The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

NEW YORK, April 16.-There is no
IN off season here in stage shows
any more; but they get lighter and
breezier during spring, so as to be at
tractiVe for summer We have four
new examples just now, and each takes
an actress from vaudeville to make
semi-dramatic star of. They are Clarice
Vance. Lucy Weston, Grace LaRue and
Emma Carus. In the transit they carry
over old stuff from their specialties for
the new audiences to accept as novel
ties, if they will, and thus the risks
of the ventures are minimized. ] have
found it interesting, at the first per-
Torrance Of these pieces, to watch the
change that comes over the novice at
play acting when, after an uneasy spell
at the unaeeustOmed service, she gets
instantly easy with familiar materSel.
Nervousness vanishes. Confidence ap-
pears. Stepping out of the scene, and
turning her back on her comrades, she
advances to the fOOtlights with blithe
step and gladstone smile to interpolate
he~ dependable stunt.
Lucy Weston Once Again.
Lucy Weston is the illustrative wom-
an in THE Lady from Lobster Square.
The title of that play was so alluring
TO the FOUNDERS Of the TenderlOin that
they had TO buy their seats from ped
dlers at doubled prices for the opening.
The show disappointed them, but they
caught at its new nickname for what
used to be L4ongacre, but became Times
Square. and contains the shiniest sec
ton of the Great White Way. The
Times newspaper, following the eX-
ample of the changed name of Greeley
square to Herald square, successfully
rechristened LOngacre. Now the Her
aid has bought a site on Times square
70. d big plant, and l am wondering
whether il will undertake to take down
Times from the street lamps and put
mp Herald" Anyway, it won't accept
the instantly popular designation Of
Lobster square.
Guess Wen have to roast this
-Lady's' Lobster said cynic be-
tween acts, instead of bTOiling ii, and
take a sousing of champagne to add
sparkle. How's it going at A Sky
lark?
The chap who had come from that
other musical farce after its first act,
replied: There's nothing in it thus
far; so I've shifted to here"
And I'm going to hustle over there
IN time 10 hear Ciarice Vance sing
coon song in the role Of the goddess
Juno"
First, though, for Lucy Weston. She
enacted a bride who was a lady from
Lobster square" and tried TO be a real
lady. but how could she with the songs
she had to sing? One was about a
young wife whose husband, a naval
officer, hadn't had a shore leave in Two
years. yet she wondered that the neigh
bors didn't call to congratulate her
when she got twins. Another had Tor
refrain: Everyone gives il to Mary
but Mary won't give it to me-" SO FAR
so good, and to the satisfaction of those
who liked that sort of thing; but the
expectation of general cussedness
wasn't satiated, as you may be glad to
hear. The play was fee translation
from the French author Of 'eThe Girl
From Maxim's." but less salient in
salacious effrontery.
Fritz Williams Undresses.
Fritz Williams. the facile and usually
circumsDect comedian. had to half I'M
dress himself twice; but luckily the two
stunts didn't constitute one entire dis
robement, The first time, a girl poured
some wild oats down his back TO make
him frisky, and after q minute behind
a screen TO dislodge the grain, he APP
peared IL undershirt and drawers and
the second time he took a shower bath
by mischance in the same attire; but
perhaps in this instance the pink shirt
was meant to be mistaken for his skin
Ciarice Vance doesn't appear in "A
Skylark' until il is half over. and a
shiDlOad of American tourists on d lark
have mounted skyward on Mount
Olympus to hobnob with the gods and
gOddesses Clarice is the big. jovial
young woman whom you've probably
heard sing coon and other cOllOquial
ballads nasally, but so humoFously in
vaudeville that, l believe, she gets
three hundred a week The idea of the
funny Clarice as Juno lifting with Jupi-
ter and flirting with an American runt
of a comedian struck the author favor
ably. He is William Harris, namesake
son of the manager. So her salary was
written at the top of the payroll.
Preparatory TO the incident reekoned
on for much fun, Clarlce sang, IN tne
robes OF Juno and the dialect OF negro
wench. about a black sweetheart Jes
an ord-nery, no-account niggah, out