The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-22

| funny In life ~ they arc in Eud FISH
or's famous cartoons. cartoons that have
made millions laugh. and which arc
making tho thousands Of readers Of The
| Tribune laugh every morning.
Mutt and JEFF ON tho stage arc the
big hugh That they arc In the Fisher
| drawings No show that has been seen
in Salt I-a]to for many and many day
SO thoroughly pleased the audiences that
SOW it as did Mutt and JefI at it's Two
first performances yesterday. The house
was crowded last night and the people
who saw the antics OF tho Grotcsoue
characters enjoyed thom Immensely.
| Sedley Brown and George Beach. who
take the parts OF Mutt and Jeff. arc a
scream, Tncy hayo given tho most
exact attention to the makeup OF Fish
er's heroes and TO their possures. In
| every particular they have hit It off
with an amazing precision. Brown Is
built on the lines or the attenustcd Mutt
and Beach is Just sawed or at the proper
| point ON the yardsticiS 10 mako a per-
feet jeff. The attire OF the two is true
TO nature" and their facial expression
Is just as though il had been taken
from a copy OF The Tribune. rnat Brown
and Beach hayo faithfully studied the
Fisher types with an exhaustive attcn-
ton to detail is amply proved by their
| appearance and their work.
Nothing could be funnier than the
situations written for Mutt and Jeff
In the show that made such llit Ycs-
terdsy. All sorts of trouble Is arranged
Tor them and they plunge 'ncsdlong into
II and cxtricate themselves with Il hum
dred ludicrous attempts To recover their
n nrt u il.tt,,
The costumes desi igned for the lanb Y
Mutt and the abbreviated Jeff are show
In themselves
In addition to troubles of Mutt and
JEFF prepared for them by the author of
the piece Mutt had his own real troubles
last night when his exaggerated nose
came dangerously close to detaclne it.
self from his face. The added cntangle-
inent offered by Mutt's unruly nose, how
ever added rather than detracted from
the act as written.
But the show Is not written for Mutt
and Jeff alone. There are numberless
good things In the production besides the
TWO characters built on the Fisher pic
lures There is as much OF a plot as
this is followed out faithfully TO its ulti-
mate destiny. when everybody that wants
TO, gets married. and everybody that
doesn't remains single.
The music is catchy and the singing
is excellent First mention in a. vocal
way is due Miss Violet Staley, who has
a "a beautiful voice and uses IL to distinct
IN the last act, when she sang an en-
trancing song, THE Spanish Moon In
the first act Miss Staiey sang the solo,
effort.
Miss Bette Barnell and Miss NIanoiita
Stetson are sobrettes OF the Dcwitching
type. Both are happily east for the parts
uonally good, Miss Mayme Taylor, as
The lady who falls in love with Mutt. Is
ludiCrously funny.
Robert Elliott sings in a. fine baritone
anu Harry r. aoyt sings good tenor
Clad Huger also pleases In his numbers
Ihe chorus is composed of handsome
X9nns Wnar women women with good voices. They
is in itself worth the price Of admission.
scapis Ihs piece PIECE. is produced with elaborate
and and each, each is a gorgeous setting. The
business E all new and original IL
is designed especially for the show The
paraphernalia used by Mutt and jeff in
r,,e rme'r numerous appearances is sldllfully
The. dialogue between these two prin-
cipals IL full of topical lines.
Mutt and Jeft7' Is rare musical com
cay, Snf 1t has all the elements that enter
am is to please. The laugh is contInu-
GUS from beginning to end and the mn
SIC IS away and far beyond the music
~ ,r, q larse majority OF comic operas
ne company that puts on the show is
eNcei'ent. and this can be truthfuIly said
OF the minor characters as we'll as NJ
nose who make the head and front of
The production. ~
Mutt and Jeff will run at the Co.
lonial until and including Wednesday
ilght' with matinee "Wednesday after
1t is a wholesome show and sbo,,5
attract big audiences at every perform-
ance. The man. woman or child u,ho
sees ser Mutt and ;,r JEFF on the stage viii he
In
the FULLEST extent IN their daily snncar'
anccs in The Tribune. Nipea
the orPheum's new bill offers NO sp--
prises. though throughout IL is c,ood on
tsrtainment. The programmes nl,cn.
Johnny and Emma Ray and compant. @oe 3
,nE ,n;n.ra feature rfr act. Those -Four Enter
we're accorded top place by s,Sniia,,
nights audience SUNDAY
mo Rays evidently changed ,bei,
@ rot on or snort n notice. or their press agent
sramme calls for one thing they ofrer
something else. ''The Fire S,binrSS reo,,GI o,GI
PRO, lnr,onably be the title OF their sketch
tcr.' " Casv' ''fs fireSSap Ssa,s It The Bandmas
mouse enters the flat of Mrs. plkar ~
, nu,in n IRE in the crate. His service |
"hia9.g ~, Is ,1 mistaken :, for that Of f!rc
= Iire chief to her apartments to din
nor easy 's put through a course din
~ bee~een his unfamilarity with
I9olc etiquette and an o{ficious west
srner and sun-play man. who is yis,tinr
a, ths home OF Mrs. Pikcr, Casv f,nds
ItnScit in tight place, and the frn ~
VI. me Skctch Is In his attempt to cXlri.
nose -Four Entertainers, who deliver
,oInc WHY small talk and sing a r-rr,i
zeal pnt not enough. are uuartette ~
ca oa,,o enteIiainers Popular and ragtimo SC.
ectlons dominate their repertoire. fTbc,.
,dly ''e"l repeat
iraIcllns, A travesty on the str-ot
ar ana Pullman, is the breezy tnrr |
~ Monroe Hopkins and Lola Axto,i
'irst thcy are found I'm a strecfcsr
,onddctor and passenger respectivsi,,
iney end up IN a Pullman car or ~ |
wrong train, whore the trials OF trayni
nS arc humorously buricsaued.
MISS Robbie Gordone poses in n scrtos
u classic reproductions of ron,n,,s
tatues Sine presents fourteen differnn,
Iliolects. giving them complete viii
'asckgronnds and costume Changes I'm ;n
'lne minutes. Particularly pleasing T,or ~
NlSnt, part OF Dante's tomb Mol,
Angelo; French Clock, Paris; The knaci
.uctcr cast down, and the death ~
ancing girl from the Old 0rcck a ,rha