The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02
DRAMATIC NEWS AND COMMENT

| for his lay. Then and only then dId
the singing waiter deign to wait upon
you.
What was this r1lkus all about7 My
dear ami this was the beginning OF
the carabet show in these United
States.
Cabaret does not rhyme with cigar.
cite; IT rhymes with the hay that is IN
the cigarette.)
] came to know these gentry In the
| old days. One named something,
q corrugated, cynical slip of Aberdeen,
| became quite friendly. BE it was who
admirably rendered that sylvan ballad;
FHelnje waltZed round On his hickory
limb
His hicksh- hickory limb"
| forget the rest; but shall never
acted tho hickory limb. He was the
best hickory log in the history Of the
mimetic art
L asked Mac why he didn u 20 into
vaudeville
because I make more singing
here. - Mac called il singing. and
meet such nice people. IL handed
him cigar gratefully. "And,n he
hesltated; but he was scotch-s.ma
drenks is Free"
Moreover, Mac was good prophet.
"Ah m thenkin' there's eoint to be
good future in this beesiness. Gh mi
thenkin' they I'll all be doin' it q few
wears from now-the swell places, /
mean
And they are.
10 attract the New York after-the
ater diners, not only the all-nipbt res
taurants are putting on cabaret shows,
but even the highly respectable hotels
within the White Light district are ad.
Vprfl9inO c9hurnf
have hopes of hearing Mac sing his
hickory, limb triumph in the dining.
room of the Martha Washinptou-that
New York hostelry where no perfect
gentleman is admitted except under
the escort of perfect lady, and then
only to the dlning-room
All this cabaret cackle, you under.
STAND, goes on IN the dining-room. The
nlfed dancers hen-hop and turkey-trot
In amongst the tables where YOU are
nl1nchinR the protesting oyster. The
ballad singer jrowns out the crunch
or your pre- sonpian celery,
IL all seems great Pah-ree zee.an
novelty Tor indoor sports; but after the
DaWl ls over and you are out undor !.
clear cold night Of stars Won are ant
to ask yourself: Why the cabaret
show?
Also, why not the cabaret show,
~ 10 "a Pdrt oI Inat civilization which
has appropriated us unto itself, II is
quite an ordinary manifestation of that
civilization AS soon as anyone oets
rich (or gets to living as if he Were
rlch), he begins to inaugurate novelties
INTO his eating-the first sign OF which
is that his wife has her breakfasts
served to her in bed. He abapdons tbe
plain meal and the high Thought of
Carlyle. 1t was all very well for tbe
primitive pioneer to shovel boo-and.
hominy into his system with bowie
knife, roll into a blanket and consider
the incident closed. He had his mind
on pack of indians or nncL of
wolves. But nowadays people who are
well-to-do, Cor who live as if thev WereI
nave their minds on nothing AT al,
And for fear that. in that sweetiv
solemn hour when he is feeding him.
SELF; our hcro's mind might get 70
working. he surrounds his meal Min
distractions. In that, he is living mn
to the demands Of his civilization. For Er
civilization is paraboIa of distractions
And a parabola is curve that hath
no end. ''' "a'n
In other words, we don 7 know whore
we're going, but we re on our woy
And lest we should think TOO much
about it, we Insist upon distractions