The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03

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THE FIRST horror of the unknow-
ably great disaster at the Iroquois
theatre in Chicago last week hav-
ing, in a measure, subsidized, theatrical
people and the public generally are
asking what its effect viii be on the
season of 1903-G4. The natural infer
enCe is that it cannot fail TO have d
disastrous effect or d season already
lettering on the verge of the ruinous.
SIN, we were tOld in the dispatches
that gave US the news or the disaster
that it had no appTeciable effect on the
attendance at the theatres the evening
q the very Gay on which it occurred.
Think of that, With hundreds of
C0Tpses piled in CHASTITY confusion in
one theatre the other theatres drew
their usual crowds Was this because
Chicago people are CallOus, or was It
Because they needed something to take
their minds of the horrible calamity
that had beTeaved the city? And if
the people were heaTtIess, were not the
managers of the theatres they attend
en- also heartless in opening their doors
at all? If anybody is to blame, the
fault lies more with the managers than
with the public.
In the light Of the action Of the peo-
pie of Chicago it is difficult to. believe
that many playgoeTs viii stay away
from the theatres on account of the r.
oQuois disaster For many months to
come few OF US viii be able to enter a
theatre without thinking OF tit and for
"a long time ne viii shudder when we
see a big audience Of women and chill
dren in a playhouse But the Amer
lean public il "a forgetful public. \
disaster seems to make a great i'm
preston. but such impressions are rare
ly lasting.
Take the ScodeId disaster, in May.
1850. when 500 lives were lost Was
there any difficulty in securing men
e. fiji the places IF the dead2 Not a
bit. The same thing is true in relation
to the disaster in the coal mine at
Hanna. Wy0. You may say that ne
ceesity drives men To this sort of thing
and that nobody Is bound to so TO .
theatre Well. the men who have filled
the mines of Scofield and Hanna might
have found work elsewhere, bat they
didn't
Theatrical amuseinents have become
almost necessity i'm this country
People must have some place TO 50, and
the theatres 0ffer the easiest method
af finding entertainment The season
and actors hundreds of thousands of
collars. and some of them viii doubt
less De inclined TO charge their losses
from now on 10 Jhc IrOquOis, but that
will not be the real reason for the tall
Tres.
a feature of the Marie Wainwright
Treseniation of Twelfth Night al
the salt Lake theatre last Monday
night to which attention could not be
called because of Il lack of space de-
serves mention now. This was the alb
solufely puuid stage management
Miss Wainwright has indeed fallen
U0on parfUus times when she permits
things 60 go on that could not 90 on
fr the rankest kind of an amateur per
foruance The particular point 20
which we object was the constant pass
Ing and rspassing Of fat man IN a
soft black hat and shirt sleeVes-ne
looked like a stage hand. but he might
have been the 'sngeI''-in full view OF
more than half the audience
we don't know what this chap
business was, but 81 must have been
something very Important. for he was
permitted TO put the finishing touches
on the Job Of spelling Shakespeare s
comedy Later this same fellow came
ou-as an actoU-wc8ring the garb Of q
monk. We could see he was the same
fellow. We recognized him by his
trousers-trousers mind you, that
stuck out beneath his monks robe
The too obviously false whiskers ne
had buncheu about his face could not
conceal his identity.
Manage George Pyper SAYS he has
had more cancellations during the last
few weeks than he has had in seFeral
seasons put together Fortunately foi
the amusement-lo loving public. however
Itone OF the disloca,ed attractions pos
sessed so high aegree Of merit that
the seo2Ie need lose any sleep over
missing them The Theatre viii be
dark Tor two weeks beginning t0mor-
row night The Grand viii be darn
the first half Of the week. An Eye on
Hubby" Is coming for the last half.