The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-25

h.
handsome. stalwart figure. His
voice is an agreeable tenor, in no
way remarkable, and shows to best
advantage in his first ballad, Using
Nc Song of Bonnie Scotland -
ITO sum up the evidence and
Il reach the "moral" of Elsie
Janis g Glove Letters OF an Ac-
tress,' it would appear that no
suitor need apply for her hand un-
less he has gray eyes and motor
car. How eXacting; so few men
nowadays havc-gray eyes, The
first letter is from college boy.
who addresses her as '!Dearest Of
All, and pleads -EDarling, be
kind, for I cannot live without
you. - | think I saw Elsie of the
Janis dancing with several Of him
at Narragansett pier last summer
with. of course, Mother Janis
sternly in the ofling. A practical
lawyer and a poetical musician
come next, the latter ultimately
expiring Then an actor wrote:
How IL the name of all the sym
dicate | can ever finish the season
with this comic blond who has
dared TO take the part made lovely
by YOU | don t know. You know
how YOU feel when you We played
week in Brooklyn, and You think
of the trip so much that by the
time you get to the theater YOU re
not fit company for a dramatic
critic--wcll, that's the way I feel
about her. -
Further along the amorous
actor adds; "T hate to think OF
anyone else playing opposite YOU.
DO write and tell me that YOU don t
like TO have him touch you. for 7
lie awake nights hating his soul
the swine,'
a "PLATONIC friend" wakes
L A up to the fact that he has
always loved her: and a ffty-eight
year old member Of the Union
League club writes lot about his
dead wife and the children they
never had, to wind up: "If at
any time YOU tire Of your work
and would like homo and every
thlng that that much-abused but
utterly necessary thing, money, can
buy, remember that | wait with
open arms for you and signs
himself "Your servant A "lit.
erary man. addresses her az
"Flower Of the Desert Of Nv
Life, and a farmer "back home'
with whom she grew up. writes:
DO YOU remember the night be-
fore You left home to go on the
sta2eT You said, Il love you,
Fred, but | could never be salts,
ned to settle down here with YOU
until I've tried my wings.
J VIII come back to YOU and love
You and Sunnyvale all the more
after ! see something OF the
world Those were your words
! have memorized them as YOU do
part in a play ALI that and
lot more, yet Elsie does not
harken. The only man for her
is he OF the gray eyes and the red
machine. AT last, she sees ire
ssistible, gray eyes gazing at her
from the audience; and, when she
reaches the stage door, she finds
the car. Joy, oh, ioyi In her
diary she writes, next day: ooh.
IN so foolishly happyi 7 don u
even know his name OF address
But I do know I adore him.
Unfortunately, the actress wakes
up to find the last proposal Of
marriage-the only one she would
have considered-was but
dreaml Woe, oh, woel "Tp real
life, writes she who was, but
yesterday, billed as "Little Ell
sie," "men seldom propose TO
women the second time they meet
them; and stars to not leave
their managers without warning
and take trips around the world
when the right man comes along,
but usually marry In secret and
keep on playing, ofttimes to sup
port the right man in the style
he has been accustomed to. -
Ism t this o bit cynical Of a girl
of twenty-fourf Buck up, Elsie;
]op of g. reouirem Be satisfied
with a touring car, without the
"large gray eyes that murmured
everything g"-or vice versa and
You may be more contented.
IF You ask me why spring is the
happiest time of the year for New
York play goers, 7 will reply it
Is because it has become the an
nual custom then to give us
bountifully Of Gilbert & Sullivan.
For some reason not quite obvious,
but surely not worth bothering to
discover, at the season when a
young mans fancy lightly turns
foward-trouble, the managerial
mind Is filed with thoughts Of
comic operas by the most ac-
complished pair OF makers Of them
the world has yet produced.
"Tolanthe was the happy selec.
tlon for this year, by the excellent
organization called the Gilbert s.
Sullivan Opera compauy but first
the revival of more familiar fa-
vorite or two seemed expedient
And so rreedilv did we seize upon
1.-THE Mikado' that the 10.
Ianthe'' date had to be logged
along. whcreupon "H. M s.
PiuaforeD was brought out for
week and delighted us so much
that the fairy operetta had to be
postponed again.
D UT finally "Iolantbe' came:
ID and my, oh, my, what funl