Show SOCIAL CONUNDRUM A few evenings ago the people of ogden haj the opportunity of witnessing a performance which though disapproved by tome is probably as pleasing to the general taste as any the aoe to which we allude certainly drew a much larger in ogden than would have out to an ordinary play As additional proof of its favor wa perceive that the same company is being waited for in prove salt lake and other suburban towns with the highest expectations of de lesht indeed we have been told hat some months ago when a similar troupe visited the garden city a ex member ot the upper house of the legislature wis so zeal ani in to them a full attendance that having no connection with the theatrical ho purchased a considerable number of tickets upon his own cognisance and sold them bately at rest upon such evidence our i will not be challenged that lie play ot which we speak is aa in longing to a legitimate class of dramas the writer attended the play in ogden to be sure that the pictures on the fence were a fair counterfeit of the reality the house was filled to overflowing with men and a bouquet of perhaps six of the gentler sex anjer a skillfully applied mask of lubins best the first in the order of the drama was music by a sort of tom tom orchestra curtain rises on a bevy if i f women in full dress a la mode mostly below the belt probably twenty in number who talk about something or other no matter what eing occasionally crack a great many chestnuts chestn uty puns modernized by vulgar allusions new aej original act I 1 scene II 11 dioro puns in burnt cork curtain lowers mid great applause act II 11 tha ladica again cos tume a la ballet strikingly modern mostly above the waist much mechanical ch anical mirth puns as numerous as usual conversation about nothing in particular lots of motion bundle and compounded mostly in curves through an arc of forty five degrees closing v a Lop round ami a climax of legerdemain act II 11 scene II 11 an acrobat performs a wonderful feat act III the ladies costume not much of any thing conversation nothing performance detour of legs and a tableau the is not an exact following of the pro gramme the more indifferently tl irilli DK parta having been omitted from want of space but there is no exaggeration of those given coming now to the sequence what shall tte name thia popular performance and bo consistent with the conditions as they really are its only semblance to a drama was that the exhibition took place in a sort 0 rat hole up hero on rodith street which ogden for tea yeara has relied biou for a clience it w us not really a play abero was not a pro musician or eisser in the troupe or anybody that claimed to be anch hence it was abt a concert there cro no rare animals exhibited chwe were animals plenty of them but tiey bom tua strong resemblance to alo that comprised alio audience to be rare hence it was aut 1 there was art unless perchance the ait of distributing and to lie end of making bhame Bh ape out of physical wreckage of which art culture or what you please there seems to be no great dearth in our town at tho present lime hence we cannot consistently name it an art gallery Hshi biting none of ho symptoms of intelligence alio llio participants clearly aDini aln and of a eort that can bo on the corcero ot ogden at any hour day r night flioy wore as batore inferred 0 a very common ader the exhibit there I 1 ore to epcar plainly was that of in the concrete and abstract veiled and unveiled chaperoned and advertised with all the color and paraphernalia af the theatrical art which the more fastidious look upon as belter adapted to the wants 0 enlightened civilization but mark this exhibition of which ne are cipe aLini isby eiery rule of law or a being just as legitimate aa any concern that crosses the continent but no longer wishing to K the facts with euphemism the outfit were plainly and simply a gang of cultivated prostitutes trapping trap sing over the count y to advertise their business just as alio llio quack medicine vender and alio specialty craod organise org anise into troupes of minstrel dancers jugglers in acrobats and every ollar conceivable chow manry and make tho continent resound with their drums their sweet instruments aud their melodious voices all to entice the foolish of mankind to buy beir wares aliis and nothing calru wag business of li the newspapers the country air are puffing with display ads bud local notices of the following patti rn comisar i indle ind ld attraction in art comedy maii cacia will goon appear at the grand 11 laeone ua eone night only laret troupe of female beauties that er visited in one lom pany madane xana haa gone to expense to put her company on in alio anut taking of the day aiji cry body should come and look tin in over face our display aul in column T here is nt a man in christendom who has observed the show bills of the troupe in question that does not know with ut guessing that it was just what e hate said editors city councilmen police theatrical managers and all duew it and yet it exhibits without hindrance or protest which tacitly and avowedly con firms the legitimacy ot the business if aln lebale prostitution may be in tha particular way mentioned under legal protection eliy mar net nuu the same show of consistency sis tency aery harlot in oden hank out her brinle and have herself written in the newspapers with as great a splurge of enterprise and brainens energy as the merchant the banker lie builder or tho millionaire carrier 7 ve anse for a reply |