The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06
|;cism and Comment
ON New Plays
In Theater and Concert Hall East

Eyes. - if it came down it was s'no. ("
one or TN his latest and greatest successes
was " The Singer Was Irish, - in which
the delight of an exile from the Green
Isle, at hearing 'Come Back TO Erin -
sung IN foreign land, was pathetically
described. The dead singer was al
ways ready TO do kind action One
bitter winters day, when the snow
was foot deep. he was discovered y
by friend as he was taking bottle
or VINE and some other delicacies to
poor sick professional.
Divine Sarah Coming.
As has been told fortnight OF so
ago, Madame Sarah Bernhardt is com
| ing TO the United States to make a tour
| OF America next season. But the fact
was overlooked that she is going to
| bring some new plays with her for the
delectation of American theater- goers.
| There is some vagneness about vaude
| vile, but do not be surprised if her
playing amounts only to short sketches.
1t has been five years since she played
| IN America. William Conpor. the Amer
ican manager for Madame Bernhardt,
in discussing her coming said: "Her
tour will llkely begin in Chicago and
Will include New York, where she will
play during the holiday season. Her
repertoire will include Jeanne Arc,
Les Bouffons, La Beffa, La Rampe.
Faust LIE Passe' and 'Un Coeur
d'Homme. d Her tour will include all
the principal cities of the United
States, Canada and Mexico. Madame
Bcrnhurdt is 66 years of age, but still
shows. remarkable vigor Her coming
States. She thinks it may be her last
visit to, America, but refuses to call
it her farewell tour
'sVision of Salome''
Probably four-ffths of the audience
that packed Carnegie hall to see Maud
Allan dance came away wondering if
they ought to be shocked or not over
Miss Allan s famous E'Vision Of Sa.
lome,' with which the dancer ended
her entertainment, her second appear.
ancc in New York. 81 am shocked -
quite how much If | had brought my
opera glasses ! should know BETTER
Persons who had not forgotten their
opera glasses were divided in opinion
concerning the sensational character of
what Miss Allan presented and which
London is said to have acclaimed as the
acme Of daring in costume or lack of
it, Some thought that Miss Allan IS
microscopic bodice was all sufficient,
others contcnded that only the lack Of
light made such an exhibition posi-
BILE. As Salome Miss Allan presented
a poetic figure IN draperies, hardly
more filmy than other dancers have
worn. The stage was kept in semi
darkness during the Salomo scene.
AS to the dance. it differed but
slightly from others that had preced
ed il during the afternoon and consisted
chiefly of posturing, with a suggestion
at the close that the head Of John the
Baptist is the magnet that alternately
draws and repcls the dancer. There
Tn he Hrcf p,rfI
of her programme. Miss Allan again
danced to the music Of Grieg's ''Peer
Gynt' suite, the Mendelssohn Spring
Song, and the 'Blue Danube Waltz
She was frequently applauded and
had to repeat several Of the dances.
Thinning of the Ranks.
The month of January saw thin
ming of the ranks. Ezra Kendall, a
comedian favorably compared TO Joseph |
Jefferson, although their fields of en-
deayor lay apart. died in private
made "Tho Vinegar Buyer famous
and starred in it until two weeks be-
fore his death. Joseph E. Whiting. n
veteran American actor Of the Viola
Allen company, died in Toronto. Jo-
seph Wheelock, Jr? who gained public
Algvn and HLondon Assurance" died !
in Arizona. Lolita Faust, one Of our
best known musical comedy actresses, |
who left "The Midnight Sons' for a
sanitarium. died of pneumonia. Miss
Faust was divorced from Richie Ling
a few weeks before her death, and at
tho time was engaged to marry Nal
colin Strauss, painter.
To Establish Maori Village.
The Messrs. Shubert announce that
they will establish Maori village,
either at the polo grounds or one Of
the uptown amusement parks, at the
conclusion of their present contract
with the tribe of Arawa MaoriS from
New Zealand, who are now appearing
as one of the features Of the triple
spectacular show at the New York
Hippodrome The Maoris, with their
Chief Kiwi, will give their Haka dances
and the women of the tribe will pre-
sent the Cauoo and Poi dances, as we'll
as giving an exhibition of native wcav
ing and mat making. 1t is planned 10
have the village lighted by electricity
at night and beside the war hakas now
being given at the Hippodrome, the
Maoris will produce for the first time
number of their special dances, which
are given in celebration of every I'M
porfant event of life, rs for instance:
weddings. births or deaths and also the
celebration before and after battles.
The Maori village Will not he opened
until after the closing of the regular
Hippodrome season, some time IN the
early summer.
Sister Beatrice.
Miss Edith Wynuo Matthison, the
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