The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-11
I Is THOROUGHLY D|VERT|NG
"The Girl on the Film With Company of Origi-
nal Principals Is Bountifully Supplied With
Songs, Dances and Girls
By Vanderheyden Fyles

with opening choruses and fnales
Inc curtain rises on n peach and
PUN orchard just before dawn.
Slowly the first rays OF the sun ap-
pear through the branches and the
blossoms. Birds sing joyfully. The
sun becomes a little stronger; and
we discover sleeping in the bougas
OF the trees, lole and her seven sis
ters' all IN silk paJamas as pink as
Ihe blossoms that surround them.
They are the daughters OF an eccen-
trlc poet Crank Lalor). who is
dead stuck on nature and simplici-
". lie has brought up his daugh-
lers IN house beautiful" stand
ing IN a meadow tucked away
among the mountains. They have
grown TO young womanhood like so
many guileless speckled fawns, who
wade about without shoes or stock
ings, and tell everybody 10 be natu-
raj Waking at break OF day, the
eight girls burst into happy song.
With their lie of dancing and OF
singing. OF tennis and OF swimming,
Greek or Arabic and are up" on art,
10 It's most cubist ecstacies.
OF course. Man must penetrate this
back To nature" life. even as he
does with such pathetic results in
Gl!berts Broken Hearts" There Is
nothing painful in this case, however.
except 10 the faddish father of the
eight eXtenuating circumstances"
as the lntruders cell the girls. For
these wide-aWg9kee young men-a
artist (Royden Keith, a sculptor
(ReXford Kendrick) and a cuhist poet
(Stewart Baird)-carry of the girls.
It's good-by nature loving! The sec
ond of the two acts, in New York
drawing room, finds Iole CFerne
any other eight attractive, up-to-
date young girls, and very smartly
dressed. to boot. Indeed. the cos
tunes and the scenery are Of quite
same taste (backed by boundleSs
doughD that Mr.. Teal showed In
Adele" which was crowded out Of
the Longacre theater by "lole,' but
moved to the Harris. To carry on It's
highly prosperous run till spring.
II VER since the London Goiety be-
u came an institution of world
wide fame. American managers have
promised TO bring its company over
10 us for visit. But invaria oly,
when the troupe stamped "Gaiety ar
rived, il was found TO contain no more
than two or three OF the London IA
voriteS, at most, with the other roles
filled by substitutes, often competent
enough, but not "as advertised Now.
however. at the Forty-fourth Street
theater, we get The Girl on the
Film" with exactly the cast: barring
two or three minor actors. that have
been playing it at the Gaiety since
last April. And the painted scenery
and handsome dresses have been
brought over also, not to mention
bevy OF British beauties to Ill them!
In a Galety production, the players
come before the play II Just hap
pens that several OF the present IA
vorites of that house have visited us
before. playing in American com
panies. Surely you have enjoyed the
unctious cockney humor OF Connie
London and the bland idiocy OF
George Grossmtth, and the chic dain-
tness and agreeable voice OF Emmy
Wehlen, Dorma Leigh and Madelein
Seymour on the other hand, are un-
familiar beauties. man who is
looks and is very graceful dancer,
and Lord Dangan is real live lord!
l am afraid ] am so hopelessly Amer
lean that IL seems to me more i'm
portant that he fills a rather small
role competently: but II IT is OF In
terest, j have no aversion 10 men
tioning that he is the son and heir
OF Lord Cowley: is tall and slender
and rather good looking. Of a very
English type, was for some years i'm
the Guards. and finally became rest
less and drove cab in Belfast,
pushed costercart in London and
wound UP at the Gaiety,
TT took seven men TO make THE
Girl on the Film" TO say nothing
OF George Edwardes, whose genius in
staging musical comedies amounts TO
an authorial contribution. Two Cor
mans. Rudolf Scharzcr and Rudolf
Bernauer. wrote the original farce
which James T. Tanner used as his
foundation. Adrian Ross. who writes
better lyrics than arc usual, supplied
the words for the many songs which
Albert Sirmay: Walter kolIo and
more agreeable than their names II
something OF the cream Of the plays
success here has been taken of, 1t Is
due TO poetic justice. Last summer.
on the roof OF this same theater, as
scene was introduced so similar TO
the chief one in THE Girl on tho
Film" that the owner OF that piece
felt justified in going 10 law, And
now what happensP He concludes not
TO do the farce at all. and 1t Is bought
ment that was accused of stealing
from IT!
Two other recent pieces. though
both failures-"Who's Who?" and
''Kiss Me Quicls'-also took some
thing OF tho bloom of The. Girl on
the Film by fairly we'll eShausting
thu possibilities OF farcical treatment
of the motion picture Industry. But.
after all. 1t is the songs and the
dances, girls and music, that make
tho success OF n Gaiety piece. And
'"rhe Girl on the Film" is bountifully
supplied.
The matinee idol Is no longer seeu
and worshiped at first hand. YOU
must understand: he makes his con-
quests on film. Max George
Grossmith) Is an actor, author and
producer Of motion-picture plays
cinema plays. the English call them
The sight of him fascinates many
women. and especially the frsil and
fair daughter EMMY Wehlep) of
general in The way office. She comes
10 The offices OF the Vioscope, asking
for Job and disguised as a boy, so
that, like Viola. she may bo near her
hero. She Is engaged as a drummer
boy In Il cinema -piay OF Napoleon
and the Miller's Daughter" then in
prspa IA tion. The second act takes
everyone TO a farm In Lincolnshire.
one OF the most beautiful landscapes
ever painted for stage. The Ma
polcon play is to be acted there. An
other OF MaX's admirers. fiery
spa niard. Is TO play the Mller's
Daughter. also In order 10 be near
him. But. you see having fallen
captive to his charms IN a silent
drama on a screen. she could not
know that he spoke no Spa nish,
whereas she was wholly ignorant of
English. SO An Interpreter is needed
for their tenderest love passages.
And the willy little Drummer boy