The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-15
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Dockstaders Close a
Light Engagement.
JEFFRBYS-LEWIs' TROUBLES.
More of the Potter-A Notable Cast
for Ptque-Provo's Latest
Sensation.

We are sincerely sorry not TO be able Il
record that his return visit TO Salt Lake
was greeted By heavy business. But
Salt Lake is not yet up to the point
where a return engagement can bs
| played with profit for more than one
night, and Lew will have to pocket tbis
and charge it up to Experience account
fhe matinee yesterday was played to
| probably the ightest house this fin,
company ever bowed before, but when
Lew wes urged 10 call it off and return
the money, he said the Dockstader
lame had never yet broken faith with
the public, and as long as he held it, it
never would. If there was only dol
lar in the box Office, he SAID he would
give the performance, 50 h Weat ahead
and gave it. There came very nearly
happening something funny at this same
n atinee. Jeffreys. Lewis and her Main
hall, who had doubtless heard of the
local gag" in which the actress was
referred to, occupied prominent seats
in the house. Dockstader in all prob
ability didn t know they were there,
and it would have been very interest
ing if be had rendered that Ii tie verse
regarding the East Lyme performance
as he did the night before. As luck
would have it, however, his audience
didn't give the necessary number of
encoTes to his topical sorg and NJ ISIS
Lewis verse wasn'tIeached. What she
would have done had she sat and
heard that Verfe, there is no telling
cut if all the stories that reach US of
the lady's combatiVe tendencies are
true, MIR. DoCkstader's matinee would
have been about the hottest small
sized affair it was ever his lot to sit
through.
The audience at the evening house
was also terribly light, especially for a
minstrel performance. Dockstader's
local hits were as much appreciated as
ever, and his cIeyerness in adapting
current lads" in'o his songs. is cn9
of his distinguishing traits. The first
thing he does On reaching a town is to
steer for the newspaper files, which be
studies over until he has mastered all
the town topics out OF which there
would be any chance of making q hit.
He never fails to get there.
Mrs. JAMES BROWN POTTER is now On
the oce an, en- route for Europe. Ac-
cording to her fr ends, she will pass
some months in Paris as the guest of
her uncle, Minister McLane. Mr.. Kyrle
Bellew has probably arrived in England
by this time, as he sailed few days be-
fore Mrs. Potter, but whether he will
be on hand to welcome her in Paris is
conjecture.
Mrs. Potter has managed to mystify
her friends in society, and in this she
has been assisted by the admirable be-
havior of MIR. Potter. When she was
in Philadelphia her marked admiration
of Mr.. Kyrle Fellew and the persis'-
ency with which she appeared on the
streets in his company caused good
deal of adverse criticism, especially as
she invariably took him to every re-
ception to which she was invited With
out inquiring whether her hostess cared
to receive the English actor.
According to manager Henry Miller,
whose contract has inst closed with
Mrs. Potter Mr., Bellows influence over
tt society actress was supreme, and of
late she positively declined to agree to
anything without the consent of her
hands ONE Mentor. Mr.. Miner tells
woeful story of the sorrows of the man
ager of an actress whose claim on tie
public is not her art, but her social nc
toriety. The way he describes her
gradual demands on him in addition to
the liberal terms of heI contract a, d
his helplessness in case he refuses is
tremendously pathetic. A private car,
maid, whose wages Mr. Miner paid, no
interVi- VS. with newspapers, were some
of the things sh in sted upon and any
attempt to remove Mr.. Bellew
was promptly met with the threat,
7 hoH ~, /
am too i'll to play" Poor Miner was
in various cities and so he had to give
large sums of money for broken con-
tracts.
Mr.. Potter is certainly a forbeariDg
and patient husband and the question
arises how Iora Wi he 1t
main so. Meanwhile Mr.. BelleW is
freed from the bonds of wedlock by
recent divorce and gossips arc wonder
ing whether he will continue his in6u-
ence over Mrs. Potter, now that their
professional partnership has ceased.
Anyhow it is considered quite thing
now in New York to condole with the
Potter family and two-thirds of Mrs.
Potter's friends do not understand her
love for the stage" Ecchange."
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Commencing Tuesday evening, James
NJ. Ward, the well known Irish com
accompanied by Carrie Clarke
Ward, open three nights engagement
at the theatre. If this is not absolutely |
he first appearance of this twain in |
Salt Lake, it is their first appearance for
good many years, and with such old
ime faVoriEes as Arrah-na-Pogue,
Peep O. Day and Eviction
ire in their rep-rtory, theylshould do
,ood su INNER business.
That very delightful pair of actors
effreys-Lewis and Harry Mainhall,
eem to get along in private life about
S well as they do in their roles on the
tage; they invariably have parts where
hey are. fighting one another, and the
nfluerce of their stage relations has
'een so strong that they don't seem
bile to get away from them when they
20 to the hotel. A good many rumors
# stormy scenes reached US from Butte
nd Ogden before the esteemable couple
,ut in an appearance here. That those
tories were not wholly groundless is
pparent from the following dispatch
eceived from the Provo correspondent
yesterday:
The quiet of Provo was broken
friday evening by some lively
Genes among the Jeffreys-IeWis