The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-28
Unlucky Bishop.

Unlucky Bishop.
1t will take all the Salt Lake Theatre
makes, and margin besides, to square
the. losses occasioned by the unlucky
Bishop engagement; at yesterdays
matinee there was $l2 in the house,
and no performance was given; last
night there we're forty people, mainly
deadheads, in the audience, and they,
too, were dismissed. The first night
| the house ran about $50; the second it
/ could not have been more than $50.
The Engagements share of all
this probably amounted to $75. What
their expenses were it will not do to
| look into.
1t is to be feared that the $3.50, which
went to Mr.. Bishop and his company,
was more than swallowed up before
they reached here. The same mail
which brought them from the North
brought several small drafts to McCor-
| nick Il Co. for collection, drawn by
! young Bishop as business manager, and
drawn on Caine Il Clawson, theatre
These gentlemen promptly refused to
honor the drafts, and the bank collector
was seen around the house Friday night
| betraying familiarity with the stage
which evinced that he was doing some
tall rustling. The U. P folks also
had a claim for transportation, and
refused to be cJmforted until they were
guaranteed by the Theatre, so that the
management took that amount out OF
Bishops receipts before handing him
any balance-If indeed there was any
host Brixen's board bill amounted to
something over $50 and at last accounts
there was every prospect of the sum
being hqu dated out of the baggage.
The hotel folks, state, however, that
Mr.. Bishop has telegraphed for money
to San Francisco, where, of course, his
standing is such that he would have no
trouble in obtaining what he wanted
He expects to leave for the west and
play nextat Reno.
We sympathize good deal with Mr..
Bishop amid these circumstances, as
he is a comedian who, with a better
company and better advertising,
deserves well of the public. We should
sympathize with him good deal more,
however, If it we're not for the fact that
knowing the caliber of Salt Lake audi
ences as he must, he foisted such set
of scrubs upon us as he did. 1t may be
said that the illness of Mr.. Simms-
who IT is said shows unmistakable signs
, of being demented-could not be fore
seen, but even with Mr.. Simms, his
company would still have been lament
ably weak; he has no Lending lady
t deserving the name, despite the fact
J that his agent so assiduously advertised
= Miss Boyle. and this alone ought to call
for strong condemnation. Under
! happier auspices we shall be glad to see
J Mr.. Bishop again. Salt Lake, how ever,
Is terribly frosty town for any third
rate troupe to tamper with.
Leonard Growers Marital Troubles
The following paragraph, fIom a New
York paper, will be read with interest
by the numerous acquaintance Mr..
Grover made at the time of his visit
here. The Mrs. Ida Grover spoken of is
the Ida Bowdoin May who was billed
vita the company in this city:
A motion was made by Judge Law
renee in the Supreme Court chambers
yesterday, to punish Leonard Grover,
the actor and theatrical manager for
/ contempt of court for neglecting to
obey an order which required him to
} pay his wife. Ida May Grover, alimony
: and counsel fees, which now amount to
$40, and in her suit for limited divorce
on the ground of abandonment and
failure to provide for her support Mr..
Grover separated from his wife July
last. She sued for a separation, and
} obtained an order requiring him to pay
her $3.50 per week alimony and coun-
sci fee of 500. He paiG no attention TO
the mandate, however.
Some time ago Mrs. Grover met her
husband on Broadway, near Twenty
fourth Street, and asked him why he
did not support her. He declared that
he would never pay her dollar; that
he was too smart for either herself or
her lawyers that he did not owe her any
money, and that she need not expect 10
get any money from him, no matter
what the court ordered him to pay. Mr..
Grover has been playing with the
Private Secretary Company, and his
wife says that unless he is compelled to,
! he will never give her a dollar. Mr..
Grover is to be given benefit on Sun
day evening at the Academy o Music,
, and his wife asserts that he has already
received large sums of money from
, friends, and that if action is not taken
| Immediately, he will leave the state af-
, ter the benefit, and then she will be
: powerless. He told her that if she con-
:. tinued to harrass him, she would drive
! him out of the city, and he told her at
torney that there was no use in her
pushing him. and that she had better
drop the whole thing. as she would
never get dollar.
; Judge Lawrence granted a. adjourn
ment until to-day in order that Mr..
} Growers counsel may see his client and
If possible, make some definite arrange
ment about the controversy.