Show I FRANK MONROE RETURNS He Made an Unfortunate Venture in Los Angeles Several weeks ago Frank Monroe and his wife owners of the Peoples theatre on Commercial street leased the theatre the-atre and departed from the city for Los Angeles there to engage in the same class of show business a they have carried on here and in Ogden for a number of years Fate seemed against the Commercial street house and some three weeks ago it closed its doors to its old patrons and since that time has been dark The cause of the smash was lack of funds Yesterday Yes-terday morning Mr Monroe returned to this city but was at home to his near friends only I is said his family will reach here in a day or two having hav-ing made the trip from Southern Cali fornia over a different route than that which was traveled by Monroe The following special dispatch published pub-lished in the Friday morning Issue of the San Francisco Chronicle may throw some light upon the gentlemans desire to be alone Los Angeles Jan 11 Frank Monroe Mon-roe is wanted He engaged Music Hall for ten days beginning January 1 for the purpose of running a lowpriced theatre Yesterday was salary day and quite a cluster of creditors gathered about Music Hall entrance in the Hal entrnce persons per-sons of actors musicians stage hands printers painters etc Some of them were left without money to buy a meal i meal mealMonroe and his wife are said to own i the Peoples theatre at Salt Lake city He is a glib talker and has no difficulty in persuading the entire force of show people to trust him By flatteWng promises he succeeded in inducing a large company to come down from San Francisco on credit One of the victims says that some of them even paid their own fare pawning their watches to get down here The positions seemed so tempting tempt-ing that they left good places in San Francisco to take them The informant said that it was the dirtiest trick that had ever been served him in all the eighteen years of his theatrical experience He also claimed that Monroe treated a company the same way about six years ago In Butte Mon He blasted that he was getting away with 2000 in this case Monroe paid in advance for the hall and even offered to pay six months in advance for its use for a variety show but Mr Perry and Manager Wyatt promptly declined to rent the hall for that purpose They kindly gave the use of the hall last night to the company com-pany to make what they could out of it itA A Herald man made an effort to interview Mr Monroe yesterday afternoon after-noon and applied at the theatre for permission to see the gentleman Although Al-though the reporter had seen Mr Monroe Mon-roe at an upstairs window of the theatre he was told by the people on I the ground floor that they had no knowledge of the gentlemans whereabouts where-abouts |