The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-15
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

legs apiece. had human pair; and
these creatures reared, plunged and
We're eoquettishly skittish while Little
Flower delivered a Lady Gay Spanker
sort of account of a horserace she had
just won. Soon the six other girls ar
rived in the guise of college chums OF
the local schoOlma' am, jaunty in travel
ing suits, to be received by the cowboys
i'm a song and dance. A little later,
all the girls, while chorusing to the cow
boys reminiscent song of California in
40, formed an instantaneous tableau of
a stage coach with passengers held up
by robbers. That was ingenious. So
was the opening of the second act, with
hanging strips of illumined flowers,
which proved to be a chime of bells
when pulled TO ring out a tune. The
girls were shown, too. as Mexican SEN
oritas, Indian squaws, idealized cow
punchers and lariat twirlers
x X
The GROWING pride and glory of The
Flower of the Ranch" though, is its
girls in nightrobes. Introductorily,
Mabel harrison and Ike Oliver sing a
ballad of THE Pajama and the
Nightie.' operating one of each on a
clothesIine to illustrate a Irritation by
those two garments on a windy night.
Next six girls appear in pajamas and
Niltli the pcODlC nave Inspected luSfD
thoroughly, the eight others come forth
in nighties. Every extravaganza since
''FlOrodora" must needs have a saunter-
ing song and chorus to be made much
Of; and by putting these girls through a
variety of poses and movements. help
ing them out with the burlesquery of
hulking men similarly unclad and max
ing a climax of Mabel and Ike in comic
cuts of the usually private raiment of
slumber, an effort is made to set folks
talking about "The Flower of the
Ranch
The newspapers of Manhattan Dor
ough pay no attention to new plays in
the Brooklyn and Bronx boroughs of
New York City. Edward H. Sothern
presented in Brooklyn The Fool Hath
said There Is no Cod" three months
ago. and / described it fully; but not
word about it was published in Man
haitian. This week IT is given at the
theatrical center of the city, and many
columns are devoted to it, Sometimes,
however, my excursions across Man
haitian borough's border fail TO find
what 1 expect. The title of 1.-The Big
Stick" lured me last week to the Bronx
only TO discover that the stick wasn't
ROosevelt's, but a shillaleh in a COM
edy for the Four Mortons. This week
l go to Brooklyn in hope to see some
one or another of Roosevelt's culprits
in The Undesirable Citizens" for the
author is the iconOclastic Lee Arthur;
and the trip is not quite FOOLS err
rand, as the theme of the play is the
kind of financiering that the president
has assailed. Arthur has made a big
stick of his pen, and hit Wall street
with a puncturing stab and bruising
blow. And the newspapers of Manhat-
tan haven't told Wall street that il is
hurt.
The thesis of THE Undesirable Cit
liens" is that the operators in Wall
street are not straight gamblers, nor
square dealers, but crooked and swim
dinghy irregular in dootoring the
chances for outside players. The il
Illustrative case is that of a high
browed and big-hearted manufacture
er, whose business got caught in the
money panic of last autumn, and who
to raise cash with which to pay his
workmen. sells his name to be used as
a guaranty that a crooked gambling
house is straight. His sweetheart's
brother is caught in the trap thus bait
ed, and loses her fortune. Thus it is
reasonable for the injured heroine to
hate the misunderstood hero for