The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-19

from her chest, and she makes them
dance on a little platform suspended
from her shoulders, while with her full
grown two she dances stOckingless on
the floor. Art and nature mutually
freakish, Ell? And I guess it provides
the last word that needs to be written,
for awhile anyway, about the fad Of
live art with the lid off.
Meanwhile, the ballets of the two
grand opera companies, and of the lyric
section at the New Theatre. have put
their best feet forward-those belonging
to premiere danseuses imported for this
season. And these legitimate and ira
ditionaI mistresses of the ballet can do
more with their highly cultured feet
than take the stockings off. Not fiat
sole, but on tip-toe, they do the graceful
things that Ellsler and Bonfanti used for
the. enchantment of our ancestors. They
do look obsolete, however, in their dis
tended short skirts. Adeline Genee,
England's pet dance artist of the orthO-
dox school, puts on and off those old
style fluff froCks in her many shifts for
"The Silver Star" extravaganza. And
Dazzle, formerly an operate premier,
now joins the Christmas entertainers.
Dazzle didn't make her American de-
but with that name, nor with any other
that she may have borne in Europe,
but as The Girl in the Red Domino
A red mask covered her face from nose
| to brOws. Her features are ugly, but
/ that wasn't the main reason for hiding
them. although it may have suggested
a new method of exploitation. A genius
at advertising told the newspapers that
/ he was going to import a lady who, al
| though she would dance for us in ROOT
| garden, couldn't think of letting us
| know who she was. He took a party OF
! reporters down the bay to meet her
/ How she wore a red mask was para
| graphed, and there the journals dropped
/ her until the time came to describe hei
dancing; but meanwhile on her rides
/ in Central park, at her meals in res
l taurants, in theatre audiences anC
/ wherever else she was visible, she KEEP
on the sillxen shield Thus with no hell
with the trick from the newspapers
The Girl in the Red Domino became al
object of keen interest; and as SIN
danced with the 1.-THE figure of a slim
girl, her performance piqued curiOsit!
still further Mark Luescher. who die
that for her enrichment, got her for ;
! wife You may have heard tell o
Luescher's achievement but I don
| think it has been published.
This Dazzle of a Daisy's new play
! 1.-THE Love of an Artist" is a pantO
mime employing ten silent persons. I
painter comes across a flower girl il
the street and takes her to his studio
where she is admired by artists an,
their Trilbys- her hosts mis-
tress, who is murderOusly jealous. Tn
/ mute characters make themselves un
derstood, and Dazzle gives some new va
riations of the mattische and Apach
! dances Of passion that have emanate
lately from Paris.
Yvette Guilbert has been treated i'm
politely i'm New York vaudeville. TIL
audiences, understanding her bad Eng
fish no better than her bad French
have scorned her dainty art and scoffe
at her delicate deviltry. I have see
nothing in our theatres so much Xix
London boOhing as the guying of Yvett
on her opening night. Now BelascO ha
reached out a hand to her, and she
giving matinee entertainments in on
of his houses. Truth to tell, however
she is hopelessly passee, bygOne, out
Of-date. SwinbuTne was denounced 70
the erotic poetry that he used to write
but who cared for his verses when h
became respectable? Yvette made
furore that prospered her in New Yor
when she sang indecent ballads wit
gestures SO violent that they thTeatene
to throw her oht of her perilously loN
corsage; but now that she has improve
the morals of her songs. and behave
decorously, she is dfsregarded. She
( as ever an artist, but dull instead @
spirited. and her folk songs and midi
reminiscent ballads disappOint on
young folks who have heard what on
older folks have told them about her
Real Partisan Deviltry.
Pity lis, but true. that Yvette Gull
berts real Partisan deviltry tame
can't hold its own against Yaieska Su
rats imitation run wild. The law
halt of Valeska in THE Belle Of tn
Boulevards," a comedy by Paul Potter
was not an advertising device, but
served that purpose SO well that only
few and poor seats are sold regularl
at the ticket window, and you can
buy good ones except of sidewalk hawk
ers at doubled or trebled prices. l toll
you that, in the form that was stopped
Valeska personated, in very sympa
theuc spirit, the Partisan counterpart