The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-03

NEW YORK. July 2.-"My dear
IN friends said the head come
dian OF a musical farce to its final
and very small audience. eve are
nice. cosy. little gathering pleas
ant family party. Not so small, per
haps. as 10 denote race suicide. yet
not big enough 20 indicate grossly
profuso propagation Of the genus
homo. And Il IS such a satisfaction
for conEenial spirits TO get together
not too snugly close-on hot
night like this-to be I'm no vulgar
crowd. nor involved in the sOrdid
rush and crush OF commercialized
dramatic art"
So one OF nine musical pieces
placed along Broadway for the sum
mer died with a grin on. but two
more were ready 20 be brought mer-
rily into life. and the Saturday night
audiences were so large at the con-
timing eight that tickets for choice
seats had been sold at advanced
prices.
on the opening night of a show
Fpendthrifts viii pay five TO ten dol
lars as readily as two for a front
chair. To was like that at Ia Jar
din de Paris" because an uncommon
display OF young women was expect
ed. I told you a fortnight ago OF the
boldly advertised sixty girls all un-
der 20. and not one married" as
sho wnin "The Aerial Garden" In
the newer play are exploited sixty
Anna Held girls. all worthy OF their
Eodmothcr." Il was reasonable I'm the
FOUNDERS 90 look for variants Of devil
try I'm a Held Of a show even though
the Heldish Anna would not TO be in
f.
lax season I'm Propriety.
This is the lax season in propriety.
and I'm sure you will permit me 70
break my rule against writing about
managers. It was Frederick Thomp-
son who exhibited the 'girlies." and
on the first night Mrs. Mabel ITALIA
ferro Thompson sat I'm the corner OF
a box facing the audience TO be sung
90 directly by a topical balladist
Hitherto Florence ZieRfeid's summer
shows have been similarly matronized
by Mrs Anna Held Ziegfeld; but she
wasn't on view. and the knOwers-or
surmiscrs-gossipped who she wasn't
in her usual box pose. The lobby report
was lnat Anna mad telcgraphed from
ler husband: send for your
T- would not lose her"
At times The sixty girls in La Jar
din de Paris" didn't wear much that
was more paipabie than the invisible
Held labels. In n seashore scene a
shapcly dozen appeared in long man
ties on a bank at the edge OF real
water. one after another they threw
off mOdcsty with her drapcry. stood
Tor n moment poised like the statue
OF the diver. In scanticr attire than
the police permit az Coney Island.
ard then plunged with a piash into
the tank that was made by motion
pictures 90 look life surf.
A more appreciated novelty.
though. was the mingling Of the Anna
Hclds with tho audience. The place
was the roof garden that Oscar Ham
mcrstein built above his bankrupting
Olympia Queer man. Oscar. He
covered 70 with glass. on which water
was % flow throughout the evening
IN cooling flood. When the appa-
ratus was Installed a trial proved that
the noise would drown the voices on
the stage that the quantity or water
required TO chill the sun-baked ex-
panse Of glass would be unbearable:
and 50 unwittinrly he had provided
discomfort instead Of solace. An
other roof had to be put under the
glass one.
Irascibic Stage Director.
Four starvays lead from the garden
70 n story underneath. from which re-
frcshments are carried up TO the au-
diencc. and these entrances are used
BY the chorus girls I'm excursions to
and from the stage. The play start Is
at rehearsal and the first view OF the
girls is when they troop down the
aisies In this travesty Of chorus
drilling Julian Mitchell. the irascible
stage director. Is caricatured by Har-
r, Watson. while later Mitchell, in a
pantomimic bit. makes his reappear-
ance as an actor after n dozen years
out OF sight And simultaneously