Show T WHY DONT YOU youa queries are put to ua us like ilko these why dont you object to the nudeness ud eness of the tile ballet wh why dont you bay say something in opposition to such things well we do object we do say something in ill opposition but we da not see OPO the utility of engaging in a violent crusade against things of the kind certainly they are not to our taste we do not consider them of beneficial tendency we should not allow alow any one over whom we had bad sufficient preventive influence to so appear in public we protest in moderate and modest terms against public exhibitions of that class if the majority of theatre koers goers aers were like ua us scant aness mess mebs of wardrobe on the F tage would boon coon disappear because it aou would id not pay it would on ia be decidedly discouraged but wo must take the file world as we find flud it exerting A g our individual influence to better what we capable of improvement and tills this improvement can not be effected bv blind and bitter onslaught slaught ou poo people are arc more easily led in a friendly manner than driven with flour pour belligerence the tre ladies ladles of or ballet ballot and bur lef jef que who revel in such bewildering brevity of skirts on the stage for aught we ive know froni from personal experience may be as modest and ladylike in their deportment in private life as any other ladies ladles though anybody would be led to stipple poe e that ap appearances and experiences would conduce towards a different condition appearances are apt to bo be deceptive though experiences are real now kow suppose we ive were lo 10 say to the tho theMis misses ses sea betty and emily al rigl rigi I 1 gi why do you not apparel yourselves olves more liberally on the stage why exhibit BO so complete completely lines proportions and contour physical p h I 1 and peno personal nail nall what wh would id be b e likely to bo be their ready an answer siver would it not be likely to bo be something like this we have no personal desiro dirc for scant scantiness iness of wardrobe tho the public demands and patronizes that stylo and to be sue ces cee fui ful in our profession wa wo must bo be governed b by the likes and dislikes of tho public public we per perform Torin for the amusement and must cater to the manifested tastes of the tile public or abandon our pro profession assion if ballet and burlesque actresses when scantily arrayed arrayed played to beggarly accounts of empty benches and when clad in a stylo of becoming modesty played to crowded hou housos houses sess longer skirts would prevail anthe vt he stage no fear of that des pito pite poetical talk of tillit unities lez let zut zett thoi adrical conventionalities or musty stage traditions it is asking much of ballet girls or burlesque burles buries aue oue katims to purchase so new and more liberal costumes for their special appearance on the tile salt lake boards if they were to do it many of our citizens would take it as a graceful compliment and a generous eolice concession blon bion slon to the sentiment of the community but perhaps it is hardly to tb be expected and the choice seems to be this way that the theatre gleis boere of salt lake lako must either witness ballet and burlesque ili in the style universal elsewhere bee aee them at all or wait until the public taste has been beon n educate educated up to a standard more chaste and commendable meanwhile test a against gt the prevailing st style y ae standa stands s tan tau d s good we are ahead of public opinion on and are waiting patiently for it to come along to our mom more elevated point of view |