The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-24

Salt Lake when he appeared here as
the hero in In Old Kentucky" When
he was engaged to join the Ingersoll
company here at the opening of last
season, people thought his abilities
were limited to heroes and lovers of
the rough school, but during the
thirty-five weeks he has been with us
he has demonstrated that he is equal
to almost anything in the whole dra-
matte gamut. He himself says he took
as much pleasure in playing his role
in Dream Faces" as anything else
he has done in Salt Lake, and that he
is specially fond of any part with
touch of character in it. To our mind
he has done few things equal to his
CAPTAIN Hawksley in "StiIl Waters
to Denver, where he opens at the
Manhattan Beach theatre under the
stage direction of George Edeson. Mr..
Rogers is after both men for the fall
season, and he would have difficulty in
finding any two more acceptab bic to
his patrons. Mrs. Edwards and the
children-who, like Mr.. Edwards, have
found Salt Lake a most Econgenlal
abiding place-also go to Denver.
Modern Infidels VS.. Ingerso1l,' the
lecture by Father Malone to be rem
dered this evening at the opera house,
is said to be one of the greatest and
most unique lectures ever delivered in
this or any other country. Wherever it
has been delivered it has created a
sensation. After its initial delivery in
Denver, Colo, Father Malone was the
recipient of many letters from emf
nent Protestant clergymen of the city
congratulating him heartily upon his
~,
envy of Christianity, and wishing him
Godspeed in his laudable endeavor to
unite all Christians against their COM
mon enemy, inf1delity. The lecture is
given for the benefit of st. AIMS
Orphanage.
The failure of Abbey, Schoeffel &
Grau, detailed in todayS dispatches,
will send a shock of surprise through
out the whole musical and theatrical
world. Bad as the season has been
known to be, everyone thought this
great firm was founded on rock;
they were supposed to have made sew
eral fortunes during the past several
seasons out of the great coterie of
singers they brought over from Europe,
and the wealth and profusion with
which their operas were staged GER
tainly have never been equalled in this
or any other country. 1t is not proba-
BILE that the DeResikes, Melba, Calve,
Games and the other great artists
whom this firm brought over to Ameri-
ca, will find any other managers who
will have the nerve to pay the sala-
ries Abbey, Schoeffel e. Grau are re-
puted to have done.
Christensens band has been award
ed the contract for furnishing music
at Sahair during the coming season,
and all the dances which have been
made so popular during the past win
| ter will be reproduced on the great
pavilion. The ball season, which was
supposed to have ended last Wednes-
day evening, has been prolonged a
week. and the closing is now an
nounced for Wednesday evening next.
NEW YORK, May 2S.-The Herald
| this morning says
After an extended ahd brilliant ca
reer as operate and dramatic mana
gers, after introducing to the Ameri-
! can public the greatest actors and
singers of Europe, after presenting
| grand opera on more splendid scale
than has ever before been attempted in
| this country, Mrs Abbey, Schoeffel and
Grau controlling the Metropolitan
| Opera house and Abbey's theater in
! New York and the fremont theater in
Boston, have found themselves in SER
| ious financial difficulties, and have
| made an assignment for the benefit of
the creditors.
Their operate ventures since 1891
| have given them magnificent profits
| but with two or three exceptions their
dramatic undertakings have been most
disastrous, and the latter have not
only swallowed up all the great gains
| of the opera seasons, but have run the
firm into such debt that they find them
selves, as firm and individuals, prac-
tically stripped of every dollar that
! they owned
The crisis was precipitated by Mr.
Abbey's serious illness. The operate
affairs which were highly successful,
were largely under Mr. Grau's man
agement, and the season having been
finished, there was no trouble in that
direction.
The artists had been paid, had gone
to Europe and most of them had been
re-engaged for the season. Mr.. Schoe-