Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-06
,necial Correspondence.


San Francisco, Jan. 3, 1900
one can not help being struck with
,e vast difference between the amuse-
,ont business Of the San Francisco Of
q ndav and that Of the San Francisco Of
.yeral years ago, when the Taber-
acla choir made its visit here. Then
.verythlng was at the rock bottom OF
1,falessness. and people in the theatrical
buslness express wonderment that so
H. travelling organization ever got
svay from California without meeting
Sisaster. II Mr.. Stephens could repeat
e ven ure now they say there would
q very different result to tell. Every
<hing in the business line here has taxi
I'M a fresh start first because of the
GENERAL prosperity Of the country Sec
Nd because the government has spent
,nd IS spending such enormous sums
ere quitting troops for the Philip
!, mes and Hawaii. Money has not been
plentiful since the golden days Of
Ralston. Sharon, Mackay ct al, and as
Mis- is the greatest pleasure loving
rommunity in Amerlea-Salt Lake is
municipal monastery compared with II
all places Of entertainment are getting
fhelr fun share Of the boom.
PEACEFUL SABBATH EVE.
We arrived In San Francisco Sunday
.nlpht-the closing one Of the old year,
and at the hour when Salt Lake was
living herself up to peaceful evening
Aevotions-San Francisco was one vast
seethlng. bowling. roaring furnace Of
hoodlumism. OF course all the theaters
mere running at full blast-knowing the
rlty Of DID, that did not surprise US
But the pandemonlum that relgned on
'1he streets could not be exceled by any
had carnival or Mardi Gras Of Paris
b New Orleans. Some one estimated
Mat $4,000 tin horns were sold on Satur-
Nay for use Sunday night: vast armies
of men and boys, women and girls,
Hand the sexes seemed TO be about
Equally divided paraded the streets all
night; no one In the city thought Of
teeplng. Horns, cowbells, trlangles, oil
tans-everything that could be made 10
5eplit an ear drum was pressed into
Sc and the babel Of sounds produced
Battles any atempt at description The
most ingenious--Or infernal--device for
Producing distraction, which l noticed,
Was that invented by six young bloods
IA swallow tails and stove pipe hats.
Whey were In a barouche drawn by
-FOUR horses, and trailing from the ami
mails and the vehicle by strings were
Cow bells and tin cans In big punches;
BATTLING over the stone pavements at a
3urious rate, one can imagine the merry
chorus Of sounds that resulted. What
Reemed oldest OF all to us straight local
Ealt Lakers, not a paper next morning
IN commenting on the celebration"
pad word TO say except Of its being
, grand and enthusiastic success.
THE AMUSEMENT BOOM.
But returning TO our mutton-it Is
bleasant TO be able TO record that the
Reneral prosperity is being shared in by
fnany old timers in whom Salt Lake AL
Ways feels a kindly interest. The
Boyles have been one Of the features
ID the Orpheum, the big variety house
Which Is making more money than any
Other two amusement enterprises In
Die town combined. After one gets over
&he shock OF having a cigar pulled on
pne side of him and seeing a glass OF
Deer disappearing at the other and is
'Able to rivet his attention to the stage
n finds plenty TO attract him. The
andard Of the bills offered Is high.
zone but the best In their various lines
De best.
THE FRAWLEY co.
u Mr.. Frawley seems 10 be coming up
&gain. He has been at the old Cali
Brnla-which many people here had
thought was hOpelessly back number
<for several weeks now, and aided by
Nat astute manager, Mr.. Fredlander.
Tho is directing the house. he has set
ne tide Of patronage flowing in that d.
action again, and many Of his houses
4tely have been bumpers" We saw
IN in a mammoth scenic production
~ with Flying Colors," a good old
elphi theater melodrama, with fifty
ople In the cast. with the old time
ro, heroine villain and comedy peo-
In new and ingenious gulses, and
played by strong and capable people.
Mally 1t thrilled us as II used 10 thrill
fne twenty years ago. Frawley has
de company and some OF his people
20 stronger than any he has ever
before. Mary Hampton
ille no, a Blanche Bates, Ia strong
q sympathetic. and Harrington Rey-
IDS and Francis Byrne. his two VIII
ns, are admirable artists. Frawley |
mself played the hero in excellent |
UfhiOn He may bring btc NAV 20 |