The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-28
MANY advertising methods
ly4 have been rpsnrted to in or

M AN advertising methods
1v1 have been rcsorted to in or
der to attract attention to the
American debut Of European
music-hall celebrity; but 7 think
Crete Wiesenthal is the first to re"
sort TO a diving father, OF course,
] have reason to believe Professor
Wiesenthal is in no such serious
condition. or l would not Jest
about it. but SO much bad been
printed in the New York papers
as to whether the Viennese dancer
should or should not, would OF
would not. could or could not, leave
her ailiDg parent at home to come
here and fulfill contract, involv~
ing her in a $4,000 forfeit for fail"
urc TO appear. thar when it finally
was announced that her father
would somehow manage to come
with her, ono could not help hut
wonder whether the dancer in the
case was Crete OF the professor,
By the time Crete was on hand.
the Winter Garden show had
evolved itself into a spring edition.
Evolution, however. is chronic
state at the Winter Garden; that
is one of its iovs and one Of the
reasons for the success Of the big
and pbttering entertainment-one
can visit il frequently and never
fail Of finding something new and
worth while. Though not so fam
bovantlv heralded as Fraulein
Wiesentbal, the Texas Tommies
are perhaps more nearly in the
spirit Of the show. Thev are sup
nosed TO have come from San
Francisco-hut in these DAYS of
every sort of trot a dancer would
no more dare TO saw he came from
anywhere but the Barbarv coast
would have admitted she was not
"of the original 'Florodora' sex
tette.''
The Texas Tommies are a dou-
bic ouartette of vigorous, rough.
lv.eraceful men and girls. dressed
in the romantic equivalent of cow
bov togs. whose ragtime gvrations
are not materially different from
the numerous hugs and trots in
vogue, Tt is understood that. in
Montreal. the Tomnies appeared
for a trial performance with
Blanche Ring. and were there"
upon dismissed-which, if true,
would tend to show that the bub-
blesome Blanche is more consider
able as a performer than a critic
The Texas Tommies would have
fitted into "'The Wall-Street Girl'
exceedingly well; would have add
ed to its brightness: and would
have lessened Miss Rings burden.
But then. some stars would be mis-
cradle without burden.
RETE WIESENTHAL is the
" greatest hair-dancer in New
York. Cut off her hair and she
would be helpless. 1t is reddish
blond in color and fairly lu1uriant
in quantity; and Crete uses it va
riously and vigorously in her three
dances. She presents three weird
affairs, somewhat along 1sadore
Duncan lines, though too original
to be seriously along anybody's
lines,
One feels that the exotic atmos-
phere of the concert hall would be
more in sympathy with the bizarre
oddities than the smoke-laden au-
ditoriun Of the Temple of Song
and Speed. There are times when
LisZt and even Johann Strauss are
rendered colorless and helpless by
the close proximity of q ragtime
rhapsody; in the Winter Carbon
Elgar or Debussy would not run
one, too, with the syncopated Sc"
ductions of "My Sumurun Girl. -
Oddly enough, Fraulein Wiesen.
thai was the originator of the chief
role in Max Reinhardt's fascinat-
ing "wordIess play" here so mer-
rilv burlesqued; and since her
Chit in Sumurun,' Berlin has
held fast to her. She is youthful,
is good looking. in a Teutonic way,
and reveals, by means OF barred legs
and seantiness OF attire, healthy,
sturdy figure. White draperies
are hung in back of her. while her