The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-07

full, anyway. and extremely volup-
tuous.
MISS RaJah's Cleopatra is a chaTmer
OF snakes as we'll as men: and her no.
tency with reptiles seems to be rated
by her Snowman higher than her power
TO mash masculine human beings: for
neither Marc Antony nor any other Of
her bedevilled dupes is displayed with
her; but long. fat. real snake is her
sole companion. and that big specimen
of harmless water snake-not an asp.
scorpion or other traditional viper of
deadly Venom-is finally the executioner
OF the suicidal sentence that she passes
upon herself. Truth to tell. she doesn't
say n word about Mare. or anything
else, but seems to be on terms Of con-
genial intimacy with the snake: and
as to him fmaybe ] should say her"
or indefinitely 1T" but il comes easier
to write he" in mentioning the Egypt
ian hirts comradel he acts quite at
home with her, and no one would be
surprised to see them sit down and coil
up together and look for notes for la
dies and sCrpents. how and when to
shed their gowns and skins. in the col
unns Of The DOyc-cote and Dote-dope
Magazine"
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Miss Rajah in the museums. as they
call EN- there-that Is 10 say. besides
being pretty woman. almost beauti-
full; but the joint manager of grand
opera and vaudeville heard Of her. be-
thought him of Cleopatra and the viper.
and now she is his topliner. CostUmcd
as the Enchantress of the Nile, and dis
embsrl<ing from royal, gorgeous
barge, she doesn't look il possible that
Clsf 10 ri1 nd
Long island coast in a floating dime
museum. She doffs her ermine and
dons what may be a nightie built to
exclude the mosquitoes, but not the
bree yes OF the Niles suitry season.
Why she vitiates the airiness of her
covering by going into hootch.e-
cOotchie exercises isn't clear. perhaps
the snake asks her to, as he wriggles
and twists in and around her arms
while her legs are active; or y she
aware of those American admirers out
there beyond the footlights? When
she has done all the dancing stunts
she knows how to, she probably whis-
pers to the snake: Please bite me,
dearie." History tells that Cleopatra
had the viper sting her on an arm; but
Rajah's researches in Egyptology have
led her to the conclusion that he had
biting option on a much wider area %
SCOPE and he settles down at just about
the point where Cleopatra achcd after
q supper Of Egyptian scarabs, or Ra-
JAN after Coney Island crabs. There
he is supposed to take q good-by nip
and she falls for farewell nap.
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George Ade gets along without AIDE
slang-almOst-and Elsie Janis without
Janis imitatfons-nearly-in The Fair
g., oil
lege where the sexes are co-educated;
but there is only one girl to a plenty of
boys: and that is bright device for
star actress, because it makes heroine
easy to adulate from title to tag. This
doesn't equal AIDES Garlic collegiate
piece. The College " with its
football game. nor :. la Johnson
Brown of Harvard" with its boat
race, although Ade impolitely makes
one OF his characters speak of Miss
Johnson's composition as ''mush." There
is no one episode in THE Fair COED"
for its characters to talk yittily about.
yet they crack jokes and emit bits OF
dialogue sufficient for a good daily fun
column week or fortnight in a news
paper; and that is why 1 can't find
many salient features TO describe in d
very jovial show. The noteworthiest
novelty is Elsie Janis in trousers. The
only girl in the college makes Up her
mind to obliterate herself as a student
and reappear as a young fellow from
government school for fighters More
than half the evening. she hides her sex
under the blue cloth and gilt trimmings
of a naval cadet.
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While the Fair COED is sportive
bogus military beau, OutTivalling with
her better looks and jauntier clothes
her fellow students among the girls Wis
iting at commencement time. one of the
boys supplies a needed chsperon for a
group of merry maidens by Disgusting
himself in petticoats. The comedian is
Harry Clarke, so slim and nimble that
he makes a right comely young matrOn,
although too antic for ehaperoning de-
corOusly. So much of the amusement
in this show is freshening OF the old
nonsense of q man-Woman and q
Elsie's curves are not yet
bToadened by the fat of age; she seems
by nature to be a tomboy hoyden; and
if she would sacrifice her girlish length
of hair she would be counterfeit boy