The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21
How Quick Change Saved Rustic Play
Lambs Cambol as Ladies at Club
League Gives Minstrel Show With Many Well
Known Stars in The Cast

ratified bones at one end and Lii
liam Russell S sister Susan thumped
tambourine at the other. Clara
Thropp thumped tambourino and
Amelia Bingham was one OF the
humorists. Maggie Cline and
Lillian Russell S sister Susan were
among the better humorists. The
most laughed at Joke was that a
correspondence school of matri-
mony had been started by Nat
and rich?' "Well, it has made
Edna Good rich - However, un-
like the Lambs. Ore women didn u
try TO Get along unaided by the
opposite sex. The programme in
cluded several portions OF current
plays with men in the casts-not-
withstanding the question: "What
is the difference between the Pro-
fessional league and the baseball
leaguel' and the answer: zone
depends on hits and the other on
misses
Melodramatic Spot
A melodramatic spot in the
week s foolery is "One Thousand
Dollars Reward" and + describe
ii to show how an editor Of
magazine, Robert Davis, and
skilled actor.managcr, Henry Mil
Ter, may waste their col!aborative
efforts on futility. Its incident was
at the lonely Arizona cabin of
so pretty girl that she would
inevitably have been stolen by
some desperate in love before she
had time to make a choice for
herself She hid nervc-w worn,
sore-footcd fugitive from Justice.
He had killed a man justiGably. in
self-dcfense, but it hadn { looked
SO. to the governor. and the big
price had been offered for his
capture dead or alive. Yes, the
scheme of the play by Davis and
Miller was as old and ordinary as
that, and nothing in the writing
The girl put her guest to sleep,
and we knew he would be caught
mapping. She took away his pistol,
and we knew, she would contrivc
To get it back to him when he
needed it.
4 candidate for the Office of
sheriff desired the reward money
to pay his election expenses. He
slipped handouts on the culprit
and awoke him, The girl asked
him what she could do for him. He
said she might give him a smoke.
She handed him a cigar. and his
pistol by way of a light. So he
got the drop on his captor, tied
him up with clothes line and
went away TO get the thousand
dollars for delivering himself up,
promising to come back indicated
10 marry the girl.
Study in Tints
The smart set shows its jct-to-
evcry-color scheme of tints in
Afric taint with "His Honor the
Barber" It's whim of the play
is that Il negro barber with an am
bition TO shave the president. does
il IN u dream, and is thereby
melted to do it in fact The
oddity Of this presumably black
company is its whiteDess. a study
of its range in hues convinces
me that as Il composite they would
be Just about quadroon Their
entertainment is similarly no
more than onc-fourth negroistic,
They make mistake-do they?-
by giving a close imitation of the
white musical farce. 1t seemed
yes TO me: but when | saw an
audience almost as black as it
was white, IN theater ordinarily
inaccessible to negroes-eXcepting
the rear seats of the top gallery
i realized that this was colored
show for coIored people, and the
all, Al NF
similarity TO uncolored song and
dies there were few echoes:
no coon shouting recalled camp
meeting feryor; the breakdown of
the cabin and the buck dancing
of the levee were scant and favor
less, and instead of the cake walk
tbSre was the turkey trot. Ada
OSertoD Walker. the octoroon
widow of Walker, once of Williams
and Walker, was the ''Smart
Sets chief turkey trotter. and the
spectators were proud that her ac-
tion hadn Z the faintest tuge of
the negro.
The "Turkoy Trot'f passed from
the theater into society, and at
two levelS-high and iow--ou the
night that it WIS first seen on the
stage. A fashionable box party
turned summers. and went to the
resort that chances to be the
town S newest show place of
rough. tough pleasure, To get
into it they passed through a hall
way alongside shut barroom
to covered and closely fenced
back yarR within hundred feet
of Broadway. Young men and
girls iouDged, drank and sang at
tables untiI some one slid = quarter
in the slot of an orchestrlon. The
big music machine played waltz
and the floor was taken by dancers.
The actress from the play
stepped forth with her husband.
She was in sportivc mood after
her stage success, and gave the
motley assemblage its first view of
the turkey trot. The frcqucnters
Of the joint were apt pupils. In
an hour dozen pairs were turkey
trotting Then, too. the modish
summers took it in their homes.
and il has spread to the social