The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15

the comedy has become so llfelessly
eXtraVagant and deliberate as to make
us wonder whether Mr.. Sutro did not
conceive more than his conscious cpl
grams and Restoration title after a
literary evening with Wycherley and
Congreve.
A MOTHER new show at the Hippo
dromc-and one staggers from II.
limp. bewildered, dazed and utterly
bereft OF words. Blindness and copfu-
sion arc affections to be dreaded:
but what chance has a. professional
writer without word to go on with?
Yet one departs from "Under Many
Flags with no less stripped a feel
Ing, The last few years. each new
spectacle at the Hippodrome. excel
ling It's marvellous predecessor, has
seemed to leave nothing extraordinary
unaccomplished with which to thrill
us later. Yet each show has somehow
gone beyond the one before. Trne.
Under Many Flags" is not, on the
whole, more extra ordinary achieve
ment than last seasons colorful Tour
OF the World" but II is no less be-
wildering. and where II falls short in
the graphically dramatic. II makes
up In greater heights of sheer beauty,
The Garlsh coloring and spangles
OF hurlesque and the circus are put
to flight by lustrous and shaded color
schemes" conceived In beauty and
executed IN artistic sympathy and
skill. J will not undertake 10 appor-
tion the praise among Mr.. Noegtlin
and his associates and assistants:
their names and special provinces are
recorded at the head OF this column;
and not the least OF their success Is
due 10 tho harmonlousness of their
collaboration.
Space necessitates a wholesale omls-
sion Of the performers names; prob
ably more than four hundred people
are employed, and each fills his or
her niche adequately. though no one
has an opportunity for much indivi-
dual success, The most marked de-
parture from precedent Is the elimina-
tion of the purely circus clements.
Aside from horses, fewer animals ap-
pear. not more than four or ive
''actS" are introduced. and, in short.
a second tour OF the world has been
dcvised-vlvid, beautiful. suggestive
and agreeably educational
THINGS start on the lawn of tho
II White house. where plot that
might serve Bernard Shaw is hatched
between songs, We recommend the
expanded means toward universal
peace to the Laird Of Skibo. In a
word (though Under Many Flags
uses many more words than should
be spoken in so vast an auditorium.
an American naval officer proposes
SeIuns tne invention OF an ln|incl-
bic -warship TO every nation in
tho world, thus assuring peace
through terror. II not fraternal love,
And whatever G, X Chesterton
might have to say about the scheme,
it at least serves to take us on a
tour OF the world in the wake of the
inventors and OF the misunderstood
officers, who should be mentioned for
a Nobel prize, and. In any case, Is
finally rewarded with the hand OF the
i
which he has Travelled far. through
the perils of land and sea and senti-
mental song,
a FTER leaving the White house,
N which Is somewhat surprisingly
extolled In a "Home, Sweet Home"
ballad as the former residence OF
George Washington. We stand astound-
ed at a wonderful reproduction Of the
parade grounds at Annapolis, with a
review of the cadets by the admiral
and his staff. a signal drill, and ex-
ercises with mounted guns, But we
must hurry through the scenes with
each deserves, A fishing village on
the coast of Brittany is picturesque
and quaint: a vista Of Holland be-
cones bewildering with color when
the great stage is transformed into
swaylng field of vari- -colored human
tulips; highland glen at sunrise
thrills with rugged clangor when tho
Scottish clans assemble in a warlike
horde. These scenes are, perhaps.
the most memora BILE OF the fourteen
that is. until the final spectacle, when
the fairest flights OF fairylaDd are
realized before our eyes. From the
flower garden OF the dearest little
Devonshire cottage, falling into noon
day slunlber. we progress dreanily To
a niraculously pink orchard of peach
trees, In which. presently. the Cow
ers OF all nations froItc, After this
advertisement. the orchard disappears
and we are carried on a breeze TO a
waving wilderness OF golden palm
OF fairy fancy seems achieved, the
golden palms are waited from OUT
gaze and silver palace rises before
us. reflected in a clear lake. through
Euffusing tho whole radiant vision
with shimmering sheen OF phantom
foam.
90 far as 1 can ascertain. am tho
- only adult now resident in Amer
lea who has, has not .lTs rsad Mt MT. Re' Re-
We'll" At first glance that fact may
Klein has fashioned from the book
because. with no fore-knowledge o
the matter / am enabled TO Judg'
lust how IDLY and clearly tn
dramatist has visualized a set o
characters and vitalized the decisiv
| incidents of their experience. Tha
would be the proper test II "Th'
public solely on It's merits a s an inde
pendent drama; and I venture to sa,
that SO expert q technician as Mr.
| Klein would have turned out a yer!
different play had that been the re
oujrement he aimed TO fill But whel
| a story is so notably best seller
as Mr.. Beach's aGvfnturous romano
| of the Pana ma canal, Its dramatize
may be credited with sufficient reasol
10 suppose tho majority OF the publ
prefers TO get as much OF the origtDa
on the stage as is feasible. rathe
than contemplate q moro orderly an
TALLY the Same ground and culmina
ting similarly. In any case. Mr.. Klei
has deemed 1t wise to give playgoer
an interesting. colorful and digresslv
admiration OF the novel. rather tha
the conventionally direct and work
manlike cpitome he Is so abundant
qualified to fashion: and I am nc
alone In believing the result to be
meIodrama that will enjoy a ric
popular success,
THD Klein arrangement OF eth
-Do-WclI' emerges as
sort Of talkative and melodramat [
brother to Hippodrome show, IT
stead Of Quarreline with the autht
for beginning 1t two or. three scene
earlier than was essential. We pref
TO thank him for graphic and sti