The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-27

NeN Aofh- May &0--Ine salaries OF
the sixteen actors in THE Song Birds
4 e there had been any salaries would
have footed up $1,000 for a week of re-
hearsal ending IN one performance.
Some of comic operas noteworthy
voices-Eugene CowIes', Van Rensselaer,
Wheelers. Stanley Hawkins. De Wolf
Hopper's and so on-were in the songs
and choruses. Half as much more
money would have gone to Victor Her
bert and George Y Hobart if they had
been hired 10 write the music and
words. I won't estimate fair re
enumeration for Neal McCay and Au-
gustus Barratt. They were the priua
donnas in the travesty Of grand opera
and 7 hope that for no other purpose
than a Lambs eambol would they
paint. primp and petticoat themselves
At any price. Then. too. there were
William CourtleiCh and William Bur
ress in carefully prepared tmpersOna-
tons Of Heinrich COnried and Oscar
Hammerstein- This happiest hour IN
the Lambs matinee. TO give 5000 to
the burnt out BOhemiauS Of San Fran
cisco was a burlesque view Of the
Forthcoming rivalry in grand opera
Conried the Con and HammeTstein
the Ham met in front of the opera
house that Hammerstein is building.
fighting mana gers as We New workers.
do. and it would be slow and hard TO
tell You now and why the CaTiCatures
of them were 80 funny to a half-the-
atriCal audience.
Il shall give Parsifal.'" said Oscar,
with Peter Punk's yelping dogs ana
the Brute Brothers aCrobatic stunts
between acts and the people laughed
Historically over the allUsion to MS
vaudeville business.
ct shall notify Spectators. SAID
Heinrich. that if they take bad money
for tickets it will positively be refused
at the box Office, and there was a HI
lariOus roar At the reference 10 me
sidewalk traffic in seats
But YOU would have appreciated the
singing match between the quarrellng
imDressarios' forces. with sixteen mega
phOnic Lambs making all the noise
they could like the steam CSlHOpeS OF
rival circuses entering a town at once
rot roughly de3feninE- however. but
with the two volumes Of sound har-
moriousIv controlled by Herbert from
the leaders stand
T-nro rfouz is the opposition between
Luna Park and Dreamiand this week
Neither is ready for the season. but
both had their Ions IN roaring condl-
tion-nOt less than fifty of them alto
nIarer. wandering I'm the street between
The two mena EerIes, might imagine
himself I'm 2 Jungle where ne WouIdn [
hunt but be hunted by big game IN
too great abundance. 7 spent an aft
Crnoon and an evening az the antaEo-
nistic beast shows Of FOstOCk and Mum
Gy- Tie unusual number or lions and
the docfTftv of most of them, made
them seem like herds Of bUffaloes, and
as Scaut in fCTcCity-
one of the trainers was = woman
Narie1Ta who followed ,he fashion of
Gufetudc that has prevailed several
years I'm the Gagged arena Instead 81
striking circus poses. with her eyes
fixed Theoretically on the lions as
though If she turned her back an in
slant they would leap uDon her. she
. eaunterad among the ten hanged and
: bearded old beuiCuants. like stag
l. saubrette among haTmleESly aged
= J0h1nies teasing them like coquetJe
until thew reared in evaporation, Yet
making her betray 10 alarm [ don
mean TO saw they were not dangerous
4 lion never ceases TO he Eat and
when he St atchee-,vcII. Ponavinta lost
hand at CCney Island two years ago
Two men and their -0ts Of lions were
- unexcitiuE as the woman with hers.
The spectators lost hope Of Bona
vinta incident and grew drowsy with
the heat under a sun burnt roof
Suddenly, and after long, sleepy
srelI of bears and elephants, one Bel
phor swoke us with a revival Of hOup-
n. slap-stiCk AMI gun-play. Here was
the old time animal trainer labeled
Hero" and Dare Devil" A. he was
neralded. too. by a trumpet oned lee
turer-
Baltimore. the never tanned and ever
furious beast that so nearly killed
ROnavinta-" said the announcer viii
be among the twelve lions that Bel
rh0r will introduce. You viii know
baltimore by his vicious behavior To
face him i'm the arena is like facing
dpath-hOrrib1e DEATH
The lion assigned to the role of Bal
timore acted It right spiTitedly. He
sullzed and snarIed when Belphor ap-
nroached him: struck at the whip with
his paw and bit at the prod; ana II ne
wasn't really Baltimore tUhom Bona
vinta was said to have killed. ne was
near enough to be ANNAPOLIS or cum
berland- He melted activity in his
cage mates under the man ProToc2-
lions and entertained the people as
we'll as any lion could without eating
some OF his keeper.
The most theatrical part Of either eN.
bfbition though. was given by Amari
nth Ave tigars-big. CTOughiEg Crea-
lures shaped like female lions. but
strined like convictS In prison Tor
crimes and desir1us Of committing
some more. The lecture told us they
were the first tigers ever trained Ger
+,irI,- they were emboJ iments of fe-
rocitv. And Amari was no cage actor
Of The modern repressed school He
was q ranter and n raver from away
hack when q trainer in . wagon cage
with one Ion made more e row than
has lately been usual in an arena with
twenty
There was no way TO know VII Al
the beasts would have done to the man
If the man hadn't done things to ths
beasts. Oh. but he was p fierce cre1-
=Ire- He carried a siX-b2rrele5 pistol
I'm his right hand. shan pened sJeT
~ i'm his left hal 4. and at the same
time handled q whip that snapped like
a giant firecracker. He made much
noise with his mouth. too. emitting
loud line of rapid calculations 81
dashed these tigers As though tneA
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