Show j i a i 1 I t I 1 sa d I THIS WEEK AT Al ATTHE ATTHE AlTHE THE THEATRES A Salt Lake First halt half of oC week 4 matinee Wednesday Wednes r The Man of oC the Hour Ali week beginning tonight matinee daily dally vaudeville New ew Lyric All week matinee dally daily the s X BY FRANKLYN FYLES dew York Ot Ort 30 A new play by byMark byk Mark k Twain Becoming an Editor with Ith Amok Amor Daly in It U pulled me into a 3 vaudeville theatre The scene is the them m fn n of oC the Chicago Farmer A chap 3 as Daly Dal can make him has alcen aken the editors chair transiently Tic he p first edition under his hand has hat wen Jeen issued An n old subscriber enters His hair is hemp and his whiskers i 11 ay He says the last Farmer was the I 1 i paper he her herf vr rf r en ln er Ream hoarn tell teU on Daly Dab shakes h with him effusively But looky look TP re b osh the practical farmer ants tnt to know what the editorial farm m by saying that carrots should d I be bp picked from Crom the trees till ripe t the h long stEms steins of turnips should m tw w nurtured d unbroken and that pump ms IM might be bli trained over arbors for shade had At this point pt In the th I Palled called Its idea as old In a sketch by Twain in n which the humor was d deliriously deliciously and the editor returned barely in time to eject his substitute nd rIll try to save Fave the paper from ruin The program said stid that Mark Twain id ld d a collaborator named Gabriel Tim i ry So Well Vell now ilow it Is a guess of rive Fine r that Arnold Daly obtained from vuIn the right to use that piece of or i amor mor and that he made the acting f Therein although the tnt ant old subscriber topped stopped the paper V he Ji amused people of or Chicago Chi ago bought be b the thousands Now Daly has r f d Hl badly with His artistic endeavors trap and although the newspaper tICS Mrs have been considerate t he does d dot gat jt ot think so and an If It I may ml have i r it IS 13 that he prepared and Irr Broming an Editor with vIr view Irv to hitting back at journalism S1 s r h Mark ark Twain petted and pros i r J 1 by b the fur press never uever wrote nor norn 1 n of th the speech which Daly Dah when d out nut of the Farmer office dell r rs s with the th of a it political a stumper The purport of oC it iti i s that a as the Farmer has multiplied I initiation through foolishness just justan justn n I an ignorant i public rejects common in n s papers and prefers idiocy Tic c z In niu iu of or Daly DRI has bas turned peevish f oC to V t re r c lection lack of oC new drama of T rice nel gives me space to tell you further about vaudeville to toi tol i l t grade of or which In New New rk flira f ri u theatres are devoted i I Ii i i with only on I four managements tho Morris Mor T ris the tIle Williams the Hammerstein Hamm and j the Keith G Proctor among whom the alliances for t r attack and defense l lIin I In vigor those thosa that formerly j i led the dramatic K Ii I have hao spent spent the afternoons and evenings ot of two five days seeing performances r at four tour theatres belonging to the four antagonistic antagonistIc antagonistic concerns so as to describe the bes i best st t now things In the houses of oC va variety variety variety The card played by Williams In this I weeks vaudeville is the he piece but it win Quite trl tri triumphant I In the same show though is the more marc artful Books a sketch of or collegians with the atmosphere of oC American university life Ufe cleverly cre created created created by b Author Philip Troup and Actor Harry TIghe with five companions A AI I students father is abused by b mistake for tor a dunning boog agent and nd his sis sister sister sister ter is la coddled as a actress That Is the intrinsically best thing In Inthe Inthe the program and I felt like shaking the audiences applauding hands But my m own nanas jianas clenched into lists fists dur aur Ing an ensuing quarter of oC an hour of oC ofas oCas ofas as witless dialogue as two boors ever delivered across footlights yet it Joyed the majority Further along I laughed with the rest at a pair of German Gennan dia dialect I lect comedians who punned joked and sang as a salty admiral and a sailor on a United States warship painted big ig and illusionary enough for a melo melodrama i drama Vaudeville taste is various 3 Amelia Bingham In three dramas Is Isa Isa isa a new thing thin at one of oC the Morris vau au deville theatres theat thea ps That Is to say sa she gives a passage each ach from Madame Sans Gene with the laun defiance of oC Napoleons sisters A School for Husbands with the abject wife of oC a domineering hus band turning rebellious and La Tos Tas Tosca Tasca Tosca ca with the murder of oC the lascivious wretch by the imperilled woman Miss Bingham Is an easy speaker in wo mens meetings and she explains these excerpts gracefully acts In them force forcefully forcefully forcefully fully and is helped by b an able com company company company pany of oC five tIve in a quite unique vaude vaudeville ville vUle stunt The stranger introduced introduce h here ye Is Fa Fatima Fatima tima Lima Miris Miria She Is an ugly but clever cever Italian woman or two women for I cant help believing that the seeming impossibility of f her h r performance nce is solved by the guess that there are counterpart An actor from Holland came to America two to years Jears ago and astonished us by acting six I 1 t tv ta I 1 4 1 v Z ZI a a J 1 I j s J i is iy r I j y y ya yI a I I w wy y rJ i l j S S SS S 5 c cr r g 1 i J Miss Edith Hinkle at the Orpheum roles In one play His complete dis disguises disguises guises were rapid and radical changes yet there was always a minute or so of talk by other characters to iye him time for each shift of aspect A single Fatima Miris purports to enact seven men and women in a brief melodrama of oC entrances and exits She disappears at one door and almost in instantly stat that is in one second to neven neve 4 more mora than two by a watch reappears at another in Il i a different character In one instance which I timed at a sec second second second ond and a half she transforms herself from a lady in evening dress to a mustached mus mustached mustached cavalier vaUr in doublet and hose How does she do it My belief Is that she do it at all I think there are two to of or her in resemblance resemblance blance as in most of the stage ma magicians magicians magicians exploits of oi vanishing and re returning returning returning turning girls Anyway Fatima Mris probably is of quite as much value with the audien as Amelia Bingham They two are the weeks Morris telling novelties on that stage stageS S 0 Mighty Mike e Donlin Donn whacker and un twirler r of baseballs is i trump card of oC the week in the vaude vaudeville vaudeville ville gamble Along lon with ith Mike is s his wife wiCe Mabel Hite Bite an actress of oC eccentricity eccentricity Mike is a a big hig brawny hand handsome handsome handsome some young man and andin in the craze of baseball he is a a popular hero Mabel Mabelis is better looking than titan her rural gawks I and city freaks frea In ln have I ea a I x y y i yf t r i ey e rt y ai r w z d dr tr i r r t t S x i I x 5 y 6 I SS I tic I i ai ait I t t to Ate h hla la al ar I i iti i I I I Jr t ti n I crr F 1 I x a Adelaide de Harland as the Chorus Girl G rl and Maurice Darcey Darc y as the theMan theMan theMan Man in the Moon in The Land of Nod Salt Lake theatre Thurs Thursday Thursday Thursday day Matinee at and evening performance made known yet she is no beauty In It i her most favorable and so I suppose it Is even up when she does doe s the work and Mike does the standing g I around They The have got a newspaper gr r humorist George V t Hobart to write writ e Into Stealing Home things that Ma I bel bet did in several Jong long plays along alon g with fresh Cresh fun wrought wi ought from her train ing of or Mike for a joint vaudeville e stunt She and he are presented as re at home for tor their debut He H e is Inclined to steal away from home hom homand e and the job but holds him dowton down eu u on it Their chatter is filled with base ball hits She does most of oC the talk ing and makes the laughter aughter nearly in incessant incessant n Mike i e has faced so many mu mul on baseball fields that his nerve new is unshakable so as an actor he h has a stolid sort of poise while his wife does doe g the rest The theatre held so many man Y baseball rooters at the afternoon intro of Mike that the ovation oration was wa s for noise like that of a riot of or asna at a league game but the thc rooting slumped slowly as his wife labored labore d while he lazed At t the critical moment moment however r when Mabel label had to sing her conjugal 1 love lore to him in the guise of an Italian Italia I girl without getting any adequate re spouse he lie clapped on the cap and an d neckerchief of a dago dandy dand an and d danced with her Aha and oho Mike Mil e was as an actor after all for the th e cap and scarf make male a distinct charac and his dance some thing like a dramatic disturbance of o if his stolidity And dont forget forg t that he h e was handsome I among those thos e present when Leander swam the Hel He or when wh n Putnam rode down dow the rocks at Ticonderoga but I hay have e heard the roar of acclaim when Mike Mik e did an n Italian dance with Ma la b bat bol I Hite He have to watt walt for to r the delay dela of a panel in our American America n Hall of or Fame He got on the spot t was coming to him The rooters rooter s veiled lustily l and a Mabel leaped of off he her r feet et flung her anns around around his neck nee k and inti kissed d him himIn himIn of ofIn r In vaudeville as in other stage humar hu humor humor mor mar the theme of f conjugal jealousy jealous y wont wear out The be other new theme them e i t the show with Mike Donlin is My Iy I y Wife Wont ont let t Me a Paris farce far 1 t gets here by way wa of London A young oung clergyman has a pretty prett y wife ufe t e not PO so naive that she doesn t watch atch out for temptresses of her hu hus s bind While she Is out an automobile e Collides in front of oC their home and Its It S occupant is brought in Sh Sho She Shea e o a frisky soubrette on her way a to a music hall When she throws off oft an a n enveloping cloak she is disclosed to t o the clergyman In light blue tights tight ts s which if they the were pink would give c Can an Impression of or absolute nudity for f jr or there a wrinkle of or the he textile fab tab fabric 3 ric rk to differentiate It from skin twixt twist twi ct neck and heels The hue of her is all aU a that saves the man from death by b y shock Azure is a flesh color nowhere e t maybe be in the devilish realm of ofis blue blazes biases so 10 he knows that she is I clothed cloth d in a n way wa or else Is tinted by b a prolonged drugging with mercury like li lithe le te tet tes the chap in Poor Miss Finch and he h e feels reels philanthropic anyway anwa toward a girl sirl who has hu lost every vestige of pet petticoats petticoats t coats The roguery of the soubrette S lure and the innocence of the minis ministers ministers s daze are the making of ot My l Wife Wit fe feie c Wont Vont Let Me lre which might be one on ie e act of oa o a French comedy well acted Of OL course ourse the wife wIte comes coms home to catcher catch h her husband at nt It Ant Ast A t what Nothing IB IBin g wicked Yet he claps an overcoat on in o oa ints n v a e vif f i side den sn that she fa Is I Ic y r rJ J 6 A a ai J w FX c i v f t I li m J JF I T F M fi R RS RT Rs I nI T I I S s it iti H Hy y ti y 7 i 1 IIi t tre k t t JF sJ s e f i i gy S J er f I I 4 t b rt 1 R 4 I 1 jl I J r f t y 1 j i I R Ryr I I I i yr I I t e re Act 5 I T a 2 o a the ne he Hour lour Salt exit Lake theatre tomorrow night also Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Wednesday matinee matl ee covered in fron fronta as she p Passes es the thO wife iCe iCeon on her way a out out but b t a rear view ie Is dumfounding and the curtain falls fails on ona ona ona a collapse of the clerical couple couples s x The titles of oC The Dream and A Night at the Circus new things at Keith Proctors most central theatre dont mean any lilY con connection connection connection The version of ot the poster serves senes for a debut in vaude vaudeville vaudeville ville ilIe of oC La Petite Adelaide formerly a l dancing wonder in legitimate extravaganza ganza Now she is s simply Adelaide Adelaide although scarcely two Inches less petite pe petite Petite tite and that through a thinning elongation elon elongation gation gaton of oC her body only for her legs leggy leg are as short muscular and active as ever eyer and they keep her hips at at a pro proportionate proportionate proportionate height from Crom the floor because she is up on her tiptoes during all of her own exercises Her specialty is spectacular as a the bill promises for forIt fo forIt It has two bright sets of C scenery and It is a ballet for it has four tour nice neat with Its Us premiere dan danseuse danseuse danseuse The first scene Is a public square with a n wall on which Ade dc four tour girls in overalls after a dance with swinging paste pans palls and flourishing brushes stick picture post posters posters ers em The central one suddenly becomes little Adelaide who pops out on he her r toes to frolic with her companions to give a doll dance with them after they the y have changed their mussed trousers t to 0 skirts and finally with witha h a shift of ot scene toa to a springtime bower and of oC costumes for tor all to white whit eo e flecked with buds and blossoms to o give gl e a 11 dainty and graceful illustration in pantomimic dancing t I of oC Spring Song p Contrastingly Contrasting rough with fun Is A Night light at the Circus street sheet parade of o f brazen bands men on their own wild canvas hordes hor es a similarly faked Cak d camel ostrich giraffe and ele elephant and wagon cages of i beasts beast s howling hooting savagely with human voices After that the whole stage is open opened up for a circus ten with a vine rin In i n which exceptionally clever cleer rs clown their feats awhile and th the e sketch ends with the antics of a trained traine d ed horse that breaks in two with a tight fight t between the forelegs and te This burlesque circus Is remarkable e for the number of oC persons employed Were they the paralyzed suddenly as the th e curtain went up Had stage fright fri ht de deprived them of the power of motion They were between one hundred ana an a two they were girls in a ratio of or more men e than twenty to one fellows as in all al i the Ule extravaganzas of the day an they ther were costumed and po ed to m ma ma maa a picture costing as much almost as a any treasured masterpiece in painting but instead of breaking Into violent violen viol commotion as the usage Is i it stayed 4 in a tableau The spectators had be become become become come used to wild activity as though thou thou ll h lla a film were were pulled palled through fi a stereo stereoscope stereoscope scope by a crank at the crank c En Ell wot not said one Noo Yank chapel chappie e with a Lunnon accent Bai Bas jove Jov said another and a third said New Ne w Wot Not ell el The spacious scene was full of oC girls iris as ass a usual in to gay whether in petticoats or t in n ners breeches but wonder of ot wonders ers everyone stood stock still except for to r her mouth out of which came an open Ing chorus The voices were so 50 siren strenuous strenuous anus that the lips waggled wag led the race faces but the bodies were motionless on rigid rigs ti legs and the arms anns hung limp until at atthe atthe a L the end of the vocal ocal strain they fief tIe P LP up up in that gesture of oC high C so 50 fa familiar miller in grand opera Only a fort fortnight for foright fo rt sight night ago I h described the action actton of oC a musical farce as 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