The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-25
MUSICAL COMEDIES APPEAR
Productions Make Their Debuts; Two
ome From Vienna and the Third Is a
Product of Broadway.
By Vanderheyden Fyles

600 10 secure complete control OF the
invention. OF course. the effort is
freely swectcncd with the repeated
reminder tiHt financial success win
mean his ability 70 marry the girl he
loves. Anc, ] need hardly add his
chief adversary Is MS rival In love.
as well; villain In FUN dress suit
and powdered hair, who will err
r~ush her father Into bankruptcy II
she does not throw over the good and
heroic young man good and heroic
because he lies. steals. forges tele-
grams and otherwise conducts himself
as the heroes OF modern financial
dramas are expected 10 do) and be-
come his wife.
All this Is padded out with jokes.
chiefly about married infelicity. such
as may be found by the gross I'm Sun
day supplements and comic weekl!es.
a hen-pecked husband who turns on
his wife trlumphantly, la Petru-
chic supplies q great deal OF this
humor. Let me hasten to add that
many people find this sort Of stun In
finitely more dlverting than ]. NJ
Shaw; but one instinctively looks for
il in vaudeville. So much of II can
he bought there for 80 cents or less
that 1t seems prodgal to spend 50
for II. Mr. Hacketts highest flight Is
rea ched when a one-time college chum
el. are you in love with your wife or
afraid OF herr" / will not undertake
10 quote the lowest
The acting is on the level with the
play. Like that, il is by no means
without the skill that may be ac-
oulred by the most commonplace mind
through experience; but 1t is vulgar.
loud. hammered and addressed,
From this sweeping estimate, I has
ten to omit two players Of the eleven
aged: though a false. traditional
sense OF gallantry leads me TO pass
over all the other women In the cast.
Renee Kelly. In the leading female
role, and A. Hylton Allen, as one OF
the several college graduates, play
with as much art as their roles WIZ
hold. and speak and walk and gener-
ally conduct themselves like gentle
folk. But such looking lot Of "col-
lege boys" with their eray-silk
waistcoats and "small time" manners:
would be impossible to find outside or
an actors boarding house or a Vau-
deviNe booking agency.
THREE new musical shows have
L burst upon us. two coming
from Vienna and the third being an
unrn!stakable product OF Broadway;
This last The Whirl Of the Worid,
Is the latest of the bewilderingly nuge
and gorgeous entertainments devised
lot the winter a. ~ 49,
not excel the best in its predecessors
that is only because III can't be
done" Still In a way. II does go
the former best one better. It's hllarty
and speed are as great as any, put
with almost no right-down Vulgarl1y'
and the innumernble and sumptuous
dresses are visions OF loveilness In the
venturesome. yet perfect, taste Oh
their color schemes, and, while oy
no means Quakerish OF cut, none goes
TO the extreme OF immodest scant-
ness. The new piece gets its words
from Harold Atterldgc and It's music
from Sigmund RomberS and Henry
Lehman, but It Is more TO the point
that its costumes we're designed by
Melville Ellis. In a comprehensive
experience OF the theater l nave
never seen such artistic eNagSera-
tions OF the dernler cri OF fashion;
surely not In such numbers. For
here, against backgrounds OF remark
ably gowncd choruses we see changes
upon changes for the few principals
and two dozen show girls that we
would not expect from any lesser star
than Gaby Deslys or Kitty Gordon
or Anna Held.
The runway used In one or two
earlier Winter Garden shows reap
pears. extending from the center OF
the stage through the auditorium TO
the back. and down this the first lot
OF extra ordinary gowns emerge. To
Inc pleasant strains OF song called
Life Is a Dress Parade about two
dozen women Of extraordinary beauty
stroll down this lighted pathway.
with that languid hauteur that queens
may initiate but only show girls can
attain. wearing evening gowns that
fairly make one gasp. over which.
dropping from their statuesGue shoul-
dcrs and dra gging carelessly along
the ground are wraps OF velvet ann
brocade. with yards OF FUR that Mrs.
Jackson Gouraud and the wives OF
Standard Oil might covet The run
way Is used several times, most
originally when Lillian Lorraine sings
y song called Hello, Little Miss Il.
s A." She dances down the path
that Is even with the shoulders Of the
audience, and after her come the
show girls. each carrying A square
paraso made Of the blue ground and
the white stars of Old Glory. EX-
tending from two sides Of each OF
these are long streamers, also Of
satin. hut IN red and white stripes.
The other ends Of these streamers
are attached 10 poles. which chorus
girls, also strollng from the stage.
carry up an aisle on either side.
Thus fourteen auditors In each row
find themselves beneath brilliant
canopy. Shut IN, practicslly-and
with such beauty