The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

Cleveland's minstrels-real darkeys-the
white imitators come later-are the next
attraction at the theatre after the ball sea
son is over. Cleveland is TO minstrelsy to-
day what Haverly used to be. His mana
ger writes US as follows:
For several years past the country has
been flooded with small bands of colored
MINISTRIES, each band comprising from four
teen TO twenty people, which have travelled
under the titles of Georgia's, Alabama's
Black Boys and Colored MINISTRIES, giving
performances that were painful to behold,
not only TO the audiences, but to the per-
formers themselves. Manager w. S.
Cleveland, who is ever on the alert to give
his patrons something new, therefore con-
cluded<o have the leading genuine colored
minstrel company, as well as the two largest
white minstrel companies in the world and
with his usual good judgment has succeeded
in getting under contract all the best colored
artists in the universe, and will
have a company comprising sixty of
the very best genuine colored per
formers ever seen on one stage together,
prominent among whom are Tom Mcintosh,
James Bland, VIII Eldridge, Doc Sayles,
George Tichnea, four Brewer Bros, Eaton
and Williams, Cicero Reed and Son, Grant
and Williams, the Sans Souci quartette,
the Twilight quartette, Billy Farrell,
Smart and Taylor, the great Jalvan, Prof.
James Wilson, w. c. Harris, Henderson
Smith, Mons. Levard, Frank Warner and
Tom Jones, together with numberleSs ac-
robats, comedians, singers, dancers and
musicians, who will present a unique en-
tertainment with many novelties original
with Manager Cleveland. This company
is already booked in most of the leading
theatres of this country from Maine to
California and New York to New Orleans
-x.il odd ~ "a
wreath of Manager Cleveland's many sue
ceSses.
1t was hoped that the affairs of Locke
& Davis would be Strengthened out by
the dropping out of the Minnie Palmer
Opera company and the suspension of the
M. b. Curtis organization. These two com
binatious had been losing a heap of money
for the firm / have mentioned, and people
were inclined to encourage the belief That
when the losers were abandoned Locke 81
Davis would speedily get upon their feet
again. But, with singular alteration of
judgment, the Curtis company has been
kept on, and IS now knocking about, | be-
lieve, with Curtis substitute at its head.
how on earth il is hoped that such a scheme
as this can possibly succeed, is more than
any rational being OF my acquaintance can
imagine. People are wondering why Mr.
Locke does not get rid CT all his weak en-
Ierprises and stick 10 his winners. At pres
ent Curtis and the Emma Juch company
seem TO be more than swallowing the pro
fits of the DeWolf Hopper organization
and the Nero production. The latter. in
deed, is in particularly precarious condi-
ton, and there are signs of q complete col
lapse Of the company. Salaries have not
been paid with anything like regularity.
and, on several occasions, some Of the prin-
cipals have fatty refused to 90 on the stage
without being paid what was owed them.
This condition of affairs is entirely unnec-
essary-or at least it would be if the re-
ceipts of Nero had been used entirely for
the support of that show. As il is, Miss
.Iuch ana Mr. Curtis have drained not ONLY
the Nero treasury, but that of DeWoli
Hopper as well MIR. Gilmore has for some
weeks threatened 10 throw out the Locke
and Davis spectacle without ceremony, un
less there Is an immediate change in the
system OF management, and some of the
people who are interested in the De Vol
Hopper company are raising constant rio
over their inability to secure what is du,
them, and what might be paid readily
enough from the earnings Of the combina
ton, if the receipts were not carted awal
elsewhere to the support of losing schemes
Both Locke and Davis are energetic men
and they possess ability OF a high order
But Locke, who appears to be the control
ling spirit, has an unfortunate faculty o
biting off more than he can "chaw," a
we Kentuckians say, and he is now payin;
the penalty Of his lack of caution. Drama
tic Nei0s.
Only those who know Mr.. Locke can ap