Two entertainments were given after the closing of the stock company, before the corporation relinquished the house—on May 4th, Petroleum V. Nasby lectured, and on the 8th Mr. Mark Wilton rented the theatre and put up "The Ticket of Leave Man" for a benefit. To show the status of the company at this particular time, the program for the benefit performance is here appended:
SALT LAKE THEATRE.
Salt Lake Theatre Corporation …………… Proprietors
Clawson and Caine ………………………… Managers
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 8TH, 1875.
Mr. Mark Wilton has engaged the Theatre for this night and will produce the great drama of
"THE TICKET OF LEAVE MAN."
Supported by the following
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Bob Briefly, a Lancashire lad ……. Mr. John S. Lindsay
James Dalton (the Tiger) ……………. Mr. M. Forester
Hawkshaw (a detective) ……………… Mr. Mark Wilton
Melter Moss (a crook) ……………… Mr. J. C. Graham
Mr. Gibson (a bill broker) …………. Mr. Harry Taylor
Sam Willoughby …………………. Miss Dellie Clawson
Maltby …………………………….. Mr. Logan Paul
Burton …………………………….. Mr. H. Horsley
May Edwards ………………… Mrs. Clara Jean Walters
Mrs. Willoughby …………………. Miss Belle Douglas
This was the last performance given under the corporation managers and for some time the theatre remained without a manager; if any one wanted it, they had to rent it from President Brigham Young through one of his clerks. My record shows that the writer, on July 24th following, rented the house at the modest sum of one hundred dollars for the bare house. We gave Bulwer's five-act comedy of "Money" besides the farce "A Fish Out of Water" and a musical interlude, by Laura Honey Stevenson and John W. McKenzie, a popular young baritone from San Francisco. The total expense of this performance was $357.00, so it was a risk for an individual to take, but we pulled through clear and had a little left for our trouble.