Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-12


John T. Raymond is playing in Pitts
burgh.
B. Macauley goes from this city to
Washington, where he plays next week.
Joe Emmet has new comedy entitled |
" Fritz Among the Mormons."
Tony Denisr opens at Ford's, in Balti- |
more, for week, on Monday.
Rice's g Evangeline' company opened
in New Orleans on Sunday night.
William Mitchell, the manager of ellis
" Goblins'' is also manager of the Theatre
Comique, St. Louis.
Mary Anderson was born in Sacramentc3
Claxton, in New York.
Tho Watson, Ellis and Kernell troupe,
will close their season ON Feb. 21st, at
Chicago.
Levy has been re-engaged to play the
cornet at COney Island, next season, for
$500 per week.
Sheehan and Jones, the "ash-box in
spectoas, will travel with Tony Pastors
troupe on his summer tour.
Manager John T. Ford has company
travelling though the South playing "The
Galley Slave
Tom Thumb can be seen in New York
museum now for 10 cents. He is not as
good an attraction as he was years ago.
Hughey Dougherty, the comedian, has
severed his connection with Carncross's
minstrels.
Paul Allen, formerly of Lester & Allen,
is now member of the " Big " minstrels,
having taken Dan Waldron's place.
Minnie Madden, the Clip of Macauley's
company, is the daughter Of Manager
Davey, of Detroit, who died recently.
Miss Dora Geldthwaite, of the Chestnut
Street, (Philadelphia) stock company, will
shortly join Aldrich and Parsloe's "My
Partner" combination.
Billy Courtright, the negro comedian,
has been engaged for the character of
Jerry, in H. C. .Jarrett's "Fun on the
Bristol
Charles Diamond, who was here last
year with Tony Denier. is playing at Tony
Pastors, in New York, this week. Billy
Sweatnam is at the same theatre.
E. X. Collier who played Jean Renaud
in Golfers company last season, will be
here with Fanny Davenport's troupe which
is very strong.
adelphia on Monday. They will pass
through this city on Sunday on special
train of the p. r. r.
DR.. James L. Thayer, Of Pittsburgh, all
old circus man who has not been in the
business for some time past, will take out
| a wagon show this season.
&C. Dunbar, of Tony Denier's troupe,
recently returned from England. He
played one week after landing with Tony
Pastor and then joined the pantomime
party.
Arnold Kir.lfy, while performing his
eccentric dance in the " Black Crook" at
Easton, Pa, few days ago, fell and seri-
ously injured his back.
| The local "Can This be True, in the Era
of Tuesday evening, appeared in this
| column over a week ago. although they
credit it to the Dramatic Ne,cs.
"The Galley Slave" will be withdrawn
from Niblo's, in New York, OH Saturday,
and on the 10th the Kiralfys will revive
"The Black Crook" once more, for fort
night.
Linda Jeal, the circus rider, who rides a
horse through hoop Of fire, and who last
season travelled with Barnum, is playing
with the Orrin Brothers circus in Havana,
Cuba.
The "Pirates of Penzance" made a tre-
mendous hit at the Broad street theatre,
in Philadelphia, on Monday night, and it
will likely have as long run in that city
as "Pinafore" enjoyed.
B. Macauley, who will visit us on Sat
urday evening, is the proprietor OF Mac
auley's theatre, in Louisville, Ky. lie
was the man who put Mary Anderson on
the stage.
! There came very near being panic in Il
| Chicago theatre few nights ago. A man
arose between acts and said, "Come colo
mel, let's 90 out and take something" and
half the male audience in the parquette got
up and said they would.
Miss Carrie Austin Of Charles and Carrie
| Austin is in New York, quite ill, and will
not be able to appear on the stage for sew
eral months. Physicians say that she will
probably never be able to do the military
speciality again.
| Col. Nelson Trusler fell dead few even
ings ago, in the Grand opera house at In
dianapolis, whittier he had gone to see a
performance of I" Our German Senator, y
by Gus Williams, who was drummer boy
| in the coloners regiment, the Eighty fourth
Indiana, during the late war.
"I say, John" remarked the composer
of " Columbia" few years ago, "Pve
got Just the prettiest waltz movement you
ever heard it's just come into my head:
Listen" and he then and there hummed
his latest " inspiration"
eyes," replied John, with an agggravat-
ing drawl, "Pve always admired that
waltz. I've played it for about ten years. "
That waltz was not republished.
While the Adalaide Nelson combination
were in Montreal, Can, they celebrated
the twenty-sixth anniversary of the we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Weaver, by
presenting them with handsome tokens of
esteem. L. F. Rand made the presenta-
ton, and also read a graceful congatulatO-
ry address from the pen of Mrs. F. A. Tar
nehill. Mr.. and Mrs. Weaver were here
with Miss Nelson.
Signor Brignoli, while leaving Chicago
for St. Louis with the MaplesOn opera
troupe, fell between two cars, "but was
rescued from death by the activity of a
brakeman, who pulled him up just in time
| to prevent him from being crushed into a
tion of the reporter. More likely had the
have been wrecked. Trifles like this have
live to be one hundred years old.-N Y.
Clipper.
D.! Railway Accidents.
During 1879 more railroad accidents oc-
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