The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-17
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: SUNDAY. JANUARY II. 1909

it did" me-for The Rehearsal isn't
a play at alI-nOt so much as musical
farcelet-but only few from the
many things he has done in full-length
shows I'm not angry because Jed
fooled me as to the nature of his fool
ery. for II was very funnily foolish,
and though stale in longer shows, it is
fresh in vaudeville He gives the first
five of its limited twenty minutes 10
the butter ana the buttons Of house
hold Ia practice a song and dance for
an amateur entertainment. That leaves
a quarter of an hour for JEFF. as Pro-
fessor Hamfat, to hold a rehearsal with
a tuneful, nimble young Genevieve
Fenley, as a lady's maid.
The selections are a song and dance
in the old-time team style of Deiehanty
and HengloG-: a spell of grand opera,
with her singing an aria. and him
smashing u violin to bits in Sousa
throes of leadership. and finally, bur-
lesque melodrama with the SaWmill
scene of Blue Jeans for a climax.
The hero was inchC-- along till the
buzz saws teeth caught in his hair ana
tore off his wig before the heroine
saved him by n stroke of an axe that
not only cut the rope, but chopped deep
into his abdominal rOtundity. Well,
anyway, l found it unusual TO see JEFF
ferson De Angels out of some real or
fake monarch in nondescript COS
tune and in Lew DockstadeT sort of
big, misfit, open-front evening suit;
and as to that vaudeville audience In
its initiatory view of him, it was III
ecstasy over his evsry eaper, from his
standing on one foot with the other at
the start to his feat OF strength with
stuffed muscles at the finish.
What about "A Bad Mans Wife.
mentioned in my first sentence as the
weeks single play produced in the or
binary course Of theatrical business? II
is so priced that four of its grade may
be seen in Harlem for the cost Of ony
play in Broadway; it is an earnest en-
deavor by a Thomas Henry to make d
worthy variant in gun drama; and its
third-act acme of excitement Is in a
room of suuaior. The bad mans wife
is sewing By n lamp (Gas is 3 cheap
er light than kerosene in New YORK,
but she couldn't pitifuily pick up a
wick in a gas jet as she can in DIM
ming lamp With a foot she rocks the
cradle of her sick baby, which will die
if not doctored, and she has no money.
CThsre are hundreds of hospitals, dis
pensarics and other gratis charities III
New York where she might get help
for her little one for the asking, but the
playwright doesn't know il She must
turn i'm the work she is at before 10
O'Clock or she can't get the pay for II
till tomorrow. lis there a factory in al
Gotham that keeps open I'm the even
ing0
Tie bad mans wife fails by feS
minutes to get the work done in time
She is in frantic despair. Her baby
must die; for how can she know that
the policeman whose beat lies past thSt
house would tell her that she need but
take it to the nearest police station 10
have it cared for; or that the Gerry So
ciety is accessible to her. The author
wants her to be miserable, and so she
bowls. In comes the good man whom
she could. would and should have mar
Tied instead of the bad man. He is an
humble Stun saivationist in that dan
eerously wicked neighbOThOod; yet he
careIessly picks a fffty-dollar bill off
/ 4 big roll. gives it to his former sweet
/ heart and goes away. The bad man :
, wife will run with maternal loves fleet
/ feet to fetch d doctor. But first she
/ will go into an adjoining bedroom T.
put on hat and shawl, leaving the
/ ffty-dollar bal on the table and thf
/ door unfastened that opens from tbs
| hallway of a cheap tenement in Grim
/ inal quarter.
In parentheses I have made points