The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-23
Rival ''Devils" Create Sensation
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Then, Immediately, she becomes funny
very funny. She runs down the stair
way two or three steps at a time. yell
Ing that she's sorry she danced ST.
Johns head off. and that her mamma
put her up to ii. She races upstairs.
to and fro on the platform, down again
to the footlights and across the front
of the stage several times All the spv-
glasses are up to see how good Eva
really is to her admirers. That her feet
are bare, and her legs as high as the
whirling drapery uncovers them, is be-
yond any question: but the conclusion
that her torso is deceptive is slower.
for the make-believe is misleading
down to particulars which 1 can't speci-
fly. The music gets wild, and Eva's
remorse becomes frantic: but there is
an art in pantomime which she doesn't
know, and by the time she sWoons nat
and limp before the Baptist's head half
expect her TO break out with II don't
care" in reply to my critical condemna-
ton. The general assemblage though
is in state of rapturous delight: and
she seems to be, too; for in coming out
for nine recalls she stands in the strong
limelight bowling. smiling and tossing
off kisses. Finally, she comes out
playfully at the opposite side of the
with a CHEEKY "Coo-hoo," and filings
up her skirt of gauze with playful
kicks of her bare feet
Now that / have written derisively
of Eva my conscience asks me If she
didn't point her big toe-pardon me- the
largest of her toes-at me accusingiy
for undertaking her brain I'm my appre-
citation Of her brass Isn't il a stroke
of genius in her to sidestep a compari-
son with the Salomes who are trained
danseuses by carrying Salome's story
into second chapter of repentance?
Anyway, not another of the Salomes IN
Broadway is making 81 800 a week from
the sale of her modesty.
The Biblical source of Salome led to
an introduction of her, i'm a salacious
way that was meant to pass for sane
tity. at the great Christian summer
city Of Ocean Grove, over on the Jer-
sey shore. Ocean Grove has no theatre.
but there is one that they call a Ca
sino in the modified pious Asbury Park,
separated only by narrow lake. One
railway station serves for the two
places, and Whereabouts the assertion
was made big on walls. wagons and
men that scripturai exposition of Sa-
lome's dance would be given reveren-
TALLY by La MiIlias in the Casino of
Asbury Park. Worldly people smiled
knowingly. and a thousand of them
went TO see the show. Half as many
pious folk went. too, expecting no in,
decorum. And ! was there to see what
happened. The program provided an
orchestral concert and some quite or
thodox singing till 8 o'clock. then mo-
ton photographs and a monograph
presented a portion of Oscar Wilde's
drama; which the 500 from Ocean
Grove regarded with symptoms of
alarm; and their agitation became a
panic when La Millais came forth as
Salome- The sight stunned the Ocean
Growers, and for awhile they sat as
though petrffed. Then one set the ex-
ample of quitting the place, others fol-
lowed rapidly, and few waited with the
thousand Asbury Parkers TO see the
whole show. Next morning the mayor
forbade La Millais to illustrate Salome
there any more. Maybe the Salome ep-
idemic Will be quarantined in New York
and not permitted TO spread through
the land