The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-01

sive time killing; but, differently, some
Of this consisted of moving pictures,
which we put at the end of the pro-
gram. The photographs, however, illus
trated recent events in a hOrseshOw, a
horse race and a regatta. TwO-thiTds Of
the stalls were empty until o'clock,
when their late-dining purchasers got in
to see the first of the things they
thought worth their looking at. Thus
they evaded a trio of Americans in a
rough, loud sketch, which the galleries
liked very much, and were in time for
"A Day in Paris" a pantOmimic ballet
with many shifts Of costumes and seen
erv. 1t lasted half an hour with imita-
tons of Partisan gaieties, but mostly
with dancing, from quite orthodox bal
lets with traditional premiers and cory
uhees. to the apache" waltz by mimic
French outcasts. 1t was a Respondent
spectacle, but of the costly kind that
has ever failed Of appreciation in New
York.
A French comedians songs in his C-vn
language separated that from the Jther
big half hour of the evening. This was
a ballet, too, in the main, although the
basis of il was the second act of the
opera, Robert il DiavOlO," with the
duke and the fiend sung well. What
made the audience enthusiastic about 1t,
though, was that Adeline Genee played
Elena, the spirit of the abbess, with her
feet and not her voice. Her appearance
gave proof of LOndon's steadfast 10y
atty to its stage favOrites. A number
of our cities applauded this wonderful
dancer last year in an extravaganza;
she was to US a delighting novelty; but
for years she has been familiar here in
the music halls; nevertheless the audi
ence made as noisy an ado as though
she were a new revelation. For this
production of one act Of an opera in
sights rather than sounds, five changes
of scene and a diversity of dances were
illumined daZZlngly.
About a third OF the parquet wanted
no more for its money than those two
bal1ets, and went to its carriages after
a final handicap for Genee. Yet the pro-
gram had a third good thing next en-
suing in NascO, the mad musician. He
PLAYED many instruments frantically,
sang snstches Of tunes crafty, leaped
and tumbled like a lunatic, and all the
time his array of FURNISHED metal i'm
plements and embellishments shOne by
electric lighting on an otherwise dark
stage. After him few Of the parquet
waited to see a concluding series Of
moving pictures. It had been a big,
expensive and excellent show, satisfy
ing people who paid twice as much as
Broadway does for vaudeville; yet New
Workers generally wouldn't care much
for it. Genee, you know, had to give
dances that were stunts to please US.
Coming to London from Paris is from
sunlight to shade. OF an outdoor yet
sheltered show the manager might
phrase rain or fine" is used instead;
for, you see, the sun doesn't shine
clearly through the haze. and anything
better than rain is regarded as fine.
Paris keeps bright and lets its people
be say all night. London puts out the
lights of revelry at thirty minutes past
midnight and no restaurant dares sell
a mOuthful later. A supper after the
theatre can't be a leisurely repast. I
stayed at the music hall until the show
was all over, stopped on the way out
to test the taste of an appetizer If served
by a barmaid, and at a quarter TO
twelve strolled with my companion into
one of The Strands famous restaurants
to order such a supper as one might at
that hour Of hunge. and thirst in New
York or Paris. The waiter astonishsd
us. He was not in the torpid state that
I had observed a dinner. but waited IN
easily Tor me to scan the menu, and
when the selections were made he went
to get them in a hurry contrasting with
my elaboration. The clock sounded for
midnight as he brought the soup, and he
quivered at every stroke
wiz you be wanting to drink some
thing, orE" he asked.
why not wait till wish to tell your"
said /, for 1 hate to be hurried by
waiter.
Beg pardon" be apologized, but
you've only half an hour, you know"
did know. but had forgotten; and
that supper had TO be gulped and
chOked down. would Broadway stand
th1+9
usC fortnight that i...dnigac / say.
The curtain drop on The Merry Wild
Ow" in Paris, and the parquet turn its
1nderside TOP. thus changing the place