The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-07


cigarettes, while men peeped at them
New York heard from Trenton that a
second performance for practice was
prohibited. and therefore rushed the
FOUNDERS to see il in Broadway. Admis-
sion cost as much as $40 to SIS If bought
of peddlers on the street. At o'clock
the police had to take control of a mob
so huge that ticket holders had to fight
to get their bedraggled remnants to
their seats.
BASED on the belief that some hus-
bands lead double lives" is the purport
of what Paul Potter, the adapter of the
French farce. said to the first New
York audience. and that the saint Of
the rural home may be the LothariO of
the city. Mr. Potter hesitated to intro
duee this comedy to a community where
he believed. in his innocence. that mar
ried men of double lives were practj
csiiy unknown. but as many recent law
suits have tended to prove the contra
ry. the management has now decided to
produce this play in the hope that it
viii serve as a warning to American
husbands. and strengthen the hands of
matrons and maids. who are battling
for the purity of the American home"
::
And now what was the play that cost
that audience much money and discOm
fort to SC? It was, in A word, any Of
the mixed-identities. four-doors Paris
ian farces that you have seen, about
the only novelty being that it was in
four acts instead of three. The Girl
from Rector's is the wife Of an AmeTi-
can diplomat from Battle Creek. sta
TONED in the Orient He spends one
month a year with his wife in Michi
gan, she passing the rest of her time
on Broadway with a lover who is tired
of her. but to whom she makes gifts
and OF whom she begs with nauseating
frequency for kisses on the beauty spot
behind her ear. The first act passed
with almost no applause, for the hard
faced but modishly-clad women aud
men. sstiated and callow, hoped for
worse than that. Bits of repartee
cheered them in the second act. 4
stout old judge fondies maid servant
in the house of friends with whom he
is to stay for the night
Which is the way to your room?T
he says.
up q church aisle with a marriage
certificate in your hand" she says.
rs there no short cUt2'' he asks and
remarks that he saw her out with a
policeman. adding: And what was the
policeman out for?'
That act ends with general scream
ing, CONSERVATION and fainting, much
as the first had wound up with a tip
ping over of vases. chairs and tables.
You may observe that ] have not de-
tailed the plot. 1 couldn't; and if l
could you wouldn't thank me. 1t was
the usual French affair of men leading
vicious lives under one name in the city
-
home. and of inexplicably confounding
meetings under one roof, made more
confusing than usual by being unex-
planned. unprepaTed-fOr and incredible
to a degree extraordinary even in the
frothiest of plays
Then came the scene which undoubt-
eddy had been prepared to be the Tim
il" a bridegroom is Mathematical
the civil ceremony having been per-
formed that DAY, with the religious GER
emony' to follow on the next. He is
intoxicated and so. too, is his former
mistress, a guest at the brides house
They drink more champagne. She
strives to lure him back. She has
donned a dressing gown. They stag
ger to a sofa. AmOrously they sit there.
A rubber bulb. which when squeezed
turns on a pianola, has been left among
tiiI NASii-ts4S II pays 2 nsetE air
TheTeupOn. three acrObatic dancers
dash in and indulge in speciality quite
without connection Of any sort with the
play. Something like a resumption Of
Illusion is brought in for the climax
when three men from the pre-nuptiaT
dinner join in the dance. The temptress
filings off her kimono and frolics in her
petticOat and corset waist
All of that IS in unpleasant taste
coarse. crude and vulgar: but it goes
no jOt further than a hundred of fe-
male burlesque companies that roam
the country unmoiested, almost unob-
served by the big public. Did this
shock Trenton2 I was not there and
think not; but 1t reused the cIergymen
and they reused the mayor Broadway
was shocked, indeed. but By the total
hzzle Of the anticipated meteoric sensa-
ton. The truth is that the police had
given the tip that the limit" had been
reached already and that nothing be
ycnd it would be permitted. So a dress
rehearsal was held with the inspector
OF the district as a censor, and he de-
cided that some Of the Girl from Rec
tors behavior was too bad to be shown
TO the public. For instance. Trenton
saw her denuded astoundingly in her
dancing outbreak, but New York got
her half clothed.