The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29
THINGS DOING IN GOTHAM
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.

more politely than the unknown au-
/ thor does Nor are the comedian
and the soubrette modest in his ad
vances and her repulses. The hus-
band has mercenary as well as sem
timental motive. He will inherit a
fortune through his son or daughter
| if he has one at the end of year and
a half.
So the husbands wooing of his
wife is urgent. And when he aScer-
tains that his wife's GOODNESS 10 him
lcomes of her still warm love Of a
former sweetheart, he is sordidly will
1 ing to lei that other fellow tag her
up and down the board walk; also
around and about the bathing beach;
After a wicked spell this burlesque
farce ends respectfully; for when a
party Of young folk in surf costume
take to a sort of apache dance on the
sand, the encouraged lover is such a
lchump at il, while the discouraged
husband develops SO much of hypnotic
lthrall, that she surrenders to conjugal
love at last. Very novel, but even less
nice than this account can tell.
Racy, Even Rakish.
The fun of another new buriesque,
.'Parson Jekyll and Doctor Hyde" is
lracy, even rakish, yet isn't wicked
enough to hurt much. The doctor is
a rounder in town, with gay show
lpeople. mostly for patients and by
summer time he is jaded and cIoyed
by his jollities. The parson is COM
lpeIled to lead a life of the strictest
lpropriety nine months in the year,
but may relax for the summer sea-
lsOn. These men are cronieS secretly
and confidential allies For the sum-
liner outing, they exchange names and
habits. Parson Jekyll goes to a safely
l.1s- I1x-ln
makes things hum, while Doctor Hyde
lis a visitor there as Parson Jekyll.
This is really a prolific scheme for
farcical comicahties. Their wives
Join them Unexpectedly and they have
la tough job adjusting their personal
titles and proclivities.
This piece, like the other, leads up
Ito a new dance called the Parish push.
lit is a waltz in which the couple don't
bend down in UNISON, as in the Bos-
ton dip. nor sway sideways in rhyth-
mic harmony, as in the Newport slope,
but make lunges toward each other as
Though giving way to impulsive feel
ling and the instantly recoiling from
lit. 1t isn't quite modest and 1 don't
think it viii get into social vogue
This summer at hotel and casino balls.
As danced in the burleSque with au-
ldacious abandon with the girls IN
lscant bathing suits, and all singing,
l''Push, push, push" at the lunges, II Is
both funny and saucy. 1t makes Hyae
forget that he is personating Jekyll,
land both go into it so recklessly that
their duplicity is exposed
Real talent sometimes astonishes
the visitor prepared to find nothing
satisfactory. Two young men in L ne
Magic Ring" Moore and Morten,- are
lhalf-dollar duplicates of the two-dol-
liar Montgomery and Stone in thea
tire directly across Broadway. The
likeness comes of physical chance, OF
lsirnilar vaudeville training and OF
lstudied imitation. SO to the unexact-
ing buver of Moore and Morton they
seem like a bargain purchase of
Montgomery and Stone at twenty-five
per cent of market value.
Hesitancy TO buy stolen goods ISM
observable in the people at the cut
price summer sale. Montgomery ano
Stone came into New York eight years
ago as the Scarecrow and the Tie
Woodman in THE Wizard Of o..
Moore and Morton come now as
Snow Man and a Grandfather's Clocl
in 'sThe Magic Ring" with whitenec
faces marked black in the same way
with gr0tesque aspects unchanged
when brought to life, and with plenty
81 Jokes and pranlxs arising from the
vivification. The Snow Man is both
cred by melting, of course. and the
Clock by running down: one calls the
other a frozen DR.. Cook fraud with
cold hands, and gets back that it's No
wonder he keeps his hands before his
face, as he is deservedly doing time
and along with such slonsense goe:
clowning to make the counterfeits a:
iamusing as the original were at the
outset eight years ago. There Is nc
law to stop the misappropriation OF