Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 4 | Mr. Al Jolson Goes Mary Garden One Better Roasting Salt Lake

Mr Al Jolson Goes Mary Garden One Better Roasting Salt Lake Just keep picking on Salt Lake First it was Mary Garden who THEY frightfully slandered us after she had lured thousands of good Utah dollars into the box office when she sang at the Salt Lake theatre Mary always did like to talk you know and when she returned to New York she indulged her habit to the limit What she didn't say about Salt Lake doesn't matter but what she did say certainly could not be called flattering Mary remained at a safe distance from Utah after that interview and we had cooled off and charged it up to artistic temperament when along came the Jolson Jolt Al AI you will remember made quite a hit at the Salt Lake theatre first with The Honeymoon Express and next with Dancing Around He packed the theatre theatre-at every performance Salt Lakers thought Al Ai sort of liked this town No other town could have been kinder to him and he seemed to appreciate it But when you read what he is saying about us in Ms his new monologue you will see how badly we were deceived by his fickle laugh He makes Mary Garden look like a booster with his new laugh vehicle Jolson in the role of Friday Is J the star of ot a new musical comedy Robinson Crusoe Jr In his daily and nightly monologue that makes maltes thousands of visitors to New York laugh hilariously Jolson tells about his trip to the wilds wilds camping out from Broadway Here is the libel on Salt Lake as quoted from the New York Worlds World's illustrated story Al At Jolson Among the Mormons Yes Oscar that's an old one but when I told it in Salt Lake City it went great And speaking of the dead reminds me of a joke I told there about a man who saw the first stone put into the temple The funny part of it is the temples temple made of wood the same thing they're using now to make heads Well sir when I fac faced d the audien audience e that night I thought I was looking into a ten acre lot of alfalfa The theatre there was built when no man was respectable unless he owned a flock of wives They dont don't have seats like ours No indeed Mr Mormon would walk up to the box office and say Give me a seat for myself and wife and the treasurer would pass out twenty tickets Everybody Everybody Every Every- body brought their own candle for light If they didn't like the show they blew out their candles On the train the next morning I bought a Salt Lake paper It said Al AI Jorson is a one candlepower comedian No they don don't t use candles any more in Salt Lake They have all the newfangled things things electricity electricity and street cars all cars all of em em with th the sign Cemetery But I met one human being in that town He told a good one He walked Into a saloon run by a Mormon I like the Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons he said I live where there are of them and I wish there thera were more of em in the same place Have a drink said the saloon man swelling up Yes fIVes sir I wish there were ten thousand of em Have another drink said the proprietor Say where do you live Jive anyway Next to a cemetery But the Salt Lake girls are all right You call on a girl once and next day you get a printed card asking What are your intentions s A friend of mine called on a Salt Lake girl and next day her he father fathera a asked ked him What are your intentions He said After seeing your daughter my intentions are to run to the station and jump on the eastbound east east- bound lightning express