The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

| of chump whose utter idiocy of man
ner and matter have kept him a head
! liner in vaudeville these many years
| BY putting him into the role of a rura
] villager who, as he sings it, is "a two
horse fellow in a one-horse town." but
! finds himself overtasked as the man.
| ager of country fair. his peculiar
! humOr is utilized valuably The open
ing night was an ordeal for him, how
ever, and those who were in scenes
with him. / suppose this was his first
acting part. He had no clear notion
/ of the utility of cues, or the need OF
adhering to the prescribed business;
/ so he didn't wait for tips TO begir
speaking, or give them TO others; his
I disposition to turn the wrong way in
crosses brought on frequent collisions
and his nervousness eliminated in
drenching an exquisitely gowned show
| girl with an overcharged bottle OF
sham champagne; but folks unac-
quainted with vaudeville discovered
him with gleeful satisfaction. and
lengths from his old monologues were
accepted hilariOusly as new and
mighty good. The swapping of talent
between drama and vaudeville is just
about at a balance. Some of the crack
CRACKS of the variety shows have been
legitimate artists. Some of the merri-
est MOmuses in musical farce have
been stunters i'm vaudeville.
X x x
Mabel Hite is another person util-
lied. Mabel advanced herself from the
chorus several years ago as a fluffy
sort of soubrette, but now she finds
her value as a caricaturist Of herself
as the same type of theatrical creature
that Rose Stahl depicts in THE Chorus
Lady Have you ever thought of ii
that most of the professions are ma
hgned in stage representations? The
lawyer is a shyster, the journalist is a
cad, the actor is a tramp, even the
clergyman Is a hypocrite usually, and
only the physician is treated with re-
spect. SO the chorus girl in stage de-
lineation is never the siren of gram
NAUTICAL speech, polite manners and
feminine charm who lures American
millionaires and European nOblemen,
but a rude, crude creature, who doesn't
talk slang for expressive slang's sake,
but because she has no dictionary Eng
fish in her vocabulary. Yet the theat-
rical public never tires of the misrep-
resentative chorus lady, and Mabel
Hite's is a factor in this entertainment.
X x 4
I wonder if Ignacio Martinetti knows
how old he is? He comes of the once
famous Martinetti family of panto-
mimists, but whether he is a son,
grandson, or still further removed
descendant, / can't tell you. Anyway,
he ISN'T more than % in looks while
pirOuetting in front of a stageful of
girls, and singing, with the accent of
a titled French heiress hunter, 4 like
'em just like you, little girls" and
You dear tailOr-ntaids. The object
lesson 10 be learned from THE Merry
GO-ROund" by workers in that line is
to employ humOristic players and then
give them all to do that they can force
across the footlights. Beyond a trav-
estying of Gladys Vanderbilt's and
Anna GOuld's matrimonial misadven-
lures, there is no COherency. The first
half is filled with incidents at the coun-
try fair and the second with hilarities
at a Bohemian restaurant in town
Each of six comedians has an entrance
song to himself. with a full chorus
ballet cOstumed and drilled TO give dis
tinctiOn 10 him.
Serious drama, very serious and full
of puzzle if not of problem, is not yet
displaced by the rush of shows to be
seen rather than heard The Gov
ernOr and the Boss does not belle it's
name. 1t is indeed political. AS an
exposure of municipal corruption it
should make Broadhurst ashamed of
The Man of the Hour" while for
raking in the mud of money it should
impel Klein to disown THE Lion and
the Mouse" but whether it will bulge
the purses of BragdlOn and Postance,
its asserted authors, like Broadhurst's
and Klein's-well, if ! were a trust
worthy theatrical forecaster, | would
be a millionaire, too. This | write.
though, and write it boldly, that nei-
Their Klein by putting John d. Rock
efeller and Ida Tarbell into a play, nor
Broddhurst by dramatizing our Mayor
Mcclellan and some Tammany bosses.
is worthy Of mention in the same
newspaper with BragdIon and Post
ance, who have-I can't so much as
hint at their exploit iii one sentence,
but must dot period, dip a pen and
start afresh.
There are two candidates in THE
Governor and the Boss for the CIV
ernorship of the state of New York.
One is billed as David Graham. but
plainly, explicitly, he is meant for the
sure enough Governor Hughes. and
maybe president. as he lives in
Hughes street. is Hughes sort of a
lawyer, and his gubernatorial cam
JdiSH - INDEPENDENT. ike hughes.
Still, While the real Hughes is long
married and settled Graham i'm the
play loves and woos. wins and weds.
that rare being, girl private secre-
tary with brain behind her beauty
This Hughes and his amanuensis are
played by the leading actor and actress
Of the SpOoner stock company: so
they're all right morally, emotionalIy,
every other way. with
doting audience. The opposed candi-
date, though dubbed George Vincent. is
William Randolph Hearst, with
booming newspaper and a hurrahing
party of his own; also, he is George x
holding the mayoralty of
New York City while reaching for the
governOralty Of New York state: Vet.
both Hearst and Mcclellan
are married felicitously off-stage, their
on-stage in Vincent is a
bachelor libertine, besides several other
kinds Of a scoundrel. | suggest that