The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-19

with their giggoIets in squalid cafes:
and here and there one is enough of a
hypnotist to make his girl submit, In
a trance-like waltz, to being brutality
mauled and thrown about. That is
the popularity of the Apache dance.
Well. the final. desperate recourse OF
the cocotte In this play is to make the
burglar believe. by fiattering his van
ity, that he Is exercising that kind of
mesmeric control OF her-that she
can't resist his fascination-that she
clings to him In mad waltz even
though he may slay her with the
knife. Thus she is able at last to
grab the weapon and stab him to
death. So I'm one way and another.
through humbug and merit she has
seemed to me readable subject And
the price OF the better seats is two
dollars. the same as at the heaviest
winter drama, with as much more for
the choicest as can be got by selling
them on the sidewalk through hawk
ers
Summer widowers'' sets a fast
pacemaker for itself I'm its title. IL
can't afford TO let its town husbands
be slow in racing for fun while their
wives are in the country The devices
for speed in action. besides words by
Glen MacDOnough. tunes by A. Bald
win Sloane and business by Ned Way
burn. include mechanical oddities in
vented by Lew Fields. it's chief actor.
The first setting is a section of the
board walk at Atlantic City in front
Of a mammoth hotel. with visitors
and wheel chairs. One Of those We
hicles has eiliptical wheels to bounce
and tumble the rider. Among the cleo
trical Nominations is a moon that.
after shining on variously troubled
coupled Of lovers. blinks its eyes,
while red-hot tears roll down its face
At the end of that scene. when the
bright lights give way 10 darkness.
four aerOplanes. in which the summer
widowers are supposed to fly away
from their wives at the seashore TO
out from the stage over the heads of
the people in the auditorium.
Lew Fields Jokes.
Less spectacular. but counting more
for fun. is the cheese that is so lively
and strong that il has to be nailed
down to the counter Of a delicatessen
store to keep it in stock: also. the
links of sausage that, when a woman
calls out the name of her lost dog,
form themselves into the canine pet.
That's using old, old jokes over again.
Of course; but quite new is the trans
formation when a throng of Gus
toners. failing to find a bar at which
to quench their thirst built one by
turning their tricky suitcases inside
out with tables and chairs besides for
| those who drank seated.
During one act, the stage is filed to
its very top by the three stories of a
fiat building. with nine rooms open TO
view and occupied by jewellers. An
elevator behaves funnily. A folding
bed shuts up its upsy occupant. A
poker table rises from floor to ceiling.
when the police come in. and becomes
a chandelier. In the roof garden Wis
l tied by the summer widowers. a dance
makes fireworks with electric currents
alternately made and cut by the touch
/ Of the shoes TO q charged floor. other
/ contrivances increase the inanimate
activity. The final spectacle is back
at atlantic City. on the beach along
side one of the big piers, from which
I bathers dive into what looks exactly
I like a real sruf
The things alive2 Irene Franklin
/ made up for derelict show girl de-
clares herself "all that's left Of the
Fields. Fritz Williams and four other
summer widowers in a ''ph0ny bal
/ letr burlesque. Ada Lewis is a fiirt-
I ing widow with the dwarf. Will Arch
/ er, for a prankish son. Maud Lam
/ bert is a handsome balladist. Willis
| Sweatnam Is a negro with his old
/ Jokes to crack among the others new
/ ones Summer Widowers' lacks any
plot worth mentioning, but has so
many incidents that they couldn't be
| told in two columns II Is as costly
/ a show. I should say. as any June has
/ ever brought forth.
While people fan and Toll as they
| lie back in their seats and say. Now
/ make me laugh" those on the stage
/ have to work harder than in winter.
/ I thought so pityingly when eight
/ young ballet women, after exhausting
/ their breath and strength In dances
/ livelier than rounds in prize fights.
/ and had responded to a half dozen de-
| mands for more. undertook an encore
! stunt OF leapfrog. Their wind and