Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-16
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
What the Players are Doing.

What tho players are Doing.
Effie Ellsler has engaged to play in Les
ter Wallack's company next season.
Emma Abbott and her large opera COM
pany, will produce Paul and Virgin
ius'' here on April 9th.
Mile. Elise, the ballet dancer, is colum-
bine dancer in Abbey& Hickey's pantomime
troupe.
Abbey and Hickey's pantomime troupe,
which is the largest in the world, of the
kind, will visit nearly all the towns on
Mishler's circuit. but will skip Lancaster.
Adelaide Nelson is taking fortnight's
rest at White Sulphur Springs, Va, her
company having gone to New York from
Cincinnati,
Baird's minstrels, who were in bad way.
financially, when they were here few
weeks ago are still on the road, but are
liable at any time to take the turnpikes.
The New Orleans minstrels and Gorton's
gold band, which were here recently, close
their season in Middletown, N. Y. They
will rcOrganiZe for summer tour.
Emma Abbott has pet dog. He went
on the stage in Louisville one evening
and took in the dying scene in ''Romeo
and Juliet" He made a hit, but the
scene did not.
James Maffitt and w. II. Bartholomew,
the pantomimists, have been together for
over 90 years. They were both members
of the old Drury theatre company in Pitts
burgh, in 1859.
Miss Marie Rostelle, who was here with
Alice Oates's opera company, and subse-
quently with Willie Gill's "GOblins," is
suing Mrs. Oates and her manager, Sam
T. Jack, for 5000 unpaid salary.
Haverly's Church Choir "Pinafore -
company have dropped the word "Pina-
fore" from their name. They will here
after sing "Girofle- -Girofa," g Chimes of
Normandy" and "The Bohemian Girl
The funny man of the Danbury Neus
has written play for Sol Smith Russell,
who was here with the Berger Family.
| play to be in the fashion. To be fashion
able now play must be very bad.
An Elmira newspaper thinks that Alice
Oates's fighting should be done by a larger
man than Watkins, in which an Albany
On. W paper cruelty responds as follows
"We think that if her husbands would
club together they might be more effect
i've"
"The Tragedians of Kalamazoo" is the
name of a company, including Gus Bruno,
Charles Ellis, Alonzo Schwartz and others,
now playing in Philadelphia. The press
do not speak very highly of the perform
ance and they pronounce the play a.bad
one. E. NJ. Gotthold who was here ahead
of the "Octoroon company is manager
of the show.
Here is a huge joke. The Allentown
Chronicle calls ''Ryter" Fitzgerald, of the
AN-Day City Item, Philadelphia, "the
greatest of American critics." And caps
the climax by saying his 'criticisms are
reliable" and he "never cuts or puf1s a
play for a bribe." Showmen will appreci-
ate this. How it will make them laugh in
their sleeves.-Easton Erpress.
j. H. Haverly will give 12-hour walking
matches in the different cities throughout
Industrial hall, Philadelphia, on Monday,
April Goth. Liberal prizes are offered to
pedestrians. Philadelphia is about the
worst city in the country for such sports,
but this will likely be success as it is
under the management of Fred. ]. Engle.
hardt, the we'll known sportsman.
Soon will the festive baseballiSt in red
stockings and a bran new cap sally forth
to meet the foe on the green turfed field OF
fame, and ere long will the voice Of mourn
ing be heard in the land, and the apothe
cary will loudly laugh and rub together
his hands in glee. For then will the trade
in arnica, and plasters, and iodine, and
poultices, and splints, and bandages boom
and brighten, and there will be such de.
mand for glass eyes and wooden legs as
has not been known since the golden sum-
mer melted into the purple glory of the
autumn and the waning fall was rocked to
sleep in the cold embrace of the winter.
Owen Fawcett, now with ono of Bart,
ley Campbelrs Galley Slave companies,
has been interviewed by Pittsburgh re,
porter. One story he tells about Charley
Foster, son of the former manager of
Fosters National theatre. "Charley was
the best actor in his fathers company.
He was queer fellow and full of jokes.
One day he was hard up and asked his
father for some money. Sorry, Chawley,
said the old man; Il haven't got any
money my boy WELL you'd better get
some, responded Charley, Or you Won t
have any William Tell tonight Charley
then went off to CimiOtti's and pawnsd his
gold mounted false teeth for $40. He
came back to the theatre with the front of
his face all caved in and mumbled out to
his father, Better get those teeth out of
pawn or 1 won't play tonight The old
man was Mortified, but he scraped up
money enough to get the grinders out of
| CimiOtti'S hands.