The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-06

You must sec Polly of the Circus"
that delightful comedy by Margaret
Mayo. which is running the week at the
Salt Lake theater.
You will feel better after you have seen
the play. You will have different idea
of the people who play in the sawdust
ring. You will want TO do exactly what
the Rev. John Douglas does In the play
take Polly in your arms
BE il remembered that when Polly OF
the Circus was here on July of the
year 1909 that Ida ST. Leon, pretty she
is, too. and who Is herself just a kid.
made her debut here as Polly. She sue
ceeded Mabel Taliaferro. who was stricken
i'll In Denver and had to return east.
The management has never had cause
TO regret the change for she is an ideal
circus ring. So was that OF all her
Jeople. Hence the character was not
one that she had 10 study.
There Is comedy and pathos In the
play. The humor IL delicious, the Dathos
most penetrating, and you watch the play
and laugh. and before YOU know II there
are tears rolling down Your checks. You
are taken into the circus ring into the
show must go on" And it does.
Polly Of the Circus" carries you back
TO the long ago back TO the days when,
like Hasty Jones in the play. you at
tempted 10 crawl under the canvas. You
have seen the street parade, you have
heard the calliope land, by the way, il
was sweet music to you then and It is
today, and you have wended your way
10 the show grounds, where a tented city
has been erected but YOU cannot see the
Inside WhyP Lack OF the two bits. and
you wander about.
In
Toby. tho acrobatic clown. He is in
trouble because Polly has been hurt. He
suffers agony because she is injured
Big Jim. the boss canvasman. appears
Gruff and grouchy and always using
swear words, and 10 you a veritable ogre
but now subdued and in tears because
Polly Is hurt. You are the first person
VINO expresses sympathy by your looks
and YOU are sent inside Polly Is car
ricd into the parsonage OF a real min
lister. one of the kind of ministers who
ere real Christians, just choclS full and
bubblinE over with goodness and who
knows that circus people and stage peo-
pie and players are mostly all good peo-
pic, but whether good or bad, when in
need his home is theirs
But this is a story about Polly OF the
Circus" about the girl and the play you
want 10 see. want your wife to sec, want
the Kids 10 see, and YOU and they will
see Polly and tho play. When you have
done this you Will tell your ncIgIbor and
your Wife will tell his wife and your kids
will tell their KIDS and the next evening
there viii be a parade, a demurc one, IL
is true, but at the command March,
you start on qucllstep Why? Because
ycn want to see ''Polly Of the Circus
and so does the family And they do
And all arc happy.
Now wouldn't YOU like to he kid"
again, II only for few hours. particu-
larly on Wednesday, afternoon. because
on that afternoon little Ida ST. Leon. tho
pretty Polly in Polly OF the Circus
who is not much more than a kid her.
self. and who SAYS she never wants TO
he. has invited all the children who at
tend the Wednesday matinee mt tho Salt
Lake thcatcr Ia come back on the stage
after the performance TO kiss and play
and romp with her and the little Shet-
land ponies and, so as not TO let the
matter of price prevent them from at
tending, she has prevailed upon the man
aG"mcnt to let all the children under L.
wears OF age have any scat in tho house
for % cents FOR Wednesday afternoons
performance. But you're TOO big To
romp with the ponies. so YOU viii 80
tonight and then g3 again. for Polly Of
In" Circus will he at the Salt Lake thea
ter all the week.