The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-23

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mi the first good, knockout
VI wave of New York summer
weather-which, for stifling
heat and whitening humidity, has
everything north OF the Inferno
panned to fraZzle-vaudevill
took to the roofs and Shakespeare
to the back yards. But, be it
borne in mind, the stay at-homes
are not at all the meek, limp,
easily entertained audiences they
used to be; the motor car has
prodded theater managers to their
utmost efforts to give tired pub
lie something that will prove more
tempting than cool and comfort
able dash along the tree-lined Hud-
son in spacious and hospitable
machine. While the automobile
habit has been gaining ground, the
Ziegfeld and Hammerstein roof
gardens have fully held their own,
the one with the annual Hfollies'
show and the other with vaude"
ville and a promenade" farm.
To general surprise, the former
vastly popular entertainment ap-
pears to have been abandoned for
this summer; at least, no date has
been set for ''The Follies Of 1912,'
no rehearsals are under way, and
several Of the specialists en-
gagged have gone into the glittering
and successful indoor Zlegfeld
show, "The Winsome Widow"
while others have scattered else
where. Thus roof garden devotees
treated the reopepjng of the Ham
merstein place as the sole occasion
of the sort-of the first import
ance-to be had this summer.
~ ROADWAY dressed resplend-
ID emily for the ''first night
The most e1travagantly "simple''
gowns were crushed and crowded
into the swarming elevators that
carried the FOUNDERS and the round
to the newly decorated gardens at
the corner Of Broadway and Forty
second street, corner of New
York made famous, in song, by
George NJ. Cohan, and, in fact, by
lostllng groups of the up-to-datest
in America. The clatter Of cable
cars, the clangor Of their bells,
the honk honk Of maze of motor
cars, the growing group Of striking
walters, the hurrying bories of
pleasure seekers, the calls and
cries Of newsboys, the rumbling
trucks and the rafting, rushing
ambulapces, all rose through q
labyrinth of lights that paled
the heavens and the moon, and
spelled "New York" Disgorged
from the seething elevators, even
the most blase Broadwayite found
something of a novelty to stir his
satiated appetite. Flower girls
handed a red, red rose to every
lady and a bouteniere of white
carnations to each man; which was
only fitting in the face of the
roof S new name, lie Jardin des
Fleurs. Ruddily red flowers and
gorgeously green vines all but OBJ.
scured the fresh white and red
paint on the woodwork of the two
tiered garden.
So much for that two-thirds OF
the roof that covers the Victoria
theater. The westerly rest was
screened off by a mammoth cur
tain. This gave the aerial audi
toriun the odd effect OF having Il
stage at either end. The fact is
that ordinarily good vaudeville oc-
cupied the actual stage, at the
Broadway terminus, until an inter
mission sounded the moment for the
real novelty of the evening. The
great curtains in the rear were
drawn aside; all eyes rolled round
Habout faceli the newest summer
wrinkle was made known, Do YOU
remember the deceptive mockg gar
den that used TO cover the stately
roof of the theater in which Be
lasco has made known. "The Darl.
ing Of the Gods - "The Girl of
the Golden WcstN and so on. and
presently will reveal "The Gov
eruor's Lady7' The little lakes,
the ducks, the rustic bridges, the
cows, the pastures and the little
cabin all helped one to forgetful-
ness Of simmcring Broadway. But
now the old home had been caught
in the grip Of Jack Frost. he
cattle had been housed as snugly
AS any Whittier reader could wish;
icicIes dangled from the thatched
roof: sheet Of ice iucasel the
little lake. And il was real ice,
too Can YOU imagine any more
agreeable counterfeits from the
sun baked pavemeuts than close
contact with fresh sheets of water?
ROADWAY took single look
I'D aud then surged forward to-
ward the June ice. But two-thirds
OF a dozen skaters presently took
possession of il. First came SIX
girls, who were very nearly as
pretty as they thought they were.
They were dressed in rather large
white hats, with feathers, in tights
and sweaters Of the palest shades,
. that accentuated their pretty fg-
ures admirably; and carried vol
luminous muffs that enhanced grace
ful poses. though neither keeping