| Show DRliMATIC AND LYRIG The Varied Bills for the Coming Week I CLEVELANDS REAL DARKIES Clan Morris at Hand Lockes Own Luck Again The Choral Societys Big 1ihtNotes The events of tomorrow night ought to to suClciently varied to suit the most exuding ex-uding tastes A grand ball for sweet charity the theatre a musicale by the big Choral society at the Assembly hall the opening of the new variety theatre on Franklin avenue Who is there that caw glaucc over such a bill of fare and not find iu sanctums to uis liking AU the ward choirs the tabernacle choir the Mandolin and Guitar club and the Ladies Music society will attend tomorrow tomor-row evenings meeting of the Choral in re nnnnhc thn fnllnirinr invitation which bas been sent to all the heads of the various I organizations TIlE SAM LAKE CHORAL SOCIETY E Stephens conductor 1rcf Thomas Radcliffc organist Mrs Hamilton assistant organist SALT LAKE CITY Dee 10 lS DEAlt SmThe Salt Lake Choral society i will on Monday evening December is ISO give the first of its monthly series of special rehearsals re-hearsals An informal programme will be rendered ren-dered and the Choral uesires for this occasion to make all tho musical societies and choirs of tae city Its guests Will you therefore accept for yourself and extend to your organization an invitation to be present at the Salt Lake Assembly As-sembly ball on the abore named date at 8 oclock p mh greatly obliging yours respectfully respect-fully II U WiirrxuY Dit F A YINCEST GEOUOEDPVrEU Joiix D SPESCEH Board of Directors Mr Stephens says the affair will last only about on hour to allow all who desire to attend the ball afterward Any musical organization which has not received an invitation in-vitation Mr Stephens says may set it down to the mails and come anyway Clara Morris representative Mr Howies is iu the city She plays hero three nights opening Christmas and will arrIve with her company next Tuesday to rest here the week before the holidays which is always a period dreaded by the traveling manager and which is usually spent in giving his company a rest especially espec-ially if he can find so desirable a place as Salt Lake in which to enjoy it Miss Morris Mor-ris is in excellent health this season and had a great engagement in San Francisco Camille Renee and Miss Multon will probably pro-bably make up the bill here Clevelands minstrelsreal darkeys tho white Imitators como laterare the next attraction at the theatre after the ball sea ion is over Cleveland is to minstrelsy today to-day what Haverly used to be His manager i mana-ger writes us as follows For several years past the country has been flooded with small bands of colored minstrels each band comprising from fourteen four-teen to twenty people which have traveled under the titles of Georgias Alabamas Black Boys and Colored minstrels giving performances that were painful to behold not only to the audiences but to the performers per-formers themselves Manager W S Cleveland who is over on the alert to give his patrons something new therefore con cludcd have the leading genuine colored minstrel company as well as the two largest white minstrel companies in the world and with his usual good judgment has succeeded in getting under contract aU the best colored artists in the universe and will have a company comprising sixty of the very be t genuine colored performers per-formers ever seen on one stage together prominent among whom are Tom McIntosh James Bland Will Eldridge Doc Sayles George Tichnea four Brewer Bros Eaton and Williams Cicero Reed and Son Grant und Williams the Sans Souci quartette the TwHight quartette Billy Farrell Smart and Taylor the Teat Jalvan Prof James Wilson W C Harris Henderson Smith Moos Levard Frank Warner aud Tom Jones together with numberless acrobat ac-robat comedians singers dancers and musicians who will present a unique entertainment en-tertainment with many noveltes original with Manager Cleveland This company is already booked in most of the leading theatres of this country from Maine to California and New York to New Orleans and will surely add another rose to the wreath of Manager Clevelands many successes suc-cesses C CIt C-It was hoped that the affairs of Locke Davis would be straightened out by the dropping out of tho Minnie Palmer Opera company and the suspension of the M B Curtis organization These two combinations com-binations had been losing a heap of money for the firm I have mentioned and people were inclined to encourage the belief that when the losers were abandoned Locke Davis would speedily get upon their feet again But with a singular aberration of judgment the Curtis company has been kept on and is now knocking about I be hero with Curtis substitute at its head how on earth it is hoped that such a scheme as this can possibly succeed is more than any rational being ol my acquaintance can imagine People are wcadering why Mr LocKe does not get rid of all his weak enterprises en-terprises und stick to his winners At pros I cnt Curtis aud the Emma Juch company beem to be more than swallowing the profits pro-fits of the DeWolf Hopper organization and the Nero production Tho latter indeed in-deed is in a particularly precarious condition condi-tion and there are signs of a complete col lapse of tho company Salaries have not been paid with anything like regularity anti on several occasions some or tile prinI cipals have flatly refused toga on the stag without being paid what was owed them This condition of affairs is entirely unnecessary I unnec-essary or at least it would be If the receipts re-ceipts of Nero had been used entirely for I the support of that show As it is Miss Tuch and Mr Curtis have drained not only the Nero treasury but that of DoWoi i Hopppe as well Mr Gilmore has for some weeks threatened to throw out the Locke and Davis spectacle without ceremony unless un-less there is an immediate change in the system of management and some of the people who are interested in the De Wolf Hopper company are raising a constant riot over their inability to secure what is due them and what might be paid readily enough from tho earnings of tbe combination combina-tion if the receipts were not carted away elsewhere to tho support of losing schemes Both Locke and Davis are energetic men end they possess ability bf a high order But Locke who appears to be the control ling spirit has an unfortunate faculty of biting off more than he can chaw as Kentuckians say and he is now paying the penalty of his lack of caution Dramt a tic JVctcg Only those who know Mr Locke can ap predate the truthfulness of the above c When Locke was in Salt Lake with Juch the average theater goer who saw his big business supposed that he was in clover but had he been permitted to gaze behind the scenes he would have seen a very different dif-ferent picture Poor Locko endured enough to drive him to suicide it would have done any other man but ho seemed to thrive and grow fat on it One night we well remember Ta liapietra refused to budge out of his dressing room till he was paid something on his back salary the orchestra or-chestra leader was kicking about pay the papers were flaying Locke alive for that tenor he put on in Carmen and to cap it all when his troupe took the cars at the Union Pacific at midnight on a Saturday night to make a forced run to open in Los Angeles on Monday it was found that Locke had no railroad tickets and the conductor con-ductor refused to move the train All the money he had taken in at Salt Lake had gone to pay striking singers or musicians or to settle eastern railroad fares ho seemed to have a bodyguard of at least one representative of every railroad system sys-tem between hero and Philadelphia and he landed at the Union Pacific depot penniless penni-less How on earth ho expected to make the run to Los Angelds without tickets no ono knows About daylight Sunday morning he somehow prevailed on tho railroad people peo-ple to take his traiu to Ogden There belo be-lo t a big part of Sunday importuning the Central Pacific officers who finally took him westward on the chances of what ho would do in Los Angeles He of course missed his opening night there and the floods detained him two or three days longer A good San Francisco season put him on his feet again for a time and a prosperous week iu Portland still further helped him but judging from the report above quoted his own native hard luck I seems to have returned him |
