Show I I I I 1 4 THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES THEATRESS 4 S Salt Lake Thursday Friday I o Saturday and amI Saturday matinee 0 The Cat and the Fiddle 4 0 t I o G Orpheum All week beginning 0 b tonight matinees daily vaude vaudeville vile ville villeS 0 s S Grand GrandAll All week beginning to tonight toI 0 y 1 I night Wednesday and 0 S Saturday Her One Great Sin S Si i New Lyric All reek matinees 6 daily the 0 0 BY FRANKLIN FYLES New York Oct 9 Five new plays by American authors In Broadway within a week are so various that the two that are political differ from each other arid antI so do the two that are mu musical musical quite as much as those four do from the fifth that is domestic Is our native stagecraft getting to be di dl diversely dip p ersel originative e eThe h 4 The Tile most rapid ra ld and violent commo commotion commotion tion that I have ever seen maintained on any an stage throughout a long even evening evening evening ing Is 15 In The American Idea which the program classified as a frivolity The Th first character to t Introduce him himself himself self FeU says In a song that his name is Sullivan There Th re is Big Tim he as erts in the refrain meaning Tamma ys 18 congressman and a the theatrical theatrical theatrical operator in audeville there is Big Tim you ou know him and John JohnL L 1 you know him well There never was a man by b the name of Sullivan that a damned good Irishman Next to tell about himself is Rud Bud meyer a German who hates the Irish Sullivan as a keenly as aa Sullivan hates him Each Bach has a a young son and daughter with singing voices and dane dancing dancing ing feet Ceet who at their en entrance entrance entrance trance as a explain that they are paired In love despite parental ani animosity animosity That is the doubled Romeo Ji J let iet 1 theme of George 11 i latest frivolity and recurs recur once In a while during that turmoil turmon of The American Idea the idea seeming to be that Americans in Paris dont do as Pa Parisians do but raise hell Columbia 4 They raise it particularly high for a climax to the middle act when a hun hundred hundred hundred dred of them at a Paris hotel troop Into the drawing room dressed as va variants variants variants of Uncle Sam and the Goddess of Liberty to sing and dance in Amer American Amerlean lean ican ragtime a wild Indian rather than tame negro cakewalk to a medley medIc of ot our patriotic airs The prin principals principals principals in the company lead the ballet chorus In ln and out and round about the scene doing stunts often acrobatic and always so swift that they look like moving pictures shoved through the machine at double the original inal ma speed The firsts first first night spec spectators spectators spectators sitting lazy In their seats ex except except except for clapping their hands demand demanded ed fd lifts lIns of the curtain fourteen times until two of oC the th exhausted girls faint taint and ani a fleshy comedian stopped in collapse Which should get credence for Cor the assertion ass that this Is the live lle liveliest liveliest liest Cohan show ever yet And that is true although George himself In it and ard a quartette of voices for him his familiar curtain speech I thank you fou ou my mother thanks you ou my father thanks you my sister thanks you thank you thank you ou Ho He H baulk at poking fun fUll at himself or his Ills work No one since Charles Cli Ch rie H Hoyt ex excepting excepting epting Cohan has Ims equalled that stage humorist In finding vaudeville talent to serve his farcical purpose Only the then names n mes of TrIxie Friganza and George Baban Boban meant anything to me in the program yet et the performance brought out all the plays values A Robert L Dall y turned out to be a brother of or orthe the late Petes F P Dalley DaUe with some of Petes knack A Stella Hammerstein and agree agreeable agreeable agreeable able was Identified as a daughter of that Oscar Hammerstein who wears comic hats and makes money in vau vaudeville vaudeville au deville to spend In grand opera New NewYork Ke KeYork NewYork York dotes on the dancing of Adeline enee Bessie Clayton Petite Adelaide and Belle Dazier yet here are a Ger Gertie Gertie Gertie tie Vanderbilt and a Rosie Green new and amazing in grace of ot contortion The Pony Pon Ballets name Is Ia a trademark established est bUshed by litigation yet here are eight as agile and limber crea creatures creatures creatures tures as ever were let loose from om a chool of dancing It Is at always a saving of ot expense though when wh n talent Is brought from the variety shows Into use Not long ago a vaudeville mono submitted to a cut from to a week to get a chance as a a dramatic comedian and the outcome was such a fiasco that he scooted back to his accustomed work and wages But Con Is as ns shrewd as Be Belasco Belasco lasco In choosing persons to exploit and truth to tell t ll New ew Yorkers are as eager to be ecstatic over farce as is s they are over melo J 3 a drama Still I am bound to tell you that The Th American Idea Is chuck full of new jokes apt rhyming andin music I think It is the clever cleverest cleverest cleverest est of ot all the Cohan frivolities The actress who doffed the skirts of ofa ofa ofa a Parisian cocotte donned the uniform of a German Gennan soldier and had risky frisky frisk fun with military officers In a anew anew anew new operetta last week was Lulu Gla Glaser Glaser Glaser ser as I described her to you Louise Louisa Loul Gunning is doing the same thing this week in a disguise of sex by a girl in Marcelle and for Cor a further coincidence Louises sweet sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart like Lulus is an artist although she fools with soldiers That suggests plagiarism eh Yet there any The two stories have no further sim similarity Singing actresses are fond of o strutting and striding as boys and authors are ready to help them do It although all possible tricks of pretty femininity in trousers were exhausted so long ago that I dont believe one I has been invented since Lotta Crabtree and Maggie ie Mitchell were young young sou soubrettes soubrettes soubrettes brettes It Is almost as hard to t devise deise a new reason for the disguise and the creators of Marcelle tried to She Imposes herself as a barons son because he needs one as an heir hell to an estate an old old motive In stage fiction Louise gives no new piquancy to It for she is no such comedienne as Lulu hut but 0 O how she sings There is 13 i ino no other such voice on the American stage out of grand opera Did you hear her rise e to the top notes of sweet old Scotch ballads when she was new enough In vaudeville to be and naively awkward in he I wish Ish as I listen to her in Marcelle could compel her to toss that voice airily again for the lassie who got bussed when coming cominE through the rye or that other one that something similar happened to within a mile o Edinboro toon or Annie Laurie Lauric for whom some Rome laddies has for a hundred years been willing to lay him down and die I am told that she is In night nightly ly I dread that seme senie old duffer durrer raise a ahue ahue ahue hue and cry for these Scotch notes Not Kot that the Luders tunes are arc not melodious for indeed they are arc and Louise Gunnings and others singing of them make success sure for Mar Marcelle Marcelle ar arcelIe celle celIe as an operetta in contradistinction tion to the current comedies and farces with songs from any an and every source Luders is able not only onh to provide suit suitable suitable suitable able music but has vogue enough to stipulate as Victor Herbert and Reg Beg Reginald Reginald maid De Koven Koyen do that none by any anyone an anone anyone one else shall be interpolated That kept a frequently objectionable ele element element ment meat out of the first audience Some Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times a musical play pla contains songs tom half a dozen composers and as many rival publishers publisher who muster their friends for tor as many man separate bands of noisy rooters as there are brands of ballads Gangs of ef f whistlers have been placed in the galleries to take up the airs in unison with the singers In the choruses The most con conspicuous conspicuous conspicuous clapper this time was Luders who sat In the conductors chair and madly madi applauded Miss Gunning for tor her herway herway herway way of singing his music lit Both Luders with the score of Mar Marcelle Marcelle Marcelle I celle and Pixley less happily with the libretto have haye imitated their own wn work in hi The Prince of Pilsen a safe and sound model of course as that has I been a big moneymaker mone and the same German breaker of English who was acted In that piece by John W V Ran Ransome Ransome Ransome some and Jess Dandy is duplicated In Inthis Inthis inthis this one by Dandy Who can rid him himself himself himself self of prejudice in stage personalities I dont merely dislike the kind of a strenuous arduous low comedian that Ransome and Dandy Dand are I hate them fiercely but I had to hear audiences laugh at them In the earlier production production production tion and now no I listen again to loud and frequent proof that to most peo veo people vIe pie they are irresistibly amusing And what Is the use of asking wily why Dandy and Herbert Cawthorne as German characters assumedly speaking their th i native tongue among Germans should be the only ones to use broken Eng English English ng lish The easy answer is that It makes folks laugh when straight t English would not and it is l i done with all sorts of foreigners even In plays plas of a good literary grade in which the auditor is asked to imagine that tIJa the talking is being done in the born and bred lan Ian language language guage of ot the talkers But Mansfield did not give gI e a French accent to Baron BarOll nor Irving to Louis the Elev Eleventh Eleventh Eleventh although both are humorous characters in their grim way wa How However However However ever let us not look a gifted horse in inthe inthe inthe the mouth to count his teeth critically critical I when something Is funny enough to tomake tomake tomake make a horse laugh I The latest Salome and being Max Maxine Maxme ine me Elliott much the most beautiful of all dances just four steps before be being being being ing stopped It is not the police volice that check her Ler gyrations however but a aNew aNew aNew New England spinster When Rachel Crothers wrote Myself Bettina Sa Salome Salome Salome lome and the Herod family were rest restIng resting resting Ing under the covers of the Bible but before the plays pla s first performance in New York the sinuous daughter of Herodias became a bare and brazen theatrical figure So when Maxine ap appeared appeared appeared as Salome the illusion of drama receded and sensational spectacle filled the view A red cloak covered the Oriental costume but buLone one ne could hear Its spangles jingle as the actress moved She was supposed to tobe tobe tobe be a New e England girl who had devised a scene of dance before beCore Herod for a charity en entertainment entertainment entertainment and was conducting a re rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal In a sedate homestead She had her sister struggling with Strauss music on a piano viano and a girl girlfriend girlfriend friend draped dramatically for tor Her Herodias odias in a trailing strip of rag carpet Herod was a comic sight in the prim person verson of a precise New England youth while a young man of ot jollier as aspect aspect aspect lay la on his stomach under the piano calling up front from below the words of John the Baptist When the new newest newest newest est of ot the threw off on her cloak she was a vision of beauty In a robe and headdress of yellow glittering with gold spangles And it was a com corn comfort comfort fort to see that with cold weather coming on she was no more bare than thana a girl might be at a boarding school ball However Howe er the elderly maiden rel relative relative of Bettina thought her shocking and stopped the dance almost before It had begun That amusing incident was the most theatrical one of ot the th play too x r lie Sc It Politics is in many of ot the plays now nowadays nowadays nowadays but none pertinent to the presidential campaign Usually the theme Is municipal graft though In A A Gen Gentleman Gentleman Gentleman From prom Mississippi tills this tl is week It is an attempt to bribe a governor and in Mrs Carouse the tj tjI I C CI I f fv I b v L I i ir 4 r g gp p U Ut UI t it t J t c I I KITTYS TALES I As Told In The Cat and a nd the Fiddle at a the Salt Lake Theatre Oct 1516 15 16 and 17 f prohibition question is raised But it itIs itis itIs Is not answered George Ade and May ay Irwin author and actress are not nearly nearl nor yet bummers and they dont think it tactful to either preach or oppose total abstinence abstinence nence and the fun they the make is neu neutral neutral May powders her yellow hair white ties a smallish bonnet under her chin wears a sober yet not unfashionable unfashionable able gown and looks just the loveliest of matrons in a city elt not too big for morality to dominate but the first sight of her promise her cus CU customary ternary tomary tomal jollity as she comes to her hus husbands husbands husbands bands law office to read for his ad advice advice advice vice what she wishes to say a in an ad address addre address dress s fiercely denunciatory of men who publicly berate the demon of drink and andIn an andin In private shake hands with him Mr lr I Peckham has hidden hastily at her en entrance entrance entrance trance a bottle of choice old whisky whisk sent him from Kentucky Kentuck when about to sample it to the tIle plaintive orchestra accompaniment of My Old Kentucky Kentuck Home but he rises or falls to the occasion and tells his wife to whack the despicable hypocrites with her big biggest biggest biggest gest hardest knottiest club That starts the merriment and at once the action loses all the frostiness of October and becomes May Ia with genial warmth I suppose that in Clara Morris emotional prime she he I might have said Please pass the pep pepper pepper pepper per In a way wa to choke with sobs all 11 at the table who chanced to have their mouths full of gobs Anyway May Max Maysent ay sent me into laughing hysterics the first time I saw her it was in with her sister at Tony the Irwin Sister Sisters May a and Flora by remarking If I had missed it Her unction was already fat and the thing thin her width might have missed was a narrow stump It what she said but the way va she said it that con conjured conjured conjured up a picture of the funny bump So it looks easy for her in this new comedy corned and I cant think it Is hard for her to strain the vest buttons and corset strings of an audience with a zealous prohibition womans unintentional unintentional unintentional jag Ade writes rites it out that Mrs Peckham on discovering the whisky whisk I bottle opened on her husbands desk I with two glasses holding drinks from It has a fainting fit A Ayoung Ayoung young oung man was licking his chops for forthe forthe forthe the whisky whisk devotes his glass glaso Tt the re revival revival vival 1111 of the unconscious wife then I empties the husbands glass also into the mouth that would denounce whis whisky whisk whisky ky k even een if it it was venerable with the tho mellowing of a thousand years instead of twenty and when the dear lear sweet old lady awakes she Is TV well ell soused The famous of Owens and an Clarke was gross since him I have seen hundreds of comic tipsy scenes and some neat ones by b women but Mrs Irs carouse beats them all for mannish maudling excused d by b womanly grace She says little lIttie but expresses much in quiet pantomime and when her husband says You are the only person verson who has drank from that bottle replies dazedly with a tongue seemingly too big for her |