The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-25
INSIDE A DRAMATIC AGENCY,

My window is becoming monotonous and
| the sun imper inent / take my season
ticket and go home. go to the Office of
Simmons l. Wall Not having q manuscript
play, those gentlemen receive me with cheer
fulness. l am at school, and in the first class
| in human nature. This Office is where most
OF the dramatic agency is carried on. There
is large ante-chamber, which is crowded
with actors and actresses. There is large
private office, where managers and stars con-
gregate. Simmons is small man with a
round head, and eyes like very bright black
beads. He has the look of an artist who has
distinguished himself on cornet or from
bone, and is consequently gave and reticent
Like Scion Single. "he doesn't tell all he
knows for nothing" Wall is handsome
fellow, with color in his face that any
woman would buy at large figure. He is
chatty, agreeable, well-intormed gentleman,
| and great favorite with everybody, even the
ladies, although he is an intense woman
hater.
This is ood-tide in the Office The rooms
are full. At o'clock they will be empty and
the doors locked.
Ban DeBar is sitting at one of the front
windows, reading and smoking. He has
rubicund face, and jolly, self-satisfed ex-
preston. Ben is sixty, and hasn't gray hair
in his head. His locks are beautiful brown
born that way. In the adjoining window is
d. Bidwell, manager of the Academy of
Music in New Orleans. He is a portly gentle
man, with an intelligent face and gray hair.
He was also born that way. There is some
thing touching in the atfectionate relations
between these two rival managers. They are
like brothers. When O new attraction ap-
pears each one insists that the other shall
have the first choice.
he FOL oil flaw fba
est manner and terrible Aow of words, persua-
sive and eloquent, is Clifton Tayleure, who,
in conjunction with Mrs. Chanfrau, manages
the New Orleans Varieties Theater the coming
season. hope they will succeed, which they
are pretty sure to do, if New Orleans arises
from the dust. Tayleure is an energetic fell
low.
That small. sized gentleman with the hand
some, pleasing face, and hair black as night
is Albaugh, the manager of the Albany The
alter. He was very successful last season, and
has everybody's good wishes, fer Johnnie "
is universally liked. The pleasant-faced man
who seems to be all mus.ache and twinking
eyes, to whom Albaugh is talking, is Pad
dock, the husband Of Maggie Mitchell Mrs.
Albaugh is Mary Mitchell. These two gen.
tlemen are up for the morning from the Long
Branch colony. H
Here is another colonist-a slender man
the most mercurial of human beings, with
merry laughing eyes, bouyant, restless,
mirthful disposition full of satanic good ma
ture, Edwin Adams. "Ned " to his friends,
but g Edwin to all Europe" Hs has filed up
his book for the coming season. Ned WAS in
great demand. He has another new play,
said to be as strong as "Clancarty," his great
success OF last season. The dapper little
man, neat and precise, who defes the sun
with white hat, and glories in auburn hair,
is Henderson, the Providence manager. He
is also from Long Branch, where he is known
as I" the firmer." He is said to be worth
three millions primo pally in farming uten-
sils. The dark-comple xioned man with black
eyes, aquiline nose and decided jaw, is Frank
Oh anfrau, the original :" Nose" He is q near
neighbor of Farmer Henderson. He is very
wealthy in horses. s.. -r.t-.
He owns the horse rode by Lafayette at the
battle of Bran1ywine. He has another horse
that can beat anything at the Branch; don't
exactly understand in what way. The small
man to whom the fairies gave amiability and
took it out of him in beauty is John Elsler
Of Cleveland and Pittsburg He has the i'm
mortal satisfaction Of having put Clara Nor
ris on the stage. John is tenacious, and can
stand more bad luck, and pay salaries on it,
than any man in America. He is generally
liked. He was born that way.
The tall man who plays "Samson" is
Chas Pope, of ST. Louis. He speaks German,
which is distressing to the. company, and
gives them sense of inferiority that no sal
Olympic Theater, st. Louis. He does it from |
\ sense Of duty, and says he likes it. 1t is
believed that he makes money out of it. l
hope SO. 1t is good to have money. A. T. |
Stewart says so.-Cor. Louisville Courier Jour- |
adl.