The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-29
AMUSEM I'm rs.

THAT EXCEEDINGLY TART PRODUCTION
Uncle Tom Cabin, went before small
aud ence. at the Theatre, last evening
for the last time-let Us hope, forever
The several hoodoos butchered theil
roles, Uncle Tom was as long in dying
Little Eva warbled as decidi dly out of
tune, and the whole thing was as tough
and gay rs on the first night. Depart
in peace to your native Pondtown.
SEVENTY THREE IN LINE.
Immediately after last evenings per-
Torrance. DR.. Clawson, who has been
swotn in as special deputy for the Oc-
casion, marshaled the Booth and Bar
rett cohorts for the last time, and placed
them in the line, from which there
must be no more breaking untll the
kneil of ten sounds this morning. The
roll Was called and seventy three,
mostly dlminutiye kids, answered the
call. Number one, Tom Manning, who
has orders for Banker Mccormick and
hers, stands at the east LOBBY door ,
NUMBER two, Tom Ellerbeck. Stands
close behind him, snd the other
seventy-one, packed upright like num-
mics in their cases. stretch away close to
the wall, down the >teps close to the end
railing; around the corner still huggng
the building till 70, husky English
by, is reached, we'll toward the stage
door on the north. In this order they
were kept all last night, most OF them,
however, ultimately Obtaining cbaus or
sort of slumber. They will be admitted
one at a tins into the lobby this morn
ing, and when their wants are satisfied
usnered out of another door. Number
in the line sold out yesterday FOR
$l02 so, J. II. Winsiow. it is said being
| the buyer. Number 60 sold for $50.
The events of y sterday make it very
uncertain whether number 63 will re-
ceive anything for his money except a
glimpse of a completely filled box
sheet. There was heavy demand In
Oguen for seats aud the fifty given the
u. u 4. G., to sell there for Saturday
night went in q tr1ce: then the Utah
Central had TO have fifty for the first
night, and it was the selling of these
fifty yesterday which knocked the
chances of the tail end OF the line sky
ward. By actual count, the seats in the
parquette and first circle number 663:
add poss Die 126 for extra chairs and
orchestra { be talk is now of dispens-
ing with the musicians altogether)
and we hav.- 1893. Deduct 150 for press
seats, stockholders seats, the Conten-
entail stall and several season tickets
all of whom take seats the year round,
rain or SHINE, Booth or Unc'e Tom-
and another fifty for Ogden-and we
have remaining 593, VIII. oh, counting
that every man in Inc line is after ten
tickets, is Just enough for tifty-nine
applicants and three over. There was
any amount of gro Wiling yesterday over
the sending of the tickets to Ogden.
which will be apt to be augmented whe..
Provo, who wanted badly to be repre-
sented, IS heard from. Ii was said last
evening that a number Of Salt Lskers
had gone to Ogden IN the hope of being
able to purchase tickets there; they
Goul be OILY too cheerful to pay for
round trip railroad ticket with q theatre
coupon attached.
Every person in the line. last night
represented from $50 % 800 worth Of
tickets. 1t is safe to say that the box
lffice will take in between s. 900 o.
$1,000 before it closes to night.
There has been good deal of sense
ess growing at toe management OF the
Theatre during the excitement over the
Booth and Barrett season. If people
would take time to consider. they will
see that we are only undergoing what is
an old story in other places where the
tragrdians have appeared this season.
though we have it here in a slightly ag-
gravated form-and the rush for tickets,
and the extreme to which the demand
Is pushed, are things the manage
ment are not responsible for and
things it can not control. If people
choose to assemble a fortnight in
advance, there is nothing to stop them.
AS it looks now, it might have been
better had the seats been auctloned fl,
as in larger cities, but had this been
done, there would have arisen q growl
that the management was trying to rob
the people. At the box Office yester-
day, Manager Clawson was represented
as being nearly harrassed to death over
entreati, for tickets, and as saying
that had be anticipated the thing
would work up into the present excite
ment, he would have refused to play
Booth and Barrett, unless they con-
scented to appear whole week.
Lost at Sea.
GLOUCESTER. Mass. March %. TODAY