The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-08

ditty with pigeon wings, monkey
shines and the chorus: Sailing, sail
ing, yeggmen Of the sky line"
In church the jokes Of q funny
venerated preacher convulse the con-
gregation- In this theatre the tricks
of the heavy man were taken hflari-
ously. To women used to him as be-
nignly portly when good and weight
lily impressive when wicked, 1t was In
the nature of a dramatic phenomena
to see him tomfooling as a thief
tracked by burlesque detective. The
bill said the authors were a Shields.
Murphy and a Smith; and their
work wasn't bad Of its sort. So what
1 can't guess is how they get adequate
pay for IT in one week. Possibly they
hope to place 1t with touring burles-
quers-
For an act in a drug store they had
originated-or discovered long
string OF apothecary jokes-such as
sick man complaining that his medi-
cine is too nauseous to take continu-
ously half an hour before each
meal" and a widower who brings
back the tonic bought for his wife
to continue two months" because
she has died in two weeks. Also, the
woman shopping for cigars AMI ask
ing for samples for her husband to
-
ing stamp with the purchase of q
two-cent postage stamp.
The story ran that the sky pirates
bought the store to search for q dead
chemists elixirs of love and hate.
The potions proved potent when tried
on all the persons in the play, for each
couple developed q wildly amorous
lover and an equally. violent hater;
and the stageful of scrimmage
brought the show to a conclusion
with the company's usual actress OF
dignified dowagers. brilliant adven-
turesses and historic queens getting a
strangle hold on a resisting old man
in g. wrestling match for a kiss.
Several EARRING notes struck my ear
in the chorus OF general hiiarity.
Plainly. the women near me didn't
like II. and feared that their pet lead
ing man did, when he kissed those
six minxes from the chorus-ballet
school. They did not approve the
regular oompany's demure ingenue,
when, with sly eyes and shy legs, she
led the naughty half dozen ever SO
daintily in song and dance; or the
heavy women, when, in a grotesQue
makeup, she exposed legs padded to
ponderous dimensions.
II anyone had a serious objection to
ing man when the first tuvenile-or
walking gentlemen, as he would have
been called in the old stock times
made big triumph. This fellow was
young and misunderstanding
rather new to the stage. but elegantly
easy IN department IF Leon doesn't
work off some Of his fat this sup-
mer," I had heard a woman say,
Claude will crowd him hard next
winter" Hardly anything was given
to Claude to do until close to the end
of the show. Then he came forward
and said to the orchestra leader, apro-
pos Of nothing: Every musical farce
ought to have q coon song, so come
on now and play rag" With that
for the refrain of ragtime ditty, and
the dozen extra showgiris and boys
behind him. he astonished me and
drove the audience wiM with a first
rate negro impersonation.
Have 1 convinced you that If you
watch the people both on and off the
stage, an extravaganza by q cheap
stock company may be amusing? And
there wasn't an indecorous word or
gesture. You have to go to Broadway
to see what you ought not to-for in
stance. Valeska Suratt's role. A big
picture of her shows a small brown
birthmark below her armpit. When
one of her changes of gown, in THE
Girl With the Whooping Cough" I'M
covers that spot opera glasses are adj
Justed to look at it. And who knows
that, after all, the advertising mark
isn't painted on her side.
Not much that is told in ssThe Girl
With the Whooping Cough" is fit to
print in a newspaper. Five men and
five women start in together with