The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31
THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

= in Mrs behring's Divorce; >
= Wednesday evening, Mrs. Lang =
= try in "The DegeDerates'; =
= Thursday, Friday and Saturday ,
= evenings and Saturday matinee, =
= Way Down East"
GRAND.-MOnday Tuesday =
= and Wednesday evenings and =
= Wednesday matinee, ''For >
= Mothers Sake
tfItNLEss something entirely unex-
pected happens to improve the
atrical conditions. there won't
be theatre in New York City open
after March ], wrote an eastern theat-
ricai man to a friend in salt Lake last
week The situation I'm the metropolis
and. indeed, all over the east, has been
rapidly going from bad to worse and
then more OF it. Reports received by
Klaw & Granger are said TO show that
51 companies have gone TO the wall
since the season opened.
tt is estimated that many hundreds
OF thousand Of dollars have been lost,
and only the firms that. are especially
wealthy viii De able to weather the
ELtIlls NNLNfUliNs the &OEEB SufEEfEES
are the members of the diSDanded COM.
ranies. Thrown out of employment IN
mid season, there is absolutely no pros
Nect for them TO secure new positions
until the opening of the new theatrical
year. Actors and actresses are pro-
verbally unthrifty. In the days Of
their prosperity ithey spend freely and
when hard times come they are lucky
10 have place TO sleep and 10 eat &C
casionaly.
Why don't they look for something
10 do outside the profession The ay-
erage actor would be insuited by the
suggestion WHAT" he WoUld say.
smother my histrionic genius in a
ditch. digging by the side Of ordinary
working menu Never. Before / will
abandon my career, ] who have played
with the worlds greatest actors ana
actresses L viii sLarVe." Yes, he will
do even worse than that. He'll prey
uDon his more fortunate acquaintance
for q meal here. ii nights lodging there,
d drink somewhere else, and so he'll
get through the winter somehow with
out soiIing his delicate hands with hon
est labor
we confess we haven't O great deal
of sympathy for a large majority of
the unemployed aCtors. Most OF them
haven't any business on the stage,
anyway. and the sooner they ma 10
out bv bitter experience the better on
the stage and the amusement loving
public win be.
The bad eastern business and the
consequent disbauding IF companies
has had its effect in salt Lake. Cancel
Iations have never been as numerous
as this year. Up TO this winter it has
been an unheaTd OF thing for the salt
Lake theatre 10 be dark for two solid
weeks or for the Grand TO be dark one
week i'm mid-seasou- That is what has
happened recently and il has grown 10
he nothing unusual for both houses to
Il.. dark for at least hsif OF q week
last week not a single travelling COM
many came TO the Grand. Only one
visited the Theatre and that one for the
last two nights.
This week an improvement is noticed.
Mrs. Langtry occupies the first half of
line week in Mrs. Deerfng's Divorce
at the Theatre. The engagement prom
ises TO be q notable one. IT has been
"a number OF years since Mrs Langtry
visited salt Lake and much interest
has been aroused in the present en-
-agement. The last half of the week
viii be occupied by that old fayoriCes
Way Down East, presented by
strong company. At the Grand For
Mothers sake" occupies Monday, Tues
Gav and Wednesday evenings and
"Wednesday matinee. The Grand VIII
he dark the remainder of the week.