The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-16
In Theater and Concert Hall East

1ugs when by SET of circumstances
which make the plot Of the piece he IS
made the personal guardian of most
attractive girl child. who forces her way
into his obdurate heart by sheer persls-
tency Of baby affection. This involves
both humorous and touching scenes. Mr..
Wilson 2 own abilities AS a comedian
arc rivaled by those of remarkably
original cbjId.actor called Baby Davis,
The keen delight the child appears TO
take III tho stage work, which it seems
10 regard as the most enjoyable kind
that we arc all naturally interested in
the art of acting from our earliest years.
Dope a Good Sketch
In Joseph McdiIi Patterson g sketch;
" Dope \ new vein has been opened
in the vaudeville niue of pIaywrting
Mr.. Patterson has been hitting some
hard blows at st the man higher up for
some time past, and this latest Offering
of his is no surprise to those who have
read his magazine. newspaper and Jour
ualsiic articles and stories. He has
selected the cocaine iicnd as bis sub
jcct and the illicit sale Of the drug as
the theme 10 work upon. the result be
ing powerful opc-act drama that viii
live in memory until the dav when imi
tators take tho field and work upon the
same or similar subject matter. The
scene. most raaahlv staged one, IS
i'm the cheap East Side drug store.
Edgar Allen Wolf is responsible for
ono of the fastest comedy playlcts of the
current season. and his latest sketch
''Tips on Taps scored y most emphat-
ic bit AT the Fifth Avenue. where Elean'
or Gordon and her supporting company
gave The act IN lis metropolitan show
ing. The plot, while quite improbable
is so very amusing that one forgcts IT'S
incongruItics.
Opera Companies to Amalgsmate.
There is still simmer TO the reports
of amacamation of tho metropolitan
and Manhattan opera companies. At
| first il was rumored that the negoiia
tons Of the Hammersteins with Tho
| Metropolitan management merely
meant = working agreement, llut 1T was
soon seen that an ont and-out MERGE
| was meant Now il seems strange tina
| the Manhattan management should bc
the ageressor IN The amalgamatIon pIan'
| for the directors Of the MctropoitnI
are financial men OF the WALL stree
| district who earn their champagne an'
troubles by merging corporations MIR
| Hammerstein speaks the truth whom la
saws that u merger of the rompanie
would result in an institution whicl
would control the grand opera Of TIM
world.
Has The4ter Craze,
We are TO have a new thcater il
New York Tho thcater district Of TN
metropolis seems crowded now. but az
parently there will always be room 70
ono more. With The coming of III
New theater and the erection Of ney
Cohan house, it was thought that III
end of new playhouses was in sight
but not So Plans for a new Time
Square theater to cost half mllllo
dollars have been flied, and ii is eS
pccted that the playhouse will b
ready for opening by next November
The theater Will be located west o
the rear of the Lyric theater in Wcs
Forty-third street. The nature OF In
proposed drama TO be extended in tn
new house has not been diyulged.
Dance Without Feet.
Loc Fuller is going TO have ne'
dance that will be both novel an
unique 1t is "Dance of the Hands.
Miss Fuller has been working on thi
unique effort of the tcrpsIchorean III
for several months, but Will probabI
not have ii ready for production bcfor
spring. It Is an absolutely new styl
of dance, in which. as the name show
The hands are the feature on which tn
spectators attention is kept from be
, ginning 10 end, Miss Fuller is cspt
? cially well fitted for such a dance q
she has beautiful hands which are ma
vclously long and slim and graceful
despite the fact that she. herself
so distinctly plump that her success
, dancing is regarded by those who kDo'
her personally as a wonderful demon
} stratiOn of the power of mind over ma
. ter. Miss Fuller is not yet ready
j describe this dance in full. "The m'
tions in it arc supposed 10 represen
the movement of molten steel IN a