The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-02

between the acts or find shelter from the
rains which fall every day during nine
months of the year. Squatting all alonf
the pavement in front of the main en-
trance are always scores of greasy
negresses doing fiourishing business in
the sale of sweetmeats and bonbons. JUS
inside the door is a large bar room, which
the audience visit frequently during ar
evening, gentlemen taking out their ladies
for sweet drinks. beer and champagne
| The interior Is very handsomely decor.
ated in crimson, white and gold. There
are five tiers of boxes, and each box has 9
little ante-room where the occupants re-
ceive and entertain their friends. both be
tween and during the acts for here as
well as elsewhere in Spanlsh-America
| people come to the theatre apparently for
anything except to listen to the perform
aLce. If there are no callers, the ladies
| and gentlemen promenade the corridors
and even take an occasional turn at waltz
ing in the large ball room that fills
the front of the building. There are no
proscenium boxes, but in the centre
of the middle tier is gorgeoosly
ornamenled stall reserved for the presi-
dent, the governor and the bishop. The
galleries are remarkable IN that none of
them are upheld by pillars but are sup
ported on slender iron brackets. AS in
European opera houses, one-half the par
quette has seats which are sold at reason
able price and the other half for double
and treble that sum-a distinction without
a difference exception the amount of money
charged.
SUNDAY THEATRE GOING.
The orchestra of twenty five performers
has no leader, and the leading instrument
is piano. Sunday is the most fashionable
evening for theatre-going here as in all
0th oi<
ladies universally appear in full ball cos :
tune, uncovered heads adorned with
flowers or jewels, bare arms and DO bodices
to speak of. Though $40 is the advertised
hour, the performances usually begin an
hour or so later, but nobody seems to be
disturbed in their gaiety and cheerful flow
of conversation by whatever may be hap
pening on the stage, and as a rule, fashion
able Para audiences sit with their backs
to the performers and pay them not the
slightest attention. The great theatre was
erected just after the close of the long and
bloody war with Paraguay, and to com
memorate that event IL was named the
Theatre of Our Lady of Peace"
THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
The next building in point of architec-
tursl pretensions is the government
houses very large but plain two-storied
building facing an extensive plaza, which
Is covered with rank grass like meadow.
The plaza is surrounded by quaint, one
story casas and rows of old mango trees.
and in its center is TALL white marble
monument, erected in honor of some ia
nous Paranese warrior: but we must beg
you to excuse US from wading through
that tangled, painless and doubtless snake
infested grass to discover his name Close
by is fort, mounting guns of light cali
bre; and following the same street. which
for half q mile or more is bordered by
double row OF royal palms, like those in the
Botanical garden at Rio, we may pass the
governors mansion and bring up at the
great Market House. But the latter is n
institution worthy of an especial visit, and
today we will pass by it.
MANGABEIRA.
While the city, as you know, fronts the
river, lis rear is skirted by shaded walk,
or paseo, as it 1t here called, whose equal
would be hard to find Oh the American con-
tinent. 1t is called the Esbrado dos Manga
beira, from the huge mangabeira trees
which line both sides and extend
several miies-from the marine arsenal
to the river side, to the Largo da
Polyora on the eastern extremity OF