Show I t I t THE OPERA Two weeks from Thnradayeven 1 I jog Her Majestys Opera Company I I t which Her Majesty it h presumed has 1 kindly permitted Colonel Mapleson not I i II of Her Majestys service to bring over 5 j 1 to America for the delectation andY and-Y ducats of the bloody Yankee you I Jrj know will divinely perform the divine Trovatore in the Salt Lake Theatre tis I tlo far so good Everybody is delighted ks hltt ver may be the conformation of whether or no Ue is his ears and I I cravatted lddloved audswaUow tailed for the event VyTasHEBALP wants tr rim manaeers of i 4 l R t11 i oJ ocr a Vj managers J the Theatre and to the of Her Majestys Company It is this before announcing the prices consider well over the matter and wisely conclude to attempt no robbery Think of the times when putting a price upon the tunes The people are neither in the condition nor mood to be 1 robbed They have had a bad year and are beginning another that is not lurid with promise If they ever knew the value of a dollar they know it now If the conclusion should be to charge outrageous rates we will be told that the company is a very expensive one that it costs so much to bring it herethat the cost of laying over a day is enormous enor-mous that so many thousand dollars must be gotten into the house before the actual outlay will be met and so on all of which may be literally true and entirely satisfactory to the consciences of the Colonel and his gentlemanly I gen-tlemanly agents but what the people want and must have if they take any Italian opera this month is low rates of admission If Colonel Mapleson is poor we can pity him and wish that he had retained a larger percentage of the Patti receipts but generous and wholesouled as are our operagoers there is no reason why they should be called upon to bestow mutual charity upon Her MajestysColonel We dont know but reasonable prices have been already arranged in which event all that is here said will be wasted but fearing that nothing has yet been done in the premises and that the customary mistake will be made of elevating prices to about twice what the opera is eworth and three or four times what the people can afford to pay THE HERALD throws out this hint as a warning to the interested Low prices and a full house of delighted people high prices and empty chairs with the public howling its righteous indignation at Mapleson Italian opera and the Theatre |