The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-06

rens, Clarkes, Batemans,s Kyles, Cooks,
ETC.. as steady bill of fare-pie every
day in the week, as it Were-and his
public simply declines to come down
to plain diet Miss Belgrade was not
satisfactory; neither, we regret to say,
is Miss yalleau, and some of the plays
put forward this season are many
grades below the successes of the pre-
vious seasons. As far as Mr. ROGERS
statement about not being sustained
by the public and the press, the public,
regarded in it's entirety, is as cold. cal
culatiD- and commercial in its every
instinct as the most soulless of cor
porations. 1t pays for one thing only
to be pleased; it makes no allowances
tolerates 70 excuses, its shibboleth is
''amuse me, or off goes your head" As
for the press, The Herald can say,
speaking at least for itself, it is always
more generous. If Mr. Rogers has
made a successful production, or one
of his players has scored a hit, as so
many of them have, this paper has al
ways eXerted itself to herald his fame
and trumpet his praise: if a failure has
been made. The Herald has never en-
at all times to be an impartial and
truthful critic, with as much kindness
as the ofttimes unpleasant duty i'm
posed on il would allow. Any other
course would lose the respect of the
public, his players and of no one else
sooner than Mr.. Rogers himself. We
-aneat our sincere wish that his
troubles mag be only temporary, and
that his popular little house NAV soon
emerge from its difficulties.
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The Grand opens tonight for a band
concert at popular prices. The colored
band Of the Twenty-fourth infantry
has been asked to play in the city a
number Of times, and Mr.. Schaffner,
the leader Ca white professor, by the
way). has engaged the house and will
render the following programme:
March. "El Capitan." band. 49, Sousa
Selection. ''Tannhauser," band.
.............. ........... Wagner
Medley selection by the Mandolin
clup -. 49,. ..--.--- Schaener
Waltz, Ella" band .. .Cardozo
Polka. short and sweet cornet duet,
band Observation-Disclosures. Strauss
Performed b. L. Johnson and Loving
Waltz, ''Idilio," by the Mandolin club
-. '-......-...- ......--... Cordina
Overture. Poet and Peasant. band,
Kyrie, from Twelfth Mass Mozart
Tomorrow night Della Fox who
leaped into fame when she supported
De Wolf Hopper, and then started out
a star herself, opens a three nights en-
gagement at the theatre. The COM
pany is a 'arge one and travels with
all its own scenery. For this occasion
Miss Fox will present her opera,
"Fleur- de-Lis,' a brief synopsis of
which is as follows: A couple of old
fellows, a count and a marquis, who
were born on the same day, and have
been devoted friends since childhood,
are at war, when the opera opens, over
an estate left by their late uncle at
st. Claude, France. He had presum-
ably left a will, but as they cannot
find it, they proceed to fight for the
heirloom. The count appears to have
the best of the argument, for the mar
quis has been deserted by all his SOL
diers, and he is besieged in his fortress
with only women for defenders. A
long lost daughter of the marquis
(Fleur- de-Lis) makes an opportune
appearance, however, and after win
ming the heart of the counts son, pro-
ceeds to make matters interesting for
the father She appears in numerous
characters-a flower girl, a doll, a
ragged boy musician, a ghost, etc
ridiculously complicating everybody
and everything until the end, when
the lost will is found, which leaves all
the estate to her father, and all ends
we'll in the good old comic opera style
1t will be seen by this slight story that
it gives unlimited scope for fun, and
the music is said to be particularly
catchy and bright.
Wednesday evening 1.-The Little
Trooper" will be produced
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Lee Wilson, who is here attending to