The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-01

less earlv.Victoriau than the first:
"a advance in style having been
made 20 about the period OF the
good queen s golden Jubilee. Thai
l. 10 say. the comedian has "topi-
ca, songs aud contemporary
gags - crop Up. orc Of the com
cdi5ns says:
''G cot this medal for voting for
Taft; Rockefeller got tho other
ono. And other, speaking 10 u
powdered show girl: "D--',
sncczc. dcaric; ii raises such
dust. And again. whon some one
SAYS 20 he stupid lordling: 700
dcu { understand women AZ r]l'
he rculic-: % No. but | can plav
the piauola beautifully
Ernest lamhart. a. the familiar
sIHy-ass Englishman. aud John
Hazard. with rehash Of the APP
proved American dialect.
are the comedians. and both are
funny, IN way-Mr. Lambaft
hy reminding us that DC used to
be amusing with the staff when
u was comparatively new, and Mr..
Hazard by the reinsurance that
English-a she-is-brokcu is still
laughablc Of left 70 the quaint, In
Ventive genius of sam Bcruard).
ID UPERT HUGHES appears 20
IN have written ''What Ais
Your TO while away the time
exhausted the yellow sheets OF the
more sensational and irresponsible
sunday newspapers. is he too lazy
to look about him and observe lite
for himself!
In any case. ne does not; hUt
asks rs 20 laugh ourselves sick
over the prcposterous experiences
Of lot of incredible people. We
see them first in restaurant called
the II. Ritz. People SIT al tables
and "crack jokes in the manner
Of the old.timc minstrel FIRST
part Says one, reading from the
iish portion Of the menu: "Oh.
they have six kinds of poison
hc-e' And presently. when dis
solutc young man hears the words
on should be saved, be replies
tbat he will not he shaved.
Aiter an hour OF this. Mr..
Hughes transfers his characters 10
Nedill 2. q carefully transparent
name for the Muldoon place ln
Ncstcbcster county. where pco-
pic who are too fat or ton thin.
have drunk too much or eaten too
much, 20 for reformation. This
part OF the farce consists in coN-
tr2stiue actors who are unuaturallv
rat or thin. aud so on.
The sweaters Of the betty fc-
males have stripes that run around
them; those Of the tall aud slender
sisters. vertical lines. 4 tall mgu
and near-dwarf have Boxing
match good-lookiug young
woman shows her chest points
on horizontal bar.
'Wbat Ais lou!'' really l. n
case for the athletes department,
not the dramatic.
The merit OF 1.-THE Red Petit
coat lies chiefly in the novelty OF
seeing a western melodrama set -
music. Or course, we have hal
Puccini's arrangement OF eth.
Girl of the Golden West; but the
tried 10 eclipse that effort. In
btcdut MS music .lluplca alouG WIN
out a blush; it is not 'tpurposr.
ful' in the least. II would shake
an airy finger ut YOU If you init
mated such thing.
To say that Mrs, Rida Johnson
Young's farce called Next,
produced at the same thcater
fourteen months ago, is really any
funnier than IL was as done over
as musical comedy. would bc ycn-
turesome: but much of the dull
part has been eut out. As previous
". the fun is due TO Miss Helen
Lowell S humorous, authentic. not
wholly uupathotic spipster, who,
in her tireless eudeavor TO keep
herself houorably alive, answers
an advertisement for a barber in 4
western mining camp. Cnintcn-
tionally, "S. Brush throws the
applicants so far OF as 10 her sex
that on her arrival she is received
With astonishmont that presently
breaks up in ridicule. She has
brought her parrot. called Mary
Garden because "sbe ism y much or
singing. but is such dsrned
GOOD locker Having fixed the
bird cage for the night, Sophie
Brush prepares herself thus briug
ing the first act TO close with
the most laughablc scene Of all,
and. incidentally, juStifviug the
title.