The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-22

gayland inhabited by merry-making
money-spenders. Astors and GouldS,
Vanderbilts and Belmonts. were
among the social celebrities at the Ia
bles; dramatic noteworthies were
plentiful in the throng; and -sretty
girls from the footlights were there
as Mattresses President Taft was one
of those 1 saw drinking, and he was
chatty with the soubrette who brought
his bottle of ginger ale.
Performers on the small stage of
this uncommon resort, at times when
1 was there, included such neWly-ad-
justed teams as Francis Wilson and
Mabel Barrison, Raymond Hitchcock
and Marie Dressler, Theodore Roberts
and Alice Fischer, Burr Mcintosh and
Fannie Ward, in familiar songs, but
somewhat uneasy dances. 4 "ChanU
cleer'' ballet, however, having been
rehearsed for hourly repetitions by
relays of young actors, was smooth
and comic affair by human fowls from
the Rostand cock-and-hen drama.
Once in while, someone in the au-
dience was melted to do something on
the stage; as when Julia Arthur Che
ney, the actress who retired into afflu-
ent Boston wedlock ten years ago, re-
cited Juliet's garden talk as she looked
down, over the back of a chair for
OdlCOIy dill d. Oh
whose share Of the dialogue she gave
as asides.
Real Swells Attend.
Among the applauders OF Mrs Che
ney was another Once-actreSS of dis
tinction, Mrs. George Gould, in whose
table party were Mrs. Speyer, Mrs
Belmont, Mrs. Mackay and Mrs. Drex-.
Ell, matrons all il multi-millionaire-
ism Along came sauntering two vet
eran stage beaux, John Drew and John
Mason, matinee idols still, and on
their pedestals. II dare you two,
said one of the ladies, ito go on and
do a stunt as the Jack Brothers, Drew
and Mason They took the dare.
You have located this cafe at the
Actors Fund fair, of course, where
during a week and half a full thou
sand actresses were gathered and half
as many more We're actively on view
for charity. They made a beauty
show of exceeding interest, and drew
a daily attendance starting at ten
thousand and ending at fifteen. They
did with vim all that is done usually
at charity bazars and naturally their
Vheedling was far more potent by
reason of their experiences in witchery
I won't undertake to name even those
who led most brilliantly in the work
at the booths and on the floor; for in
evitably there was jealous rivalry be-
meath the surface Of buoyant pleasure
Quick wit and keen nerve charac-
terized these actresses. else they could
not have repealed smilingIy, as many
did, the impertinence, of the few Doors
among the many whip were polite to
them. A renowned beauty was coax
ing rounder to buy bit of bou-
QUet at a dollar
I'll give you five for the flowers
and a kiss" said he
agreed" she smilingIy replied, /
"only am to give the kiss-not take
one |
n Clever Kiss.
The fellow was too eager to note (
the conditions, and hundred persons +
close by watched to see if she would .
break the decorum that controlled the
levity generally The bouquet and a +
banknote changed hands. He lowered /
his lips to a level with where he ex-
pected them to encounter hers; but
they were not there; for she bent over,
also, to deliver the kiss-on his hand.
Laughter and applause
A demure ingenue hired herself out !
for five dollars as a guide to a too
forward for an hour; but at the end of
the first quarter she had steered him
up against so many raffles. lotteries
and worthy f1in-f1am games that, with /;
i rueful grin, he called her a con and /,
capper and let her go. Not a few
shrewd soubrettes provided them II
selves with lines of repartee to meet
almost any emergency; and they were II
acting as truly as those members of n
he Twelfth Night club and the Actors
society who kept vaudeville going in Il
he Garden of Versailles or gave por- !
ions of plays in the Fund theatre. B
rhe only misbehaving girl posed in an B
open kimono that uncovered Il corset
md not much other clothing. She was i