The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-11

from the flames. but he had to
make three trips. y
Harry Fisher is Stella MAYHEM 's
neck-and neck racer for the iolhty
stakes. Do you identify him when
! tell YOU that he is that pulpv
comedian with murky voice, who
has his own way of confusing his
pronouns. and who makes YOU ache
10 kill him for his sissiness one
minute, and AT the next you are
laughing at his original oddity?
Fisher rs an American tourist in
LA Belle Paree' with an Irish
wife. She ought TO be played by
George Monroe, but she ism 4; and
Fisher is provided instead with a
mechanical cabhorse. with an ath-
letic insider, to make fund with on
4 boulevard. He won { hire the
outfit al five francs an hour, but
buys ii outright AT six: and of the
hundreds of comedians who have
got into the skins Of beast of all
fours, I've seen none more hum
orous than the one who operates
this dancing horse.
Later in the play. Fisher evened
up with Miss Mayhem by taking
from his cuff the cue for new
joke He has gone ton artist IS stu
dio in the Latin quarter to order
five hundred square yards of paint"
ings for his New York house, The
painter is shabby bohemian whose
ability he doubts.
Poverty and art 60 hand in
hand in Paris the man urges;
Fmany a great masterpiece has
been painted on an empty stom-
ach. - GA queer place. says the
comedian, "to paint picture
Lovely and Grotesque.
Do I seem TO belittle this sum-
uner plays ] don't mean to. 1t is
beautiful az well as grotesque. II
starts at Paris tourists agency,
aud in extraordinary showipess to
fine limitations Of theatrical cafe
and students ball pretty girl
violinist is an odd interloper. She
preteuds to 90 made over her own
fiddle and bow, She looks a som.
nambuhst right from her bed in
scant nightie. But what cares
she for clothes when rapt In mel
odv? She is nero mite of young
woman anyway. Yet not to be
overlooked as, tossing her loose
hair in unison with the tune, aud
flinging out her bare feet, she
presents A musico maniac.
The finally is ballet of pier
rots and hareQuins. IT is strange
how little Americans care for elias.
steal dancing Here's Dazzle. OF
grand opera premier grade, and
whirligig deverish doing wondrous
things on tip.toe, and the pro.
gramme has to beg the people to
wait to see what a European au-
dience wouldn 4 think of missing.
More 10 the liking of Broadway is
the spectacle that the curtain goes
down on, Six great panels, high
up the walls Of the students ball
hall, turn into tableau1 of women
posed in imitation Of tinted, un-
draped statuarv.
Before and After.
Dreamland was my chance
choice for a first section of Coney
Island 10 sec for YOU this summer
| spent an evening there, and went
back in the small hours Of the
morning to see IT'S thirty acres of
snowy edifces burned fiat to the
ground. Ny party shot chute,
speeded on a gravity railway,
Aoated in the canals of a minia
ture Venice, swirled through a
mythical Hell Gate whirlpool, and
many other things that held over
familiarly from past years. or
astonishment there was none. The
atrical performances were lacking
utterly. An outdoor circus was a
free sight for those who had paid
their dimes for entrance 10 the
grounds The extra half dollar
show was Ferrari 's menagerie. In
that we saw lions. tigers, leopards,
bears, pumas and jaguars and
other beasts counting up TO a
hundred.
Also. Bonavita When ! had
seen him last before he WAS in the
barred arenn with seven lions,
iordng il over the beasts with a
whip that cracked like torpedo
whenever he lsshed them, and atti-
tudinizing in spapgled tights for
the spectators. Now he saunters
around in plain clothes as mana
ger of the concern He had one
arm less than when he had been
complete. | had missed by two
nights seeing him sprung upon by
lion, bitten. clawed and almost
killed;
'{You don It figure in the arena
any more1" 7 said.
ga man needs two hands for
that, ~ he replied,
HWhat became of the lion that
attacked yeuP'
! "There he is. The big one on