The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-05

tain which became unmanageabIe. blew
its own lid OFF and behaved like a bursted
boiler With the apparatus on hand, why
not use H. agalnt A COclney young En-
glishman is one of the guests. When the
time comes for coffee, be begs permission
to make il on the Jable-nO bally-bum
stuff don't you know, but such as he
gets at 'ome-wOt eh2 He brings in an
urn like those that some housewives on
crate dainuiy by lighting an alcohol
/ lamp at the bottom, putting in the ground
. coffee at the top and finally tapping il
I with a faucet at the middle TO let out a
delicious beverage. This machine was
pOruentOusly big, but all went well with
1t until the proud cockuey turned the fau-
/ p9mps steam Missed and sizzied out in
an directions, the company was show
/ cred and firemen came in to rescue them
VaIeska and Paul Potter.
Naleska Suratt has been aided ana
aDetted by Paul Potter To cause COM
motion i'm the central whirl of this town
/ ECltgt is lne author as you know. of
ofs' ana many other pieces. His new
| one Is named THE Belle of the BouIe-
wards. Naleska, as YOU likely don't
/ know. Is more than any other shOwgirI
| tIt for the title of Belle OF the Tenderioin
1 Irst saw her i'm a Broadway restau-
rant observation-disclosures smart crOwd-a
[ dark beauty i'm flowing rObes-uuite ORR
entail i'm aspect as she slipped her wine
Q
| Was this Naleska Suratt that oriental
creaturet Sure enough. The picture that
I the dealer mad assured me had been taken
IN turkey ana for which / paid a gOOdly
price, was this New York showgirls por-
| lralt- Moreover, it had been enlarged
from a negative made to advertise q
/ brand of cigarettes.
That attests Naleska's beauty. The use
/ thar she makes of it in The Belle OF
the BOuievaTds' is SO bold that tire DO
/ lice regard it as an Offense, and size has
retired for amendments TO be made to the
play. The belle is pTOfligate Partisan
chum of degenerate spendthrift, who
/ puts modish gowns and brilliant gems on
nef, While she IN return inducts him into
| The reckless life of Paris. Naleska has
Inquired as q Gibson girl and a Brink
ley girl; now she is called Satanella
For an easement of her vicious vim she
I breaks out emOtiOnalIy in a wild dance
! supposedly melted by some drug in the
cigarette she is smoking. Her favorite
eXcitant, though, is PERFUME a drink
made of any alcoholic LIQUID handy on
| her toilet table, and under its influence
she wildly sings an invitation to Come
ana SID cologne with me" The scene is
IN her Doudolr and rival admirers get into
action. And decorated Why her cover
ing at times may be too decoHete but
one of her fingers is warm with pearl
billed-in the program-at $4,000, although
the jewelers. of the world have endeav-
0red In vain to duplicate it at any cost"
How amazed Naleska would be if she
round Il 20 be WaXi Truly. though this
halt-hour in vaudeville is presented most
laVishly as 70 costuming and scenery. 1t
IS 10 be given again, L believe, with the
badness of its morals abated.
The American author might beat the
Frenchmdn. if he tried to. i'm the invention
Of wedlock oddities for farces; but what's
the use when a sufficiency of such things
arc made i'm Paris for the whole world s
supply 4 can't prove that the plot of
the extravaganza used by the Cay Goth
ga HHnHa
name, but not precisely it, has been
Drought across the ocean. Tt is too in
semcus, though, TO have originated iu
i. the burlesque of this country; and too
gOOd-in its bad way-to be thrown away
20 inappreciative audiences in a show 9th
erwise raw and rough. I stumbled on it
when going TO see the negro pugilist
Johnson, posing as an actor. Having told
you from time TO time, of acting by the
white champions. from Sullivan to JEFF
fries, why draw a color line in dramatic
art 10 the neglect of Johnson Besides.
4 was told that, following the lead of
t1tzsimmOns, he would be accompanied
on the stage by his wife: and if he did
that. mightn't the sight-he being Jet
black and she untainted white-prOvoke
interesting criticism by the spectators?
W ell, Johnson merely went through with
some training exercises in scene OF the
play and Mrs. Johnson kept out Of sight
behind the drapery of a box.
A Photograph in a Farce.
While in quest of johnson oddity in
vain, 1 came across the plot in which a
photograph made more ado in a farce
Lnan ever mortgage did i'm a rural
drama. rich old merchant finds 1t in
his junior partners office desk. It is a
portrait of his young wife costumed like
a Saiome dancer; the junior partner is an
amateur photographer: he and she are
open to Suspicion anyway; and that makes
knotty problem for them to get rid Of
The junior is one Of those ready liars
that are ever popular in plays.
1t Is simply an unfortunate case Of
mistaken identity" says he. '-Joyanna, q
dancer who performs at clubs and other
seml-private places, bears a striking re-
sembance TO your wife. Observing the
wonderful similarity, ] took my camera
along next time she was to do her stunt
at a club smoker and made a negative OF
her in Salome costume and pose.
thought il would amuse your wife-and
YOU sir %
1T does, the senior replies. and
must see this Joyanna. I must please.
and You VIII introduce me to her
You need but one guess at what the
junior and tie wife OF the senior did next