-
gers, drop into the water below, from
which they are saved by a troop of cav
airy.
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Oriental unbelievable dancers have
been under police taboo at Coney Island
but a venturesOme operator has now
built a snowy Far East" consist
ing of theatres with a courtyard be-
tween, and a coffee and smoke house
across the back. all in gay Moroccan
architecture. 1t was opened i'm the
afternoon, and in the evening was Wis
tied by the police. 1t was mostly du-
plicate of what had been tolerated Oh
the midway" at the Chica go Fair, and
the pike" at St. Louis. Jugglers and
aCTobats performed awhile in the yard
When that was over a dozen Egyptian
women in filmy raiment We're shown tC
the people, and man told grandilO-
quently that they would give their ma
tive dances in one of the theatres. The
audience saw The Feast If Belshaz-
gar" There was but one speaking
actor on the stage. and he played the
prophet Daniel. while the portion of the
dialogue belonging TO the king was ut
tered by the lecturer. who also eX-
planned the show. But the king was
there in dumb show. and his hall was
crowded by the women of his pleasure
who posed in a living picture of bac-
chanalian festivity. danced with scanr
hindTance from dra peTies, drank al
their lord masters impicus command
from IsraePs molly cups, and brought
down the wrath OF Jehovah in q quite
impressive destruction of the palace
But the ballet was American and i'm ne
way unusual AS the curtain wen
down there was a murmur of disap-
pOintment-
IF the ladies' and gentlemen viii
cross over TO the other theatre" said
the lecturer, they will there see the
Sultan of MOrOccO's own beauties of the
harem in the dances which have made
Cairo the mecca of travellers in quest
OF the beautiful and the wonderful"
A rush carried the aSsemb!age acros.
the courtyard in an eager race to gel
front seats; but there was a DELAY al
the doors to collect a second admission
fee of a quarter. The programme here
was made up of mems tricks Of jug
glery and feats of agility, and women;
couchee dancing OF the Oriental kind
that isn't done with the feet, but with
the body. The only innovation was
that the wriggliest and wabbIiest of thG
women gave the dance of the sever
wells" as lately censured in the drama
and opera of "Salome" 1t is tradi-
tionaI, you know, that after Salome haC
in her gyrations unwOund the seventh
veil, she stood bare before her step
father. At COney Island she stopped
with the sixth
owing to the police" said the ex-
palmer, "this beautiful, allegorica
dance cannot be exhibited in its en-.
tirety."
So the woman, whose arms were the
hue of her yellow skin, while her leg,
were of textile pink was not permitted
TO disclose the two COlors' point of juno.
ture.
Shows of phenomena, natural and su
pernatural. are favored by the multi
tude Creation" The End Of III,
World" and Hereafter" have fo
three years held frontages which. if III,
material were chiseled marble instead
of moulded plaster, would have cost
million. Their interiors are mazes 0
iIumined halls and darkened passages
in which the Biblical accounts Of tn,
creation, of heaven and OF hell, extend
ed with awful cOnceits from Dante
make the majority tremble and the mi
nority grin. might and Morning; or
a Trip Through Heaven and He'll" i
this seasons bigger show of ORTHODOX
Christian places OF eternal pleasures
and agonies. Visitors are first put int,
a huge coffin in parties. and seeing
through the glass lid. the rising side
of the excavation. they feel as though
rev S-ere being lowered into a graVi