Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-17

land, after all they have only a quail
tative. not quantltative taste. So
the Lynns and the Lowells of the is
land are like the prophet that must
come 20 the mountain. which IS the
city, rich I'm mind and in pocket Hence
to hear opera as it should be heard or
chamber concerts or recitals as they
are best heard, the people of the Lynns
and the Lowells of the island have TO
come up to the city. because the city
will never come down to them-any
more than will the museums. with
their statuary and paintings, or its
singers and musicians as individuals.
That which the city has IL keeps, keep
ing IL makes IL a big city,
Now. not far from the markets, the
flower shops and the places of open
trade. the island city had its first
theater. And soon other theaters, as II
taking growth out of the seed fallen
from this first one, sprang up on all
sides. and after a time most of these
newer theaters moved further into the
heart OF the city, near the hotels, or
where the traffic was most thick, FOR
all big cities think they live on them
selves and not on the country. how
fertile the seasons soil may be is a
thought that never bothers them, until
there comes a famine, and then the
saying is that the farmers are lazy. SO
these theaters rather huddled together.
city, not far from one another but all
in the same district; one on main
thorouShfare, another around the cor
ner, still another across the street and
others are down side streets, until
after a while wherever you went. ana
the night light was big. whatever you
bumped into. was sure to be a theater.
OF course, too, there were as many
plays as there were theaters ana ten
times more actors and actresses than
theaters. That had to be TO keep the
thea tiers open. They did not increase
and multiply so much in excellence as
in numbers, and by no known law OF
supply and demand, but merely by
propogating, as the poor and rabbits
do
But after a while-a very great while,
] mean-generations OF great actors
and famous theaters going up and
down, some OF the managers Of these
thcaters, more far-seeing than others.
began to realize that there were not
audiences enough to go round IN the
big city; that II was not more theaters
but more theatergoers that the trafnc
Of the theater needed. And with that
thought, for the first time In its his
tory, some of the dispensers OF one OF
the city's chief charms began to look
beyond the city walls and question Il
there were not people in other parts
OF the island that might like to see
PLAYS and actors
Now, unless I have succeeded in in
debating TO YOU or unless you realize
Yourself the selsshness CT a great city.
YOU will nos understand what an eN-
traordinarily radical idea II was for
these managers ever TO give thought
for the Lynns and tho Lowells of the
island beyond the pale. Until the need
Of an extra outlet for their plays and
actors took hold OF them, the Lynns
and the Lowells were merely ill-sound-
Ing names 10 the managers In the big
city. They thought so mean'y 80 them
that they would not even hire the ac-
tors that came from them. In the
great lights OF the big city these small
town theater people merely showed
up as rustics. tillers Of the soil uncouth
and apoplectic. looking like squires re-
dolent OF the stables. but OF course
the I.ynns and the Lowells had their
"own little theators" situated in the
center OF towns near the markets. by
day they were used as plsess - hold l