The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-18

: tonight matinees daily, vaude- :.
= vile. :.
= Colonial-An week. beginning to- :.
= night matinees Thursday and Sat :,
:: urday, The Liars :.
:: Bungalow-AH week. beginning :.
= tonight, matinees Wednesday and :.
= saturday, THE Telephone Girl" :.
- Grand-Al week, beginning to- :.
- night, matinees Wednesday and :.
= Saturday, An Orphans Prayer" ::
= Lyric-An week, matinees daily, =
/ = illustrated songs and pictures. :.
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Take a young man who dresses like a
fashion plate, and acts like a fictional
college hero, and YOU get the central
character. 1t is all like nothing that
ever happened anywhere off the stage.
Presumably, the authors did not write
, to be realistic, but to be funny, and
that they are.
A group of ranchmen have lost a
monograph TO the men of a neighbor-
ing place in a wager on a foot race.
and their one object is to get it back
again. A collegian, covered with med
ais, comes along. They back him with
everything they own against the phono-
graph. What they don't know is that
his running, ike his other stunts is
only wind-hot air-to catch the girls.
So our laughter comes from seeing a
man in training for a race he couldn't
get away with if he was i'm his very
/ best condition. Walter Jones is his
! trainer, who carries a prayer rug about
with him to kneel ON when things get
to going some The boy, Laurence
| Wheat wears enough medals to weigh
down the best Splinter of the day. He
starts training before the girls. who ad-
mire his physique, and when he really
| does make dash they start after him.
| But on the spot the trainer SAYS "Oh.
what's the use-he's mile off already"
The third act starts in total darkness.
1t is just before dawn. An alarm clock
rings up the sleeping cowboys: the
pseudo athlete and the trainer are snor-
ing in the bunk house. The drowsy
men curse the noisy bell, each in his
own VOcabuIaTy-the Mexican in Latin
garlic <oaths, the others in western
American dictiOn. With it all they
may sleep a bit longer, but the runner
who is to carry their hopes must up.
The trainer drops him from his bunk
and pummels him into life, and lashes
him into an early morning sprint on the
desert. When he comes back he finds
his bath has been iced to better his con-
ditiOn. and the cowboys insist on his
eating raw meat. He is not allowed to
talk to girls on the day of the race
that would have bad effect. But
through it all he keeps up hope because
a classmate. the real runner. is on the
way. All along he has been telegra phi
ing to his racer to hurry: and when he
does arrive, he has been hurt and is. on
crutches. That is a sufficient example
of the fun in Going Some" In the
last minute of the farce. by which a real
interest in the fake race and the fraud
racer has been aroused. he wins by
buying up>his opponent: and the swim
die is applauded merrily.
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What next in metaphysical drama
A play about a mans abnormal control
of a girls voice is The Climax" Sven
gall and TriIby over again? Oh. no.
The girl in this case is a singer ready
for operate fame. She is brought to
New York by an old music master to
be cultured. A young physician comes
from her native village to rescue her
from a stage career, and take her back
to quiet domesticity as his wife. Read
carefully. for the plot is peculiar. A
flaw in the girls throat can be re-
moved by an operation which, a famous
surgeon says. doesn't fail once in a
thousand times. She submits to it. A
week Of utter silence for her ensues.
The surgeon goes to Europe and leaves
her in charge of her dOctOring sutton.
The time for her to resume the use of
her voice arrives. II is a tense scene.
The lover has told her to he prepared
for the worst. as she may be the fail
ure after 999 successes He cautions her
not 10 be unduIy hopeful. II is possible.
ne says. that the surgery won't improve
her voice. it may destroy her operate
value. She is wrought up 10 nervous
tension. What if she can't sing any
more2 The bare possibility is horrible.
But it Is true. She can't run d scale.
Her plight is pitiful indeed.
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A Leona Watson has been chosen for
the part of the sadly silenced singer.
She is a proficient vocalist and fairly
adept actress. She sings well enough,
during the first half of the play, to sus-
tain the assertion of the author, Ed
ward Locke, that she really is ft Tor
an operate career. and SO. when she
would sing better than before, but can't
sing at all. her anguish is acute 1t
squeezed tears from my eyes. and I am
not a ready weeper at the theatre Poor
fooled girl. Yes, fooled. Her voice isn't
/ impaired at all. BY hypnotic sugges-
ton, helped by a paralyzing spray of
her vocal chords, and by her frighten-
I ing apprehension, the fellOw strikes the
singer dumb and convinces her that her
stage ambition is futile The culmina-
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