The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03
Tricks of Electricity and Playwrights

New York. May THE season dra-
matte may have an end every spring,
but not thu Season Theatre; as the
quantity of Gage amusement increases
Tor the summer, and the quality, |
think, becomes extra readable from
oddly, so that a play of fudge and
CUFF, like THE Merry Co Round" is
more interesting in description than
many work OF dignity. Last Sunday
an account was given of such a show
that had cost $4,000 before its first
performance; and now this one has re-
quired quite as large an outlay; for
the costumes of it's thrOngs of giIls
are changed a dozen times, and the
silks and satins are not cotton. nor the
furs and feathers taken from cats and
mems. This is an exhibition of human
beauty artiflcially enhanced and when
its selection of tall sylphs are lined up
as smart bellies, their toilets are fit 70
be seen at an Astor function. In one
scene. though the gowns introduce a
fashion that won't be adopted in the
best circles of society. The typical la
dies go midnight stunning TO a BO-
hemfan resort from an evening at the
opera; so they wear trailing gowns
and enwrapping cloaks, as they saun-
ter and sing in tOplOfty disdain of the
common aSsemblage. Suddenly the
enormous diamonds in their hair,
which the spectator has quickly ap
praised as rhinestones. become electric
bulbs. That trick of outshining Koch
i-nOrs with EdisOns is applauded, as
any ingenious new thing always is in
a Broadway theatre But why is there
an ensuing hush? What is it that 81
lences the house as with the awe of
benumbing amazement? The lights
are dimmed, and the music gets mys-
tic. Then AsmOdeus doesn't lift the
roof of house 10 let US look in on the
privacy of its occupants. Still more
intimate than that are the revelations
The skirts of the bellies become trans
parent with electric light within, and
we see that they wear no lingerie at
all, so sixteen legs come full-length
into sharp, clear and startling silhou- /
cite. indicate? Indecent Even
hardened FOUNDERS in the front seats
don't dare to slap their hands in ap-
prevail
The one other deplorable display of
girls keeps another lot in sight
throughout an act clad, so far as APP
pearance goes, in nothing else than |
overals. They are billed as "shrimpS,"
mentioned as "broilers." and the /
ThaWs and Whites lick their chops
ravenousiy. They are guised as bump |
kin boys at a country fair and, except 1
hats and shoes, they look as though 1
clad only in jean trousers held up by |
single galluses. for their shirts are skin /
tight and hued TO match exactly the /
skin of their bare arms and Shout /
ders. And they are childish enough in |
age and size to either lessen or in 1
crease the improperly, according TO f..
ones personal point of view.
That all the rest of THE Merry-Go-
Round" is wholesome. though nom |
sensical, although its appeal is TO the 1
frivolous only. speaks well for the
taste of people with money to burn on /
the altar of sensuality. This show has /
been, not written. but put together, to /
open music hall sort of theatre at /
Columbus Circle, further up Broadway /
than any tOpgrade play house has |
been located hitherto. Edgar Smith, /
Gus Edwards, Paul West and George /
Marion are named III the program as /
its makers. 1t had a week in Phila-
delphia, and there a fifth man was
billed as a librettist. l believe; but the .
show didn't go very we'll his portions
Of the play were eliminated. the four
others spent an ensuing week in eli
siOns, interpretations and revisiOns. and
the stuff as New York gets il is to the
liking of our various fast sets; which
is TO say that THE Merry-Go- Round"
is a play for merry FOUNDERS. and for
appreciation requires a training i'm the
ways and means of fast living in this
town.
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The method of making this kind of /
a show is to first hire some specialists
IN laughter, and next TO give them
things To do that they can render
aughable. The central comedian.
James J. Morton, is the 3OO-pOund lump 4