The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-31

who liked ner stayed in their seats to
hear her say:
81 love you all"
And even those who disdained Ter dec
laration of love couldn't get out, for the
aisles were blocked by usheTs carrying
flowers to the stage. There was nothing
so small as a mere bouquet, but so many
big floral constructions that, whers placed
behind the fOotlights, they reached sol
idly across from wing to wing. That sent
friend and foe away with handsome
sight to last them until they saw the
agreeable reviews in the next morning
journals.
Story of the Play.
The story Of "Springtime' is that the
girl, after tagging her lover from their
PEELED to go back, for Jackson's battle
is imminent. She returns TO her home
to see sixteen candles burning on the al
tar of the chapel, because after living
sixteen years she now is dead to her
father, and to the cousin whom he had
affianced her to. Her mind is deranged
| by her grief. she doesn't know aer low
/ er when he comes, nor her father, who
stands ready to kill him as sOon as his
prayer in the sanctt airy is done The de-
mented maid wanders in and repeats his
prayer to God for mercy.
| In seeming answer, reason is restored
| to her; whereat the fathers Joy over
comes his vengefulness, and he lets her
go into the lovers arms. Authors are
slow to put affairs In their plays, lest
pious resentment be arousedi and they
are apt to be incomplete in corners; pu'
here the holy shrine, illumined with the
| candles, is at the center of the scene, and
the prayers are spoken with all possible
| fervor.
| Harry Lauder used 20 be a Scotch coal
miner, Yvette Guilbert a French seam
stress and Albert Chevalier an English
/ bcokkeeper. Now they are headziners In
New York vaudeville theatres belonging
to three rival syndicates. There is nc
need to believe, merely because Il is sale
so, that GuiIbert and ChevalieR get 9
thousand dollars a week apiece, and Isu'
der fifteen hundred; but don't doubt II
The opposition in vaudeville is desperately
aggressive. The receipts at the tnre'
houses are lifted during these engage
ments with prices increased by selling
the good seats, through spectators,
one or two thousand a week above tins
average.
"Sueh are the prizes that these poo
buffers hope to win said my companion
as we watched the abuse OF awkward
volunteers on an amateur night at
cheap Bowery theatre
for Lauder in London, though, becaus'
the first manager to give him chane'
made perpetual contract for four wee K
each season, at e. or about SoO A
other times he is good In that city 10
half as much as he receives IN New
York
1t is hard to comprehend Laudes's valu
at first sight He is a runt of a Scotch
man, 10 or more, who doesn't try t
moderate the ugliness OF his face, an
whose short legs make his plaidias rattle
grotesque than picturesque But IN
mans wonderful magnetism quitkly as
serts itself, and with the first songs re
frain, asserting that his bonnie lassie
s'as sweet as sugar candy and very fon
of Sandy" you are charmed-unless 20
are the one exception in a hundred III
twenty minutes that usually limit a spe
cialty are extended to an hour, durin
which he presents seven characters, wit
| a dIttv and tune OF his own n=ake 80
each. and one rather tireEome menologu,
He has a melodious voice, and know