The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
DRYMATIC AND LYRIC
The Theatre Passes Into the
Hands OF the Home Fire Co.
UNCLE TON, EVA AND THE HOUNDS
Fritz waltzes Of---The Daughter of the Regi
ment---A Compliment to the Composer
y of Sampson Of Omaha.

The rumors which have been flying
around the street lately concerning a
change in the ownership of the Salt Lake
theatre concentrated into a settled fact
during the past week. That prosperous
institution, the Home Fire Insurance com
pany, whose managers are always keenly
on the lookout for investments in eligible
Salt Lake real estate, have acquired the
total amount of the stock of the Salt Lake
Dramatic association, which makes them
the owners of the theatre property. The
meeting of the stockholders has been adver-
tised in THE HERALD for some days for
the 30th instant, and at that meeting it is
understood there will be changes in the
offices which will doubtless mean change
il the conduct of the house. AS to future
9 Resigns, however, it is too soon yet to speak
with any certainty, but as the new owners
are wealthy, live and progressive, we may
look TO see the old and faVOrite temple Of
amusement enter upon new era Of pros
perity and popularity.
Mr.. Fritz Emmett waltzed gayly again at
the Grand opera house last evening, and
this morning he waltzes away with a good
fat sum as the result of Salt Lakes admir-
ation-and Salt Lakes good nature. In
some towns, had Mr.. Emmett sprung that
play and those players upon the public
without fair warning, he would have
been under the necessity of max
ing his departure between the
hour of the dropping of the curtain and
the breaking of the dawn. We fear we
shall have to give Mr.. Emmett up as bad
job. After man reaches his time Of life
and knows as much about the stage and
what the stage ought to be, as he he is sup
posed to do, it might be thought he
would have something Of an artists
ambition to surround himself with a
capable company and to secure
some sort Of play that a child could not
anticipate and laugh at. But the older he
grows the more he seems convinced that 1t
is Emmett the public wants and neither
support nor play are Of any consequence,
Just low, we must confess, the public be-
havior seems to warrant his belief, but we
hope he will recall the legend of the willing
horse, and pull up before he does the animal
to'death.
The grand old Janauschek comes back to
US this week, after several years absence,
and in her version of Scott's novel, which
she calls ''Meg Merriles" She is sure of
great reception. She will also do Lady
are not informed, though Chaplin is usually
her leading man. We would have preferred
ourselves to see her in Bleak House,
but in whatever she Celocts to appear, she is
certain of big welcome.
1.-THE Daughter of the Regiment by
Stephens Opera company was given
complete rehearsal at the theatre last even
ing;we expect for this production the biggest
hit Stephens or any of his people have made
thus far, and with the well-known story,
Donizetti's music, the cast in the hands of
EastOn, Edith ClawsOn, Spencer, White, Miss
Pratt, etc, it will be strange ''if our eXpec-
tatiOn is not verified A decided feature
of the production will be the costuming, all
the vivaudieres dresses having been made
specially for this opera. The dates set are
the Both Of March and the lst Of April.
The Omaha World says; We have been
permitted to see a letter received by
young lady Of this city from friend in
London, who writes thus Of the father of
Madame Muzzacato Young, of this city:
''He was, without exception, the cleverest
man of the musical profession in Milan, and
his keen judgment and sincerity placed
him at the head Of masters and critics of
Italy. They tell me his daughter has in
herited, in a remarkable degree, his talent
and varied accomplishments, and her high
rank as instructress here at the Royal Col
lege of Music, several years since, testified
to the truth Of the assertion" The writer
of the above is musician Of high repute in
Europe, who is now en- route to Rome,
where he goes on request of Queen Margh-
erita and his praise of one who has adopted
Omaha as her home ought to be grateful to
Omaha people
Dug White is nothing if not original. 1t
struck him not long since that the town was
yearning for an Uncle Tom show, and this
morning he startles US with the announce
ment that this latest of all novelties, with
its attendant bloodhOunds, mules, darkies
and little Evas, will show forth at the Grand
on Monday and Tuesday evenings
Uncle Tom is at once curiosity
aid study. 1t is several gen
erations since every English-spea1ing man,
woman and child on the habitable globe
learned it so well that any of them could
prompt it offhand-but i still remains a
great drawing card, and people who never
darken the doors of a theatre on other occa-
sions, go to see Uncle Tom cuffed and
beaten, and Little Eva drawn upward in
the beautiful "ApOtheosis.h The approach
ing show has a street parade among its
other classic features, so there is no ques-
ton but that it will share the usual amount
of favor.