The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-06

sion. The bride became nervous with
premonitions of Mysteries; at which the
bridegroom bucked up and glared at the
Objectionable party.
This by-play to quadrilles and waitzes
had gone on an hour, and interest in the
AFFAIR had permeated the whole mas
querade, when the dramatic collision
came. Should the bride dance with the
outsider to the merry widow tune? She
was submissive. The mother thought
she'd better do ii for peace's sake. The
husband said no. His enemy said yes.
Both said other things in vehement
French. It looked like a challenge and
an acceptance to go out and fight. The
men made their exit fiercely. The girl
got limp and her mother took her to the
retiring rooms, followed by women. AS
many men as the cafe would hold
tagged the belligerents and saw them
share an amicabie bottle of claret.
An effort is to be made to put mu-
steal farce into the place formerly held
in low-price amusements by melodrama.
Not one theatre in all New York is nov
used for the roughly excitant plays
which, after a period of popularity, en-
dured a year or two in ridicule and
then disappeared totally. But four new
houses and as many big old ones are
devoted to plays of song, dance and
fun, midway in quality between the
costly musical comedy and cheap bur-
lesque. "At Home and Abroad is a
fresh example. It's outfit of six speak
ing actresses and twenty showgirls are
at a college that may be meant for
Vassar or Wellesley, but the manage
ment doesn't dare say so, because they
go to abroad" and get gay for the
other half. The college girls on their
playground behave much like the col
lege boys in Brown of Harvard" and
1.-The College Widow" but are a great
deal prettier in their feminine travesties
of students pastirnes.
As to Chorus Ballots.
The apt adaptability of chorus-ballets
is shown in this performance. The
principal women are not for a minute
classable with those of Broadway pro-
auctions The best of them had a cal
Hope voice that the people marvelled to
hear out of grand opera; the next best
was a human foghorn that they
esteemed very highly, too; but they
were brisk. saucy, and evidently had
been to see the favorites in their line of
work. The rank and file, though, were
as jaunty as you please in frequent
changes of raiment and had been
trained to the same clockwork precision
llldI ID loUlC III uESt-SidOO CAlldfd-
ganza. The fellows who couldn't prove
that they were comedians, however, and
who butted in among the college girls
is surreptitious wooers, were rough
clowns and tough buffoons. In comic
men the company was much worse off
than in its antic girls.
American college girls needn't worry
about it, but they are maligned in the
broadly abroad portion of "At Home
and Abroad The showgirls and their
leaders spend their school vacation in
Paris and raise hobbs in a Paris garden
of gambling and other iniquities. This
section of the play is initiative of
"Brwester's Millions" An Irishman and
German endeavor to lose their for
tunes in a contest for the college widow,
who is so enormously wealthy that she
has bunch to marry a poor man. As
with Brewster, the rivals good luck de-
feats their purpose of Bankruptcy.