The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

was the heaviest of the week. AT yes
terdays matinee the Grand was packed
to Suffocation at % cents per head,
While the theatre held only a partial
audience in the 75-cent sections, and
not full one in the 50-cent places. The
town is evidently full of people who can
take in a 25-cent matinee, while the
addition of the extra 80 cents keeps
many away from even so ambitious an
! attraction as In Gay New York
This attraction closed at the theatre
last evening to a fair turnout, one
hardly so large as had been expected.
The enormous turnout of the two first
nights, however which could not have
counted up less than $1,000 or $1,700,
made up more than satisfactory aver
age.
Three weeks of life as a combina-
ton manager have shown Manager Nc
CARVE that the public is pretty much
the same sort of creature, whether he
! offers it stock company or combina-
ton show. If the show is good it comes,
if it is bad it stays away. Assuming
that on the past week Mr. McGaryie
has retained 80 per cent of the pro-
! ceeds. he has not done a all badly for
that week: but he has the "SamI of
| PoSen' week to offset it, and the pros
pect of several dark weeks ahead with
rent to pay Just the same. Accord
ingly Mr. McGarYie will go off on a
pilgrimage to the north and northwest
this week. looking into the class of
attractions playing in Seattle and other
places, With a view to seeing whether
Salt Lake cannot be made a part of the
circuit and obtain a good class-none
others wanted-of attractions weekly.
For the first week in January the
Grand has booked the Calhoun Opera
company
Phil Margetts has clipped from an old
scrap book and sent to The Herald an
article from the Penny Magazine, Lon
don, on the Globe theatre, With a cut
of that renowned old play house, as it
stood IL 1913. The Globe, which was
converted from d beer garden into a
theatre about the year 1890. stood
nearly opposite the end of Queen street.
Cheapside and was heXagonal build
ing of wood, partly open at the top,
partly matched with reeds. The per-
formances took place by daylight, and
during the time of playing flag was
displayed on the roof About 1886. the
proprietOrs, of whom Shakespeare sub
seQuently became one, had the old edi-
fee pulled down, and a more cOmmodi-
Gus theatre erected. On June 90. 1913,
the new house was entirely destroyed
by fire. The performers We're present
ing Shakespeare's play of Henry
VIII" and on the kings entrance in the
masquerade, some cannon were dis
charged, the wadding from which set
fire to the theatre.
Mr.. Margetts' old magazine contain
ing the cut and the above description,
is dated Feb. 16, 1888.
g 8 9
Theatrical Topics has this charming
little notice of Maud Adams: There is
a little woman who daintily alights
| from q Broadway car on Fortieth street
her way to the stage door of the En-
pire theatre, where she has a pleasant
word for the doorkeeper and any and
all the stage mechanics that may hap
pen to be in that vicinity. One would
hardly imagine that this is Miss Maude
! Adams, who has set all New York talk
ing and who, by the way, is playing
to the largest receipts of any attraction
in the United States at this writing.
This gifted lady has met with enough
success in the last two months to turn
even the head of a Bernhardt. She is
the same little homebody She has
nothing to say for publication and does
not depend upon sensational press work
for her artistic as well as financial tri-
umph. Miss Adams whole life on and
off the stage is as pure as a crystal.
She realizes that Mr.. Charles Frohman
| knew lust what he was doing when he
sent her out as a star. She has per
/ feet faith in his Judgment, and has
/ good reasons for same, as, since her
opening night in Washington, followed
by Baltimore. and her two months en-
! ga cement so far in this city. she has
| played to more money than did either
/ Olga Nethersole. Ada Rehan, Julia
@ O g
George D. Piper arrives from the
/ Nashville exposition today, and will be-
! gin rehearsals With The Chimes of
/ Normandy during the week. The full
/ cast will be as follows:
/ Serpolette 1900. Miss Louise Savage
! Germaine -. :. :. Miss Sallie Fisher
/ Marquis -. MIR. Goddard
! Gaspard go. -. :. .....M Mr.. Spencer
! GrenecheuX :. ........ 80. Mr. Pyper
/ Ballie - - ..M Mr. Campbell
/ Gertrude 1900 ;. :. :. Miss Edmunds
Notary :. :. :. 49,. Mr.. Foster
The makeup of the chorus will be as
Sopranos: Bessie Edmunds, Lily Bit
ner, Roselle Romney, Ida Pitt, Lucy
4 Dean, Rose Patten, Blanche Aldrich,
Carol Cannon and Hattie Wallace.
Altos: Allie Bitner, Ethel Saville Ell
sic Barrow. Lulu Penrose, Lottie Mar
croft. Miss HaIvorsen, Julia Jones and
Louie Felt.
Tenors: Frank Foster, r. Edmunds,
/ w. Ames. NJ Brodie, Sam Spry, l. w.