Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-04
ENTHUSIASTIC CHICAGO.
A Heightened" Audience In
dOrse Lydia Thompson and her
Great Moral ShOw-FareweIl Per-
fOrmance of the BIOndes .sH fIi

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A Heightened" Audience In
dorse Lydia Thompson and her
Great Moral ShOw-FareweII Per.
formance of the blondes. .si .f
From Mondays Chicago Evening Post. friend
ly to Lydia.l
At Crosby's Opera House, in the even
ing, an immense audience gathered, fill
ing the auditorium completely, including
the upper gallery and lobbies (but not
the balcony boxes). The audience was
Of very respectable class, so far as our
reporter could discover. Many were
heard to announce that they came purely
out of curiosity The play was Forty
Thieves, followed by scene from
Ivanhoe." During the progress of the
former, the actors whose tongues have
been tied of late in respect to local
gags were especially fecund in this
respect. Some one having offered some
indignity to Hassarak, he exclaimed with
greater bluster, "Do that again and Ill
have you arrested for riot Other like
illusions were made, and all, good and
bad, were greeted with shouts of SYM
pathy, and a perfect roar of applause
When the Nursery Rhymes came in
course, everybody knew there was some
LING spee,ai uue, ou' :. was no. un'ii
81 at'ei S.en sesar eHsore Snd geherai cry
az storor s, o.Jtes IA Ina. ha.' Oaiiiii sang
You had better mind mil your horses. q
In fighting Hess you'd get in a mess;
SO Stick to your divorces"
Then soon followed:
Burnside suppressed the Chicago Times,
Rnt f ,Se io'efea wnrst n,nseit whtn m glory;
Was, he didn't hang old Storey
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