The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-03
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The MaplesOn Company Minus
Patti.
The Police Gazette Outdone.
A Talk With Mr.. Careless. Hol.
land Company and Their New
Ticket Sellers.-Seating Ca
pacftieS Of Various Thea
tres. - Other Inter-
esting Gossip.

The musical atmosphere dur.
Ing the past week has been
heavy with rumors of PATHS com.
ing, all induced by the Chicago dis
patch which announced that
Mackey had guaranteed Mapleson
$65, 600 for a season in San Francisco
The report OF the great diva's ap-
peerance in this city was readily
traced to the Opera House folks,
whittier a reporter hastily hied to
satisfy his curiosity, and to learn
what might be authenticity
known. In response to the enquiry
concerning Patti, DIR. Mckenzie
produced the following telegram,
received on Tuesday from his book.
ing agent in Chicago:
"Hold March 9Th and 9Th for Mspleson
Company; c,ntracts leave Thursday
night"
Further than this the Doctor said
he knew nothing. He ventured the
opinion, however, that down stairs
St ats would not cost less than S.
each, and remarked that he re-
ceived little 0r nothing for rental,
the opera company taking it all.
Since this conversation, however, the
wires have brought news that Patti
does not accompany the troupe on
its western tour, which intelligence
puts an entirely different face on the
notice; now that there will be no
Patti salary to pay, it is no longer
difficult TO understand how a trip
becomes feasible which the British
impressario has always regarded az
impracticable, and 1t is likewise no
longer unrea' enable to expect that
Maples0n will favor Salt Lake with
a visit. PATHS absence will take
away the possibility of any furore
over the event, and we suppose it
will also cause q diminution in the
admission charges named by DR..
Mckenzie. But Patti OF no Patti,
the coming of Mapleson's Royal
Italian Opera Company, headed by
Etelka Gerster, Signer Anton and
other stars, will form an occurrence
In our amusement records which
will stand out above every other
event for years to come. Nothing
tn our musical history-not except
ing the concerts of the Thomas
o rchestra-can approach in import
snee and magnificence the proposed
visit Of a company 90 thoroughly
equipped to interpret Grand Opera
as the Organization in question.
C0LeMBIER's SARAH BARNUM.
We have just f1nished-or rather
we have just laid down-we had not
the stomach to finish it
the English translation Of the
book for writing which Bern hardt
ruined . riding whip over Mile
ColOmbier's shoulders. After
perusal of the work, the only won
der is that the whip was not a good
American blacksnake, and that
there was a vestige of it remaining.
Whether or not the book is a reflex
of Bernhardt's past life, as it Is sup
posed to be, Is Of little moment, it
Is to the work itself that we wish to
call attention. OF all the lewd and
Immoral publications ever sold in
this city, "5arah Barnum" Is surely
the lew dest and the most immoral:
from first to last it has not one re.
deeming feature; the translation is
as bad as it could possibly be On.
dered, and what the original must
have been the mind revolts firm
contemplating. Within the 100
pages Of the narrative there is not
one virtuous or honorable sentiment:
moral depravity, vice, crime, in
dscency are held up for display, and
as casually treated as If the author
were speaking of politics or discuss
sing the weather. A mother and
sister, both old in depraviry, rear to
wOmanho0d three daughters, whose
virtue they barter as uncou cernedly
as If it we're rags or glass bottles i;
the daughters accept the life ere.
pared for them by their mother aud
aunt, equally careless OF any thing
that might be better, and the whole