The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-05

The B0Oth-Barrett Opening To-
morrow.
LORD FAUNTLEROY'S SEASON.
To-morrow's Opening and Last Nights Close
-Maritana-Yacts About the
Little Lord.

VI
Little Lord.
The theatre was the one place i'll town
Yesterday that absorbed more dollars than
any other 1t was found necessary to di-
vide the box Office force, and the Booth and
Barratt sale was conducted on the east side,
while Fauntleroy kept possession Of the
Office proper The rush for the tragedians'
three nights was heavy one, though the
warning sign $500 fne'' kept down the
speculative element, and the probabilities
-5ue that all the tickets that went out were
bought by regular patrons Of the house.
The sale for the day amounted to about tif-
teen hundred dollars-fully onc-half of
which is for the opening night--the rush
for the double bill will come in later. The
sale will be continued tomorrow, and IS
the capacity Of the house is as yet practi
cally untouched, it will be Kept up at a
lively rate until the hour for raising
the curtain Yesterday brought Manager
Burton letters ana dispatches from Ogden,
Provo and even points in Idaho and Mon
tana, all wanting seats for one or all Of the
three nights The company arrive in a
special train from Denver tomorrow morn
ing.
sLittle Lord Fauntlcroy'' ended one of
the most phenomenal engagements in the
history of the Salt Lake theatre last
night. The matinee drew So at full prices,
and theuight went close upon 500, raising
the total for the three performances TO
about s, 500 or 500 more than the four
performances in Sacramento brought. The
vivid impressions. The laughter and tears
of the night before were re
peated at bGth Of Yesterdays rep
reservations The little girl, Elossy Ethyl,
appeared in the afternoon, and during the
latter half of the night performance very
sweet and precious child she IS too but the
purely bOyiSh prucliyItieS Of the part
render little Eddiuger better suited TO 1t.
The excellent acting of the cast was again
a feature. Miss EyessOu's beauty, Miss
Lytton's very excellent deiineation OF
very obiectional stripe Of character, Mr..
Aiken's austere old earl, Mr.. Bassett's
Hobbs, Mr.. Snyders fine old English gen
tleman lawyer and Mr.. HendersOn's Dick
all drawing forth the earnest commenda-
tons The company leave for Denver this
morning and open there for week Monday
night.
''How did those children manage to com
NIT part of such lengthn' a reporter
asked of Mr. French yesterday. MAINLY
by having it read over to them by their
parents innumerable times was the an
swer. ''The little boy, Wdllie Eddinger,
can write little. but he cannot read much,
vet he got the part in about ten days.
Children, if they are bright at all, learn
much more readily than adults, and don't
think the effort Vi learning such part IS
at al harmful
THE part OF Little Lord Fauntloroy,'
said Russell Bassett. Us full Scventy-two
pages, or a little LONGER than Hamlet. so
YOU can see that 1t : no slight effort Tor a
child to conquer II.
How valuable a piece Of property the play
ST Little Lord FaUmJleroy' Is, can be
imagined from some figures given Il HERALD
representative by Mr.. French. To-day,
he said yesterday afternoon, i play the
Little Lord six times; twice III SAT-
Lake. twice III New York and twice III
New England. II is also being played IN
London, but our house has nointerest IN that
production. Mrs. Frances HOdgson Bur
nett. however, the authorizes, receives a
ROYALTY from all the productions, and she IS
q
solely off her Little Lord Fauntleroy' roya.-
ties l have paid her as high as $1,000 q
week and off the tour Of this company
alone. in Baltimore, San Francisco. Los
Angeles. Sacramento. Sal. Lake and Den
yer, her percentage Will average over
one thousand dollars week. The heaviest
week we played to was IN Baltimore, when
the six nights and two matinees brought IN
$4,000. You talk about the ''Silyer King.
hot haI "a
in New York. The Little Lord
has run 200. and drawn over Sl5O.0JO more
than the other piece. Its New York run
closes Saturday night next, and Fran
els Wilson'S 'OOlah will succeed It,
The New York company comes west &c
Chicago and meets us; the company Will De
reOrganized from the members Of both the
eastern and western, and with the new cast
the Little Lord will run in Chicago
through the summer
''Faultleroy is only one OF Mr.. French :
numerous monied schemes. BESIDES man
aging the big dramatic publishing house OF
French & Sons. which supplies all America
with printed PLAYS, he conducts the new
Broadway thCatre-Of which he Is one
third owner-ruus the Grand opera
house--for which h. pays Jay GOulC
a rental of $1,000 Week-owns his OWL
ocean Yacht. has just purchased an immense
orange grove in Los Angeles, and has al
active interest in twenty such travelling or
carnations as The Romany Rye,
Youth Lights o. London Queens
Lace Handkerchief" ''HoOdman Blind,
besides receiving royalties from hundreds
of amateur companies like our own t
whom he gives the right to produce such
pieces as Diplomacy" Saratoga 'COn
fusion" etc. He is in truth one of tAe bus
lest managers in New York, and in all his
ventures he has had the success that keeI
Judgment, nerve and enterprise, backeC
by capital. always bring.
Members of the FauntlerOy company say
that little Wallie Eddinger is far ahead OF
the original in the part, Elsie Leslie; LITTLE
Miss Leslie wanted $500 u week to make
the western trip, but Mr. French couldn'
see il that way. The little Eddinger ant
EthyI receive somewhere about seventy
five dollars a week. enough to support theIl
parents in decent shape, even were they
not actors themselves; Mr.. Eddinger, how
ever, is a very respectable actor, he accom-
panying his child on this tour and doe
Higgins in 'SFauntleroy." Flossie Ethyl!
mother has her in tow. The two children
are the best of friends and on the traln
are quite inseparable. Whether theil
mothers are so intimate is another question
Little Eddinger had the mishap to swallow
a five dollar gold piece while in Sacrament
and his father was very nervous about hin
all the time of the stay in this city. Littl,
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