The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-16

yised us TO "Iet JOY be unconiineo?
Truly the winding streak OF light
called Broadway is rapidly becom-
Ing a case OF:
No sleep I'LL dawn. when youth and
pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with
flying feet"
The new fad seemed to begin With
the opening OF the Folies Bcrgore:
but close observers OF METROPOLITAN
nisht-iIfe are aware the seed was
sown earlier. First, TO the three 10
en-or-twelve- piece orchestra that
used TO satisfy supper guests at
Broadway restaurants. vocalist was
added-malc or female. but equally
caiety went no further than TO put
the lid on their natural desire for
The Rosary" or THE Palms Then
in the more progressive supper
places. comic singers began to appear
Presently we had pretty girls who
wandered In and out among the ta-
bles. warbllnC as they went some In
sidlous waltz or the latest ragtlme
frolic. And with the Introduction OF
Informal entertainers. came the Gus
tom of distributing fans. or comic
souvenirs. or. in The merrier places.
confetti OF bright colors.
Add Act at End.
To tell the truth the cabaret that
wound up the premiere OF The Fol-
lies OF 1911" between the hours OF
twelve and one. thought II was just
last act until II struck New York.
That is what 1t was during the en-
tertalnments trial week In Atlantic
City. But how could the show that is
supposed TO be the annual highw water
mark OF devlltry (or should one say
high champagne mark?) dare to come
without a cabaret So the latest Fol
1iSS' mined limo Spyentppn
scenes with its eighteenth detached
and renamed.
The only change was that the act
ors seemed 10 be terrified into semi
helplessness; Usage has distorted the
French word cabaret from It's orig
inal meaning into designating not
simply rather low w-down drinking
place, but one In which singing. dane
ing and general glib familiarity run
rampant: That new twist OF novel
" TO old-tIme vaudeville has been
given 70 the midnight show at the
F,oIlies Bergere: undoubtedly the many
clever entertainers in The Follics OF
1911" will give 1t to New Years Eve
on the Barbary Coast" This title
was chosen so as TO go Its rival and
Parislanly named theater ''one bet
ter" rs perhaps you know, the Bar
barry Coast is San Francisco's tender
loin. So We were to expect some
thing rollicking, spontaneous and un-
brldled. Instead the curtain rose on
stageful OF semi-stunned vau6eyil
lians. Left 10 their own Inventions,
deserted by the mothering wing OF a
stage manager. fully aware Of all the
merrimcnt and quick wit expected OF
them-a group OF experienced and
talented performers were little more
divertlng than 81 lot OF college per-
formers who mistook their own good
time for entertainment to their audit
ors.
But why do you dwell on the only
portion OF the 'Follies of 1917 that
failed to quite come off?" No doubt
1t VIII be whipped Into entertaining
shape, indeed, before these lines ap
pear the necessary changes undopbt-
eddy will have been made. Entertain
ments OF this sort are matters of re-
adjustment, and the especial advan
tage OF these annually arranged for
midsummer New York by Julian
Mitchell and Flo Zicgfeld, Jr., is that
they have come to be so invariably
popular as 10 allow ample time for re-
adjustment without risk of unsatisfac-
tory business.