The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

putting her through the Bernhard
poses and gestures of Bernhard tan
trums. carefully adjusting them to the
language and the lens. Those sights
were thrown on a curtain, while an in
visible woman, with the voice and vocal
tricks of Bernhardt spoke the lines. It
was remarkably life-like; and a square
real, too; as one could quit after TOs-
cas- killing Of her assailant at ten cents,
or stayed for the S0rceress denuncia-
ton of her inQuisitors at the same prize,
OF buy portions of six roles at half a
dollar as I did.
Perhaps the Theatre of Crime was
less praiseworthy In it the most re-
! cent deed of bloodshed in France is en-
acted as often as a hundred persons
have assembled at fifteen cents apiece.
The dramatist and the actors keep close
to the facts as given in the newspapers.
/ The play that I saw gave the shooting
to death Of two Paris police inspectors,
only three days before, by a burglar
whom they had undertaken to arrest,
and who Immediately killed himself.
/ The officers were Of a high grade, the
criminal lived the life of a luxurious
/ gentleman when not robbing churches
! and museums Of valuable curiOs, and
/ the depletion, lasting about fifteen min
/ utes, couldn't be disputed as faithful
/ realisms.
The English censor of shows wouldn't
/ permit a Theatre Of Crime in London.
4 Probably he is right. He won't let the
recent assassination of Sir CurZOn
/ Wylie, by an East Indian political IA
matte, be put into the chamber Of hor-
/ rors at Madam Tussaud's wax works.
/ Yet the latest Whitechapel murder is
/ exhibited in ali its CORY ghastliness. The
| Tussaud show is larger, but not differ
/ ent or better than the Eden Musee in
| New York. 1t is one OF the sights that
| provincial Englishmen are bound to see
when they come to London During the
| influx of natives to see the Warships in
/ the Thames, the doors were opened at
/ s in the morning, hot tea was sold to
/ visitors who brought in luncheOns, and
! picnic parties crowded the effigies of a
1 thousand celebrities. Was il any Won
/ der that the kings and queens, unused
/ to such long days work IN the flesh,
| dropped away in wax? I tried that as
a joke on four separate visitors, and
none was Scotch, yet all gazed at me
/ in blank silence.
In the Tower Of London, a crowd was
/ circling slowly around the case contain
ing the crown Jewels. Thick glass, next
/ three feet of space, then a steel graf
spectators. One Of the Towers famous
''beefeaters" on guard was not a big,
bearded, old veteran from the army, but
a smallish and rather youngish chap,
who looked as though his Elizabethan
/ costume irlzed him.
Keep moving, please" he said. and
then added YEARLY, don't handle the
Jewels"
Most Of the procession DETECTED sober
ly away from the cage Of tabled wealth
| at his admOnition, and passed along.
I was close to him when, with a solemn
cadence he again said: Don't handle
| the jewels"
It guess no one ever sees the joke, -
said I.
He perked UP at the word "guess, "
| looked at me with twinkling eyes, and
| replied with a welcoming laugh: "Once
| in a while an American comes along
| thank God"'
FRANKLIN FYLES.