The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-11

Sow York. April 9.-No more is there
- definite theatrical season i'm this town,
setting u with autumn and winding up
rrfr -priuE, as there used TO be. In
stead of that. the new things on the
STAGE here viii be more singular
f.-.1.out next summer, and until the
.rHrpaeI to winter brings return OF
-.Gat, Itgiumacy- There are two weeks
FL. tla year. though, in which the out
.st of shows slows up to something like
. -raudstiU here. They are the weeks
-.-r christmas and Good Friday IN
.ram. There is i'm all BrOadway's lee
ru-Et TWO miles of twenty-eight thea
tres devoted TO full-lCngth plays not
... that is new, and within the week
after Holy Friday there viii be I'VE.
We have the animal circus though,
with it's rings increased to five not TO
mention some ShakespeaTeaH rivalry
which. If Edward Fl. SOthern and Rob
EFT ManteH were u-Forrest and "a Mac
raddy. and our people went foolish with
tor worship as they did in the pre-
uadiug century. might lead to repeu-
ton of the Astcr place riots, in which
rartf-au~ of the American tragedlan
and the English fought one another OF
Tie death This is AN era of common
..-e i1 amusementS. Who cares
which of Mauteu OF S0thern is the bet
-.r ..-Hrg We give them all the ap-
Hr...au.u they deserve, and in one
r-zr as much money as Forrest and
1Iaarasfy received i'm the whole week Of
their lamously TiOtous performances.
un ms way TO see Sothern and Man
t.. u Shakespeare, one evening after
the other ] saw d rabble of turbulent
r#H and boys blocking Broadway in
front off q vaudeville theatre on which
rho name of James j. Jeffries was blaZ-
ing above the assertion that he was
.-ra indicated champion priZefighter
.. ..a world" Further along, another
crowd closed the way of Jaxicabs and
trolley cars. This was one black and
white. brown and yellow, with negro
mixture. for here the cause of excite
ua-- was thename Of Jack Johnson in
fire. with the declaration that he, too,
.a- -Iha mdefeated champion prize
.-u-ar uf the world" The Jeffries
versus Johnson. white versus black, ra-
.aI -auuar may yield such q Forrest
..-r- 1IacTeady riot as can't possibly
.- melted by the Sothern versus Man
r. rivalry. Which is the right of two
..Iu.tiousg Were the Forest Mac
.afy rarusans of d kind with those in
r.. HniSterOuS Jehries-JohnsOn antag-
.-.-.H or may we believe that our
people who care for Shakespeareau act
.- have learned u observe il with de-
..rres discrimination, while the beilig-
r-aur rabble goes fighting mad over
..E.-tS.
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A fortnight ago, I described the white
'.Hs debut as an actor Should !
.-a. a color line iu dramatic art 10
exclude the black Johnson? / said no,
and went 20 see the fellow who is "a
...Hr.I gentleman" as introduced IN
-. sketch of Hard Hits" but in the
opinion of a gallery enemy "a no-good
.--.r bluff" Some of Jefries-- eau
following had come here to defy
. African adherents To Johnson; for
Kissed itself into the applause OF
..ua-I.u when the living statue OF a
Hercules ion ebony bowed and grinned
-. friends and his enemies. Like the
-... ruEilist the black one appears
" gymnasium scene and shows dur
.- fifteen minutes the various exercises
taken Uy men in training for the ring
....#iu- q boxing bout of three rounds
#- big and shapely figure OF