The close of the Clawson and Caine management and the end of the Salt Lake Theatre Corporation was virtually the retirement of the stock company, which had been playing from the opening of the theatre in '62 up to the present date, May 1st, 1875, a period of 13 years. Of course a great many changes had taken place during those years in the personnel of the company, but a few of the original members remained, and the organization or _ensemble_ of the company had been kept intact. Now, however, the gradually encroaching combination system made it impracticable for the managers to offer a season's engagement to those who were willing and anxious to engage. The necessity for a stock company became rapidly less from this time on, until in the year 1878 it had become defunct altogether. 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.