The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-03
ADJUSTMENTS.
WILL CARLETON.

WILL CARLETON.
Just $50 people assembled at the Salt
Lake theatre last evening to greet ''the
poet of the people," the gifted viii Garlic
ton. Surely IL Mr.. Carleton thought OF
any one thing more wildly than another as
he gazed out upon that audience, it must
have been lover the Hill to the Poor
House." II was not only poor house, but
. beggarly one, and those present felt sort
of humiliation that Mr.. Carleton should
have to face it. 1t was all the fault of
bungling management on the part of Major
Pond, or the man he sent ont to represent
him, and the loss they sustain is something
no one will feel sorry for, except on Mr..
Csrletonis account
The opportunity of hearing poetry as
widely read as MIR. Carleton's, recited by
the man who made it is q rare one, and his
listeners last night keenly, breathlessly
enjoyed it. Carleton is a man not yet
forty-seveE. with q face that could not
be called handsome but is certainly strik-
ing; q very prominent Roman nose q mus
tache retreating up under 1t and pair Of
twinkliug eyes are his principle facial
characteristics. His voice is well tuned
and pleasant; his manner of speaking is
impressiYe; his gestures would not be
called graceful, but they arrest the atten
ton. He is filed with magnetism, and as
he walked up and down the stage, repeat
ing some of his familiar lines, he chained
the attention Of his audience as though he
was the most gifted and graceful orator in
the world. The hour and q half he occu-
pied was made up of a steady stream of
anecdotes, poems and miscellaneous re-
marks: he gave some of his older works
snd some of his newer ones, some that
wore altogether new here, and at the COZ
clusion Of each he was met with warm
burst of applause. His homely and rug
yk..n 81,
In his secret of reaching the masses,
Carleton is the Dickens of poe
try, and when TO the charm
Of his works, there is added the charm of
his delivery and his own Interpretation OF
his own characters-it would be difficult
to picture anything moro delightfully."-
satisfying. One of the best things of the
night was his selection, 1.-THE Pioneer't
Tale:'' it was immensely applauded
While we regret that MIR. CRrleton's intro
duction to Salt LAKE. audience should
have been so inauspicious, we can assure
him that hs has multiplied the number Of
his admirers here, and we trust and be
lieye his second coming will be vastly
different thing from his initial appearance
An amusing occurrence during the even
ing was the appearance of a weeping boz
at the box office window. He was askeC
what he wanted and answered between hi
sobs that he had been up to the second cir
Gle and that he was afraid to stay there all
alone. lie wanted his money back.
STEPHENS RESIGNS.
A thunderclap burst over the heads o
the Choral society last evening when Di
rector Evan Stephens stood up before tn
200 hundred mem ers present at the taber
nacie rehearsal of 1.-The Light of Asia,
and announced that his resignation was Il
the hands of the directors. The troubl
seems 10 be that for some time past Their
sas been q falling of in the attendance o.
the pars OF the mem Ders, and ut last Nj
Stephens reluctantly made up his min
hat it would be impossible to give tn
Light Of Asia" creuitaoly this summer
The announcement OF his resignation wa
received with deep regret and the direC
tors stated that next Monday evening
meeting would be devoted TO considerin
what steps should be taken for the future
The society is under an expense of abou
500 per month, and OF late the reyenu
has been shut OF entirely. 1t was DRAWN
heavily on its funds, and depended Cd tn
coming concert 10 aid its fast sinking treas
ury. The decision TO abandon the per
Torrance and Mr.. Stephens resignatio
makes the future of the society matter
uuch uncertainty.