The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-13

tract? THE Candy Shop" folk saw no
1 sense in giving such an impression.
Even young star chap like John Bar
/ rymOre is slipped in without even q
faint blare of trumpets Author Ho-
bart cut up and sewed over a role al
ready in the play to fit John.
| The young man about whom the plot
revolves was formerly a tenor, and
/ quite as serious about his love affairs
as all well regulated tenOrs should be
As thoroughly BaTrymOTed, he is as
much in love with the Maude Fulton
/ girl as ever. but is sprightly, gay ard
/ jocOse. A tenor song left in by some
1 oversight, l guess is almost as painful
/ as another sort of hang over But
Tor the rest Barrymore adds brightly
, to the piece. He has a new ditty of the
'Dinah' type-the kind of thing Pete
/ Daley used TO do; and he kids through
/ with a Dailey-iike humor and in cOnse-
1 quence that is at the same time thor
/ oughly BarrymOTeian. If he has the
/ good looks that the girls fondly see,
I they don't seem to worry him, as he
makes himself as unalluringly gro
/ tesque as he well can.
That is in the COney scenes. however.
/ Earlier in the play. when driven out by
I Ms wealthy father for proposing mar
| riage to a shop girl, he is the usual
/ comely Jack, but reduced to work as L
/ barker in front of u sideshOw he is the
| picture of a siclIly, forlorn human dere-
/ let.
Plays are not taken into the open air
+ For the summer in New York any more.
/ The risk of bad weather is too great to
warrant a good show without a roof
/ to shelter II from showers, and if the
/ expense is cut down to skip wet or
windy evenings. then the quality is too
/ poor to satisfy the people. So the uu-
| covered roof garden has passed away,
/ and instead we have elevated theatres
with ceilings, but with sides remOv-
/ able. Also. there is a theatre over on
/ the pOpuOus east side that opens its
sides wide and clear to gardens spa
| cious enough to hold the entire audience
/ between acts of the play. I imagine ii
is like the boulevard vaudeville cafes
! of Paris. And, by the way. I am going
/ to Paris in July to write about the
/ summer amusements Of that gay city
/ for you, and to visit Berlin and London
/ for the same purpose.
The play in this summer theatre is
| "Joyriders from MOtOrland." The play
/ ers are touring burlesque company
| with several recruits for its improve
/ ment. The scheme is to initiate the
| friskier of the Broadway eXtravangan-
/ zas with no more crudity than cheap
/ ness necessitates. For instance, the JOY
riding girls ought to arrive in speedy
motor cars, thus making a spectacle Of
/ gaiety at the first sight, instead Of toot-
/ ing the horns and jiggeTing the ma
/ chinery of imaginary mobiles off the
stage. with feminine laughter and
/ ecstatic explanations, and then running
with the familiar phrenzy of a ballet
/ chorus on foot. Their personal con-
dUctor is Hypnotic, a young woman
with such an occult power to fascinate
men that the party needs no other
| chaperOne.
The plot is as wicked as any to be
found among the burlesques, and SO
original that, as the program names no
author, I can but guess that it comes
from abroad. The Muck-a- Muck If
Monkeyria, an East Indian prince, gets
the fad of physical culture for his peo-
pie, and desiring to produce a superior
type of children by crossing the finest
native yellow wives of his harem with
white man Of mental and physical
perfection. selects an impoverished
Italian prince for his chronological eff
fort in miscegenatiOn. The Italian
takes the new name Of Adama gain. be
cause he hopes to be a great historic
progenitoT. Then Hypnotic whirls in
like a cyclone and blows the whole HUI
manitarian enterprise TO obliteration
For she is the Italians fiancee, and
when he declined TO take her along on
his mysterious journey TO India she
followed on with a batch Of girls in
motor cars. He and the raiah explain
to her the ethical Importance of letting
the great work go on, and she smiling
ly replies that she is willing.
But Hypnotic is an abnormal fas-
cinatOr. remember, and she exercises
her mesmeric power like Satan in 1.-THE
Devil" like the vampire in a Fool
There Was like Svengat in "Trilby"
like the mind reader in The Witching
Hour" with passing travesty Of those
and other stage characters all femin-
lied She doesn't. pick out one
sweetheart. but bedevils all the men in
the royal palace, from the old rajah to
young pages, not emitting even Tire
eunuchs of the haTem. Adamagain pro-
tests against such conduct
I don't object to your scheme to i'm
prove the future natives Of Monkey
ria" she says, "and why should you
oppose mine? You will be the father of
many half breed babies. shall become
the mother of as many as may be for
that same lofty purpose. The fajah
viii assign wives to you from his ha-
rem. Probably the dear, noble old
skate will legalize my marriage to him
self and all the men of his royal house
hold. After our mission is over. you
and J. desrie. will return 10 Italy, ger
married, settle down, and live ever
after happy in the knowledge that we
have conferred a lasting blessing on
these people
Adamagain can't bring himself to
take HypnOtia's view. and they aban-
don the High Muck-a-Muck. but not
until a lively. though not very clever.
show has been given.