The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-22
SATURDAY NIGHT

She saw his black hair and his black
eyes again. a music stole from the dead
harmonica' she burned again with The
kiss a boys arms were about hcr-and
girl again In Lovers Lane? Sud:
denly she loved all faces-sM
loved this waddling fat woman who car
ried baby In her arms-she loved this
pale clerk and his anemic wife. She was
drenched with the very spirit Of life, she
caught the zest of the bargain In the FISH
market as she passed; she paused at win
dows to feast her eyes on brilliant things.
She crossed Eighty-fourth street. almost
dancing. trippiss-along with girlsh resll-
ienscy. It seemed to her as il he we're we're
soon--look into his dark eyes and listen
bered his vows. And what else? Might
Her blood sang through her, she was
| breathless with expectancy. Life again
| was romance and mystery-unfa thoma-
And then, suddenly. she stopped still,
| her hand az her heart She was thrilled
so that she felt faint with dizzy happI-
| ness.
two milky globes suspended on wires
| flooded the sidewalk with a copper-col-
ored Intense light-a light like COM
pressed Notwithstanding. terrific. Each
person standing In it was living statue.
deeply shaded. clearly chiseIled Beneath
| II In a broad recess the width OF the
building was little glass, window.
] a
On either side were doors. The ground
was paved with tiny tiles with the in
wrought word ''Ncoland." and In front
| were gorgeous posters,
| Lilith, thrilling through and through,
read the posters and looked at their pic
tures. One was The Actors Wife-a
fulness;" another was. Lost in the Des-
ert" But Lilith did not understand these
She was thinking of the pianist inside
Could she dare to go In? Could she dare
| 20 nr11 nlyn TO fnr c,Irt, fp-,
What would her. mother say? Five cents
for the theater' And moving pictures!
And he-he at the plano
| She would sit In the dark and listen 10
her llfe-the Dream Night. She was in
the Dream World; she was a Dream
Person-why should she not dream her
I'll? What was five cents as against
Romance and Love?
She tinklcd her nickel In al the win
doW the shaTDfnGed woman sntpged of
! ciutchcd II out of her hand. and n seconc
later she had pushed open a door and en-
tered The "theater The first s sensation
was in blackness and warm with dense
humanity--a smell OF people: She wa'
jammed in with crowd waiting a, the
| entrance for empty seats. Above hei
from little aperture In the street wall.
a beam OF white light pencled through
i the air widening out as 1t went, until
II splash the white framed plaster O.
the rear Far away she saw the gray
white black Kaleidoscope effect OF the
cinema tograph pictures. The floor seemed
TO heavc: the room TO rock; she was diz-
zied and dazed.
But the music! Softly it rose and fell
sweet penetrating. weird and Wild. Thi'
was 70 ordinary musician. THIS was ono
whose eyes followed tho pictures, and
whogr hands wrought an expressive
sound. so that the music suited the ac'
Ion, and the action tho music. Tho
theme on the piano flowed, changed
abruptly-bcceme ''ncrvous" at the dra
matte moment. mirthful at the release
That music told the people exactly wha'
The characters in the pictures were feel
Ing and thinking. II gave them the last
touch Of HE; they became living human
beings,
Ljllth felt like cutching some one tc
hold on to earth. She was swimming ir
the space beyond the stars. Tears rolled
down her checks. She had not known
she could be so happy-she had not
known that the dusty heart can lcar
up like twenty chariots and whlrl In the
arena Mad HE! Mad souls! Mad dcs-
tiny.
And then the music stopped Electric
lights came sproutinG OF, OF the Walls
and all was commonplace enough
hilarious crowd jammed through the exl,
and the waiting crowd gave like ice In
April and poured like torrent down the