The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-18

bachelors apartments probably, or
made more public exhibit possibly
that would prove her Unftness to ever
play Trilby or Cinderella? I hate to be
ungaliant. but the duty of d dramatic
reviewer is memorable.
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Still, several of the show girls in this
company are clever at the imitation of
imprOmptu behavior i'm connection with
jefferson De Angels first song. I have
written along about that Clark bewitch-
er as though she We're not merely flea
tured' in this show, but starred in
stead Of De Angels. He peTsOnates the
General Samovar who is kept by the
ibrettist. Joseph w Herbert like the
Russian teapot of which he is d name
sake, steaming and suffering all the
time over one fire or another. At the
outset, ne comes among the bathers on
a beach. and bOils over with admiration
for a girl of whom he says in the re-
frain of a song: 'She sells sea shells
on the seashOre, and the shells she sells
are sea shells sure Try to repeat that
rapidly and you will find il as catchy a
tongue-trap as the familiar one about
a Peter Piper who picked a peck of
picked peppers. OF course. De An
gels has practiced the tricky sentence
until ne is glib and sure with it. After
several encores he calls a girl from the
front line TO sing the refrain i'm his
stead. she sells sea shells on the sea
shore this girl MARBLES with facility
but goes to pieces with the sea sells
she shells" and with a pettish stamp
Of re- foot retreats in confusion. The
next one starts out disastrously with
she shells sea shells" and breaks
down. 4 third gets through with that
portion. but finishes with. The sea
shei = E5e sells are sea sells sure" and
that Is taken by many as a chance hit
a. The throng of surf girls i'm their
jaunty bathing suits
In song acted by De Angels. he
represents heroic figures quivering and
jigging I'm a motion picture show. and
does it as though taught by the muscle
dancer of some hOOtchie-coOtchie side
show. The music for THE Beauty Spot"
is by Reginald de Koven. After striv-
ing in vain to repeat his Robin Hood"
achievement on that grade of dignity.
he has let himself down to "a popular
level and has tuned and meIodied Her
5e-t's odd concerts to make them go
merrily.
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This is essentially. though. a human
beauty show. but its scenes are not of
the Sums, but in places Of polite peo-
pie Nevertheless. the opening scene on
a bathing beach is quite as leggy as a
snapshot cameras viii photograph two
months hence at Long Branch or At
lantic City, Coney Island OF Newport.
Some of Herbert's devices for displays
of girls in extreme activity are original.
A minute after the entry Of the bath
ing girls, a parry Of boatmen form a
line with their oars to lift them alOft as
lightly tossed. Later they are coupled
in a ''boulevarde" glide that may make
q fad in Waiting at the ensuing sum
ufer's resorts. Next in d moment Of
darkness followed by illumination. they
get aboard a hastily formed ocean
steamer as illusionary as any / have
Seen on the stage, and sing a sea song
to US with hsndkerchiefs huttering In
another sudden spectacle. Roman char
lots with smallish girls for drivers are
drawn by biggish girls arching their
neckS and Champing imaginary bits like
equine steeds-OT were they supposed TO
be chewing gum?