The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-03

her in the afternoon of that day in
broadway clad in 4 widows mourning
FOR one of the Roger brothers, and-so
hard Is it to regard stage gaiety as the
humdrum earning of a living-my first
thought was; How could she be so
frivolous as 10 do it? But the next
was: Isn't it pitiful that she is COM
PEELED to? My point is, though, that
Foy didn't remain with Maud a minute
Tor joint fun, but strobe off in dignity
as Hamlet, leaving her to be ludicTous
as OpheIia. II was clear that she had
no aspiration to ever act tragicaily.
Her travesty of the fa-a,r Ophe-elia
passed quickly into frisky song, with a
phalanX of capering, cavorting Ophe-
has back of her; and from that she
and they fell still further off into sOoi-
cry as dusky Salomes cake-walking
with Egyptian wiggles for a big, comic
head of John the Baptist
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Don't think that Foy wasn't funny
as the stranded clown in Mr. Hamlet
Of Broadway" He slapped his hips.
snapped his fingers, ran his voice up 20
a falsetto and said IT'S pretty little
thing, at the exit after his first ditty.
and the audience laughed merTiiy. as
usual The refrain was Everything
depends on money and its pertinency
was that ne peTsoaated a clown adrift
with trained bear from a stranded
circus. He arrived at an Adirondacxs
hotel LIST in time to take the place or
an absent tragedian in Hamlet" but
that was abbreviated in Edgar Smith s
libretto, and Laura Gerite and Daphne
Pollard besides Maud Raymond. were
let loose to lead a band of chorus girls
VINO did obediently whatever they haG
been told to do At one time they Were
bathers in an Adirondiacks lake. at a.
ether time they were fishers. and =,
both times they exposed an amount o:
skin that would be sighted with dc
light by north woods mosquitoes anr
sadiiies-unles5 they were tipped of ~
the textile nature of si5owgirl's cuticic
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A new transfer from vaudeyfilc 10
this play may turn cat like those Of
Mont gemery and Stone, Weber and
Fields. Lewis and Ryan. Williams arr.
Walkers and the brothers Russell aue
Rogers: for the Cook and Madison paif.
whose specially is interpolated. rnxy
develop comic value to keep them in ex-
trayagsnza. However. their present
sinsulari.y is so easily imitabie that ~
ready many are using it In a give-and-
take dialogue, they prefix esses to words.
''S-turn around" says one, with spank
ing intent. Not on my s-atonomy."
replies the other. Merely silly? Bu,
think how much of the fun of SaH
Bernard and his sort has come from Just
such foolish word twisting. And d:dn
Alice in Wonderland depend ocnsid-
erably on nonsensical .1iction2 1t Ge-
ponds on the mans gift of cOmicality.
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CHANGING across fourteenth street AZ
Tammany Hall. and not mindful fSr
the moment that Tony Pastor was dead.
was shocked to see that his name was
displaced by the word Olympia ovrr
the portal Of the theatre in a corner of
the headquarters of Gotham's poiitica;
rulers. Then the thought came to lss
thai, if good old Tony were awe ana
in control on this next Wednesday fore
noon after Christmas, the stage wouid
have ito annual gift tree of Santa Claus,
and an entertainment by and for thea
trical children, whose relatives and
friends would be in possession of IN,
parquet. Tony had been rich and gen.
erous-an Old-fashioned sort of big
heart fellow-a factor in the growth OF
Gaspised varieties into esteemed vaude-
vile; and when, at the expiration or
his lease last spring, some members of
Tammany got possession, he toox TO his
bed and was taken thence TO his grave.
Tammany' new tenants would have
named the theatre tammania. but the
sachems wouldn't let them; so they c3,sl