The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-21

verses she puts humor into her singing
that whaeks like a club.
y x X
There are other persons and other
things to amuse in Three Twins" but
they are more usual. The play is made
from Mrs. Paeheco's old farce of In
cog" in which Robert Edeson, Clara
Lipman and Louis Mann made their
first rises in playing roles incidental
TO the star part. which was then act
ed by Charles Dickson, the author Of
this new version. He has retained the
fun of the original and added many
lively songs that are tuneful with the
music of Carl Hoschna. This is at its
best in one of those strolling ballads
without which the public whistle would
be lonesome. The sauntering couples
in this instance represent the tradition
al seven ages, from infancy to old age,
with predominance of pretty girls
and their partners. At the end of the
first act the air is taken up again.
While the curtain is down a couple run
across an imaginary sheet of water i'm
front of ii. Then when the stage is
opened up again an electric lighted
whirligig is in operation, with girls in
flower baskets that swing out over
the audience as the contrivance gains
speed in its circular course.
Don't accuse New York of being ut
terly frivolous Electrically in midsum-
mer because those two shows are un-
dignified. Five dramas weighty with
philosophers at least with bluffs at il
IRE holding out sturdily against hot
weather and such an endurance of
worthwhile plays 10 June's end has
not occurred before. Knowing that I
would needs devote much of this let
ter to accounts of "Follies of 1908" and
Three Twins" / decided to go to the
depths as well as the heights of "musi-
cal farce" as the prevailing form of
extravaganza is termed This third
one, Girls Of Gayland," is performed
continuously from noon until next
morning at Coney Island It costs moth
ing TO get into the theatre. but some
thing to get out. Two dozen girls and
two men on the stage are in sight from
the sidewalk through wide open door
ways. The barker says: Don't block
the entrance-all is free-walk right in"
In former seasons he was a bouncer,
also, and if you refused to pass either
in or on, he hurled you along, and no
policeman would defend you. Thus far
this summer law and order have force
down there, and you may gaze at the
show from outside as long as you
please.
Why don't they cut off the view? I'll
tell you about that A dozen fake the
aires screen their stages from the
street, and deluded persons who enter
find a few poor pictures being moved
slowly, while insistent walters see to
il that beer flows fast; or a Wretched
pair of song and dance derelicts do
turn once in a while; and so the habit
ual visitor TO COney has become wary
of any concert hall that he can't look
into and see a live show going on. Loud
monographs and OrchestriOns cannot
lure him in. Only a few are fooled by
the trick of a screen suspended high
enough TO show the dancing gears of
girls seemingly alive. but which turn
ont to be moving photographs. The
place with a buncO not yet familiar
employs one Of those vari-cOlOred wOm-
en- who used TO abound in museums,
and sang in low bass or high soprano
at viii. with cOntraltO and tenor some
times between. This vOcally gifted art
list is too old and ugly for a stage
sight. but seated at a piano, she makes
all the noises of a performance by a
dozen persons. People whom she fools
into the place stink out ashamed on