The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-24

jostled on their way from curb to
doorway. The sidewalk is occupied
noisily by men. boys and the police
keeping them from Toit Our humid
heat doesn't generate good humDr.
Best to bad seats are sold by real and
fake peddlers at doubled, trebled and
ouadruple prices. Hawkers are loud
mouthed Sometimes a husky buyer
comes back for an alteration with
one who has lied about a seats dis
lance from the stage. Many negroes
are angry because only few can be
placed away from the white audience.
neither the theatre nor the roof gar
den having a second gallery. They
gather in a mob, though, to see John
son arrive. in his motor car and dis
appear into the stage doorway
The big negro goes silently through
some exercises. including the tame
tapping of a boxer and the hard
punching of a bag with blows that
knock Il out from its fastenings He
plays no part In sketch. as other
fighters have; for talk from him would
incite jibes; and his act is like the
dumb show OF an enormous gorilla.
And he knocks out POlsire, the
ugliest actress in the world" who IS
in the program Of vaudeville: for his
teeth, makes her visage seem ordinary
In roof garden across the way.
Jim Corbett is repeating his ideas.
which went to you by telegraph. con-
corning the licking OF Jehries. The
plan was to get even with the John
son show by adding to Corbett's mono
logue some pictures-ordinary snap
shots. not animate photographs-bu
one afternoons derision was sufficient
a
theatre placarded the same fake and
the fooled spectators were not content
10 grumble. but started I'm to wreck
seats The police saved the property
by cracking a few heads. In one way
and another, pugilism has punched it's
way into theatrical Broadway.
Fort George Heights. where Wash
ington fought a battle. overhaugs
Broadway where IT crosses the Iar-
lem river. Now the bluff is occupied
by small Coney Island. And Il has
summer theatre. Upgrade Hall. n
weather-beaten tent. The barker
gives his word that a nickel will buv
as much and as good vaudeville there
as a dollar anywhere else. He has
managed many theatres but never one
20 so brag Of. He points with pride
20 list Of twelve names on the front
or the canvas, each with talent speci-
ned. When he has persuaded me TO
enter. he becomes the treasurer to
take my coin. the doortender to hold
aside the flap and the usher to wave
me TO a choice of seats that are empty.
My stay is three-quarters of an
hour. or long enough TO see the twelve
speciaiues promised: but there are
only Tour performers. each taking sew
eral of the names inscribed outside.
and one of them is the barker-man-
ager. etc. I size them up as a man
and his wife. with his son and her
daughter: but I can't guess how that
may be. and am compelled to ask one
who knows. The solution OF the pug
gle Is simple and easy. A WidOwer
with a son has married n widow, with
daughter. and thus formed a family
that Is also a vaudeville company.
Family Is Whole Troupe.
The son is by him-elf a dancer and
a wirewalker: the daughter a singer
and a dancer. the father a monoIogue
humorist and a dramatic reciter. and
the mother vocalist and an iron
tawed athlete. That makes eight.
doesn't it? And each has a separate
makeup, although hssty and not de-
ceptive. The son takes his fathers
place at the front Of the house when
the parent hies to the stage for an
act They are hustlers and on a hot,
clear Saturday or Sunday give as many
as twelve rounds OF their program be-
tween noon and night.
You perceive that I am four mem
bers shy7 Here they are. The mother
and daughter do team work as sis
ters In ragtime ditties. and their re-
semblance helps them do IT, The son
and the daughter pair of for apache
and coon dancers. And the four Of
them play a seven-minutes' melo-
drama. Upgrade Hall Is not a place
for diversion for its twelve-in-four
actors.
The multitude spends its nickels and
dimes in the keen amusement OF risk
Ing their lives. The gravity railways
are so long and speedy that two car
loads have been dumped and two pas
sengers killed A pneumatic tube
blows cars on a mile circuit so swiftly
that the occupants are wired In 20
keep them from losing arms or heads
A new and gigantic whirl-in-air runs
eight enormous wheels around a CEN
tral standard. each wheel has five lone