The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-09


not aware of any disagreement between
Messrs Booth and Barrett, snd tnat
Mr.. Barrett had made the contract as
the manager of the Booth and Barrett
company for their joint appearance at
the Broadway next season.
Another manager said that Mr.. Bar.
rett had helped the combination but
little, and as Bassanio in The Merchant
of Venice with Mr.. Booth he did not
draw a dollar to the house. Another
manager claimed that the high prices
of seats charged by Messrs. Booth and
Barrett accounted for the undoubted
falling off in patronage at their perform
ances.
Mr.. Barrett is very rich man, and 1t
is said that he cares very little whether
the partnership is continued or not.
Mr.. Booth is also we'll eff, but he does
not view with relish any curtail-
ment of the enormous revenues that
until recently marked the venture with
Mr.. Barrett New York Herald.
To another reporter Mr.. Barrett said
there was nothing whatever in the
rumor of the separation; 1t had doubt
less originated in the fact that Mr..
Booth would appear alone on some oc-
oasions next season, as in the case of
Richelieu, where there was no second
part for Barrett.
x*x
The New York writers are still talk
ing of the sad fate of poor George
Knight. We wonder if it never occurred
to any of them that one cause of his
trouble is found In the humiliation
which an actor of his talents must have
undergone to be driven to doing such q
part as the Captain in Evangaline! The
"Giddy Gusher" in the Mirror slightly
touches on this when she says: II
have seen many actors wrapped up in
plays they had taken up with, but
never did see one who seemed to live
and move and have his being in part
as George knight did in Baron Dudolph.
And I must say l was in full SYM
pathy with him. It's good play, and
he played the character splendidly.
How it failed to catch on, when other
and very inferior plays did, l never
could understand.
Anyway, knight pinned his faith to
it, and when here produced it at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre. went in
on the stage after the performance to
tell him how glad I was he was giving
it another trial. l found him nervous
and depressed; he had felt the public
pulse, and realized his failure to stir it.
Poor, dear lad. He struggled through
that season dispirired and disappointed.
When he realized that he must 20 back
to the old rubbish to make dollar he
was fairly broken hearted.
1 believe if he had gone to work dig
ging and planting, living outdoors with
growing and interesting things, he
might have escaped. Instead he took
an engagement in a burlesque troupe.
went on nightly for an idiotic part,
with his heart all the time travelling
back to the ambitions that had withered
in the bud-to the hopes that had never
reached the blossom. It is q case of
pure disappointment, just as surely as
Tony Harris Is. 10th these men dwelt
constantly the one subjt CT lived in an
atmosphere of regret, never got away
in mind from their trouble, and they
have paid the penalty of concentrating
their faculties on the contemplation of
disappointment.
-
Archie Gunter, erstWhile an assayer
un der McCornick's Bank, is swimming
on to fortune, as the folio wing para
graph shows. If he has 70 meet q
Small shower of sight drafts, as con-
sequence of this publication, he has
only his frankness TO reporters to blame
According to A. G. Gunter, the
theatrical profession as a money
making business cannot compare with
that of successful publishing.
az am receiving royalty now for
Mr.. Barnes of New York at the Broad
way THEATRE" said Mr.. Gunter to a
Mirror reporter the other day, "that
would have seemed a fortune some time
ago, and which is not to be sneered
at now. But compared to my pub
fishing business it is q mere bagatelle.
have made more money In a given
time than any theatre in this city. In
two months 1 have made $4,000 over
all expenses out of my hooks, and I'd
like TO know any theatre in this city
that can point to that sum as its clear
profits for the same period. AS q con-
sequence l am not In any great hurry
either to write new plays or to have
them produced, and if it were not that
l love the theatre do not think you
could get me to do either, for my time
is all taken up now. L have to labor
far into the night to keep up with my
work. AS for my books, there is not a
day that large orders are not coming
in either for Mr.. Barnes of New York
or Mr.. Potter of Texas, though judt -
ing from the large sales of both you
would imagine that everybody had
read them long ago.
Tie next book that shall publish
IS by aSouthern gentleman. 1t is his
first effort, the civil war is its basis, and
1t is entitled, How I Escaped. AL
though the writer is unknown, have
already received offers for 10 GOO copies,
which shows that nv repntstion as a
publisher Is already established. NV
own new work, Mr.. Nobocy of No
where, will probably lie iss led in Jam.
airy. l have received offers to mt on
my play, Mr.. Potter of Texas, at the
Adelphl, IN London, but | shall not 90
so for year at least"
Mr.. Gunter's good right hand not
only possesses Wondrous cunning. bnt