The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-21

listened to their helIoes of love, re-
sponded fondly ang drove them. with
the wires for reins. like an eight-in-
hand team of frisky colts, round the
scene. OF course, you have seen the
petted pony ballet" in the originals
or a duplication. Well. these girls VIII,
1 think, be coddled and cuddIed here as
the ponies" have been.
Don't you believe all that's in "Ha-
vana" is English; for there's Jimmy
Powers. Six Englishmen in the en-
ploy of the London Gaiety humoT fac
tory and music foundry are billed as
authors of this show, but our Jimmy
is named along with them as a ere
wiser of the American version Jimmy
Powers is something of a Pete Daily
in popping off gags and lines His
role is. or was. of no more account
than any one of four others; but he
has So spruced it up with. New York S
brisk sort OF wit that it stands out
from the fogcy London humor OF the
others. lie IS a pleasure yachts boat
swain. ON his arrival i'm Ha S9na he
| gets into a prCdiCament with the wom-
an who, as his sailor sweetheart in that
port, happens to be his wife also and
the mother Of his child. Moreover. he
strikes right into a band of revolution
| lists, who force him to take the oath
of a desperate secret society. Can't
| you see Jimmy. with his curio face
| grimacing fright and his eloquent legs
antic with attempts at flight? Inev-
| itably there is a topical ditty for Pow
| ers. He is supposed TO be English, and
/ his shipmatc is a COckney, but Jimmy is
the same pop-eyed. sliCk-jawed Van
kee that he was at his start in Fun in
a Photograph Gallery q quarter of a
century ago He doesn't look his age,
| but he is old enough to. know better
| than to attempt d cockney dialect
But as to bis topical doggerel. In a
| Havana plaza he buys fOrtune-telling
| slips billed and cooed out TO him by
birds from a dark senOra's basket. At
| the end Of each stauza'S question he
gets pertinent answer and thereupon
/ ne sings: And how did the bird know
| that?" No genius in it. Yet it is
something to give an original twist and
turn to a topical song.
1 haven't given the plot of "Ha-
vana," and l won't. The scenes are in
and around a cigar and cigarette fac
| tory; there are Carmens in plenty, from
principal coqUettes to rows of them
in the chorus; and you sniff for garlic
in the Spanish air; but our whipping
of Spain to set Cuba free isn't men,
toned. 1t is q clean show.
once in a while prurient shows rouse
purists to righteous wrath. That is 50
just now; and, as ever, the charge of
immortality is met by pleas of dramatic
art The half dozen current plays de-
nounced are "Salome," the opera with
the dance of nudity; The Easiest
Way and THE Blue Mouse" one earn
estly, the other jovially. and both
frankly, exposing the shame of show
girls; "The GIRL From Rector's" and
1.-THE Queen of the Moulin Rouge" de-
picting carOusals in song ambulance at
a New York and a Paris restaurant;
and Miss Innocence" a variously reck-
less frolic. Now, all those entertain
ments contain excellently graphic art,
with here and there passages of liter
allure, and so, like Bougereau pictures
and Zola books, defense of them is pos
sibie and in some respects plausible.
What I mean may be told IN an ac
count of the apache dance in this
weeks downward development in indie
cency. The manager of the new show,
"The Girls From the Moulin Rouge"
had a row with him of the older one,
The Queen of the Moulin Rouge" over
dancers whom both wanted, hence the
imitation in title and an elaboration
of the apache novelty, in which panto-
mimic acting is surely admirable and
perhaps deplorable-
The apache dance was first staged in
Paris 1t isn't an Indian exercise cop
led from our ApacheS. but got its name,