The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-29

Doodle we'll tap him for. Why, it's like
picking up the KOoh-i-EOr in a gutter.
Although shameless and constituencies,
she won't go into matrimonial triangle
with a husband she can't love and
paramOur she can't help loving. The
scoundrel pleads and argues, coaxes and
curses, all in vain. However, she is
willing to wheedle a tip out of her dupe,
make considerable fortune by thus sur
repuuOusly getting in on big Wall
street operation, and then scOot to Cali
1Ornia with the wretch of her fond and
foolish heart. He suddenly says all right,
but he means all wrong; for, with the
money in his hands, he doesn't buy tick
cts by rail with that showgirl across the
continent, but by steamer with another
showgirl across the ocean.
"The Only Law"
The authors of THE Only Law" are
! Wilson Miner, famous socially as a wit
and more generally known for his mar
riage to the extra-Wealthy Mrs Yerkes,
and George BrOnson-Howard, a young
actor who was arrested a few nights ago,
on the complaint of his formerly affini-
/ tive ShOWgirl that he had taken back by
force, under threat Of death by a fright
| fully long dagger, some of his gift Jew
cry Why doubt the authenticity of the
Alzner-Howard depictions of life where
society and the stage meet at their rough
est edges? They are ruthless realists
here IS the way they round out their
1 eXperty made and cleVerly acted drama:
The good genius among their crea tions
! IS q professional thief and sWindler who
Tor the girls sake, exposes the plot to
| run off with her money, and then, when
] she emOtiOnaliy bids him burn the really
I tllthy lucre' uses 1t instead to save him
ser from prison for a Wire-tap robbery.
{ Inc audience applaJds that approvingly
/ Then the girl, cured at last of her in
tatuauon for the prOfligate, consents to
marry the mllhonalre's son without con-
tossing a word TO him of what she is or
/ mas done. The curtain goes down so
/ quickly that 1 can't tell YOU what the
people think of that climax.
/ Many thrifty shOwgiTl wishes that ad-
nlrln6 spendthrifts instead of sending
| flowers to her, would hand over the DO
sizes cost IN cash. How to transmute
such soft tributes into hard coin? THE
l Florist SrOp' solves the problem The
/ shops florist takes orders for flowers
[ and delivers lingerie Confidential cir
culars tell actresses that when flowers
/ are bought for them, they may take an
I equal moneys worth of hosiery or other
/ underwear Shy violets are thus cultured
INTO bold stockings, and big red roses
] IaQe cOyly into CaintV white lace tbfups
/ Inc nouon has been brought with the
/ Iarce from Vienna. but as presented here.
| with q chic and cheeky French woman
| as the peculiar florist it seems TO have
/ larrled IN Paris on its way to pOpuIarize
/ itself in New York The shon becomes
I place or coqu3try and several times the
l pam farce looks sure to break into flam-
/ DLoyaHt extravaganza. but il doesn't quite
I 40 Ihat, even when three breezy widows
/ ~ a row get scared at the rumor of one
niue mouse. while trying on gay silk
/ stockings, and leap on chairs to lift their
skirts before a thousand spectators.
/ mis- farce carries other than stage
! women blthely along Two are cbrfTo
/ brides One husband has been a rake and
! doesn't dare tell his bride so: while the
! other husband, with a spotleSs white rec
/ ora. is besought by his wife to confess
I that his past is daubed Interestingly
J % ri ION
/ think 1t shTewd and feasible to swan his
] tories So the misdeeds of a CulDrit are
taken over by an innocent and willing
. scapegrace. They chase friskv girls r.
the florist shop. in the process of ev.
changing their pasts. and are caught
| there by the wives under distressing cir.
/ cumStances. A clergyman gets into the
/ mess, too, by naively purchasing for In.
/ dies of his church, flowers that are de-
/ llvered to them in the form of intimate
/ garments not commonly utilized as Gifts
/ by pastors of our best congregations Tie
] piece engages unknown talent excent that
/ of John Drew's bright daughter Louise
! The ever COuTtlv father sat in n box on
/ the Opening night, and 7 fancied that il
the daughter had not been cast for the
/ sedate instead of the frisky bride he
/ would have screened himself behind the
/ draperies.
Hattie Williams Play.
The title of Detective Sparkes" fooled
nor a detective. The author Martha
/ MOrtOn's brother. Michael in providing a
comedy for advancing Hattie Williams
/ from extravaganza to a FrOhman legiti-
mate star cOmedienne. has not reached
! back 10 the time of BOttie Crabtree and
/ Maggie Mitchell TO bring forward the pro
team role of a female sleuth. Hattie is
made to become a bold liar with an amfa-
BILE purpose, that Of saving a weaker vvo-
mans reputation: and having called a
I mythical detective into the case she is
/ compelled To persOnate that creation OF
! her own fancy. The novel conceit is used
I ingeniously and through it Hattie is en-
/ abled to astOnish people who don't know
I that she was a straight actress before
| they saw her in the crimps and crooks OF
! song dance shows. I strive against
/ becoming obsolete IN taste: and I do be-
/ lieve that, to lump EN-. the new things on
| the stage are better than the old: nor 90
] 7 hesitate to laugh right out loud at tom
| fOOlery fin musical farces when it is fun
! ny; vet I am right gleefUl when amused
! by q genuine comedy relief from the ante
! sersuality. Hence I toss my hat and
/ halloo at Hattie Williams in Detective
/ Sparkes."
/ 7 can't tell YOU why. but 7 vow IT is so.
/ that Mike Norton is the thOuSandth
variant play after nine hundred and nine
/ ty-nine have held MP newspaper reporters