The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-23

Ine feature of the coming week Il
Haverly's Ministries. which omen at III,
Theatre on Wednesday for two nights
engagement. Some years ago. as on,
citizens surely remember, Jack Haver
ly was the Napoleon Of the minstra
stage, and carried this feature of thea.
meals higher than it had ever beer
carried before. He had a number OF
tloupes OF the road and made
an immense fortune; or, at leas
ne was given credit for favinf
become very rich. But adversity swen1
over him just as quickly He lost his
mead and his money all at once. AND
went down with crash. 1t was not a
oull mud, but laundering smash. For
Years ne was in darkness so Nranf
that Eugene Field, the alleged Chica Cd
poet, wrote:
Jack Haverly Jack Haverlyi wonda-
where you are:
are your fortunes cast with Sirius or
meath some kIndlier star?
How happens we never see your won
drOuS minstrel show
With its apt alliterations, as we used to
years ago?
All the ebon aggregations that aff1ict
D., these modern tip
Are equally unwort of our prose and
OF our rhymes;
And ] vainly pine and banker for the
joys that used to come
With the trumpet's ump-ta-ra-ra and the
big bass drum.
This and other things have, brought
Jack ont again, and he approaches us
now with the positive assurance that
daVerly'S Original MaStodon MinStrels
are more brilliant and refined and in
every way worthier than any Of his
previous companies. Many of the peo-
pie are new and it is said that special
attention has been given. to the vocal
department.. Among the leaders are
named Burt Shepard, Harry Armstrong.
ALT Gibson, Harry Budworth, and 9TH
ers who have a high reputation. The
sale of seats begins on Monday morn
ing.
go on, they sal. let us have
some more of the early history Of the
theatre 1t has more interest for us
than the rise and fall Of the Roman
Empire." Indeed, there is a romantic
and unique interest ckngclg arht nd
the old structure. 1t is ona of the few
historic theatres of he country. Fire
and failure have wiped out most Of the
Others that opened thirty years ago.
and with few exceptions, notably the
rheatre at Savannah, Ga, the Salt
Lake theatre stands as the 1nost an
Gent and interesting in the United
States. We do not say that its urigfna
promoters ''builded better than they
hAlSWa IOI ana OIra hlI.tV 4
are stamped in every great rock in its |
Foundation and in the huge hcVn logs
that frame its stage; but though it has |
been revised, restored and modernized |
and is thoroughly up to date. it is prac-
ideally the same edifice that it was in I
the beginning. It's boards are ever sug-
gestiye of the shades of the illustrious |
actors and actresses who have trod |
thereon, and its dressing rooms remin-
ascent of many manly men and beaute-
GUS women whose names have glittered |
in the histrionic armament of long ago.
On Sunday mornings, when some srace
as yielded to us, We may continue to re-
count some of the theatrical memories
of the past.
The fall season of 1864 opened on Oc-
tober 8, when the stock company rem
dered Jessie Brown; or, the Relief of
Lucknow" and, of course, added a
farce-"The Two Polts"-to make up
weight. A mere historical drama in
five acts was scarcely sufficient for one
evening, as it would let the people out
before midnight T. A Lyme continued
to appear, and on December 4, Paunce-
fort again presented himself, this time
IN Don Caesar de Bazan." About
twice week, these performa aces were
kept up, heavy dramas constantly an
pearing, until the season theoretically
closed on May 20. 1866, with the Rag
picker of Paris" During this time was