The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-05

by any other than Mr. Sponsors own COM
pany and that gentleman personally directs
each performance. The company embraces
this season Miss Telulu Evans, Will Mande-
vile, Jennie Goldthwaite, Joseph Newly,
Alice Hosmer and many of the old favor
ties. Welcome Little Tycoon"
The welcome feature OF FRIDAYS concert
was the appearance in our midst of the
popular tenor, Boz Easton; though not in
quite so good voice as during the afternoon
rehearsal, when we heard him dwell for ten
seconds on az fine q high G as ever pro-
ceeded from the throat of a tenor, he reused
the audience to the old time enthusiasm and
got the only double encore of the night 1t
is very regrettable that a 1voice
like Easton's cannot be retained in Salt
Lake, the choral and the choir
both stand in need of him. and he will be
needed more than ever during the coming
festival. A duett for him and the basso
Myron w. Whitney, we learn is among the
attractive possibilities of that occasion.
We note that Logan is making the most
of Easton's presence there. George w.
Thatcher, jr., director of the Logan opera
house orchestra, is arranging for pro-
duction of the opera 1.-THE Black Nantes, !"
and the cast is as follows: Dromez, j. M.
Wilson; Don Louis, R. G. Easton; Don
Jose w. S. Lamoreaux; Don Philip R. w.
Sloan; Nicolo, a. Anderson; Girola, Mrs.
r. w. Sloan; Queen, Miss Bessie More
head: Inez, Miss Hattie Thatcher.
The New York Herald said of Barrett's
death: Next to the bereaved widow, none
probably WINGED so keenly under the sud
den blow as the brother artist, Edwin
Booth, whose recent effort has been SO
closely united with that of Mr.. Barrett.
Barrett was like younger brother to
''the melancholy Dane.n He was always
full of resource, always cheerful where the
more Responding temperament of his COM
panion saw no light shining. He absolutely
! enjoyed the details of management, which
Booth in his later years certainly detested.
! No more perfect partnership IN art could
be imagined than of these two.
| Shortly after II o'clock yesterday fore
noon Mr. Booth called at the Windsor hotel
to express his sympathy with Mrs. Bar
rett. The strongly marked lines of his face
were deepened as if with a graver's tool.
When the intelligence of Mr.. Barrett's
death was conveyed to him after his return
from the theatre on Friday night, he
was completely unnerved. He is reported
to have exclaimed:
81 always thought should go first!"
! He remained some time with Mrs. Bar
rett administering what consolation was
possible, and when he emerged from the
death chamber he seemed to have grown
years older. He declined to be interviewed
and returned Immediately to his apartments
at the Players Club.
Mr.. Theodore Bromley, manager for
Booth and Barrett, said that it had been
decided to close the Broadway theatre
until Tuesday. All moneys which hac
been taken at the box Office for yesterday:
performance was refunded during the
afternoon.
"Richelieu'' was q have been the bill fol
the matinee, and "Romeo and Juliet for The
evening. All the members of the company
expressed the deepest regret at Mr.. Bar
rett's death, and were much relieved wher
they learned that they would not be called
upon to play. The engagement at thu
Broadway theatre would have closed il
any event on Saturday next. 1t is quit,
likely, however, that the term which ha'
been billed at the Brooklyn Academy o
Music will be filed out. The roles which
Mr.. Barrett would have played will be as
sumed by Messrs. Albert Drumming, John
A. Lane and Lawrence Hanley.