The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-28

he declares that there Is a night Wnen
we ali get tight. and the water wagon
is a lonesome sight" In that earousal
a stageful of girls and fellows. in
ratio of about five to one, are soused
thoroughly and turn the play into a
wild spree.
What of James j. Morton, from
whom Hitchcock has taken the role of
the "two-horse fellow in a One-horse
town." He is retained for his former
part, if Hitchcock has to give il up.
and meanwhile is interpOlating his
vaudeville monOlOgue-the many years
old one i'm which he recites in bur-
lesque of plays and players and in the
guise of a huIking zany tickIes you the
first time YOU hear him. ] won't guess
where MortOu's hopes and fears lie as
10 Hitchcock's continuance in The
Merry Co Round"
The second anniversary of Harry
rhaW's killing OF STANFORD White, on
account of Evelyn Nesblt, brought
new play at the same roof garden, and
II was OF the same kind as that which
the tragedy interrupted. People as they
went in looked for the table from
which White had been tumbled away
from his highball by ThaWs bullets.
some of the women spied shyly, as
though they feared to see ghost or
the man who, a famous architect, had
built the big structure on the roof Of
which ne was slain, and when seated
in the rOOfless parquet many gazed up
at the great tower of bachelor apart
ments. and guessed at which of the few
lighted windows belonged to his former
studio of art and-nature.
The first dozen notes of the overture
to "Ski-Hi'' made the audience expect
echoes of The Mikado" in the music,
and when the curtain opened the stage
was filled with Jap girls. who looked, in
their kimonOs, as they pitti-patted with
with their bodies angled forward and
their backs up, as though the enormous
bows were gas bellows, almost half
lifting them off their feet
If Charles Alphin, billed as the writer
Of "Ski-His words and tunes, was
present, he had my sympathy; for
there we're traces of originality in his
copyings from Gilbert G. Sullivan: and
the prevailing ridicule was directed at
the crude players rather than the play.
Maybe you disdain girls bosses when
you see their names printed in pro-
grams along with those of authors and
muS1c1OnS; but you would jog up many
notches i'm your esteem the men who
drill the feminine forces in the best OF
these shows after seeing Skill You
may imagine vaguely that the wags
of heads, sways of bodies and filings of
limbs, never varying an iOta i'm a row
of the grinning creatures. some to such
uniformity without much effort. The
girls in "SkiHi' get through the Jap
movement tOlerably. but after a bal
loon journey to Jupiter. where they UNI
deTtake To introduce the code Of CO.
quetry signals in stage use on earth
they are so diverse and clumsy that the
| spectators laugh merrily at a play
which at no other time amuses them.
! The public is accustomed 10 sensuOus
displays of women, and the immodesty
usually is beautified: but it isn't Sc
when they are set out in neck-to- toes
/ tights TO wrestle in one Of the summer
/ shows.
Wrestling is not parlOr pastime,
/ says a man too big in stature, if not il
pride, to thrive on the debasement OF
women, land you, ladies and gentle
men, must bear in mind that these
combatants are trained TO the hard
ships of the game. We carry with Mis-:
Cora Livingston six other female