The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-24
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Payn Co. and its Bril-
liant Representative.
MRS. POTTER AND HER NURSE
A Payn-ful Theme-Heavy List OF
Coming Attractions-Minsr
on His Ear

There was rather mournful night at
the Theatre last evening. The doors
were all open and the cool air blew
merrily in. kissing the empty
benches, and tanning the cheeks of
the ushers and the ice water boys,
WAC stood in rows waiting for the
crowd that never came. However, the
play went on just the same, and the
ushers and the boys stuck it out bravely
to the end.
Miss Payn should hereafter confne
her visits to those districts where the
water-cresses bloom and the sound of
the Walter A. Wood threshing machine
| fills the air. Here in prosaic Salt Lake
there is so much talent lying
aroand loose that the market is
glutted, and all the vent places
are choked up with it. Whoever
advised her with that voice, that
villain, that comedy man, that dancing
young lady and that elderly woman
with her fearful and wonderful
make-up-to venture into this Scylla
and Chary bdis of critical communities is
responsible for a good deal both to Miss
Payn and to the public.
Miss Payn has business manager,
however, VIII is a gem. To his qualifi-
cations as door-tender and ticket
counter, he adds those of comedian
and he both acts in front of and behind
the curtain; view of enc act of the
Wages of Sin, however, impels US 10 say
that he is decidedly at his best in the
box office. After the show is out and
the other members of the company are
in bed, it is this gentleman s pleasant
duty to visit the newspaper offices and
see that his star receives notices COM
mensurate with her abilities Towards
midnight, after Fridays perform
ance this gentleman beamed in upon
THE HERALD sanctum, and all smiles,
conveyed the intelligence that he had a
pleasant little notice of the performance
which he would be glad to have in
serted. He was informed that business
wasn't done in that way here, and re-
ferre block further down the street.
He then asked as special favor that he
be allowed to peruse the article which
the critic Of the paper had written, and
as special favor he was handed the
notice, which had just come in. To
say that the gentleman was paralyZed
would be to put it mildly. 1t was very
evident that the barbarous custom
of writing of shows as they are, had not
been an experience common to the
towns he had thus far visited. He
pleaded, begged and demonstrated.
Finally be grew desperate and said if
S. would be an object, he wouldn't
miEd going to that extent to keep the
notice out. The proof render
answered that $500 wouldn't do
it and again referred him down
the sire ct. He then offered
to buy several hundred copies of the
paper if his notice were sent up in
stead of the critic s-but this effete
dodge wouldn't work either. Then he
} grew pacific and taking the notice up
said he would go up to the house OF
Mr., the gentleman who wrote it,
and he felt sure he could induce him
to have it withheld. He was in the
act of marching off with the article in
; his possession, when the proof reader
in language which.th could be no
mistaking sat down upon the ambitious
youth once for all and taking the
notice sent it wbistling up the spout
into the nav of the insatiate printers
The business manager thereupon with
drew crushed but not defeated. A
small but mplimentary notice
of the show ever which the
whole town was talking in
the columns of the Tribune
yesterday morning, is significant
of the fact that the brilliant agent did
not leave town without getting in his
work.
There will be no lack of amusements
from now on till the glorious Fourth.
Tomorrow night Salisbury's Trouba-
doris, with the lively Nellie McHenry,
open two nights engagement in the
Humming Bird, which comes well
recommended from the east. Friday
and Saturday the Rentz Santley, with
Sara, the high kicker" make their re-
turn; the following Monday aud Tues
day comes Three Wives TO One Hus-
band" and on the afternoon and
evening of the Fourth, the Home Ora
matte Club render the famous Anglo
Italian play of Forget Me Not. This
uIdHd lluLA LuG rIGuCu VI IN COHlOUE
q Ia MOrte, "a Struggle to the
Death) with the intense motive of
the Corsican vendetta, is among the
most no able of recent successes, and
the amateurs will put it On the boards
with all care. The principals in the
cast are as follows:
stephanie. (Forget-Me,Not) Edith Clawson.
Alice Verney ...........B Birdie Cum mines
Mrs. Foley. ................L Lott, Claridge,
S r Horace Welbv.........M Mr.. uencer.
Barrato a Corsican, ......M Mr., Young.
Prince Malleotti e.. ............ mr. White.
Mrs. Brown Potter's season has end
ed. but it does not end in a b nze of
glory The New York papers flled
with the statements of the lazy AID her
manager, Mr.. Harry Miner !. a each
one has some delightful Ihlnss 10 say of
the other. The MANAGER ha~ &C Iumn
and half full of things II last nday's
Herald about the lady, and a..yng 9th
er statements he makes are these:
"Mrs, Potter would never pay a