The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

off to Africa for big game in the Jun
gle In his farewell speech he said that,
Worn out by public service and tired Of
personal publicity, he was going into
OOscurlty-peTfect privacy-inYiola bic
seclusion; and to insure a spell OF OBJ
livion he would take along a strong
force of writers, telegraphers, stenog-
raphers and photographers. Roosevelt,
ehy Why, no. The actor wasn't made
up for our former president, and he said
| MS name was Constant Noyes
In parting with his four sons. Noyes
gives $1,000 to each. Those who double
the money during his absence shall
snare his fortune and those who don't
shall be sent adrift. Three open a shoe
store, hotel and a theatre, and those
concerns would go bankrupt but for
the youngest brother, who makes so
much money as a bellhOp at the hotel
that he capitalizes the others. That is
Glen MacDonOugh's plot, though no.
body cares.
This is Lew Fields summer show
Though he doesn't act in it,, of agile
girls and antic men. The girls are first
lined up in a Fifth avenue shoe store
with feet to be fitted by admiring
young statesmen. The corpulent George
Monroe and the alternate Lillian Lee,
cooklady. sister. come to buy fancy
CATERS for a masquerade and to broad
| ly buriesque the tootsie-wootsie CO.
quetry of the neat-footed showgirls.
The principals come in, also to buy
footwear for trip to the hotel in Flor
ida.
The act ends with the going out of a
train. BY the use of the brightly IL
Illuminated rear end of an observation
car, and Of rapidly moving pictures of
! the scenery at night along the way, 4
fine illusion of a swiftly receding train
/ is produced. A bridal party crowds the
( open end of the car, wave their hand
/ kerch efs, sing about "the honeymoon
| express" and try to rival the noises o.
mile-a-minute railroading.
That big shows Of this character are
not made by mere expenditure of cash
in plenty is proved by The Midnight
Sons" 1t was tried out of town, and
the portion that 1 have described went
prOsperously, but the second hair
! passed into Intellectual chaos. although
the cOstliest and carefullesC scheme had
| been laid out for it. So the introduce
ton in New York was delayed awhile
for further work.
As now presented, the garden en-
closure of the NOyes hotel in Florida
and the interior of the Noyes theatre
in New York are shown with very spa
cious realism. The balconies of an
auditorium as wide as that of many a
real theatre, though shallow, is built
against the rear wall, not to be moved
during the stay of the play here. The
rear section of the permanent stage Is
! lowered, and seats for a mimic par
quet are ranged across il. Proscenium
boxes are in the right spots, the seamy
/ side of wings and borders are placed,
and when this theatre within a theatre
/ is disclosed, with people filling it, the
| other people out in the real auditorium
cheer heartily. In an ensuing view OF
1 the hotel the same strong framework
supports three stories Of verandas
/ crowded by guests at a garden party
Several vaudeville specialt.es are
given on the staged stage. the actors
/ turning their backs on the paying audi
| ence to face the paid audience; and
/ that, with glimpses of work behind the
| canvas, interests Broadway. I have
seen many settings on the same plan.
/ but never before one that wasn't in
effectual with palpable falsity and lud-
/ ferrous with dummy figures behind
some live ones that might as well be
| dead. This audience contains some of
/ the cOmpanys comedians, and all Of t
has been rehearsed to travesty the be-
/ haviOr OF a genuine assembIage.
A trick folled the wise first night
| people. A woman so slender that there
| seemed to be no room for muscles IN
/ der her white hide, and smoothly en-
| cased by the shirt and tights OF a cir
/ Gus gymnast, did some things in flip
| flap and cOntortion that looked sure to
/ break her in two. In a handspring she
| fell and lay there. The stage director
/ tried to lift her. but she motiOned him
| to let her alone. as though in pain.
/ There was no reason to doubt the real
/ ity of the accident-until the man
! stepped to the fOotlights on the make
| believe side Of the stage. and asked: ''Is
there a physician in the house?" In