Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-09
HI EVENING NEWS.
Extemporized performanec-Row In
Piper,s Camp.

When the first part OF the programme
for las, night, at Pipsr's, had been filled,
there was q very long recess, and the
audience came gradually to the kuowl-
edge of the fact that su'thin' was out Of
killer behind the n The cause of
the slight onpleassntnsss was as follows:
Upon the bill for the night was named
an original piece, prepared by Charley
Rhoades, by which a parody i. supposed
TO be given of o recent scene in Piper's
Opera House saloon, between Jennie
Morton and Dick 0'Neil, and the sue
ceeding aud consequent scene in Judge
Adkison's Court room, where Jennie
was tried for assaulting Dick with abu-
siye language, and risd rersa. The par
ticulars Of the matter will moro fully
appear in tho ~subjoined recital OF the
stage incidents. The new piece was
entitled, in substance, "The Borrowed
Earrings, or the Mystic VEIL 1t seems
as the real trial disclossd-that Jennie
Morton borrowed of Miss Kate o'Neil a
pair of earrings and a veil, for whieh
articles, on the day Jennie was to leave
for California, Miss 0'Neil sent her hus-
band. Dick found Jennie waiting in
the ante-room or saloon Of the Theater,
and there occurred the lively and cpl
thetical passage-at-arms whence all this
hoodoo. When the curtain rose last
night for the second part, it lifted on
the second article in that division OF the
roCramm As soon as this article was
covered the scenes were shifted so as 10
indicate that the next piece was not on
the bills,-half u parlor and half a for
est being showed forward for the iueon-
yruous back ground. Miss Kate o.
Neil then came forward aud said, while
manifesting much emotion: "Gentle-
men, | desire to inform you Of the reason
why | cannot appear before You, in any
of my assigned pieces, tonight, or dur-
ing the balance of my stay in Virginia
city. l am very sorry that | have to
make this announcement to you. Not
that | care anything for the pecuniary
loss | will sustain on this account, but
because of the painful character of the
circumstances that compel me to de-
cline performing here any more. The
reason, gentlemen, why | cannot sing or
act upon this stage any more is because
| have been outraged by the manage
ment here. The manager Of this Thea
ter, the stage manager | mean, has seen
fit TO prepare and rehearse a piece which
is on the bills for tonight, in which
am represented as using the most abusive
and vilest language,-lsnguage which
| assure you gentlemen, | never was in
the habit of using. 1t is because
would not have you think that | am ca
pable of or accustomed to the use Of
such language as is imputed to me in
this piece, that | am here before YOU to
protest against its production, and to
say that my self-respect forbids me to
act any longer in a theater where am
so grossly misrepresented in one of the
plays of the evening. | trust that you
will accept this as IN ample excuse for
my declining TO sing or act here to-
night. The piece was gotten up and
rshearsed without my knowledge; l
only knew of il q short time ago"
Miss 0'Neil retiring from the stage,
Charles Rhoades, Stage Manager, came
forward and said "Gentlemen-and |
trust we are all deserving of that name,
and | claim to be one, Notwithstanding
what has just been said manifcs,ly TO
the contrary by Miss O'Neil,-Gentlc-
men, as you have noticed from the bills,
a piece has been prepared and set upon
our stage representing a scene in Judge
Adkison's Court and in Mr.. Piper's ga
loon. In justice to myself and to Mr.
Piper | will say, that Miss Kate 0'Neil's
name is not mentioned in the piece at
all-not once" Here Miss O'Neil came
upon the stage, ~exclaiming excitedly,
" What, sir what, sir y and passed TO
the right of Rhoades and commenced
pulling rolls Of the "Parts" in the new
piece from her bosom. al say again"
continued Rhoades, that Miss O'NeiPa
name is not mentioned in the piece.
Aud as for vile language in it, there is
blackguardism of course,-that is what
the piece is about; but assure you /
don't think that the rough phrases in
il come up to a portion OF the original.
There is a lot of Irish epithets thrown
backward and forwards in the piece
and so there are Dutch and American,
as for that matter,-but have heard a
great deal worse language used behind
this curtain apparently without produc-
ing the sensitiveness that is now exhib-
tied" 'sWhati' interrupted Miss O'Neil,
"what! you don't call the words as
signed to the person representing me
vile words? ?" "Your name is not mem
toned" replied Rhoades, "and the
epithets there are just Irish backhanded
barney" Said Miss O'Neil "Now,
gentlemen, l will just read from the
manuscript, the exact language that is
put into the mouth Of tie person that
is supposed to represent meme, gen.
tlemen. Then you can judge whether
i. is or is not very vulgar language, and
such as no decent woman would
use." Said Rhoades Yes, and will
submit to the audience whether the
language is at all out Of the way in q
piece Of such character ; and they can
decide whether it shall be played or
not"
Miss O'Neil read the words assigned
to Miss Maggie Brewer, who was to
represent Miss o'Neil in the "piece."
We could not distinctly hear all the words
as read, for Miss 0'Neil, in her excite
ment, did not a%rticulate as clearly as
she speaks. But there were Irish slang
whanging phrases, such as we frequent.
" hear passed in joke between men OF
all nations. We have not been able to
get the manuscript, or we would print
the text. There were one or two de-
cidedly original combinations of adjec-
tives, but while they were extremely
slaugey, they did not, apparently, in
the estimation Of the audience justly
provoke, under the circumstances, tho
fiery indignation OF Miss O'Neil. There
may have been expletives however,
which we did not catch, which deserved
all her administered Reproduction. a
ing finished reading, Miss O'Neil said.
"Nop, gentlemen, do you think 1t Mt
or decent that ! should be represented
on this stage in such a manner as that!
And this piece is full of such indecent
language" ISIS il indecent language