The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-25
HEADING OFF THE sCALPERS.
ence PreparatiOns-UDcle Thomas
Ned Royle's Prospects-NOtes.

tunlty OF win 'SSlng again. Inere i
only one thing that will prevent posi-
tive riot at the box Office, and that is
the So rate. The high tariff on an occa-
sion like this is justified almost on the
plea of necessity; if ordinary rates were
maintained. there would be no posi-
Oiiity of getting the audiences into the
house.
The sale will commeuce-as the man.
ayers announcement in THE SUNDAY
HERALD states-on Thursday morn
ing. 1t would have been opened
sooner, but the Uncle Toms people
have the Theatre Tuesday and We'd
uesday, and TO open the Booth Barrett
! ,aie on either of thess days would 70 10
send Uncie Thomas into his Cabin in
'he saRlest kind Of mourning; aud, as
the management put 1t, mere ls a good
deal of glory in the Booth-Barrett en-
gagement, but the money comes in with
tbe double Marks. tn twin Topseys.
the negro plantation singers and the
hloodhuupds. With trouI es like this.
lhe theatrical manager makes his own
|
| said, many managers, this season, play
them for the honor of playing tuem,
and get little more than expenses for
| themselves.
| The SAFE commences Thursday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. In the expectation
that the line will form Wednesday even
ing. the management have ruled that 1t
must form on the sidewalk, so as not to
interfere with Uncle thomas ana his
! CABIN. The ticket Office man will issue
numbers to the first thirty or forty, so
| that there need be no confusion and no
needless standing up all night. The
lie Of not more than ten tickt1s to any
one applicant will be rightly enforced.
The busy sounds Eof preparation for
Coz ference are humming at both he
Theatre and the Opera H Juse. The
Home Club have the Sha1ghaun well
underway and will give it lifesHith iIsnew
cehery, novel effects and sensation on
thursday, Apnl 5th, repeating it On the
onfer. nee banner night, Saturday,
! April 7th.
j. n 5 Lindsey still fingers in the lap
Spr ng City Manti aud Ephr, i'm
! navIng, il is said. hit the Sanpeters hard
With his version of Hazel Kirke, aided
by rural company from the south.
| de has decided not to return for Con
ference, which has caused q change Of
1ill at the Opera House, the Romany
Rye being abandoned for the present,
and the Willow Copse substituted in lis
stead. Phil Margetts plays Couldock' S
old role of Luxe Fielding, and j, E
Evans has comedy part.
|
=! Salt Lake talent is still represented in
he Booth-Barrett Company by Mr..
Md Royle, who comes back home for
tue first time since he was here
fore with Booth. Mr.. Royle
.ommenc d with the Madison
square Company about thre-
va ago but having q strong predilec
ION for the legitimate drama, he en-
ssgtd with Booth two years ago, of
necessity in such q company, taking
Up with subordinate characters bu,
rightly thinking that the leisure ht
would be afforded for practice in the
chools of art, and the experience ht
would gain in the tragedisn's com
pany, more thai compensated for the
,scrlI G of more prominent parts and &
higher salary. For Ike reasons he re-
engaged with Booth and Barrett last
season. Next year we understand, be
will take material step il advance. by
joining Louis James Company at g
90, d salary, and in q line of parts
hich will more tn Tougnlv trst I'll
ability as su actor. Among the cbarac
tiers he will assume are GolfIied in
Gretchen, TybalG lii Romeo and JuHet
Don Pedro in Much Ado and Malcolm
in Mac beth. Mr.. Royle's lift will
vowed with pleasure by his Salt Lax {
friends.
The great New York blizzard knock et
things topsy turvy with the theatres
Nym Crinkle writes as follows regard
ing his experiences:
On Mond ay night when I went to tb,
Filth Avt nue. Theatre, saw somethln1
unparalleled in the dramatic history O
this metropolis.
We who try to make little record o
things as we go, ought to make in tn,
Mirror some record of this extraordinar,
occurrence.
Of course allude to the fact that
meteorological disaster fell like
thundeIbolt on the town, and paralyzel
every branch of human industry.
at 8 o'clock the whole town was sit
ting indoors with bated breath listen
ing TO the hell that was raging outdoors
got from my house through Twenty
| eight street 20 Broadway with infnit
difficulty, and what strange spectacl
Broadway presented! Every electri
light was out, and every gas light ha
been blown out. Black, yawnin
i. sbysses of night up and down, and tn
rushing, bowling, whitening blasts rag
ing in the fashionable thoroughfare an
swirling the snowdrifts into impassabl
barriers. Not theatre open. Vehicle
abandoned in the streets. Here an
there q mounted policeman bendin
= over his horses head to the blast, an
urging his blinded animal through tn
blades of the sleet.
Wallack's dark. Lights all out at th
usually flaming Bijou. A few SILVER
ing men huddled around the doorwa
, of the Fifth Avenue No communities
ton with downtown; wires trailing
cars stopped, cabs stall d in the bank
of snow, the elevated trains-in til