The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-14


Girl With the Whooping Cough" Uhe
Valeska Suratt show quickly burst
the bubble of glowing improperly.
Indeed. when Miss Suratt reappeared,
dy 3. and Robert B. Smith In write
a libretto for her. which, when re-
vealed C'The Red Rose"). could not
have brought the blush OF shame To
Little Eva. Lydia pinkham, or Aunt
brothers cured valeska OF the Whoop-
ing Cought,
a IL this is called forth because
Modest Suzanne" is really
new and scrubbed clean version OF
"The Girl in the Taxi" built OH the
1910 model TO the Whooping Cough
plays. but. which skidded into New
York just in time To take the dust
OF vanishing fad. The farce, as ]
have said, has been thoroughly made
or 80 ago may be said TO have run
20 scarlet and 10 spangles--and 10
modest shades only when touched OFT
with a dash OF lavender mast
popular fabrics OF this season are the
plain, durable and healthy Scotch
pIaids OF 'Bunty Pulls the Strings.
the black serge and white muslin
OF the skirt-and -shirtwalst heroines
OF The Price The Woman"
Bought and Paid For" and The
pliclly OF THE Quaker Girl" So
Modest Suzanne in the pleasing per
son OF Salllc Fisher comes TO US in
gray, even though she does reveal
a dash Of blusle-pnk petticoats un--
dcrneath Suzanne, as she herself
complains. has won a prize for mod.
es,y-but not seriously" An old
Partisan professor has offered II: OF
course, he is hypocrite-who ever
heard OF scientist in farce who was
knD n,,ts hrl ly,l .T
Ibsen on "Pink Dominocs" may now
be seen The professor has studied
the influence OF heredity upon NOR
ais: has evolved satisfactory the
ory: but, a, the last, has seen IL shat
tered through self knowledge. While
he observes virtues in his son and
daughter as excessive and aggres-
sive as those he himself exploits. lie
knows that. at heart. he IL neither
saint nor bookworrn How little docs
we paid So apiece 60 see and hear L
mean, the songs and dances express
sive OF the young folks gaiety,
One way and another. everyoady In
the cast gets Into 4 "showy' second
act at the Moulin Rouge. But no
old "Pink Dominoes" stride than
modernism asserts herself again. For.
instead or the traditional third act
in which all the male characters
carry off their escapades OF the nlgnt
before 10 successful oblivion. we have
n household reunited and made happy
through admission Of frivollty. BE
fore the night Of discovery az NE
Moulin Rouge. gloom 1as IN the AR
and discomfort at the home hrcSide'
but now, one and all are smiling,
and tacjtIy admit that an indisore-
ton now and then Is healthy for the
best OF mem On, Ibsen. 1bsen' that
farce should be committed in thy
name!
THE seIf-same Smith Brothers.
who cured Naleeka OF the
whoopng cough. have made the Gir'
in the Taxi a happy. healthy su-
zanne. The original play from Paris
has travelled widely. yet anywhcre
ono would recognize her as 81 grand
daughter OF pink Dominocs.' the
prolific Mother or French farce. The
piece came originally from the pen
of Anthony Mars, long favored
concort OF the Prolific Mother But
while Stanislaus STANCE was getting
the French miss rather clumslly into
n New York taxicab, George Okon-
leowsky was preparing her for Berlin
and Vienna "Die keusche Suzanne
has enjoyed much popularity In Ger
many and Austria: and now returns
Vienna. The music, by Jean Gilbert,
ambles along agrceably. with mere
and there a higher speed switched
on, for variety, by an obviously
Broadway hand.
II was in the course Of one OF these
"trottinG" whriglgs that the
sprightly Harrie, Burt lost her bal
ance and fell down: and I'm another
that her breath deserted her. But
such terpsichorean and vocal acct
dents enhance, rather than diminish,
the valuc of musical "number' for
most Americans. Incidentally. having
granted much in praise of sallie
Fishers person and department. In
the title role, and Of her beautiful.
rich voice. one is tempted 10 wish
that she. too. might some time lose
her breath. For, working. on the
principle that one cannot have 100
much OF good thing. Miss Fisher
simply pulls out all stops on her
lovely organ-voice and browns oui
everything. from slide tromboncs and
bass drums to Broadway cable cars
and first might conversation, hy the
great meZzo volumes Of vibrant
sound Occasionally the siren whis
tie shrieks out OF that same fair
throat Yet. on the whole, Miss
Fishers voice is much above the
average. and sharpens ones desire To
hear Its natural beauty really we'll
employed.