The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
Polaire's Ugly Playing.


the ground A scene in another re-
calls Polaire. wondrously ugly
faced French actress who exploit
ed her unsightly self here last win
ter. Amy Leelac, who doesn 7 have
TO dissemble her unloveliness to
equal Polaire-who has returned TO
Paris and is playing this "After
Nature sketch there, makes me
wonder why, how and where she
acquired the tricks OF coquetry
that she practices at an after
theater supper In her fat. She
chats boldly | will give one quo
tation because l feel you have q
right to know; Look at my
breasts she says TO guest;
and the audience seems willing to
take advantage of her extreme
decollete To do it, too: "did you
ever see anything like that at the
New theater?'
Into this same summer garden is
thrown second grab of material
from Polalre's present show in
Paris. When in San Francisco.
this actress was impressed by
Chinese opium joint, and she has
dramatized it as follows; A
Chinaman and handsome Mclean
man are going to kill and rob
poppy-pier Polaire, now person
ating hideous opiate fend-in
rags that don { cover her nearly.
but are contrived to show that all
Of her ism as unhandsome as her
face-dazedly wonders if she has
heard, or only druggedly dreamed,
the plot of robbery and murder.
While the assassins go to get q
,,b 10
ed man into the bay, she rouses
him and he escapes. The mis-.
creants guess she has thwarted
them. Then comes a scene more
horrible than the Shaving of Nancy
Sykes by Bill ever was made. The
Chinaman has long, sharp finger
nails like the talons Of some aw.
full human bird Of prey-man.vul
ture-abnormal vampire, He
springs on Miss Leelac-who takes
Polaire's role here, and seems to
claw and tear at her throat with
those nailclaws until she falls
dead in her blood.
Forestry Of Belmont.
a Broadway garden has spread
itself, as usual. with an audito-
d
saunterage on higher adjoining
roof. Mrs. Oliver II. P. Belmont,
formerly a Young Vanderbilt ma
tron, is leader of suffragettes.
One of her fads is farm on her
Long Island estate worked entire.
" by women who want to vote.
Well, the loungerie Of this roof gar
den has been turned into a trav-
esty Of Mrs. Belmont's suffragette
farm. The farmers purport to be
from Mrs Belmont's forces.
Really most of them belong to
Broadway meadows fair and pas
lures green. The lady doesn I seem
to think it worth while to object
to the fakery. And anyway there
are two dairymaids genuine
enough TO milk actual cows. and
punches made from the lacteal
fluid on the spot sell at very real
prices. Women wear trousers at
work in the coward, the black
smith shop and working an old
oaken bucket at a we'll.
In a reformed household, a lone
man doesn { wear petticoats, but
nm. apron fronts his pantaloons
while he coddles a live baby, feeds
ii from nursing bottle and dis.
plays other abiectly house broken
tamepess. a buxom policeman car
ries around weight that's not
where 1t would do much good in
bouts with disorder A fisher.
woman catches in a pool a trout
that's tired out and sore mouthed
from repeated captures. Several
show girls are transplanting let
tute to garden beds instead of
their own tummies along with lob
sters. A sassy Bo-Peep is work.
ing an electric shearer on the fleece
of sheep in what s called n baa-
baa shop, Summer nonsense7 Yep.
Pocatello in Play.
"F'air Day at Pocatellon takes
It's company out Of doors assertedly
and actually An Edward Wrothe
wrote the play and acts more of 1T
than anyone else. On the first
night he did an extra stunt. He
stepped on the train Of a show
loose at the waist. broke the straps
that had suspended it from her
shoulders; tumbled her headlong
and heels up: and there she lay in
g helpless wreck. with the hot blood
of chagriu spreading from face and
neck to bosom in mad red surge
until two men picked her uD and
carried her off. There 8 glimmor
of plot visible at times in this sum
mer piece. Lee Wrothe. as an Irish
janitor. agrees to personate
pretty tenants absent husband for
Ten dollars. She is morally all
riaht, you see, but her hubby is
soldering in the Philippines: and
cranky relatives will withholds
fortune If, at the testator's death,
she is not wife living amicably
with her spouse. When Wrothe
finds out the Importance of his
mock matrimony he would multiply
his ten dollars of pay by thous-
and. The action, all farcical folde-
rol, is wrought out Of that compi-
cntion until il is exhausted. when
the real husband comes home une1-
pectedly In Sfir fhe turmoil