The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-22
THINGS DOING in GOTHAM
BY FRANKLIN FYLES

s NEW YORK. May 21.-The largest
3 IN village in the world, with its
:. million inhabitants is Brooklyn
s borough in the city of New York; and
s Cecil SpOOner is that villages the
= atrical cut up. Cecil once came over
= 10 Broadway with a costly play calcu-
s lated to let her do the cutest and
: cunnin' est stunts that had made her
: q pet in a Brooklyn resident compa-
2 ny; but Broadway rejected her in
snlgh disdain. Yet this week. of an
afternoon, I was one OF the 100 men
who, with 1000 women, crowded a
Brooklyn church that had been
: turned into an opera house to see Ce-
Gil darling act.
Cecil had written a play, and I
wished to describe to you the heroine
that she had created for herself.
Might she not have fitted a crown to
a swelled head and seated herself on
a throne? Or put on the airs and
gowns Of a belle? Not either. She
chose to be a rural maid, who ran
away to be a sOubrette in luckless
show, and came back penniless, hun
CRY and hidden in q box car. Peer
ing out when the train stopped at
daylight she heard hens cackling
4 That means fresh-iaid eggs for our
breakfast" said she 10 her song and
dance partner. you go rob the nests
while L light up my alcohol lamp
Seen in Scant Dress.
Cecil emerged in the scant dress of
a dancer. The long stockings were
not fiesh-tinted, though, but white
ike the short frOck- Cecil knew her
Villagers. Besides, her mother is pres
,ident of the Brooklyn Church and
stage society. TO pop out of that car
IN pink tights would have alarmed
q
but in the coiOrless rig she looked to
them pure as child. Moreover. the
costume made it apt for her to repeat
d doll dance for her accumulation of
sure things. Caught 'by the early
station agent, do you see how natural
and reasonable that he mistook her
for a mechanical doll? And the doting
2,00o shrieked in hysteric ecstasy.
+ Two weeks ago 1 gave an account
rhapsody over the unaccustOmed
mOnkeyshines of faYorite stock actors
Z II an extravaganza; but wilder still
waS the delight when Cecil Spooner,
B hanging a sheet across the car door-
way 10 shield her from the stage vii
layers while she cooked the eggS
gave the auditorium villagers a knee
high view of her legs below the
cloth IndecorOus2 In our Cecil2 The
idea. Not a maid was afraid, nor
matron dismayed, when she said she
was changing her dress and tossed
out her hosiery TO handsome young
stranger and cried. mistaking him for
her partner. Hang up my tights to
air" - Wasn't she our own artless
Cecil?
An Artful Cecil.
Artful Cecil, too Does any one else
get q chance at the applause or the
1aT I
she takes no risks Of novelty The
first character introduced in 1.-The
Fortunes of Betty is suffering
girl The second is a youth who has
been made a detective by mail for
five dollars and shows big tin badge
TO prove il. The third is the town
constable, b'gosh. with whiskers on
his chin. The fourth is Mrs. Mala-
prop, with love and ignorance of
Dig words. The fifth is the devoted
song and dance partner, whom she
loves as a sister, and who comes with
her from The stranded show Tried
and true familiars, these
The plot is no reckless hazard,
either. BetiSr's father is an old veteran
and there IS q mortgage on his home.
The rich village skindint hates him
and means to sell him out. He Is
likely, also TO lose his job as post
master on a false charge of robbing
the mails. The real thief is the skin
hints son, who persecutes Betty with
his lust. The secret service agent
sent to investigate falls in love with
her, but almost breaks her heart by
proceeding against her father. Doesn't /
Cecil Spooner know her Brooklyn /
villagers ever welcome acquaint- 4
aHces2
And who is it takes the words out 1
OF .heir mouths when they're about to |
say something good2 Baby-voiced I
Cecil. Who does the talking for tears
In the father and daughters pathetic
passages? Tremuio-toned Cecl.
Who does the constable's duty in
fighting the mail thief, the detectives
work in s1euthing out the truth and
her lovers wooing of herself? Why
tenure little Cecil Who knows her
,usiness7 The Cecil Spoouer whom