Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-25
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Frank Bangs is to support Booth during hi
spring season.
The plot of "a False Friend" is based on th'
Tichborne case.
Jack Haverly has leased the Fifth avenue
theater for term of five years.
Ada Cavendish has done good business a
New York, where she failed on her first arrival
| BARLEY Campbells Galley Slave" is I'M
de rlined for Haverly's Chicago theater this
| week.
| Mrs. ScOtt-Siddons has been reading in Chi.
cago for the past two weeks to large and appre-
ciative audiences.
'Matrimony" is the latest venture of Barley
Campbell. His friends will be glad to know
that it is only play.
Nelson has done smashing business at
Rochester, both as to pocket-books and hearts
of susceptible young men.
Hooley's Megatherian minstrels are doing
good business at the East. They keep up their
old numbers and reputation.
Miss Jean Burnside has taken the part of
leading lady in the Boniface & Graves combi-
nation. She is clever but not extraordinary.
It is alleged on good authority that John Nc
Cullough has realized $4,000 on his engage
ments for this season. No one better deserves
the money.
The manager of Den Thompson spent So, SOC
ia advertising the appearance of that actor in
Boston before dollar vas taken in at the box
office. 1t paid.
1t is alleged that joaquin Miller is at work
on new play. As he is in feeble health there
remains lingering hope that the play will
never be produced.
Corelli has not had superabundance of good
fortune since her arrival in this country, and
is open for engagements in concert or other
wise. She deserves better.
The oldest theatre in America Is the Savan-
nah theatre, which was built in 1903. Its an
tiquity is accounted for by the fact that Kate
ClaxtOn never troa its boards.
Emily Melville, with her English opera CON-
pany, the strongest and best ever organized in
this country, will shortly visit st. Paul. SIZE
may rely upon solid "boom."
Adelina Patti drew $1,000 for single per-
formance of Marguerite at Covent Garden,
London, rec emily. Ducats tell that she is not
losing much Of her popularity.
There has been decadence in variety shows
during the present season, probably owing to
the fact that the travelling shows have furnish
ed all the variety the people wanted.
Hobbies is to be produced at Hooley's
theatre, Chicago this week, by the Weathersby-
Goodwin combination. Miss Weathersby,
however, is ill, and will not be able to appear.
Chanfrau is one of the losers by the failure
of the Grocers' bank of New York. His loss,
however, only amounts to $4,000, while if the
failure had occurred two months sooner he
would have lost 1926, 900.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons refused to tell her age
to an Indianapolis reporter the other day. As
her Eccles stands good chance of drinking
himself to death in short time her reluctance
on that point is excusable.
Emma Vaders stepped through trap-door
in Louisville q few months ago; sAd sustained
few injuries. She has just recovered $4,000
from the POLYTECHNIC society, under whose au-
spices she was acting at the time.
Haverly has secured Sara Bernhardt for next
season in this country, having contracted to
pay her 81, 0CO night for hundred nights.
She will make her first appearance at Haverly's
Fifth avenue theater in New York.
Maude Granger was SO affected by her role
in the Galley Slave" at New York, that she
tainted away. She was unable to appear for
the remainder of the evening, and her part was
assumed by Miss Estelle Mortimer.
Mapleson's grand opera company closed a
very successful engagement at HaYerly's thea
ter, Chicago, last evening. The profits have
been enormous, and Coils. Mapleson and Haver-
ly are feeling jubilant in consequence.
The Mapleson Opera company last night
concluded the most successful two weeks of
opera ever given in Chicago the receipts being
over 100000. Haverly's theatre, where the
opera was given, being crowded nightly.
Wallack, the New York manager and actor,
talks of coming West to cultivate dramatic
taste by the production of frst-class plays in a
frst-class manner. We beg to assure MIR. Wal
lack that st. Paul taste is willing to be Guilt
waited.
Mr.. G. A. Byrne, former editor of the Dya-
matte Ne,rS, who was sued for divorce by his
wife. has discovered that the first husband of
the lady is still alive, and consequently that
her later marriage was invalid. Result the
non-suit of the wife.
When BARLEY Campbell was in hard luck a
ager, came to his rescue and put him on his
pins. Now the conditions are reversed and
Campbell has contributed literally to bring
Ellsler out of his financial straits.
The Carlotta Patti concert company, which
sailed for Australia last week, has had only
reasonable success during the American tour.
Constant quarrels among its members and with
the public press, have served to leave an un-
sayory reputation behind, which will probably
survive as long the reputation of the troupe.
Perhaps it is not vanity which makes
Blanche Davenport say that out Of two
hundred and twenty-five girls who were study
ing for the lyric stage during her tulelage at
Milan only five have ever been heard of since.
1t is nevertheless a fact that not one in fifty
embryonic prime dome ever emerge from
their Italian schools to achieve fame.
'The Pirates of Penzance" have had Won
derfully successful run in New York, which has
apparently just began. Everybody wonders
what everybody else sees in the piece, yet
everybody goes to see 1t. Though it is q
piratical opera there is no danger that it will
be pirated as was ''Pinafore," by the same au-
thors, as Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan have tax
en- the precaution to copyright it.
A malicious exchange, bent on robbing the