The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
THINGS DOING IN GOTHAM
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.

NEW YORK, May 14.-American
IN drama of realism breaks jail,
after several years of solitary connne-
ment for its assaults on stage anu
thereby vitiating the theatrical taste
of the populace. With the Old-time
nistol in hand, it dashes boldly into
view with d play appropriately EMU
tied The HOld-up." l saw surprised
audience throw UP its hands at the
word of command and surrender 10 q
gun-piay as Of yore.
Lonesome Joe is railway agent IN
Arizona. He lives there like a hermit,
talking to himself out loud about a lost
sweetheart and over the telegraph
wires to other operators whom he mas
never seen. A locomotive stops a
freight train just back of the station
wide windows. with much whistle and
chOo-chOo, and it goes on again after
Lonesome Joe has told the engineer,
within the audiences hearing, all that
| have told you in the paragraph Joe
isn't left lonesome long Hands up.
cries a bass-base voice. Joe grabs at
q pistol, but the visitor gets the drop
on him and compels him to hang out
a red light that will hold up an eX-
press train due in twenty minutes
During that time the men play des-
perate game to beat each other DO
you know a deeper voiced actor than
w. s. Hart2 He plays the brave sta
ton agent. while an equally strong
vocal Guielo Socola personates the
robber. So their dialogue isn't spoken
in whispers
An Actual Incident.
BY a shift of guns, Hart gets the
drop on SOcOla Then the plot thick
ems 20 what Taylor Granville, the -au-
thor, declares in the program to be a
reproduction of an actual incident
The station agent learns from the rob-
Der that he is none other than that
other station agent who once assisted
him in averting the wreck of a train
But he has turned road agent" be-
cause the company ungratefully dis
missed him from its service. What's
his real name? He gives 1t. Great
heaveni It is the same as that of the
others lost sweetheart! Then-can II
be? no-yeS-he's her brother.
If the coming train stops now II
will take SOcola aboard prisoner
instead of being plundered by him
The red light is set te hold it up. The
silence of suspense lets the humming
of the mountain wind through the tel
egraph wires be heard Then come the
tOots of the approaching locomotive
This is melodrama- Hart hauls down
the signal. AS long, loud and illu-
siouary a railway train as ever l saw
on a stage dashed past the windows
Hart and Socola shake hands They
and a man for the freight engineer are
the only actors: for 1.-THE Hold-up" is
a tabloid revival of western melO-
drama: but the play bill names six
other men, from author and manager
TO master mechanic and electrician
and 1 suppose they all work on the
realistic railway. Hart the star? The
train Is what carries the audience
away
Marie Dressler. the American
heavyweight champion soubrette,
came home from London, bringing
every one of the two hundred pounds
she had taken there, but with a COM
plete loss of temper; for the English
audiences had refused to laugh at her,
except derisively; and when asked,
What next will you go into2" she
replied with grim grin: "A nunnery,
If they'll take me in a-cussin' of those
iow-brow, no-brain London chumps.
What she did do. three months ago
was to go on a tour with TITLES
Nightmare" Word came back that
she wasn't doing well; that amended
versions of the play gave no better sat
isfaction: and the first of May she re-
turned to town.
Now she has bounced up, in all hei
big rotundity. into higher favor than
ever with those jollyites who like the
atrical foolery of her sort. Edgar
Smith, Lew Fields and Marie, who
had worked together at such jobs IN
the Weber-Fields music hall lays, pu
in a week of hard labor on Titles
Nightmare" before. offering il Il
Broadway and made bully show
Just as before, though, Title Is a Gin
derella drudge in a country boarding
house: is left behind to wash the Sup
per dishes while others go to A ball
falls asleep and dreams of coming t.
New York In the new chance fol
the female buffoon, however, she en-
thuses her admirers right off with {
travesty OF the poor little drudge tina
is fat with flesh and fun, and include.
a dftty with the chorus: You ma,
tempt the upper classes with you
wicked demi-tasses, but heaven vii
take care of The poor working girl"
The ensuing nightmare conveys Til