The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-12

Music lovers are looking forward to
a rare Great at the theatre tomorrow
night in the concert given by Blind
Tom, the famous pianist The pro-
gramme has been arranged by Prof.
Krouse, who has selected numbers
that will not only bring out the Won
derful mastery of the musician over
the instrument, but will please the au-
dience most as well. For this attrac-
ton, the admission has been reduced
TO 70 cents, SO cents and rs cents.
Blind Tom has been playing for
thirty-four years-ever since he was
six years Old. All the musical people
in the world have been interested in
him; but no schemes of education
conld help him. He is an idiot in every
thing but music and repetition Even
ms music does not reach his magma
ton or stir his heart. He plays and
sings by instinct. He can not be
taught TO eat at the table or even to
dress himself. Ali his faculties are
those of three-year-old child. He has
no idea of the value of money, and can
only appreciate sweetmeats and good
tnlngs to eat. In all his thirty-four
concert years he has never disappoint-
cd an audience through illness. He
public realize that even in an age of
freaks he has a claim on their atten-
tlon that amounts almost to the de-
nand of genius. His mimetic powers
alone are phenomenal and his instan-
laheous reproduction of any musical
composition he hears is yet a wonder
In a century Of wonders.
Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew open
at the theatre next Friday night in
The Iron Master and will close on
Saturday evening with I'm society +, in
which it is said Mrs. Potter appears
70 the best advantage. The company
mas mad a rather varied experience late
~. After being quarantined in China
on account of the black plague and los
ing over a week, they reached San
francisco during the strike, and that
seriously hampered their movement
over the coast. They are ..out of the
woods" now, and expect to have clear
salllng Tor the balance of the season.
Mr.. w. NJ. Gray, their energetic
manager, came down to Salt Lake YES
terday and completed arrangements for
the Salt lake engagement Mr.. GRAY
cahcC 'ed the company's dates at Ogden
but will not forget the Junction civ
for Sine time. He is CARRYING his eood
right arm in sling just now as a re-
suit OF a collision with an Ogden wheel
man.
One of the strongest plays in Mrs
Potter's repertoire is 1.-THE Iron Mas
ter The story briefly told. shows
Claire de Beauliew (Mrs. Potter, marrv-
ing PHILIPPE Derbiay (Mr. BELIEVE, an
lronmaster, IN moment of piaue
caused by her affianced, the Due de-
Bllmy marrying a plebian for her for
tune. Claire does not love her low-born
husband, and tells him so immediately
after their marriage. To avoid the
scandal which a separation would bring
the mismated counle keep UP an an,
pearance Of perfect marital felicity.
though they are worse than strangers
10 each other. The Due endeayors to
reinstate himself in the affection of tbe
woman he gifted, while his wife attemnts
10 win the esteem of the ironmasfer
The latter's nobility of character gradn-
ally earns the love of his wife. and che
not only repulses the advances of The
Due. but orders the duchess from her
house. The latter demands her hus-