| Show A SHIPWRECK on THE P S CIRCUIT Members of Enterprise Stock Company Make Painful U 1 Way to Salt Lake LakeI I POWER OF LOVE LOSES I I PEL SHOW ROUTE I PROVES FATAL TO COMPANY 4 Their managers having left them 4 f 4 while on a tour ot of the Pelton Felton 4 4 circuit a tank 4 4 ten members of the Enterprise stock i 4 company In which Miss Florence 4 Gale was starred became stranded at 4 4 Soda Springs Idaho about ten days 4 4 ago HBO Miss Hiss Gale and two male mem members 4 bers of the company succeeded in 4 4 reaching Salt Lake and In an Inter Interview interview l 4 view last night the former told the 4 4 4 story of f how the tho two Pelton Smut 4 I 4 zer men left the actors stranded 4 I M M M M M M t f f We enjoyed a successful business In various towns of Wyoming and Idaho be before before before fore reaching Soda Sola Springs said Miss I Gale last night Friday night Sept 24 21 we opened at Soda Springs in The Power Powe of Love a play In which I had pre previously starred for tor several seasons There I 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 tailed to put In an appearance and we were compelled d to put on another bill Poor Judgment Shown It qt was here that the managers demon demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated their characteristic poor judg judgment judgment ment Instead of ot having us present some something something something thing the people had not seen they had hadus hadus hadus us repeat the performance given the night before The management of ot the opera house 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 compan who were in destitute circumstances by reason of ot not having received their back pay pa Then the manager of the opera house j allowed the play to go on with the under understanding understanding understanding standing that the receipts be turned over overto overto overto to the company the tho management of the company to not receive a cent cant The net proceeds were 18 and this was divided up Next morning the two managers ex ax expressed pressed Hessed their baggage bag ge to Denver Demer head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters for the Pelton com companies companies It had been tipped off oft to me that they Intended to leave and I noti noU notified fled fied the officers there of ol the fact with the instructions to get et and hold them The one officer detailed to the case went to sleep at the however for he allowed them to escape Instead of taking a 0 train at the depot the two caught a freight train at the stock yards ards east of ot town in full view of the officer and made their way to where It Itla Itis itis is la said ald they took a passenger train for Denver Capture Their Baggage I We got their baggage however Two business men of the town offered to go goon goon goon on the bond of Miss Cora Hall Halt and my myself m myself self and we had their baggage consist consisting consistIng consistIng ing of four suit cases and two bill trunks attached These will wilt be offered for sale to the highest bidder A peculiar feature of the affair Is that one of ot the male mem members members bers hers of the company who vho tried the hard hardest hardest est eat to keep the show together lost the most money mone gratitude for you It Everything looks hooks rosy for me rue now no though I am among friends In the the theatrical theatrical theatrical profession and have been offered a good and may ma go to work In stock here There Is a possibility that 1 I will appear with my m own company compan Prom Fr m further t statements made by Miss Gale the entire tour of the company through Colorado Wyoming and Montana j since Bine the time it loft Denver was char characterized characterized characterized J by b blunders In Denver I was war treated most unfair unfairly j ly said Miss Gale HI I 1 signed a con contract contract contract tract for a road tour which was to be opened with a two weeks engagement at the Curtis theatre a Pelton house Instead of allowing me to ap appear appear appear pear however they used another and perhaps inferior actress who was billed under my name It was only to help the other members of the company out In their engagement that I consented to togo togo togo 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 Deaver and resigned that po to make the road tour with the Enterprise stock company To members of the company he Is 15 said to have stated that ho he was a relative of W S Pelton of the firm of Pelton who Is at th present time in Salt Lake direct directing In lag ing tim tho uncertain destiny of ot the Grand Grandt t |
