The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-18
THIS WEEKS ADJUSTMENTS.
Attractive Bills at All Our The
atreS.
FANNY DAVENPORT AT THE GRAND.

FANNY DAVENPORT AT THE GRAND.
Last night Fanny Davenport. who is
always drawing attraction. opened
weeks engagement at the Grand Opera
house. The play was Shakspeare's "As
You Like It," with Miss Davenport in the
role Of R,salind, a part she has often
played, and always with the greatest satis-
faction. She Is an artist by birth and ed
ncation. and plays any character we'll that
she undertakes
With fine personal appearance, excellent
stage address, thorough dramatic educa-
ton, and coming of family of artists, it
would be singular if she were not q finished
actress She is supported by very good
company, headed by Mr.. Edwin H. Price,
as we'll known at the Grand as any living
actor. Tue cast last night was pretty
strong one. and the play was, in all respects,
a very satisfactory one.
This evening and Wednesday matinee we
are to have "Pique:"
Mable Renfrew, her original character.
MMs Fanny Davenport
Matthew StiIdsh, the Massachusetts, Mill
owner, whose word was laW....,.............
Mr Edm, nd X Collier
Captain Arthur smnd!sh, U. s n, his son.
Doct"r Gossitl everybody we'll but his hands
ful".......................-.. ....Mr James +. Dean
Mr.. Raymond Lessng, TO whom the ways of
false love and true love are equally rough
W, F. Edwards
Sammy Dimpe, young millionaire In search
OF what money can't buy..., Mr. Harry Hawk
Thorsby Gill. his chum, with an eye however
10 mber One...................MrD d. II. Chase
Ragnoney Jim, tramp. victim OF emotional
r. insanity........;;. ...,....Mr. g. ". Vessels
hh NunI, ~ M triA tI,ry
,.....,.............. l. Murray Day
Picker bob another engaged in little t,D....
Captain spyers, Munic pull Police. MIR. A. Holmes
Mary standish, who was passed BY" "...."".:
Miss Emma Pierce
Aunt Dorothy, 'everybody's aunt" ":.....".-.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Minnie Monk
Lucille Renlrew, the bankers pretty widow.
:..".....Mis iss Fannie Monlcaste
Raitch, waif from the sums .............
............................. Miss Emma Madden
Mother Thames, the tramp's hOusekeener.....
................ .....".....""....Miss J'sie smith
sytvie, the forei-n maid Miss Lewis
Little Arthur. Belle
TABLEAux. - First - -Pique.-Conservatory at
Grassmere on night In August. The soft pas
sion in every form. The choice Of husband
from many lovers.
second-rwiight before the Night-Old Puri
tim home at Dgerfeld. How the bride was
brought home, but something was left behind.
Thid-1he prisoner nld her Cnld.-The same
A mad resolve and Its consequences
Notwithstanding for the Lost-The Doctor s
study. Dimple unravels secret deeper than the
Sphinx.
Fith-Behind Trinity Churchyard-The under
SIDE of al great city.
sixth-Lured to the Dcn-Begcars' Paradise,
Thame; street. The great webb spun by crime,
and a struggle in It's meshps A hat wanted
Seven.h-Night and Morning-Parlors at the
Renlrew city residence: Love ends where love
began.
After the first act. one year is supposed to elapse
After The second ac,, two years. After the third
| act. ono month After the fourth act, one day.
PIXIES OPERA-HoUsE.
Barney Macauley, after An absence of
two years from the city, made his first ap-
p+arance here last night wi his new play.
"A Messenger from Jarvis Sectlnn." His
welcome was warm one, and the success
he has met with in his new PLAY gives tie
greatest satisfaction to hiSmany friends in
| this city. AS actor, manager and citizen,
in all of which capacities Cincinnati knows
him we'll he holds high place, and the
warm applause which fist greeted him last
| night were but tributes of regard for genial.
whoIe-souled Barney Macanlev That
wllicn came afterward was intended for
Uncle Dan'l, Deputy Sheriff of Jarvis
Section" in which Barney Macauley was
completely lost.
The piece is an illustration of New Eng.
land life something after the manner Of
Joshua VIII tcomb full of humor and
Astounding in Quaint originality.
IA Messenger from Jarvis Section has a
positive plot which is shown at the open-
ing of tile first act and is not suffered Il,
disappear until the close. A widowed
mother, whose husbands dead body. with
that of his horse, is found living at the
foot of a high cliff. on the road home
from, bank, where he had drawn a
considerable sum of money: an only
daughter, whose inevitable lover Ia sail.
or) is, after an absence Of a wear and a half,
supposed to have perished at sea; coun.
try postmaster who holds a mortgage on
the farm owned bv the widow, who also is
in love with the daughter and OPS at no
villainv to gain her hand; Uncle DAM
Bartlett, br, ,ther-in-law of the widow
Deputy Sheriff of Jarvis Section nigh onto
fifteen years." the leader of a gang uf ''yer
bad 'uns'' in Boston, who is the kew to the
plot, the same kew being turned by Uncle
Dan'l. with the assistance of girl
ish waif whom he meets in low
dive In B ston. These, with the neces
sary hlllny III, constitute the cast 0t play
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