The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
BY FRANKLIN FILES.

New York May 2L-Three good
nonevs' worth Of actors i'm new dramas
are on sale this week. Summer theat-
r4cs1 bargains, so to say. James K.
Hackatt and Edward NJ. Holland. sons
both of celebrated dramatic artists, to-
gether I'm THE Bishops Candlesticks'
make newly out of Victor Hugo's Les
Wserables" Half a dollar for a best
afternoon seat. Cecil SpooneT, she Of an
emotional sister Edna May. a humor-
Gus mother, and herself the just-dis-
closed wife of Charles r. BlaneX, in
NY Partners Girl" the latest writing
Of Charles r. Darcy, author of In Old
Kentucky" Half a dollar for that, too,
al q matinee. Jack Binus' debut as a
hero both real and mimic, in Saved
bv Wireless" Don't tell me you've for
gotten Jack He was the boy who, when
the steamship Republic was sinking,
stuck 10 his duty, although the col
Hsion had torn out one side of the room
and LEFT the remnant i'm darkness. and
sent out electric help-yelps Of c. @.
n. Only half a dollar for that too, and
i'm the evening. a dollar fifty for the
three. because none is i'm a Broadway
theatre where one show costs two dol
lars
3 * x
Less than an hour long. though. is
saved by Wireless" It is the first of
the summers new sights at Coney ISL
and. and very realistic. with salt water
let iH from the ocean. a moon and stars
shining from natures own sky, all the
mechanism of wireless biography in
operation, and the sure enough Jack
Runs doing over again what he did in
The almost but not quite disaster of the
Republic. As much of the steamship
as the section of sea will hold steams
into view. Its passengers sing and
dance. Several are sweethearts with
love Offairs to tell about A fine illu-
sion of a dense fog settles down on the
water. The deep bass signal horn Of
an approaching vessel IS heard. The
Republic answers. The tremendous
crash of a collision comes. A wild panic
ensues among the passengers. The Of
hcers control the people. however, and
The lowering of lifeboats, the plunging
Of swimmers into the sea, and the
transfer of all i'm safety to the uniu-
]ured shin that has made the other a
wreck is accomplished.
And Jack Binns, Oh. where is he2
Why, down in the telegrapher's room
OF the vessel whence all but him have
ned-barring the captain and his mate.
The ship careens and fills But Jack
stays on the spot and sticks to his job.
Ep-zing and fick-fiash go his c. Q.
~ calls. OF course. fact hampers the
hcuon. for the Republics passengers
were saved by the vessel that sunk her
hours before the wireless. messages
brought responding ships hut Jacks
bravery was a reality. and I suppose
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MS heroic deed in make believe repeti-
IONS Anyway, it is an impressive
spectacle
'oney Island isn't open wide It's
many little things for diversion are
a'dlao-e, but new, big, odd ones are
La-eddy-eXCept that wireless play.
however two Of the areas Of amuse-
,neli down there, Dreamland and Luna
am began with a snowy and very
NOISY boom. You pay a dime to get
".,' each. and that qualities you to pay
ru-eI dimes. also nickels, quarters and
.'a'Fes' for an manner Of catch-coin en-
dement's. As heretofore, devices that
.1-' ana bump yOu on toboggans. take
.ui breath and give YOU vertigo shoot
s lhe cnutes and looping the looms.
-o' SEND YOU stumbling through sub
'.aiean passages and jump devils out
~ sou from grOttOes-the Ingenuity of
w SHoWmen Is exhausted in the max
ahc selling Of discomforts and tor
ling pleasantries In A week or So 7
49, ..' 80 90 he'll for you in dreadful i'm
r-N IT what they put inside THE
oI Doom keeps the promise Of
-1se demons at the portals. The
~. lfst chosen for this representa-
VT lne worlds end and ensuing
Was The Wrath Of God. ="
ps-,. iI-e show is kept going at Luna
er1,,-,a "Q Dreamland. and that's a good
IN circus at the center OF the plaza
s--,o. PLATFORM over a lake. At the
60 or 8 o'clock on the Opaninr dav
ars vas possessed by 150 600 persons
Com. t7-NapS more, and suddenly nm
L-.'ed musicians. from the rsrl-s. bi,,
erg ~ the little sideshow bornbIovy-
oesan 70 make noises A FTilinirr
the To- d" no had Skinned his way 10
lana - on the tallest pole OF 2 Dream
SIMMER beat a huge brass gong. and
VALE. 51siy two japanese wire
Toni ABOVE Luna Park whscked
rsr.- tL with an their might Each
in b,,s; ,.lil started a procession and was
5ss Tor the summer.
midst, hours later. as the minute NJ
en- .Ll1 carried time into a SuDda,,
t.vei,- business stopped quite as nosi-
missi1,--'I had begun. Our police com
m es.er had been told bv o1r me-.
show ~ ~ lie Sabbatarian laws against
Gers c, Gu alcohol Two hundred on
'peled every place Of diversion