OCR Text |
Show THE CITIZEN 12 the girl Leslie while popular Jack Holt plays her sweetheart. "Will She Win is a fantastic comedy with plenty of sprightly girls which will be featured on the vaudeville bilL Cy and Cy, a pair of eccentric comedians, are said to have as funny a comedy act as there is on the circuit while Gill and Veak in a one act skit they are pleased to call Help Yourself, have been hanging up records all over the west. Smith and Keefs are a pair of Harmony Buds who offer a line, of songs which takes in everything from the Dixieland type right up to Broadways latest. The Aerial Macks' do a lot of stunts up in the air that are said to be astounding. Curg Telerson has a few surprises for Casino patrons which he will intro-du- e with the new bill. SALT LAKE Nightie Night will be the offering at the Salt Lake Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with Saturday matinee, coming direct from the Princess theatre, where it ran for the ertire season. Although excruciatingly funny, it is absolutely inoffensive and news travels quickly, and it did not take long for parents and guardians to discover that Nightie Night, was a farce that did not have to resort to a scarcity of lingerie or a salacious accompaniment of dubious dialogue for its comedy. Mrs. Martha M. Stanley and Miss Adelaide Matthews, as the world knows, are authors of Nightie Night. They are lifelong friends, but although each has contributed extensively to magazines and to the stage, the idea of literary collaboration had not occurred to them before December 31, 1918. As they were looking over the next leaf in their book of New Yeaj resolutions, Mrs. Stanley said: Lets both get down to working together this year and do something really worth while! Lets, agreed Miss Matthews. They began on January 2, 1919, a businesslike job on a farce comedy which had been in their minds for some months. They worked steadily on the play for six weeks, morning, noon and night, sandwiching bits of dialogue in between bites of breakfast, luncheon nad dinner. At last Nightie Night was concluded, and the first chapter in partnership of its authors And we were still was finished. friends, reports Mrs. Stanley whimsically. Then Adolph Klauber read Nightie Night, liked it and arranged for its We have another idea, production. It seems intersaid the authoress. esting, said Mr. Klauber, and forthwith Miss Matthews oiled her typewriter and Mrs. Stanley filled her fountain pen, and again they set to work of Nightie attending rehearsals The result was Scrambled Night. Wives, the new comedy which has already been successfully launched by sensaMr. Klauber as the tion of the current New York season. - big-laughi- ng PRERHISTORIC MOSQUITOES AMBER. IN Some of our states have long suffered the opprobrium of producing large crops of mosquitoes, but happily that notoriety is diminishing through the use of modern methods for their extermination. If the improvement continues there is ground for believing that it will be necessary to visit a museum to find out what the insects looked like. There are specimens still to be found, however, and some were recently discovered in a very unusual manner. In New York, on the most famous street in the world, is a curio shop where among other strange things sold as souvenirs are small pieces of amber cut into squares and rectangles of different thicknesses and suggesting diminutive blocks of brown sugar. The odd feature about these little pieces of amber is that each one contains an insect, preserved in the amber and so nicely displayed that it is almost uncanny to see him delicately poised in the glassy, transparent ma- terial. AMONG THE NEW BOOK faiiuiiinuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuiiiuuiuiuuiuiiiiiiiiuuiuiiiiiiuiuuiiuiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiuuiiiiuiuiiuuuiiiiiiiiuuiiiiiiiiuiil THE GOLDEN BOOK OF SPRING- The FIELD. By Vachel Lindsay. Macmillan Company. There is a culture in America today that is unique among the nations, it is a culture based on jazz, optimistic Kingdom Come and negro melodies. Now, the singer who can put this primitive mysticism and bing-baninto songs with passion and fire, witn an individualistic bink-ban- g and a perwhoop-la- ! combned with a sonal delicacy of imagery which is of no land or time, but stems from the radio active source of beauty that singer is the Poetic Genius of the Hour in These g States. Vachel Lindsay is the only bona fide successor of Walt Whitman just because he does not imitate Walt. But his vision, his voice and his mode of expression are as original as were Walt's. In Vachel Lindsay, the hobo of beauty, the chanter of John L. Sullivan, the Strong Man of Boston; Congo," the Daniel Jazz, A Handy Guide for and the Atlantic Monthly. They have not changed a bit. There is a great tower in that day, called variously the Tower of Truth and the Edgar Lee Masters Tower. From it one can see cows and sunsets and soda water stands for those who do not have a cocaine revenue officer on their staff. Vachel Lindsay himself has become a millennial chameleon, and he thanks whatever gods there be that in his previous (present) incarnation he was a member in good standing of the n League of Illinois. Racca! Slick Slack Kopensky is Mayor of the city. Politicians and skunks never evolve this book is proof of this biological axiom. The Socialists of the various countries still murder one another for purely theoretical reasons. There are flying machine riots as primitively done as the old battle over ..replugs by rival hose companies. The heroine is the beautiful Avenel, who,' of course, is the sweteheart of the hero his Lady Etarre. . In their curious adventures we get the poetry and mysticism of the book. It is rare, almost Jurgenesque. The Golden Book of Springfield is as much an event in our mental life as Jurgen. Springfield may suppress it as Tarascon put the lid on Daudets immortal satire; but Vachel Lindsay will go marching on. Anti-Saloo- Everyone knows in a general way that amber is a rosin found in the ground of various localities bordering the Baltic sea. Perhaps it is not so A The Firemans Ball, well known that its origin was similar Beggars, Gen. William to the gum that exudes from cherry, Dolls Arabian Night, Booth Enters Into Heaven and many trees; but amber belongs to a bygone others of his typical poems we recogage and the trees that produced it disnize the rarest thing this country has appeared long ago. The vegetable orian American poet of inspiragin is proved by its being found with produced tion. His rich rendering and frenzied coal, or fossil wood, and also by the apotheosis of the reigning stupidities insects found in it. s THE PAINFUL EARTH. In some of the specimens insects almost reconcile us to them. He and satirizes at once. He does with wings and legs separated from What a horrible world it is getting to the bodies would seem to .indicate not apologize; he interprets. be In a manner it is The Spoon River their struggles to free themselves from the then viscous fluid. As more gum Anthology reversed. Edgar Lee Mas- Nothing but cranks and efficiency! Nothing for fun exuded the insects would become com- ters stripped the masks from the livIn the world is done, pletely encased, and as such gums are ing who are dead. Vachel Lindsay in But each solemn fool The Golden Book of Springfield aromatic and therefore preservative ftas some brand new rule against decay, trees, gum and insects strips the masks from the living who. to school. have become buried in the earth by are going to live again in the year 2018 For putting the sad old earth convulsions of nature and fossilized in in Springfield, 111. Or, rather, he has The prig and the prude and the ass The shown us their coming masks, includtime by geological processes. eugenic specimens of prehistoric mosquitoeS ing his own. thus preserved bear a striking resemothers has organized a Turn all to class room or to clinic, among He, v And woe to him blance to those of today. prognosticators club in the sun parlor Amber was known to the ancients, at Lelands hotel. In this select group With, no purpose grim, to play, who early discovered its electrical of worward lookers (as Mr. Wilson, But who dares serious day, modified by Mr. Mencken, would call In this properties; in fact, they named it elec-traAnd laugh and grow fat in the kind old whence our word electricity. them) is a Campbellite minister, a way! female florist, a male artist, a welfare THEY CAME BACK. worker, a Jewish boy, a doubter, etc. With button and badge and with unThey expound their visions of the iform, When I was a little child, the serSpringfield, 111., one hundred years The busybodies strut and swarm, geant sweetly addressed his men at after their meetings in 1918, and relate And poke and pry. the end of an exhaustive hour of drill, the mask they will wear in that reinWith prurient eye, I had a set of wooden soldiers. There carnation. Lest too gay the dance, Human nature hasnt changed a bit Or the new romance was a poor little boy in the neighborin the Springfield of 2018. There are Be too much like what hood and after I had been to Sunday they rea l in the same motives, the same modes of France. school one day and listened to a stiron of and of spying acting, thinking ring talk on the beauties of charity I one another. Money and whisky are To take the laugh out of human h.ugh-te- r was softened enough to give them to stored in cellars to corrupt the electors him. Then I wanted them oao.k and and the youth of Springfield. The cult Is what these solemn owls are aft r; cried, but my mother said, Dont cry, of the Cocaine Buddha, introduced into Its up to you, Bertie, some day you will get your Springfield by the Singaporians, is a Or theyll take it too. delicious bit of satire. The Cocaine wooden soldiers back. And one by one Buddha is a successor of the vanished And, believe me, you Bacchus. Good psychology, although All our joys be gone, mutton-headed- , goofus-braine- d set of not pleasant to contemplate. The way of the grape and the was0' ccrtieful rolling pin3, that day has don. Only three magazines survive these hundred years Vanity Fair, Poetry come. Richard Lo Galliennc in JmUe. glor-ifiie- lob-sidc- |