The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-06
A SHIPWRECK ON |
THE Pas. CIRCUIT.
Members of Enterprise Stock
Company Make Painful
Way to Salt Lake.
"P0WER OF LOVE" LOSES
PELToN-sMUTZER SHOW ROUTE
PROVES FATAL TO COMPANY.

49,
Their managers having left them =
= while on a tour of the Peltou & =
y Shutter circuit a tank affair, Z
4 ten members Of the Enterprise stock =
y company, in which Miss Florence y
y Gale was starred, became stranded at =
= Soda Springs, Idaho, about ten days =
y ago. Miss Gale and two male mem
y bers of the company succeeded in 4
y reaching Salt Lake. and in an inter !
= view last night the former told the \
= story Of how the two Pelton & Smut y
y zer men left the actors stranded.
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I'VE enjoyed a successful business in
various towns of Wyoming and Idaho be-
fore reaching Soda Springs" said Miss
Gale last night Friday night, Sept. "a.
we opened at Soda Springs in The Power
of Love a play in which I had pre-
viously starred for several seasons. There
was a good attendance and our efforts
seemed to please those present On the
following night Lena Rivers was the
play billed, but one OF the men of the
show failed to put in an appearance and
we were compelled TO put on another bill.
Poor Judgment Shown.
1T was here that the managers demon
strated their characteristic poor judg-
ment. Instead of having US present some
us repeat the performance given the night
before. The manag cement of the opera
house wouldn't stand for this and as a
result the play was called off While
many of the people were in the act of
leaving, the leading man of the company
stepped out on the stage and made an
appeal to the audience in behalf of some
of the women members of the company,
who were in destitute circumstances by
reason of not having received their back
pay. Then the manager of the opera house
allowed the play To go on with the under
standing that the receipts be turned over
to the company, the management of the
company TO not receive a cent. The net
proceeds were SIS. and this was divided
up.
Next morning the two managers ex-
pressed their baggage TO Denver, head
quarters for the Pelton & Shutter COM
panies. It had been tipped off to me
that they intended to leave, and l noti-
fled the officers there Of the fact, with
the instructions to get and hold them.
The one officer detailed TO the case went
to sleep at the switch, however, for he
allowed them to escape. Instead of taking
a train at the depot, the two caught a
freight train at the stock yards east of
town. in full view of the officer, and
made their way to Montpelier where, it
is said, they took a passenger train for
Denver.
Capture Their Baggage.
1--WE got their baggage, however. Two
business men of the town offered 10 go
on the bond of Miss Cora Hall and my
self, and we had their baggage, consist
ing of four suit cases and two bill trunks,
attached. These viii be offered for sale
TO the highest bidder. A peculiar feature
Of the affair is that one of the male MEM
hers of the company. who tried the hard
est to keep the show together, lost the
most money. That's gratitude for you,
isn't it?
Everything looks rosy for me now,
though | am among friends in the the
atrical profession and have been offered
a good engagement, and may go to work
in stock here. There Is a possibility that
l will appear with my own company"
From further statements made by Miss
Gale the entire tour Of the company
through Colorado. wyoming and Montana,
since the time IL left Denver, was char
acteriZed by blunders.
ON Denver l was treated most unfair
~" said Miss Gale. T signed a con-
tract for a road tour. which was 20 be
opened with a two weeks engagement
at the Curtis theatre, a PeltOn & Shutter
house Instead of allowing me TO APP
pear, however. they used another and
perhaps inferior actress, who was billed
under my name. II was only to help
the ether members Of the company out
I'm their engagement that I consented 10
go on the road at all after this deal"
One member of the management was
for some time treasurer of the Curtis
theatre at Denver and resigned that pO-
sition to make the road tour with the
Enterprise stock company. To members
of the company he is said to have stated
that he was a relative OF W. S. PeltOH
of the firm of PeltOn & Shutter, who is
at the present time in Salt Lake direct
ing the uncertain destiny of the Grand
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