The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-31

off with a nimble J. ]. Hughes. she
idealizes the Apache style OF dancing.
Second visits to the three other cur
rent summer "revues" discover things
not in them at the outset. while those
that didn't please are eliminated. but
most notable Is revival all round
OF once discarded features. Apparent
" our theatrical age is so progressive
that nothing IS left 20 see ahead. and
so we have taken TO looking backward.
Few OF the productions within year
sent the prices OF seats bouncing so
high on the sidewalks as Caste" and
The Mikado." now IN the summer
extravaFanzas and displacing some OF
their carefully prepared vocalism with
the songs Of yesterday.
Lew Fields started this reverse trcnd
IN Summer Bachelors" when he put
IN song with the refrain: Those
were the good old days" In the hey
day Of the weber-Field music hall no
annual achievement was more cave
fully planned. or more eagerly awaited.
than the f'rst-act coon mum Der.
Some ears the singer was Pete l'1leN.
and other years Fay Templcton one
alas now cead-the other as perma-
neatly gene off the stage. The ar
rangement always was the same. vita
thu. vocalist at the middle front and
twenty slender. supple da~cing girls IN
the ear except that the MINDLESS two
were at the singers side
= Long Look backward.
Tor yesrs-almost all the Years ur-
I'll she got too fat--the girl on the left
was Bonnie Maginn: while the other
spot had a series Of occupants. one
season the singer was neither tne uIC-
tuous Daley nor the glorious Temple
ton. but Fritz Williams. And FrltE "
is now who sings the old songs IN
Summer Bachelors although II ism
HIS former ditty Of the Pullman porterS
ball that arouses most enthusiasm 1et
the old stage picture is plainly brought
to mind with chorus costumes much the
same and that Of Fritz actually the
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tied dance is reproduced
II anyone doubts the firm hold that
the brilliant little music hall took on
New York's heart-and the country
has only TO catch the
sentimental thrill that greets echoes
Of Pete DALEY in Lou and Dinah and
OF Fay Templeton in m, Ore OF Ne
Cool old Rosie has been put into
the "Follies OF 1910" for a welcome
there. too. where the bill calls II "A
revived airs, The Yankima Ray and
THE Temptation Rag" Yet little
while ago the song-boomers were sing
ing the funeral dirge TO ragtime and
new round OF the "revues" / also hear
"rhe wild Cherry Rag" also The
Italian Rag" not to mention The ran
dango Rag" and THE Franco-Anerican
Rar" But best Of almost evidently
tho tor favorite In all the renewals
OF raRtime melody IS the remainder OF
FaN fROElf AtDlUANAOAA = ANfNf ~
pealing voice singing. Come out here
in the moonlight: there's something
sweet. love. I want TO say
What actors in New York used TO
call their Ria1to began I'm Broadway
al the second Wallack theatre. turned
the next corner past the Union Square
Of the famous Palmer stock company,
ended half a block beyond the Acad-
envy OF Music. long the home OF grand
opera In America.
Yesterday afternoon-in the nine
teenth century-when opera had moved
n mile and n half uptown. / saw To-
nasso Salvina and Edwin Booth to-
gether at the Academy as Othelo and
Iago.
Booth stayed In his dressing room
until the evening repetition OF the
ira Redy. His dyspeptic stomach wanted
no food and he poured two bottles OF
ale into u. That night his Iago had
long towards the foot1ights where his
slight figure was lifted to its feet
by Salvini's brawny Othelio. Was the
greatest American tragedian drunk
He didn't deny 70. but declared that
the same quantity Of ale had never
him so before. Within A few
months he knew 70 was locouotor
Staxia that had unsteadied him.
what salvfni Did.
Saivini went from the Academy
across the street. a while after the mat
inee, to eat macaroni and drink Chianti
at Morettfs italian restaurant. After
his meal I saw him emerge into the
street. which looked bright. with its
gas. to eyes unaccustOmed to eiec-
tricity. Early people were already