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Show 0' TTO HAUERBACH, for- j merly of this city, who gets up another theater attraction. at-traction. -1 r: -v I , ,Z C. .z.. v e -: c f ' fir i ' - ! 1 F ' i Y '3 1 ? I I i k , SILT LAKER MAKES HIT WITH PRESIDENT Writes Lyrics for Musical Comedy Which Is Proving Prov-ing Successful. President and Mrs. Wilson and party in the presidential box of the National theater at Washington recently gave every evidence of keen enjoyment of "Going "Go-ing L'p.'.' a new musical, comedy, the book and lyrics for which were written by Otto Hauerbach, son of Mrs. Adolph J. Jauerbach, 272 Second avenue, Salt Lake. Mr. Hauerbach has been in the east for several years, but was born in this city, having attended the public schools and the old Collegiate Institute, which was conducted in the building now known as the Labor temple. He is coming home next week to visit his mother and brothers broth-ers and sister. The dramatic critic of the Washington Post gives highlv complimentary notice to the work of the Salt Laker and hie music collaborator, Louis A. Hirsch. Of "Going Up,' the critic says in part : This three-act bit of sprightly diversion di-version possesses everything that a , light musical entertainment ought io have clever book and lyrics, by . Otto Hauerbach; two or three song hits in every act to feature an exceptionally melodious score by Louis A. Hirsch, , The story to which all of these enjoyable en-joyable things are appended is very simple and very amusing, thanks largely to the melancholy tearfulness of Mr. Craven, cast in the role of a young author who has written a book on aviation without ever having made a flight. Seeking rest at a popular hotel at Lenox. Mass., his identity is immediately discovered and it is taken for i: ran ted, by the ladies at the hotel particularly," that he taught the Wright brothers all they know about aeronautics. It is ! at once arranged for Robert Street. j the author, to compete with Jules Gaillard. a French aviator, on the flying field and in the air. Street i never having been higher than the second story is thrown into a panic, 1 but forces himself to "30 through' when urged to do his best bv Miss Day, the beautiful girl whom both contestants very sensibly love. The flight is made in the last act, and the winner of many large monev bets, and. more important, of the girl, is to be the one who stays up the longest. You can guess the outcome. Streergeis up in the air after almost fn in ting trom fear at the start and likes it. He flies rinj-s around his rival and is reported from various parts of the state as cutting figure eights, doing dangerous dips and otherwise disporting himself high over small towns by moonlight. Art Smith wh.s a tyro in comnjirison. .There is much fun uncovered while this nnembellisherl and unimpeded narrative is being developed. One of the most laughable episodes in the play i. one in which Street takes a lesson in flying in his own room-another room-another is found at the openine1 of the last, act when the trembling novelist appears on the aviation field to take command of the Bleriot that has been loaned him for the flight by the man against whom he is flying. fly-ing. Throughout the three acts the lines are brisk and the action of the breezy sort. |