The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-01


covered in front as she passes the wife
on her way out. but a rear view is
dumfounding. and the curtain falls on
collapse of the clerical couple.
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The titles of The Billposter's
Dream" and "A Night at the Circus,
new things at Keith & Proctors most
central theatre, don't mean any con-
nection- The version of the poster
pastors serves for a debut in vaude-
vile of La Petite Adelaide, formerly .
dancing wonder i'm legitimate extrava-
ganza- Now she is simply Adelaide,
although scarcely two inches less pc
Ute, and that through a thinning elon-
cation of her body only; for her legs
are as short, muscular and active as
ever; and they keep her hips at a pro-
portionate height from the floor, because
she is up on her tiptoeS during all of
her own exercises Her speciality is
spectacular" as the bill promises, for
1t has two bright sets of scenery. and
1t is "a ballet" for it has four nice.
neat coryphees with its premiere dan
seuse- The first scene is a public
square with a wall on which Ade-
ladies four girls. in overalls-after a
dance with swinging paste pals and
flourlshing brushes-stick picture post
ers. The central one suddenly becomes
little Adelaide. who pops out on her
toes to frclic with her companions: TO
give doll'dance with them, after they
have changed their mussed trousers to
splck-and-Span skirts; and finally. with
a shift of scene TO n springtime bower,
and of costumes for all to filmy white
hecked with buds and blossoms-to
give dainty and graceful illustration
In pantomfmic dancing of Mendels-
sohn's Spring Song"
X X X
Contrastingly rough with fun is "A
Night at the Circus" street parade of
brazen bands, men on their own wild
two-legged canvas horses. a similarly
faxed camel. ostrich. giraffe and ele-
phant and wagon cages of beasts
bowling savagely with human voices.
After that, the whole stage is opened
up for circus ten with a ring. in
which exceptionally clever iipfappers
clown their feats awhile, and the
sketch ends with the antics of trained
horse that breaks in two with a fight
between the forelegs and hindlegs
Thls burlesque circus is remarkable
for the number of persons employed.
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Were they paralyzed suddenly as the
curtain went up? Had stage fright de-
prlved them of the power of motion >
TWO; they were girls in a ratio of more
than twenty to one fellows, as in all
the eXtraVaganZas of the day: arG
they were costumed and posed to MAKE
a picture costing as much almost as
any treasured masterpiece in painting
but instead of breaking into violent
connection, as the usage is. il STAYED
In tableau. The spectators had be
come used to wild activity. as though
film were pulled through "a stereo-
scope by crank at the crank. En-
Wot?' said one Moo Yawk chappie
with a Lunnon accent "Bai 1oye,"
said another. and a third said New
Yorkly, ''Wot? 'ell?" The spacious
scene was full of girls as usual In the
gay shows-whether in petticoats or IN
breeches; but, wonder of wonders
everyone stood stock still, except for
her mouth, out of which came an open
ing chorus. The voices were = so siren
uous that the lips waggied the faces:
put the bodies were motionless on rigid
legs, and the arms hung limp until. ar
the end of the vocal strain, they flew
up in that gesture of high c so ia
miliar in grand opera. Only a fort
night ago L described the action of a
musical farce as the fastest yet This
moveless beginning of a new one may
have been due TO the impossibility of
increasing the speed of commotion:
but IL served well TO amaze and EFT
gross spectators accustomed to a nur-
~. skurry and furry al the outset
So a melOdiOus and pictorial. yer
stationary start is an Oddly right Off
for Little Memo" The gamble wins
that d big stake of ingenious money
would evolve popular theatrical show
from some newspaper cartoons. And
it makes job for that man-baby, Ga
briel. Has he begun yet to shave al
20? Does he swear at a nursemaid who
tickles him with powder puff as ne
lies across her lap ready to be put in.o
his nightie2 or at a valet who makes
his nightcap dram of Scotch whisky
instead of American? AS Little Memo
in this play he is found asleep in Cen
trail park by a policeman, who cuddles
him, carries him home, undresses him
and puts him in his little bed. The
bashfullest maiden would hardly blush
if this man in miniature were stripped
naked as Cupid, so infantile does he
look; but New York knows him for an
adult who stopped growing at and leC
il go at that. A chance to be tender
loinish by having a nurse girl coddle
him to sleep. instead of man, was
thrown away, because the scheme was
TO make the play childishly clean a. q
Mother Goose jingle Gabriel is no
babe in brain, though. but a facile
comedian-like Franz Ebert, the Ger
man dwarf who made dollar in
America to every mark that his faith
erland gave him.
Enthusiastically American. isn't it.
to estimate the value OF art by its
cost? / guess at the money spent 10
raise the curtain on Little Memo a.
$50, COO The estate of William Shakes
1t 70 NAS,