The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-23

90 mystery had been tanned about .
her; and her emotional acting fully
justified the effort
THE only thing lacking at The pre-
u miere OF The Little Cafe" was
the element OF surprise Everybody
in tho brilliant. crowded audience eX-
pected something way above the or
dinary, and-we got It. In "Oh. Oh
Delphlue" and. especially. 1.-THE Pink
Lady" =, NJ. S. Mcclellan, l'brett!st.
and ivan Caryll, composer. set a pace
for themselves IL would seem ali but
impossible 10 keep up Yet nov. with
their third piece in collabora tiou.
everyone is agreed that they have
done IL: that Is, everyone except the
many who declare The Little Cafe"
outdistances their own record. The
authors happily were working under
unchanged conditions French farce
FOR the librettist 10 build on. Herbert
Gresham 10 stage his comic scenes,
and Julian Mitchell 10 supply dozens
of beautiful girls In hundreds OF beau
tIful costumes, and to devise unend-
Ing groups andsdances for their best
display. Also, heading the long cast
that Includes such newer names as
Empress, Harold Wizard, Harry Depp
and Marjorie Gateson. arc Hazel
Dawn and John E. Young. OF Pink
Lady" memory. The former now ap-
pears In sort OF vsg1ie caricatUre
OF Gaby Deslys, and the latter as a.
cafe. In the Nontmartre district.
Carefree and jolly indeed. for has he
not inherited a million francs? Then
why work as a waiter? Well. there
Is the poln,-without Il there would
he no play and that would be indeed
a thousand pities Before knowledge
Of the legacy reaches the only waiter
I'm the little cafe. wicked lawyer
hears Of it and. with the proprietor.
LAYS a trap. They easily induce the
young man. who has just been down
In the cellar putting little wine on
the top OF "a lot of beer" to sign an
agreement to remain In his present
job for twenty years. or. desiring to
get out to forfeit the preposterous
sum OF 100000 francs. This last they
expect he Will be willing enough TO
do when he hears OF his unexpected
fortune. But not at all Though his
father was q FrenChman and 4 boule-
warbler. and his mother lowlv. can
ny Scot. the Scotch blood C'eNtra
dry cannot sec three hundred thou
Gus endeaVorS to make his employer
he the one TO break the contract. he
settles down to Tho liic OF a weary.
meek. respectful waiter from a. m
10 midnight. but leading bon vivcUr
and "spender'' in the gayeSt world Of
Paris from l. o'clock 10 s.
with this condition as starting
point. the men who set new record
with THE Pink Lady" have dashed
off at n break-neck speed OF gor-
geousness and gayety. Mr.. Mcclellan
got the theme from lie Petit Cnfe.
by Tristan Bernard. a great success
at the Paris Palais- Royal TWO years
ago. but a failure when translated
into English and produced by Cyril
Maude But the wit with which Mr.
Mcclellan mas dressed the idea Is all
MS own; and his lyrics are d JOY. No
ono but Gilbert at his prime has
shown such felicity of phrase. such
lyrical vivacity as the author of The
Belle of New York" and The Pink
Lady" and in "The Little Cafe he
is truly at his best. And Ivan Caryll
once more rises TO that high stand
ard with score as boundless In Its
melodies as the ocean. yet entirely
niuue and taste His invention IL as
fresh and varied as though IL mad
never been drawn on for a single
score instead of quite two dozen.
Pictorally. the new piece might be II
"Ziegfeld Follies." which is the high
est praise or the harshest censure.
as ono likes to look at IL, but un-
questionably. a Ilbretto Of such wit
and humor. lyrics OF such literary
grace and music OF such mclodic
charm ~; The Little Cafe" out OF
any such class. | am only sor'y to
have to warn YOU not to expect To
sec the piece for long time, unless
YOU come to New York tn do so. as
II is sure 10 stay al the New Am
Sterdem for year. at least