The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06
for profit is quite good in spite of the ire

Tor profit is quito good, in spite of the ire
| mendous risk assumed
But after all, is it such risk to engage
Palns To be sure it is g feat to make any
oody shlVer to take such an organization,
numbering about one hundred and fifty
people, all over this continent Terrific
fares, long jumps and only very few cit
les to support such combination-that IS
what 1t meant Between here and San
FRANCISCO only Denver, Omaha and Chi
cago could stand the strain.
! Marcus Mayer reckons chat the gross re-
celpts OF the entire season will be within q
/ very few thousand dollars OF million.
w WAT word will suit the circu Instance of
such phenomena! The profits of Abbey
and Grau will probably be from S120, 900 to
SloO,0O0 and no men ever deserved it more
Tor bringing together such d remarkable
combination Of artists. Sometimes they
can GO these things in Europe but it must
De remembered that the prices over there
OF artists are just about 0ne-half what they
are here
Take Tamagno, for instance. When he
sings IN Italy Oh Spain, lie gets $1,000 a
night. lie came to Mr.. Abbey for $780,
600 for fifty performances. But Abbey
mas not been able to use up the fifty. not
having had time within the specified dates,
as, by his contract, he cannot compel the
tenor to sing more than SO many times a
week, so that when Tamagno leaves here
ne Will have sung about forty-four times.
his pay, therefore, will have been about
$3.50 night. With it all, Tamagno is not
generous man. He doesn't even support
| a servant, but has his brother. who is a
chorus singer in the company, at salary
OIL SO week, give him what assistance
ne needs. 1t is curious thing that all
Jne big Italians who come to this
country have that remarkable pen
chant Of boarding their money
NOW Patti, who is extremely careful In
her mode of life, and who hardly spends
anything on herself, is still more lavish IN
her expenditures She takes the most eX
penslve suit of apartments and orders in
yariably the best the hotel can afford, even
though her own diet is confined to the very
Simplest ingredients At all events, she
SPENDS all she reasonably can. There
Ism / a streak OF meanneSs in her character
one may answer to thai tina she gets
enormous sums of money. Yet her ire
mendous income is hardly too great to sup
port the tremendous outlay of that castle
IN Wales. This year alone her expendi-
lures on it amounted to S60000 Imagine
that she is going to build a glass house 500
feet long by 500 broad for a conservatory
ana winter promenade. The cost of this
alone will be over S25, ZOO.
After these two artists, such people as
Nordlca, Albani, Ravelli, Del Puente and
whele lot of other high priced people.
whose names do not occur to US at the
moment, and we have the biggest combina-
ton OF Italian opera that has ever been in
this country. They gave eight perform
ancces III Boston in one week. and didn't
repeat an opera. In Mexico they gave
seventeen performances and only repeated
twice. This IN itself shows the great talent
that is displayed in the organization.
Usually IN these companies there are half
uozen people Tor one thing, who all get
quarreling together Here there has not
been single disturbance in the entire sea-
son.
The scene at the close of the performance
on Friday night was almost unparalleled
Tor New York. The cur lain had Just fallen
after the most exquisite rendering of "Ah
Non Credea" that ever came from human
throat The big audience was wild with
enthusiasm.
The German band had quickly got away.
Tor they probably knew what;was coming.
Patti came out and bowed again and again
They continued bringing her forth. She
pointed to the orchestra to indicate that
1T was impossible to sing "Home, Sweet
Home" without accompaniment, but the
audience would not have it.
They sat stolidly in their seats and in
sisted upon it. At last the piano was
wheeled out on the stage, and Patti sang
those famous couplets as nobody else sings
them, but she had her reward There was
about $4,000 in the house that night. of
which Nine. PATHS share was S, 500.
very tidy sum for the evenings wor1.-N.
Y. Morning Journal.
One of the coming local events at the
Salt Lake theatre is the entertainment and
concert to be given by Miss Ida Zenoma
Gray, better known here few years ago
as talented reader, under the name of
Miss Ida Hitchcock. She will be assisted
by strong list of local names and Mr.
Stephens is to have charge of the musical
numbers. The date is the 18th instant.