The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-16

ana THOMAS Z. Shea are prosperous
payers throughout the states, vet he
never comes. into Broadway. and she
seldom. Thomas makes the best of
necessity by visiting our outskirting
theatres-as now in a way that. pres
entiy' Will write about Olga stays
away until by chance she may enter
center or the town with a new
pay OF inter-sex deprayity. She did
That years ago with "Sappbo." and
anthony ComStock gave help to her
exploit by a sincere attempt, to sup
press IL. The theatre vas shut a week
| uhtli jury decided that she was not a
ID Npreaker, and then for months il
iIss crowded by people eager to see
TOR themselves. Her next illustration
OF lawless passion was with "The
Awakening" and many cities have
seen II during two seasons: but not I'M
III this week, after ii has criss-crossed
tne continent, does New York get a
sight of it.
Ii is too late, therefore, to describe
faui HervieU's lie Reveii." The first
night keeners knew that Olga, as the
WIFE OF deputy in Paris, would be
tempted by Balkan prince I'm exile
10 break the seventh commandment.
and that his ardor would make her
promise to do il next day. They We're
not in mood to study the case. as
written by member of the French
Academy and acted at the Coincide
Franchise. of a wife and mother awak-
ened to duty at the call of her husband
ana daughter; but they were eager to
see this famously kissing actress put
q new chip Of cussedness on her Shout
der for the critics, perhaps the police,
to knock Off
II saw ii four years ago in Paris"
said a cosmOpolite. land ii was a ply
steal as well as a psychological assault
by the man on the woman. Now don't
tell me that Olga Nethersole won't
9nake Broadway kink its straight line
An the map when she gives the kiss of
ANrrender'
"Oh. we would have heard of it dur
ing her two seasons tours with the
piece i'm her repertOTy." l said, IF she
had done any amazing stunt"
That's all right" the knower per-
sisted. "but she's prepared to Guido in
New York all the kissing that's being
done here in the several waltz plays"
X = x
4 DEPRESSION is pertinent to show
what Olga had to contend with If she
meant to hit the town with d lascivi-
Gus smack big enough TO knock out all
rivalry. The most specious three thea
tres in Broadway are oYercrOwded be-
cause THE Merry Widow" "A Waltz
Dream" and THE Soul Kiss" are on
their stages SensuOus music and
sights of beauty make these plays at
tractive to seekers of sOlace from
business cares among men, and women
ever stare-eyed and cock-eared for po-
lite naughtiness. So keen is the relish
for fun and frOlic that SOthern not
only puts Hamlet" aside for Dun
dreary," but advertises a reward for
the best solution of the silly lord s
problem: IF fourteen dogs with three
legs each can catch fOrty-eight rab-
bits with seventy-six legs in twenty
five minutes. how. many legs must
twenty-four rabbits have TO get away
tTqth 5000 dogs with no legs at ALP
Asld the award was given 70 woman
Who answered: This is not a bunny
fide question" Think of such foolery
by the man who, | think. acts Hamlet
better than anyone else since Booth.
X
The trivial trend is not confined to
theatres where waltzes and kisses to
dreamy music are fashionable: il ex-
tends to the houses of cheap melodra-
ma. where the same tunes dances and
kisses are put in among the struggles
Of virtue and vice: and of course the
touring burlesquers have gone with
the voluptuary drift. But, while the
audiences at the Nienuese musical
plays smile as they enjoy themselves,
those at the cheap shows feel bound to
Yell and boot for fun at the kissing,
although they silently delight in the
Waiting. Now, no grade of players
like to be derided and this is the way
that one manager saves the face" Of
his. "top-sawyers," as he would phrase
Il. yet doesn't lose the full value of the
dream waltz" climaxed with the soul
kiss" Eae hanGsomest man and wo-
man, WA are his best singers and
dancers, aiso, sing and dance a Strauss
waltz up to the point where the kiss
is near Then the live persons disap-
pear i'm darkness and Immediately come
snto view as motion pictures for the
Kiss. which beats the Broadway record
by lasting actively two full minutes.
x X =
Now. in competition with so much
kissing on the stage, high and low,
what would Olga Nethersole do? What
could she? That was what the round
ers went to see. After Frank Mills as
the e-breaking prince had i'm
piored her passionately to forget she
twas a wife and 4 mother: when his
amorOus pursuit of her in and out and
round about chairs, sofas and tables
ended III capturing mug anu at the
instant of their contact of lips-why, l
bad nay watch in hand 10 time the os-
'eulation. In these theatrical days and
ways, some OF dramatic arts express
sions have to be measured like athletic
feats to keep the critical record trust
worthy. The Nethersole and Mills
mouths come together into contact at
10:32:l6 and separated at l0:32:lS. The
duration was two seconds only. In
1.-THE Soul Kiss" are six longer each
than that, and in "A Waltz Dream"
one lasts f1ve-sixths of a minute. What
was the matter with Olga? She was
stiffly lame from a recent fail on Pitts
burg ice. but her fluency of speech
didn't indicate that her lips were dis
{ f,sed She may have decided that TO
Guido what was being done elsewhere
would more than gain such advertising
as had doomed ''SapphO;" probably it !
might keep her locked away from the
stage awhile; so she Stunned the risk
and the people We're disappointed.
Are you thinking that l am treating