The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-26

tnOugns brought q prosperous SiluI- Il
day night 1t was like an old-time /
circus I'm multiple.
Iconoclastic hands shut out the yell
low peanuts and pink lemonade from
circuses that house themselves in |
Madison Square Garden: also the can
dy hawkers and the peddlers of tick |
cts for a vaudeville hour after the |
main entertainment; but on Manhat- |
tan field those things were restored. |
Still the talking clowns of the one
ring circuses were missed sadly by the
grandpops, in whose memories the
chandelier Of OIL lamps created an at
mosphere of murky mystery more inn
DresSive with smoky gloom than all
the new illumination by electricity that
made the village Of tents look like a
piece Of COney Island The absence
Of the well-remembered sideshow
fakes and frauds was regretted. I don't
doubt. by the old fellows in their pee
vishness Of second childhood. They
may have missed with a reminiscent
pang even the ticket seller who made
one bill count as two in the short
change trick. by folding IL through the
middle; and wouldn't wonder II some
OF them looked with longing eyes for
a three-card or shell man to give
money to.
'Tbe Comic Supplement-
There was a reason for the title Of
The Comic Supplement-" George V
Hobart, the author, is a writer for
newspaper Sunday print. He saw 1un
for the stage in man clothed only in
bright-hued, pictorial paper leaves. SO
be plotted IL out that a college profess
sor, rejected as the matron's wooer
until he should make himself remark
able. undertook on a dare by students
20 quit the college in a suit Of paper
supplements and return I'm three days
dressed ordinarily and completely in
textile fabrics without having begged,
bought. borrowed or stolen anything.
He gets permission. though. to take his
dog along and depends on the brute to
pilfer the needed garments Good
idea. don't you think it is2 The pro-
lessons first setback is to sit on some
fly paper and leave an embarrassing
section of his paper garb behind him.
He is besct. too. by a female detective
employed to discover the stealer of
articles from the schoolgirls dormi-
tory. He has various troubles, but his
dog rehabilitatcs him I'm time TO win
tho wager and the matron.
Joseph Cawthorne. a droli speaker
Of German dialect. and Maud Ray
mond, apt with mimicry. sing into hi
larity with a good set Of new ballads;
and David Abrahams makes a lu-
dicrously knowing dog; but they are
crowded out of sight at times by spe-
cialists from vaudeville and burlesques
Of dramas that haven't gone out OF
New York yet. These travesties are
given rapidly in four rooms on two
floors Of an apartment house, one
being lighted up when in use. while
three others are dark. That is a new,
good idea, but requires a heavy set
ting.
But this sixth play Of farcical fol-
de-rol and musical fiddle-de-dee to be
placed in Broadway for the summer
| is chiefly an exhibition Of new girls.
Therefore. after two practice per-
/ formances in Jersey It was renamed
"Girlies' for New York. The adver-
| tisements alluringiy said there would
be sixty girlies, all under twenty and
none married" That would exclude
noted and notorious shOwgirlies. A
| crush Of modish men and women went
on the opening night 20 see II the
promise would be kept. Yes. land
/ women" for il IS a curious fact that
feminine curiosity among New York
/ smart folk as 20 members OF the
| chorus-b ballots is quite as keen as the
masculine interest; and less dissem-
bled by mock apathy; so the men eyed
/ the fresh output furtively at first
sight. while the women began an in
slant scrutiny through glasses.
/ Innocent Chorus Girls.
They purported to be pupils at a
/ college. white-frocked I'm innocent
simplicity for a scholastic occasion.
/ Ny lenses revealed no foOtlight IA
miliars, nor any faces that looked old
/ er than 20. and a slender smallness of
/ figure was uniform. The word girl
has been used so much in plays titles,
I frrr- cir in
/ fOrmances. that II takes ingenuity 20
| devise a girlish novelty to catch the
\ fancy OF those whose devotion to dra-
matte art is for indecOrOus arts sake
/ only. The show L am going TO describe
was called THE Comic Supplement-
during a half week Of practice over in
Jersey. but for New York IL was re-
named "Girlies." Read IL out loud.
"Girlies." Doesn't Il sound as foolish
as it looks? Yet 1 don't doubt that a
label ought to indicate the main con-
tents of a package: and the five dozen
young girls are the selling element of
/ the extravaganza
The custom long has been, in stage
| displays Of girls at school, to make
/ their preceptresses always austere.
usually hideous and often ludicrously
/ amorous under a pretense OF prudery.
The matron and chaperone here is en-
I U0ult0 WHWAtrVNANAg Hg k0Wh~AtNhAAAe
| Carrie Perkins, undisfigured for eccen-
tricity. Carrie is older and heavier
than when she was a stage grille. and
I guess she is put in front OF the young
i sixty 70 emphasize their juvinility and
,, lfghtness by contrast. There is shrewd
Il craft too. in making their opening
chorus infantile in music and move
ment: and the first of them to talk dc
il I'm babyish. prattling voices on pur-
pose. although they couldn't help II II
they tried to- The method OF their
introduction is calculated TO prove the
assertion that "all are under 20" II
not that none is married" The last
effort Of the advertising agent was a
report, printed by the more complais-
amt and less conscientious of the news
papers. that a recruit would take the
; place OF one discharged for breaking
her agreement not to marry. couldn't
help wishing that all of them might
merge their maidenliness in matri-
mOny.
= "Girlies" is a clean show, thank