The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-29

manner unless tangible matter is
taken along with it
Proud and Ashamed.
The makers Of The Merry WhirP
have reason TO be proud and ashamed
of II tt is innocent Of crude carlca-
turing and rude clowEing, its singers
CD CANCERS are clever and its cos
tuning is decorous. 1t is guilty OF
Jokes that 1 can't quote specimens
and some of the mems antlcs are IA
handling irupolitely women-allVe anu
lifeIess. There is original mVeflIion IN
the shameful action, however, and tne
sbownpan declares in the program that
he'll have the law on anyone VIM
dares to initiate them
The Mace is a dressmaking estao-
lishment where gowns are nlled W
shapelv women; and when the GUS
TONER'S are not symmetrical. they are
compressed and distended to Mt snape-
lv gowns The expert workers are
feminine; but male modellers are d
fad now, and so two young men are
hired to make measureliie aa.s,.,.;ts
faulty forms, discuss their deheri's
ana devise improvements, while the
real artist silently notes what neecs
10 he done. The chances to shock
some folks and tickle others are easy,
YOU see, and they are not thrown
away.
The takers maltreat a gaunt man
in the guise of a misshapen woman
pulling out one hip and pushing the
other in to make them match; 2erk-
ing her head backward and kicking
her middle section forward to give
/ her an erect pose; and fastening pads
to the breast with hammer and nails.
No blush need come with the fun OF
| that buffoonery The case of hand
some woman is different. Her figure
is faultless, as the fellows see when
] they stand her on stool ana look
her over. They measure her for
| corset and are &dmonshed by the
| boss that the dimensions and out
! lines being ideal, no further investi-
CATION is needed; but they persist in
Wavs that it's pity few in the theatre
refused to laugh at.
Now for the device of indecency
| that. I guess, is the one that the man.
agement means to protect from in
| fringement At the opening of the
act four figures, like these used in
store windows with fine gowns on,
| stand in a row. One proves that she
: is alive by quietly. walking out; soon
! another smokers and quits; but the
remaining two hold their pose like
artists practiced models ten minutes
longer. Then the two takers, having
at length been repulsed by the insult
| ed customer, seize the models, hug
and kiss them, turn them heels over
head and finally spank them They
| are lifelike dummies. but until thrown
down and jumped on they fool the
| spectators, because the preceding IT.
! dignities would be quite in the spirit
of the play if they were real girls
Dramatic art is getting tricky.
Change and Difference.
Leaving the ink TO dry on that par
agrapk, l went TO luncnecn and met
| a Snowman who asked what 1 knew
that was new 1 told him about the
Moore and Morton duplication OF
Montgomery and Stone in THE Magic
Ring" and the trick of the models
| in 1.-The Merry Whirl" and l was :
bit chesty over my discovery of those
! novelties that the New York news
papers. in their disregard of bur-
lesque, had not mentioned
you didn't see them FIRST he said;
Eat least one manager was ahead OF
you. A contract was signed this
morning to transfer The Merry Whiri
to a roof garden as an all-summer
| with Moore and Morton and their an
! tics from The Magic Ring added tc
it, along with other interpretations"
That proves what 1 wrote as to the
recent similarity of cheap burlesque
and costly musical farce; and when
this example of the former becomes
| ones of the latter. l shall tell you
| what changes make the difference in
this instance.
At the mailing of last Sundays let
| ter, a day was left of the Actors Func
| fair in which charity became hilarious
and uncovered some sins Of trick and
| device for the good cause Tor in