Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Coming Big Attraction at the Theatre EMMA JUCHAND HER REPERTORY Two Dollars the Charge A Fine Repertory Stuart Robson Off the stageThe Flake Jubilee Singers Manager Charles Davis of the operatic firm of Locke Davis of New York is on a flying visit to this city for the purpose of completing arrangements for the coming Brand English opera season at the Salt Lake theatre commencing December 31 with the production of Carmen by the Emma Juch Opera company which is pronounced by the leading eastern journals to be the largest and most important amusement organization traveling in America Miss Juch will be remembered as the prima donna of the national and American opera companies and is the first American singer of our times A representative repre-sentative of THE HERALD saw Mr Davis yesterday at his hotel He said Yes we will give four performances here on our way to the Pacific coast this being the only city we stop at on our journey We close in Pittsburg Saturday night the 28th and take our own special tram for Los Angeles where wo are to open January 0 for a week before wo jjo to San Francisco We play a short season in San Francisco at the Baldwin theatro under the management of William Hayman with whom we have been having some trouble over the matter of prices Mr Hayman thinks we should come out three thousand miles wi h over one hundred people at an expense of nearly double the amount of money that it costs any other compaii md play to tl n same prices we did in j w York A asLn ton Boston and the otr large eastern cities This is not quite just it seems to me as the expense of a special with two sleepers one hotel coach and four baggage cars required re-quired for our transportation is much greater in the west than for the short trips between the large towns in the east Then again we carry our own oriieaa which is an important item as it is composed of solo players of reputation under the direction direc-tion of Professor Nieuendorf a large chorus and a large staff of operators such as electricians chorus master property ec ndb J feetKf wardrobe and baggage men a master or transportation and in fact many high salaried people not required by companies playing at regular prices The Juch Opera company is complete in itself not requiring the services of any people in any of the departments others than the ones constantly employed Mr Locke has the entire plant of the national and American operas and this with the large amount of scenery costumes electric elec-tric effects etc etc enables him to present pre-sent the operas in our repertory with a degree of finish and in a more complete manner than ever before attempted The operas for Salt Lake will probably be Carmen Faust Mignon and Der Freischntz but I cannot say positively posi-tively until I get a wire from New York which I expect to receive this evening or early Monday morning Mr Locke and myself in conjunction with Mr W W Randall will have several important amusement organizations on the road the coming season among which will be the De Wolfe Hopper Comic Opera company which opens as the Broadway theatre New York May 5 next for sixteen weeks then Roes to Boston Philadelphia Chicago and the Pacific coast and will probably visit this city en route We will also have Herrmann the magician Minnie Palmer Pal-mer a spectacular production of Nero and the Juch company which we consider the grand opera company of the times I had a telegram from the general passenger agent of the Union Pacific system sys-tem this afternoon assuring me that the train could make the time asked and that all our railway arrasgments had been completed in Chicago and the details forwarded for-warded east to Mr Locke fe our home office 1145 Broadway New York I may add that among our principals are such wellknown artists as Charles Hedtmont Franz Vetta Laura Bellini Lizzie Mc Nichol Frank Pezij E W Knight Frank Boster and T O Guise who will be remembered re-membered as having won the plaudits of the musical world in the largest grand opera companies of America It is understood that r 3 will be the tariff for Salt Lake + a The Grand will be open again Friday and Saturday evenings when the Fisko university univer-sity jubilee singers give a performance under the auspices of the Scott Zouaves The troupes belong to the genuine darkey plantation singers and are said tp give a pleasant musical entertainment + In the course of a very pleasant interview inter-view with Stuart Robson in his dressing room the other evening s HERALD man found him a rather distingue looking intellectual in-tellectual talking man whose years really number fiftythree and look to number about forty Robson talks freely of his enthusiasm for the Henrietta and thinks justly enough that it will last for a good many seasons yet to come He thinks Bronson Howard is the cleverest of American Amer-ican dramatists and tells how the confi dense the firm ot Robson Crane felt in Howards judgment led them to pay him 5000 down when he had told them the idea of the play before ho had even touched a pen to it After it started on its run they paid him a royalty of 50 for each performance Robson says Crane is doing very well in the Senator on his starring starr-ing tourand we shall by the way have an opportunity to see him in that piece before long Mr Robson has strong hopes of seeing see-ing Salt Lake again next seasonhopes which all his admires will echo |