The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-18
!, In Playhouses of New York

NEW YORK, July 17.-Gertrude
Hoffman, who last year cnlivened the
ssummer season by giving on the Ham,
merstein roof garden an imitation of
Maud Allan in A Vision Of Salome and
dance accompanied by Mendelssohn S
spring song, returned TO the scene OF
her former activities this week. The
E Vision of Salome and the spring song
were again the offerings, but the name
of Maud Allan had disappeared from
the programme. Miss Hoffman last
summer was the first OF swarm Of
Salomc dancers. leading up to the ia
nous experiment of Mary Garden, who
applied successfully the 1sadora Dun
Wells in Richard Strauss 8 Opera. From
Maud Allan TO 1sadora Duncan the
dance Of Salome hold its way. Miss
Hoffman began her latest contribution
to the Hammcrstein entertainment by
swinging out from the side scenes seat
I'd in a loop of roses. A young man,
.lassicallv clad, sought to catch her,
while tho orchestra played Mendel-
Isohn s familiar music. Other denizens
of the woods emerged. Miss Hoffman
leaped from the swing and played hide
and seek around the scenery with the
young man. The music changed TO
riotous waltz measure. A satvr Joined
in the dance. which circled about the
blonde lady of spring At last the
kissed her, Curtain. After the orches-
ira had played the spring song once
moro as an entr 'actc the curtain parted
again, revealing the terrace of Herod s
palace. In the center stood the prin-
cess comfortably clad for hot night
in little black gauze, some beads and
pair OF breast plates. Advancing
wifi e
Salome went through about the same
contortions as when Miss Hoffman i'm
personated her year ago, eliminating
in a vivid episode with the head of
John, which was plainly TO be seen ly-
ing on its silver dish in the bright light
that beat upon the stage. Yet the audi
ence accepted everything quito as a
natter of course and applauded the
act = with good will.
Eva Tanguay, who has sung ] Don I
Care and has danced Salome in vaude-
VILE, is now part of The Follies of
1909 at the Jardin dc Paris, atop Of the
New York theater. And no small part
of this show is Miss Tanguay. She
appears first in the Hammcrstein of
flee scene, and sings for the burlesque
impressario. She dances, too, for with
Miss Tanguay every song is r. dance.
Next she appears rs boy in the chill
dren s nursery scene and sings [ Wish
] Was Girl TO Lillian Lorraine S song.
| Wish | Was Boy, In startling new
costume Miss Tanmay emcrges from
the aeroplane s flight and sings Go As
Far As You Like and other songs She
sings her more familiar songs. including
/ Don t Care. after the New York the.
alter scene. Miss Tanguay adds to the
fun of The Follies. She is the same
as when she was in vaudeville. and
that is sufficient to amusc great many
people.
Keith & Proctor Fifth Avenue the
atcr. Dazie, in her pantomime tri-
umph, scored heavily again. The little
American dancer had TO repeat her terp-
slchorean numbers. and was the re
ciplent of tremendous applause. Closely
following Da2ic IN the bid for popu.
larity was Adelaide Hermann in a be
wildering array of magic manipulations,
her performance concluding with o hvp-