The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05

cerned knew and foretold just what the
result would be. but he carnival man
agement persisted and as no one of the
performers wanted to be thought dis
loyal, all turned to and worked with a
will to make a very attractive pro-
gramme Net result to the carnival
fund, forty dollars The tabernacle
concert was rather lost sight of in the
multiplicity of other amusements; it
was in fact neglected till the morning
of the affair and then it was too late.
Had i been worked up as the theat-
rical performance was. or had the town
generally understood that it was to be
a big spectacle as we'll as a concert,
and that the queen of the carnival and
Miss Peart would appear together-the
attendance would have been twice as
great, and the carnival fund would
have had twelve or fifteen hundred
dollars added to it instead of the six
hundred it received. At the Grand,
Manager Rogers took the Pearson COM
pany as a sort of hit or miss" and
il turned out hit. He had so little
confidence in the week that he brought
out THE White Squadron" on shares;
the results have been immense; on
three nights the turnout was prodig-
ious, Thursday and Friday being heav-
lest. Yesterdays matinee was light,
the heat being too intense, and last
nights attendance was again good. One
would have thought that the jam at
Saltair absorbed ali the people of the
town on Friday, but thousands walked
the streets. the Grand turned people
away and the Payton company at the
Lyceum shared in the general pros
perity. 'Inshavogue" and Under the
Gaslight' have both drawn good houses
during the carnival nights. At both
houses the performances were very
wisely deferred till after the parades,
but even then their audiences were out
before midnight. The rush to town for
the past three days was so far beyond
all calculations that the theatre could
have played to damned business had
it put in an attraction, and adopted
the same plan of opening late. Every
thing in the way of amusements, day
and night, good bad and Indifferent,
has had heavy patronage and the
amount of money spent on refresh
ments at the resorts and in saloons de-
fies any attempt at computation.
The coming week at the Grand will
be put in by the same company as
that which produced The White
Squadron. The new bill will be THE
Land Of the Midnight Sum- a story of
Iceland. which has never been done in
this city. The plot is principally de-
voted to the lives CT two half-brothers,
unknown to each other from their in
fancy, the elder of whom, an Icelandic
giant, is sworn to wreak vengeance on
the younger, who was born in warm
er cline and is of gentler nature. An
unfortunate fate causes them both to
fall in love with the same woman, who
narries the southerner, and thus in
creases the hate of the youth from the
icy north against his brother, whom,
however, he has never seen. Eventually
they meet in the sulphur mines at
Krusavik, where they are confined by
a common enemy, who causes them to
be chained together in the hope that
they will discover their identity, and
the stronger kill the weaker. The
Younger brother has been governor of
the island. and his place has been
usurped by the man whose prisoner he
now is and who abuses him to such
an extent that the cruelty touches the
heart of the elder brother. and he
protects instead of Stays his intended
victim, and ultimately is the means Of
his deliverance.