Show AMUSEMENTS WILL CJLBLETON Just 150 people assembled at tho Salt Lake theatre last evening to greet the poet of the people the gifted Will Carleton Carle-ton Surely if Mr Carleton thought of any one thing more vividly than another as he gazed out upon that audience it must have been Over the Hill to the PoorHouse Poor-House It was not only a poor house but a beggarly one and those present felt a sort of humiliation that Mr Carleton should have to face it It was all tho fault of bungling management on the part of Major Pond or the man he sent out to represent him and tho loss they sustain is something no one will feel sorry for except on Mr Cerlotons account The opportunity of hearing poetry as widely read as Mr Carletona recited by the man who made it is a rare one and his listeners last night keenly breathlessly enjoyed it Carleton Is a man not yet fortyseven with a face that could not be called handsome but is certainly striking strik-ing a very prominent Roman nose a mustache mus-tache retreating up under It and a pair of S twinkling eyes are his principle facial characteristics His voice is well tuned and pleasant his manner of speaking is Impressive his gestures would not be called graceful but they arrest the attention atten-tion Ho is filled with magnetism and as ho walked up and down tho stage repeat ins some of his familiar lines ho chained the attention of his audience as though he was the most gifted and graceful orator in the world The hour and a half he occupied occu-pied was made up of a steady stream of anecdotes poems and miscellaneous remarks re-marks he gave some of his older works and some of his newer ones some that wore altogether new here and at the conclusion con-clusion of each ho was met with a warm burbt of applause His homely and rug Fred rhymeswho does not know them In his secret of reaching the masses Carleton is the Dickens of poetry I poe-try and when to the charm I of his works there is added tho charm of his delivery and his own interrelation of his own characters it would be difficult to picture anything more delightfully satisfying One of the best things of the night was his selection The Pioneers Tale it was Immensely applauded While we regret that Mr Csrletons introduction intro-duction to a Salt Lake audience should have been so inauspicious we can assure him that ha has multiplied the number of his admirers here and we trust and believe be-lieve his second coming will be a vastly different thing from his initial appearance An amusing occurrence during the evening even-ing was the appearance of a weeping boy at the box office window He was asked what he wanted and answered between his I sobs that he had been up to the second circle cir-cle and that he was afraid to stay there all alone He wanted his money back STEPHENS HESIQHS A thunderclap burst over tho heads of the Choral society last evening when Director Di-rector Evan Stephens stood up before the 200 hundred members present at the tabernacle taber-nacle rehearsal of The Light of Asia and announced that bis resignation was in the hands of the directors The trouble seems to no that for some time past thero has been a falling off in the attendance on the pars of the members and at last Mr Stephens reluctantly made up his mind hat it would be impossible to give tho Light of Asia creditably this summer I I The announcement of his resignation was received with deep regret and the directors direc-tors stated that net Monday evenings meeting would bo devoted to considering what steps should be taken for the future I The society is under an expense of about 100 per month and of late the revenue has been shut off entirely It was drawing heavily on its funds and depended on the coming concert to aid its fastsiukmg treasury treas-ury The decision to abandon tno performance per-formance and Mr Stephens resignation makes the future of the society a matter of much uncertainty |