The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-12
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None Girls and "Typists Chosen
Season. Plays Being Wisked Out Metropolis Before
Public Can Signify Approval or Disappointment

tainment do not spend YOUR time
and money on this latest Fields
show; but il YOU care for whiri.
wind gaiety. for pirouetting mobs
of 1.-the and lovely girls. and for
crash upon crash Of tuneful. un-
pretentious music. BY all means
hurry to "Thc Wife Hunters. l
hope YOU do not want to know the
plot. because YOU can Z. That is,
YOU cannot from me. iuasmUch as
have not the slightest idea what
the affair was all about. Further
more, ] very aravely doubt whether
the author is better informed. That
proud young man is Edgar Allan
Woolf, whose given names
seem TO have cast no Poetic gloom
upon him whatsoever. and whose
claim TO fame rests almost wholly
I'm the fact that be wrote ON lie
Champagne. at the premiere Of
which Harry Tbaw shot Stanford
White. That burlesque was dull
10 a degree. but, the sensation
caused by the tragedy attracted
such crowds to the Madison Square
roof garden throughout the sum-
mer as never have been known
there any other season, Tn
fortunately nobody was murdered
at the premiere of 'NThc Wife
Hunters. - However. unless I am
very much mistaken the entertain
ment viii gain ample popularity
without sapguinarv aid. ON the
other hand, if such advertisement
IS needed ! Will gladly volunteer
TO enter the theater the first even.
ing | am free and murder any one
of several comedians iu the piece.
Some Good Singing.
There is great deal Of singing
IN the entertainment, and some of
it is good That word Of praise
applies especially to Edith Decker,
whose restraint Of mapuer and
well-cultivated voice suggested
stray violet i'll a hedge of sun
flowers. However. the most widely
popular singing in the entertain
ment was accomplished with the
feet, | refer TO the pony ballet.
The programme points out that
these dancing girls are the original
pony ballet. That seems difficult
charitable. These sprightlv dam
sells do not look as though they
had been dancing since the days
Of Noah and Uettv Green and
lydia Thompson; and if they
really are the same they should
he hurried to the Edwin Forrest
home or "dope away with by
the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals. A sprightlcr
string of ponies never pranceds
They danced in accompaniment
to others and by themselves: they
typified every flower known to
Broadway and some still awaiting
to be invented, and unexpected
houses dropped from the "f1ics'
and gates and fences rumbled in
about. And in every odditv the
English dancers were rewarded
with renewed pushcs of applause.
Music Is Likeable.
Before departing from ths pleas
ant. If uproarious. subject. il might
written BY David Kcmpner. though
the matter seems Of small I'M
portance. nasmuch rs no such
things as mere words could be
heard above the general din and
riot. The sound should say
music--was supried by Anatol
Friedland and Malvin Franklin,
and if they ever tire Of dallying
with the lutte they may feel as
surcd Of lives Of prosperity and
ease in the manufacture of motor
horns and sirens However. do not
let NV levity deceive YOU into
the idea that the music Of HThe
Wife Hunters is not lust what
large and genial section of the
public wants. The press agent of
L., On,
spread the know ledge that the
Youthful, the average age being
- or 81 wears, I have no doubt
of IL: and ! Give The fact TO YOU
for whatever it NAV he worth. If
Won are not thrilled bv the infor.
nation Won are ut liberty to UNI
load IL on some one else.
1.-The Cave Man" Odd,
One certainly would have been
surprised TO receive bromide -
from the father of the "PurpIe
Cow and one was uot-sur-
prised. Gelett Burgess S first play,
!'The Cave Man. is decidedly ont
of the common. if not quite NOV.
city, To anyone Of even limited
literary experience there must be
souSImnR etdle 3pont lnP lTtSn-
ness'' Of 'satirical farce that
confines itself with Robert Hitch
ems, Mrs. Verllam s hoax upon
society that is instructed by j.
NJ. Barrie Crichton aud that clus-
ters about n w. s. Gilbert Bun
thornc: and only recently the same
management gave us "Spobs.' a
play by George Bronson Howard
that traversed almost identically
the same lines.
Richly Humorous Idea.
But any play that makes for
novelty is far FOO welcome for us
10 pause for critical considerations;
and "The Cave Man. secured inn
mediate attention with richly hu
morous idea a certain Lady Me-
chante is disgustcd with the shall
lowness of New York society and
goes so far Is TO declare that she
could introduce into il the first
man passing in the street below and
establish him as q "lion,'' Nay,
she goes further; she puts her con.
tontiou TO the test. Tearing u 500
bill in half she throws ono piece
out of the window. wrapped in
note that promises the remaining
portion TO the man that brings the