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

made known; yet she is no beauty in
her most favorable aspects; and so 7
suppose it is even uD when she does
the work and Mike does the standing
around. They have got a neWsnaneT
, humorist, George Y. Hobart. to write
into stealing Home" things that Ma
bel did in several long plays along
with fresh fun wrought from her train
ing of Mike for a joint vaudeville
stunt. She and he are presented as re-
hearsing at home for their debut He
is inclined to steal away from home
and the job, but she holds him down
on it Their chatter is filed with base
ball hits She does most of the talk
ing. and makes the laughter nearly in
cessant. Mike has faced so many null
titudes on baseball fields that his nerve
is unsuitable; so as an actor he has a
stoid sort of poise, while his wife does
the rest. The theatre held so MANY
baseball rooters at the afternoon intro
duction of Mike, that the ovation was
for noise like that of riot of enthusi-
asm at a league game; but the roofing
slumped slowly as his wife Iahored
while he LACED
At the critical moment. however
when Mabel had to sing her coniugaI
love 10 him, in the guise of an italian
girl, without getting any adequate re-
SponSe- he clapped on the can and
neckerchief of dago dandy and
danced with her. Aha and Ohio. Mike
was an actor after all; for didn't the
cap and scarf make a distinct cbarac-
terlzation, and wasn't his dance some
thing ike a dramatic disturbance of
MS Stolldlty? And don't forget that he
was handsome. | wasn't among those
present when Leander swan the Hell
lespont. or when Putnam rode down
the rocks at Ticonderoga. but | have
heard the roar of acclaim when Mike
Donlin. did an Italian dance with Ma
oel Hite. He doesn't have to wait for
the delay of panel in our American
Han of Fame. He got on the SPOT
Whta was coming to him. The rooters
yelled Justify and Mabel leaped off her
feet. flung her arms around his neck
and kissed him.
In vaudeville, as in other stage hu-
NOR. the theme of coniueaI jealousy
won't wear out. The other new. theme
n the show with Mike Donlin is ''Afv
Wife Won't Let Me- a Paris farce
Fa9t gets here by way of London. A
solemn young clergyman has a pretty
wife not 50 naive that she doesn't
watch out for temptresses of her nus
band. While she is out. an automobile
HOIi1deS in front of their home, and its
rerlinine occupant is brought in. She
frisky soubrctte on her way to a
music hall. When she throws off an
enveloping cloak. she is disclosed TO
the clergyman in light blue tights
which, if they were pink, would give
an impression Of absolute nudity, for
there isn't a wrinkle of the textile fab
riC to differeGtiate it from skin 'twixt
neck and heels. The hue of her is all
that saves the man from death by
shock. Azure is a flesh color nowhere
except maybe in the devilish realm of
blue blaZeS: 50 he knows that she is
clothed in g way. or else is tinted by a
prolonged dragging with mercury, like
the chap in Poor Miss Finch" and he
feels philanthropic, anyway. toward a
girl who has lost every vestige of pet
ticoats. The rOgucry of the soubrette's
lure and the innocence Of the minis
ter's daze are the making of My Wife
Won't Let Ne" which might be one
act OF a French comedy we'll acted. OF
course. the wife comes home to catch
her husband at it Azt what2 Nothing
wicked Yet he claps an overcoat on
her-hind side before-so that she is