The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-31
THINGS DOING IN GOTHAM
BY FRANKLIN FYLEs.

NEW YORK, July 9O.-'Up and
IN Down Broadway is the third OF
three summer "revues." or plays that
travesty and caricature the stage fea-
lures Of last winter: and. mind you. II
i give ample space to an account OF its
fol-de-rol. % isn't because I rate IL
higher than "a secmly drama that
might describe fully in half as many
words IL is plotlcss. to be sure. but
Tar from pointless with its foolcry.
IL opens with a session with tho
Greek gods OF Parnassus. who have
heard that the drama Is degenerate I'm
America. 50 they send the tragic Mel
pOmene and the humorous Menus
% investigate and report They start
IN an aeroplane. transfer to a para
chute and drop into that part OF New
York nicknamcd Lobster square. They
have n time IN the old town so hot
that. right on. they don their classic
robes. don cool kills and souse them
selves In the gayeties Of Gotham. And
a. the Melpomcue is Emma Carus
and the Momus Is Eddie Foy, Tender
l0iners both, you may believe that her
TAT and his lean legs kick propriety
out Of the show at once.
Within ten minutes OF the outset. OF
course. Foy was slapping his hips.
swapping his fingers and taking the
high notes I'm a song, as usual. and
Carus was using her low cOntralto
notes IN colloQuial ballads. Foy asks
the audience to have a smile with
Momus." and the scdatc adults. as
though az circus with their children.
let their smiles pass through grins TO
laughter. They sober up. though.
when Foy pcrsonates an incarnate
Christ. in a brief burlesque OF THE
Passing OF the Third Floor Back"
In the original piece. one OF the
humber dwellers I'm a boarding house
talks I'm g Christly spirit with those in
trouble and helps them TO tranquility:
but unlike the Savior In The Servant
in tho House" he doesn't present the
physical aspect Of the founder OF
Christianity. nor does Foy in the skit
that locates him In n lodging house for
vaudeville soubrettes: yet IL seemed
sacreligicus and was omitted after the
first night
vicious Life and Death.
Meipomene and Menus zoings
cup and down Broadway diverge 70
Chinatown at midnight 20 see harder.
roughcr phases OF vicious life-and
death. too-than they can find I'm the
Tenderloin. They don't enter into the
Chinese opium Joints. gambling bells
and white girls prisons; but they get
street echoes and shadows OF things
within the houses more awcsome than
any stage representation Of the hidden |
degradation would dare to be.
No great white way OF electric |
brightness IS here. Mulberry Bend and /
narrow Doycr street are lanterned but
d'mly by its Chinese theatre and res /
taurants. Two policemen saunter past /
for az night the patroiling Is done !
all in pairs for the officers safety. /
partly. and also that they may be bet /
ter ready for such assassinations /
among the "tongs." or Chinese secret |
societies as have numbered six. IN as \
many weeks
No fun Is undertaken ir the Chinese
ten minutes OF the otherwise face |
tiOus revue. II is wcirdIy wordless
n melodrama in pantomime. making
no articulate noises. but accompanfed /
sometimes by low Chinese music and
breaking out at others IN means OF |
pain or screams Of fright. 4 party OF |
Summers with "a guide skurry them /
through. Two Chinese FOUNDERS 90 /
into a dive paired with willing white /
girls. a resisting poor. pale creature |
Is hauled into a den by yellow alb |
iuctOrs. a well-dressed woman stag
gers dazedly out OF an opium Joint |
and sneaks away. Thugs reach from /
/ dark doorway. drag a drunken sailor |
In and fling him out with pockets |
amptied.
The action reaches tragedy with |
Dnc OF the killings IN the warfare |
II the tongs" now carried on without !
police Identification Of the killers |
much less arrest. trial and punish !
nent The man marked for death |
zones out the Chinese theatre and |
,lances around apprehensively; the |
gun man" steps from n |
hadow. shoots him and giides away; /
Summers and white Loaf