The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02
Now for the Roof Garden Theatres
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

mer's votes. Thus three-quarters of
long drama is made up wholly of con-
ficting oratory. Then comes fourth
act of prophecy. There is a riotous
strike of railway unionists, street
fight with strike ercakers, and finally i
deadly conflict between the united Ia
borers and the national guard, the
workingmen being led to victory by the
socialist who looks and talks like Hopp.
This play is being presented throughout
/ the week, afternoons as well as even
! fngs, in a big theatre usually devoted to
performances in Yiddish for the Polish
Jew ropulace; but it is spoken in Eng
| fish. and its radical pleas for socialism
are loudly cheered.
! X X
i Well, here we are in the Jardin de
Paris. No one would accuse it on ap-
pearance of being Partisan, even imi-
tatively, but for the advertisements in
| the newspapers and the pictures OF
| recklessly risky sirens on the bill
boards. The pagodas twined with wis
/ terra, which made the place a Japan
csc garden last summer, have been
| taken out, but nothing F'renchy has
! been put on the stage or in the au
| ditorium. We find il a thoroughly
.enderloin resort on this opening night
! because it is crowded by New Workers
1 who make tenderloin life what it is
! The date is May q. with summer only
( FOUR days off; but this has been no
! balmy spring, and a chill wind is
blowing. Down at Coney Island the
shows are ready for the public, but the
| public isn't ready for the shows. Sim
| ilarly. the roof gardens are kept shut
| by the unseasonably cool weather
all save this Jardin de Paris, which has
promised to shake the ceilings of the
two theatres underneath with gaiety
from the boulevards of the French
| capital. But the announced play of
deviltTy is kept waiting for congenial
| hot air, and in its stead a lot of stale
things are brought out from cold stor-
| age.
| The. garden is rooted and sided
| against the rain that the gusty wind
| is blowing about; so there is no touch
of June at this tip end of May, and
the white-garbed walters wait for, not
| on, people who have no torrid thirst to
be slaked. The only difference in
aspect between this garden" audience
\ and an ordinary theatre audience is
| that the lights of hundreds of cigars
| twinkle in the haze OF smoke like fire
| flies in the fog of a bog. And. yes
wonder is something Partisan after all
Two young fellows in evening dress sit
at a table with two girls in what my
| IOAii pdIllOu ltllS are lingerie ROMHE
| can see for myself that they don't
wear shirt waists-I have slowly but
| surely learned to recognize a shirt
waist on sight-and these habiliments.
| although presenting a plenty of peek
a-boO points, are filmy with lace, fiut-
/ terry with ribbons and altogether beau
| tiful. The four are slipping iced alb
| sinthe. But the popularity of the girls
is that they are public smokers. Each
! h. ..-r v-..4@ l.
! glOved fingers, puts ii once in while
to her lips and contributes to the vol
ume of tobacco smoke that comes
| from mems cigars. And one of them
| has caught the knack of sending up
her smoke in circles, like a little man
while the other emits it with masculine
facility through her nose. Oh. We are
getting on. The stage doings, however
make no advance in rakishness We
get instead a program of mostly ia
| miliar specialties, making a good
enough, but not novel show. Next
week 1 shall be able TO tell Of fresh
| diversion here. of a new Conan play in
another aerial theatre. and Of Ham
merstein oddities in a third: but this
| letter, owing to the weather conditions
can't inform you of any summer the
atric establishments - except except
| the living pictures and make believe
oNhldoAS at TIC L Anu
! this exhibition of artists models is not
brought to New York from Paris, but
! from London, where for a year or SO
| 1T has been on view at one of the big
music halls. Goodness knows-or it
may he more accurate to say badness
knows-living pictures passed long ago
into disregard; from the first l saw
which were shown by the famous
artist of his day. Matt Morgan, 10 the
q ct hraT b
and vile in female minstrelsy How
can audacious indecency further go in
posing denuded women for public
shame? The assemblage at the Jardin
| de Paris in the tenderloin hasn't been
able to imagine, even with the picto-
rial rS5sters to help their fancy; but no
one in the assemblage doubts that an
ultimatum in nudity will be reached.
And 1t is a handsome gathering of peo-
| pie with the money and the desire to
ornament their diversions What have
they come for to see? They run their
| eyes down the bill. One two and I'D
to q haf-doZen of the acts are identi-
| fed as faniliars. They are received in
apathetic diSdain as they follow one
another. A trifiing amount of atten-
| ton is given to the girl who, in the
Elizabethan costume of a page, dis
places the usual boy in changing the
the stage. She is a pretty creature,
and it is possible to eye her under
cover of merriment, for she is a novice
who evidently misses her petticoats.
and whose bashful gait is amusing.
X
Along about ten-thirty, after this
| girl-boy has ceased to be an object of
admira ton, and is being guyed a little
she placards: Living pictures and
statuary." Ah-hl But the people don't
! calculate their expectancy To do so
wouldn't be in good form. It isn't
done in our blase set. Yet these smart
folk betray their curiosity to an alert
observer as plainly as do the tourists
who gaze at New York from the sight
seeing motor cars.
In front of you." we hear an imag-
mary conductor say, in the language
of the program, you will see a mar
vellous exhibition of plastic and gra-
phic art, of beauty on canvas and in
marble or bronze, yet embodied by liv-
ing forms selected for their suitably
beautiful perfection"
Never has an expectation of indie