The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-22
AMUSEMENT WORLD.
Musical and Theatrical Mention
Here and Elsewhere.
Grand Opera House.

good houses The piece is in many respects
excellent. There is not the freshness about
it that the Tourists brought because We
have had more of this class of entertain
ments, but Fun OH the BRISTOL is full OF
good things and no one can fail to be
pleased with it To-day matinee and night,
and extra farewell performance Sunday
night.
This house will be closed next week.
Pixies Opera House.
Barlow. Wilson, Primrose q Vests
Ministries have had only fair houses this
| week. The troupe is a fine one, better
than on any of its previous visits. 1t con-
fines itself to pure minssrelsy, gives
clean performance, and does not int1iet the
audience with stale puns.
Matinee this afternoon, and last perform
| ance tonight. ....
Pixies will also be closed next week.
hsuok's Opera House.
This week the Rentz-Santley Company
has been playing 10 good business. Mat
inees to day and tomorrow and regular
performance at night
Next week, SpIague's Georgia Minstrels
Vine-Street Opera House.
This house has done big business this
week. Grand matinees to-day and to.mor-
row.
NOTES.
John w. Carroll will manage Lotta next
season.
D'Oyly Cartes' new London Theater will
be called the Savoy.
Sothern's Company next season, 1T is said,
will be wholly American.
Wilhelmj has fiddled $4,000 out of the
American people the past season.
The Olympic Theater, Nashville, Tenn,
closed successful season on the 22d.
Genee, author of 1.-THE Sea Cadet" has
written another opera called Marrow"
Miss Fanny Davenport has at last settled
all her financial Misunderstanding with
Mr.. Daily.
Stella Boniface will be member OF Sol
Smith Russel's Edgewood Folks Company
next season.
Charles ]. Grouse, of the Salisbury Trou-
badours, sails for Europe next Tuesday in
the Arizona.
"The Sparks" is the name of a company
Just organized in Frisco. Willie Edouin,
please no ice.
The drama that twas nightly received
with enthusiasm" failed for want of m IRE
substantial support
Salsbury's Toubadours open at the Alex
andria Theater, Liverpool July IL. They
expect to be absent six months.
Alice Oates does not go out travelling this
Summer, but will probably take a p easure
jaunt to Europe, doing the grand tour.
Rose Ely tinge is still in England, but it is
reported that she is endeayoring to secure
New York engagement for next season.
A cable dispatch from London states
that Mr.. Gye, the manager of the Covent
Garden Italian Opera. has resolved to bring
his company to New York next year.
Matinees To-day-"Fun on the Brist ~
at the Grand. Barlow, Wilson, Primrose
and Vests Minstrels at Pixies, Rentz-
Santley Burlesque Company at Heucks,
and fine olio bill at the Vine-street
Opera-house.
Buffalo Bill has made $50, 900 this season.
| He closed the season on the 9th at Buffalo,.
and gave wine summer to the company.
Bill will spend part Of the summer at his
ranch on the Dismal River, Nebraska,
where he has seven thousand head of cat
tie. (We'n add cipher to this next
week. Ut Mirror.
| TAFFY.-Mrs. Scott-Siddolls says: II have
travelled through the United States for
eleven years and know all phases of So
ciety. The women here are very mucb
better informed than the English women
American women possess a certain grace
and ease, what the French call chic that
YOU will not find even in the highest Eng
lish society. A servant girl here will dress
herself in a graceful. natty way that an
English duchess knows nothing about"
CoMpLIMENTA TO LorTA.-Last Sunday
evening at Bangor, Me-, in the spacious
parlors of the Bangor House, Lotta was
rendered complimentary concert By Hav-
| erly's Colored Miustre!S which was greatly
enjoyed by the little lady and some three
hundred prominent citizens. Lolita ar
rived from Portland with her company
Sunday morning. appearing in Bangor the
following evening, under the management
of G. H. Smith, of Fall River. Lotta's
business for two weeks in New England
was over $4,000 which is the largest she
has ever done in the East.
huIlc lAlCy 10 q oIdiS dhu piohA
ises to excel Charlotte Crabtree. Since
that rich lady in Australia fell in love with
Annie, and wanted to adopt her, accord
ing to the veracious chronicles of the day
all our actresses are looking for engage
ments in Melbourne or Sydney. Blu
Annie didn't 60, you know. Oh, no! Ant
THIS IS WHY.
Oh, buxom Annie Pixley,
She loved the stage so dearly,
That she really ,udn't leave 1t
For twenty thousand yearly.
For Annie is adapted
: TO her art, which can't be dropped;
The stage she has adopted,
And no more she will adopt! --lClipper
Should anybody ask you how mucl
Mary Anderson made during the season
say that you don't know, but that yol
think $50, 900 would not wrong her. Til
! papers allow her good deal more thar
That, but the papers are not to be relied on
present company always accepted. Tn
gentleman who prepared for the press tn
brief summary of the seasons business an,
0 duration Of the Mary Anderson boom will
have to take few more lessons In figure
work. He SAYS that "the season laste
exactly nine months. having been begu
in Utica, N. Y, September 9Th, 1879, an
closing in Portland. Me-, May 9th, $780,
IL. ~. r.