The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-12
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A@f-AC tliNdLEE-lzlilfdn Russell in
'-Wildfire' ."
Lillian rejuvenated, No. that is not OK
eCSH Ile proper expression, for the sec
G % Nv word means young again. Lillian
3, ny young again she is merely not
grace Win
II IS some time since Lillian visited
oaIt Lake, and it is probably true that
d large proportion of the brilliant audi
ence which thronged to greet her last
/ evening were influenced largely by q eIIri-
osity 10 see how Lillian is getting along
IA ner struggle, with the years She's
/ uOing very well, thank you. One can
u0S pe forever a raging, caDerinz girl
isn beauty, with a good comedy voice
Years must come, and years must so.
and no musical comedy artistic nor an
other handsome woman ever rea1Iir fo,,nd
the fountain of perpetual youth Witch
does not mean that Lillian is reaching
the age of tottering decrepitude. per-
time is fleeing i'''
1t has become The custom of space writ
ers and press agents for some wears 10
Iiood ihe country with tales about Miss
kusseli beauty-pTeservi adventures
" have seer pictures of her posing he
size her flesh-reduCirg bicycle She has
been posed in boomers doing indian club
,aa,i ; ana settifg-up exercises. We have
Oeen informed by half-tones and dia-
grams how her face is rTiassazed and the
information is thrust at US through ad-
vertlsements that so-and-so's facial cream
nave not seen photographs of Lillian
taking a Turkish bath (tush. tushD Nor
nave we seen reproduced the operations
OF her cOSetiere or her Oodiste to en-
bellish that once wonderful figure Rrt
nearly everything else in the beauty pro
cess has been explained and illustrates
ad infinitum
Ana, Waterman. tell us Of the resuft,
Aye, verify. she is a handsome woman
still 1t must be admitted that lillian
IS no sylph these days-nO airy, fairy
lsliian.' Talk IF art in repression in act
ing-there is also art in repression of
figure. The trainer aud the corsetierc
and the modiste have done nobIv. and
they have almost conquered outwardly
1 those constantly reinforced tissues of adj
poslty-except for The matronly tur-
gescence of the bosom.
As for the face. the features have the
same beauteous limos as of yOre. There
* no double chin. so far as could he oh
served from In front of the footlights
And from the same viewpoint. allowing
for necessary stage makeup IL voui1
seem that the complexion is stu lovely.
same for the hair. In fact. take her an
around, she is just about as handsome AMI
well preserved a woman at the age of
y years as was ever found among the
famed beauties.
When it comes to acting. that is an
other matter. Lillian never was expected
to do much except to pose and sing SIZE
has sense enough not so very long ago
to realize THAI nur voice was dgterioratino
aud that she had passed the age of a
child wonder in any line So she chose
straight comedy, without music as the
medium through which to seek recogni-
ton She selected wisely. for here she
can hold sway for years to come Miss
Russell is not q great comedian In fact
truth to tell she is just a fairly good
actress Of wide experience. But the ex-
perience counts Cor something, and she
has applied it with intelligence.
"Wildfire' is a right lively, entertain
ing comedy, with dash of melodrama
and good admiXture of something diff
ferent." 1t sustains interest throughout,
and there are 4 numier of excellent char
acters in il. The parts are all well TAX
en-, which goes largely toward making
up the success of the performance
Youthful Will Archie. as Bud. the sta
ole boy, almost shared the honors with
Miss Russell. and had loud applause time
and again, with whistIing chorus from
the gallery thrown in. He is a natural
comedian, and made the most of a fat
part. Frank Sheridan was splendid as
Matt Donovan, the trainer. and Ernest
Truck gave an excellent bit of fmper-
sonation as the cOlOFed jockey-the swell
smoke
In fact, every member of the COMPANY
is worthy Of commentator, all helping
to accomplish a rafting good evenings
INSTRUMENTATION a moral.
-'Wildfire" runs the rest of the week.
Manager John e Clark of the Lyric
theatre has returned from Chicago. whore
he has been in conference with leading
antitrust usasnates. Mr.. Clark left Salt
Lake in the interest Of the Lyric theatre
and other antitrust houses in the inter-
mountain country SDes king of the so
called trust movement that sprang into
prominence during the first part of Janu-
ary. Mr.. Clark said:
II found that the trust people are not
nearly so strong as they were four weeks
ago. There are over 800 motion picture
houses IN Chicago alone and ONLY fifty
of them are taking Association stuff. New
York Philadelphia and St Louis also
refused to be a party to the combine and
as a consequence the independent peo-
pie have more business than they can
handle in those cities. consider that
trust" is a blessing in disguise as il
viii enable scores of European msnufac-
turerS to ship their product TO America
Heretofore there was little market here
for the European companies. as the Amer
lean manufacturers controlled the mar
ket" Mr.. Clark added;
I'VE have arranged 10 get twelve t.
fifteen reels Of absolutely new pictures
each week. Within a short time we shall
have our pick Of forty-two reels This
will include the New Antitrust Film
company. that will shortly commence the
manufacture of pictures. We are now in
a position to supply any number of the
aires throughout the west with the best
service that money can procure"
The production of THE Rose of the
Rancho at the Bungalow by Willard
Mack and his company was an ambitious
undertaking. The play as given by David