The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-30

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searches for them but is uproar-
iously inopportune In producing
them.
Vaudeville in Classic Haunt.
While literature was invading
vaudeville thaaters something
much akin to vaudeville was
planting its two feet firmly on the
Stage Which was the first in New
York to house Ibsen and Hervieu
and Echegaray profitably. Per
haps / should Tetract the phrase
about "planting two feet firmly, -
inasmuch as the newcomers were
dancers Also, they were Greeks.
More than a few Americans of su-
perior pretensions are inclined to
sniff at native dancers as bearing
with them an unpleasant air OF
vaudeville; but Russians, for exam
pie, are an "artistic treat. Why
not Greeks9 United States and
Grecian flags decorated the the
ater; unheralded national anthems
kept one bobbing up and down
with the frequency of a high
church service, and general re-
minder Of the foreign flavor OF the
entertainment was kept simmerlng
and aglow.
Ella V. victories NAV enjoy as
great fame in Greece as Anna
Pavlowa in Russia, or Adeline
Gence In Denmark, or the Russell
Brothers or the Dolly Sisters in
America. But frankly admit she
spraug herself upon me as such an
unknown quantity that / could not
possibly deny her press agent IS
most glowing claims. Nor have |
any reason to doubt that she and
her companions "just came from
performances at the ancient the.
alter of Dionysius and the Stad-
ium al Athens And be it noted.
she is handsome enough to be worth
remembering, If Grecian women
of today are of her mould, why all
this talk about Greek gods' She
appeared first in a military uni
form and recited several poems of
the year of the Greek revolution.
Grecian Ballets.
After these came two ballets.
The first illustrated the mythical
story Of Orpheus and Euridice, ac-
companied by music adapted from
Gluck. The first scene showed
Orpheus on the scores of the Styx
in his search for Euridice. He was
attended by three sorrows-very
pleasing woes, however, being three
young girls in brief and filmy tu-
mics, who danced about him in
graceful rhythm. The second scene
showed Orpheus in Hades, where
he finds Euridice, and ended with
the complete capitulation Of a con-
siderable portion Of Hell's popula-
tion to the young mans charms,
or, perhaps, I should say, to the
charms of music. Several less elab-
crate scenes Followed ballet of
the victorious water nymphs Of
the Aegean; terpsichorean solo
by Mile. Victros and a Bacchian
dance in which she was accompa-
MED by three girls.
Stop, Look, Listen"
VaudevilleG Well, are rccita.
tions of Daphne and Corr of
Theocritus, Of the Bacchian from the
book of Antigone and Sophocles
and of Sapho's "Hymn to Aphro.
dite'' your ideas of vaudeville?
Certainly they are not May Tully's
And that young woman proved In
"Stop, Look, Tistenl' that she
knows what vaudeville audiences
want. Now Miss Tully has new
sketch 1t is called "The Battle
Cry of Freedom and has its scene
in Reno The hotel is so crowded
with would-be Divorces that two
strangers are fdoubled' in one
room, Each is Mrs Smith. Talk
ing over their marital difficulties,
they prepare to retire for the night.
One Mrs. Smith. however, gives In
to her emotions TO the point of pro-
ducing photograph of Smith. Of
course. he proves TO be the other
Mrs. Smiths also. Presently he
turns up in the divorce colony,
COMPLICATIONS enough to last TWEEN
ty minutes ensue, whereupon they
suddenly become untangled-to the
satisfaction of three Smiths and
the audience, if hardly to the let
ter of the law,
College Vaudeville.
Two other examples of the sort
Of sketch popular in the average
vaudeville theaters were introduced
on the same day, and both told love
stories of student days, One was
the loosest sort of frame for songs
and dances and the like, and made
no pretense to title. Wilfred Ber-
reck, as college youth, is boxing
in the gymnasium when Lily Dean
Hart. as a blonde soubrette, dashes
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