The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-16
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| PRIMROSE & WEST-These mon
archs of minstrelsy brought their big
metropolitan show to Salt Lake last
night. not a feature being lacking of all
the many that marked the wonderful
runs in New York, Boston and Phila-
deplhia. runs unheard of in the history
OF minstrel organizations hitherto. The
attraction is without any doubt the
brightest, best and most expensive of
any that ever visited Salt Lake before,
and even the high standard Primrose
and West themselves set in bygone
years has been passed and left in the
distance. There is not a detail in the
whole performance that is not new and
thoroughly up to date, and some of the
features border on the marvellous
The first part is big, bright and me-
loGious, the singers admirable and the
orchestra itself complete feature
rarely heard outside of opera. The
darkey quartette is the best ever heard
here; Charles Kent, handicapped by
being introduced as the California
baritone" when all his Utah friends
knew he hailed from here, got warm
welcome and his rendering of Just Be
hind the Times was one of the most
artistic things of the evening. Mr.. Win
dom. author of the we'll known song,
1t Didn't Seem Like the Same Old
Smile, got an ovation, and gave that
ballad as an encore. George Primrose,
the Berry Wall of minstrelsy, has a
new song, "Hot Time in Old Town To-
night, that caught on as immensely as
his gem of yore, do You Love Me as
| Love Your George Wilson, the in
lmltable comedian, got an old-Iime
welcome and showed that he is as in
imitable as ever. Time and space will
not permit mention of every act but
all were of high grade, the positive
hits being the amazing club swinging
OF the Howat trio, which surpaSseS
anything of the kind ever seen here; the
admirable novelty by Howe, Wall and
Walters in the Postoffice, and the beau
tiful phantom drill by the 16 coons
under the direction of Mr. West
The audience was one of the great
ones of the season, every inch of space
being occupied; the colored contingent
Of the town and the barracks being out
IN astonishing force, and gloating very
perceptibly over the reception accorded
their clever brethren on the stage The
show plays for the last time tonight.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening
THE Little Cinderella" company, con-
sisting of So children, mostly from the
California theater, San Francisco. will
~ s7CCAA' NiiCdC piiCSS prevail dl the
matinee, and as the show is one es-
sentially attractive to children, big
turnout ought to greet it.
% @, %
gentleman of this city, steady
patron of the theater, asks The Herald
whether the house cannot put into
force a more rigorous rule in relation
to Objectionable female characters OBJ
tanning seats in the lower portion of
the auditorium He and others have
of late been intensely annoyed by being
seated with their ladies next to notori-
GUS women of the town. At the box
Office it is stated that every precaution
is taken that can be to see that this
class of people are sent up stairs, and
usually they go there, but when mes
senger boys are sent for tickets, ii is
to tell for whom they are
buying. 1t is one of the vexed prob
lens that every theater has to deal
with, and none that we know of has
found a satisfactory solution of it.