The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-20

Principal actresses may not be dependa-
bic, but the show girls never fail to do
as well in public performances as they
have in dress rehearsafs. And I trust
| they were glad, in this entertainment,
that they had to do nothing indecOrOus.
New York, like London, has a dozen
or so Of makers of sOng-and-dance
plays. No matter how good the COM
position may be. there's never a call for
an suthor. George V. Hobart's name
was the old one for the libretto of 1.-THE
Yankee Girl" and Silvio Helms the new
one for the score. Nobody cared about
the origination of the stuff and nom
sense. The general disposition was to
give Blanche Ring all the credit for all
she did. You'd have thought it came
from her spontaneously. And she gave
no sign Of Sinking the glory. She
didn't need to know that she was sup
posed to be the daughter of an Ameri-
can concerned IN a South American
revolution. It was solely as a balladist
that she had to look out for herself
Women sized her up favorably for hav-
ing ridded herself Of twenty to thirty
pounds of undesirable fat since last
summer. That may have come Of abb
sence from TenderlOin restaurants.
Blanche Rings Sympathy.
Blanche's weight and shape were ad-
mired by women especially. ApropOs.
The strutting president of the picayune
republic was followed by a woman
drummer, to whose taps he kept step in
his pOmpous entrances and exits. She
was neither young, pretty nor jaunty.
Why not? Because, far along in the
play, Blanche disguised herself for ten
minutes in the skirtless, tight uniform
Of the drummer. The spectators muir
INJURED with satisfaction at the sight Of
her faultless symmetry thus clearly de-
fined. Then we saw, also, why some
pert, saucy, witching little creature
hadn't had the chance to make a hit
with those drumsticks.
One of 1.-THE Yankee Girls" come
dams hadn't been in view two minutes
before he made the fzz and gurgle,
sputter and pop, Of drawing an inVisi-
BILE glass of soda water at an imag-
mary fountain. My memory few back
to the bartender at San Francisco's
Cliff House in the long dead and gone
Hoyt's "a Trip to Chinatown" Harry
Gilfoil? A look at the program. Twas
he. I dreaded what was to come; for I
had suffered acutely from his dogs
bowls and cats yowls, his champagne's
pops and saws buzzes, his telephones,
monographs, and many other inhuman
noises of his. Speciality But my alarm
was needless. He, or some one for him.
had dramatiZed his insensate sounds.
His limitations were scattered through
the long evening, each being given at
a pertinent point, and thus utilized,
they helped him to be the funniest man
in the company. Besides that, he had
acquired ability as an antic comedian.
I felt sincerely sorry for having wished
that he instead of Hoyt had passed
away.
Histrionic art is one thing. Knack
Of business push is quite another. The
one succeeds frequently; the other al
most always. Gertrude Hoffman as
recently as six or seven years ago was
AN apt soubrette who performed on
Eighth avenue because she. presum-
ably, could get no nearer to Broadway.
She could sing some, dance much, and
had good looks If not beauty. besides
that valuable stage asset personality"
With all of which, however, she might
have become no more than one of many
rather popular sOubrettes. Instead, she
now brings out a review and practi-
cally without aid entertains an audience
with no novelty or uncommon talent in
herself. How? Simply by that relia
BILE expedient limitations" If a COM
poser offered a score made up of the pro-
logue from "Pagliacci," the prize song
from Die Meistersinger." Tosti ball
lads for the tenor and Ogenbach for the
comedian, patched the materials with
Sullivan Audran and Lecoq-don't you
think his operetta would make hit?
Few would care whether he called It
limitations of famous musicians" so
long as they liked the music.
The art of mimicry, as practiced by
Ctssie LOTUS for instance is not TO be
dismissed lightly. But Gertrude Hoff-
man isn't even mimic, although in
her new review she presents that ia