The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-30

men dressed as Pierrots and four
women as Pierrettes. seated In n row,
mir. minstrel style; For For hadn't ] ssa seen
amusement that was forthcoming?
The answer Is that 1 did not.
My pride as a traveller In foreign
parts sasged, and my bIase conceit
slumped, while the songs and Jokes
OF the first part weren't laughed at:
but | said TO one scoIfer that The
Balky, Princess" would interest him
as burlesque OF "The Balkan Prin-
cess" in the London manner; and to
another that The Land OF Delft
would convince him that-having
seen II at a Lambs ganbol with the
girl roles taken by men-he was go
ing TO see II enhanced by the charm
of femininity. And that In a way
proved true Natalie Alt glorious.
with the face. grace and voice OF
youth. looked and sounded so we'll as
n Dresden china belle that the peo-
pie stopped guying and applauded.
Song Describes Play.
Stopped guying7 That's right. BY
this time London Folies" had made
Its record as fiasco never surpassed
on Broadway. The Balky Princess
as written. wouldn't make a Lon
don Punch reader smile, and as per-
formed by Norman Blume, from the
London theater, and Others, IL was
like amateurs stunts condoned for
charltys sake. The first outbreak OF
derision was brought on by a songs
refrain; Il cannot stand this awful
rot" A hundred took that as cue
for exit. but a wiser thousand stayed
for fun A scared girl Warbcd.
There's no use to sigh for me No
body sighed for her Everybody
laughed at IL as a plea for pity. Even
less polite were the outlaws when a
man said. This is The worst night
of my life" And the hilarty be-
came riotous at the line in a cockney
accent. Chaos comes and then the
junk shop
as they thought OF their time and
money. but glee prevailed: and the
actors went 10 pieces under the tor
ture.
Audience Guys and Guys.
Poor Blume was deep in the dumps
when he had TO deliver what in Lon
don they call whceZe. Waiter.
bring me glass of beer" was said
TO him. His reply was the sort OF pun
that Americans ceased to laugh at
when Lydia Thompson,s voice faded
away. EIe said: Beer? II shall be'ere
I'm minute See? Beer-bc-er.
And the discouraged actor was so
dolorous with it, too a pause of 81
lence. Then .superbly eowned and
hated beauty in box spoke audi
bly, "Oh, my gawd"' Pandemonium
followed. At the end of an act
George. M. Conan cried, Author:
author! Broadhurst. Broadhurst.'
George Broadhurst, the playwright,
instantly srappled with him. Then
Corse Payton. comic manager of sew
eral stock companies, arose sedately
and said IF a claim Of authorship
Is set up for Mr.. Broadhust / shall
IiSrn
this show, 1t is all my own stuff; and
Fl you'll come over TO Brooklyn next
wcel, III show you-for ten. twcnt or
thirt-what I can do to Hamlet
How WAS this flasco possible? Well,
London Follies" at home is soggy in
humor and intensely Londonese in
manner. An American can tolerate
But even if duplicated here exactly it
would bore us. And with a cast OF
ipcompetents mostly: with futile at
tempt to travesty New York plays.
and with a suylng audience, 1t came
TO Jolly grief as described.
Doctor De Luxe"
Doctor De Luxe" is a big exam
pie Of the partly sung and danced
farce made in America. A luck-low
son OF socially solid family Is called
by mischance from an illness at Belle
vue under the impression that he is
an attachc of that hospital to help
out a physician in his practice. The
outcome is d iarcical complexity,
with the fellow fooling with his em-
ploycrs women patients. flirting with
several, falling in love with one. and
rounding up his adventure happily.
Who says that lover with his head
hairless from brow To nape and ear
tip 10 ear-tlp, Is guilty of immodes-
ty? II he finds a girl 10 lnfatuate
In that haiT-scant condition. would
you drive him to wigged. wicked fall
sity?
Ralph Herr is this bald actor,
comic and sentimental He used to
be Mr., Lulu Glaser: and although she
hasn't stuck TO him, he was a win
ming wooer. So he makes bold in the
new show 10 let calcium throw its
brightest light on his cranial nudity
while he makes up to a girly sort
OF Il girl. and encourages her 10 make
up 10 him, | could " | would black
list a lot of stage heroes VINO over
lay their fovehcads with false locks,
and have 10 warn their play sweet
hearts not to claw those ambrosial
locks in moments OF endearment But
Herr boldly takes the hat off his nude
head TO avow his love for a sensitive