Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-04
AMUSEMENT NOTES.
What the Players aro Doing.

What the Players sro Doing.
Lent is coming along so are the good
shows.
Fanny Davenport will he here on Feb
ruary 10th.
Charles B. Griste. the popular advance
agent, is ahead OF the "Goblins.'
There are at least fifteen minstrel COM
panies travelling in different parts OF the
country at present.
The Kate Thayer concert company has
South and Southwest.
Boston is said to be the best amusement
city in the United States because the people
are more intelligent than anywhere else.
James NJ. Hardie and George Hoey have
formed a combination out of the stock of
the Philadelphia Chestnut, which will
take the road in the spring.
Lotta, Den Thompson, Pat Rooney,
Richmond and Won Boyle, Nick Roberts,
Oliver Doud Byron and Alice Oates are in
New England.
"The Quaker Bakers or the Pie Rates
Of PENIS Aunts," is the title of Mr.. Chas
F. Pidgin's new burlesque on Gilbert and
Sullivan's latest work.
Billy Robinson, Billy Arlington and
"Senator Bob Hart, all of whom are we'll
known minstrels, will give temperance lee
lures in Cincinnati on Sunday next.
William DAILY, of the DAILY brothers,
"King High Kickers," will in March take
Gus Bruno's place in the ''TOurists y
company.
Cool Burgess has a minstrel troupe Oh
Y the road, and he is the principal performer.
e He still persists in doing his old acts
| oh 1,n c1o loI nnv,
years ago.
While Buffalo Bill and his Indians were
making street parade in Harrisburg on
Saturday evening, they were followed by a
: gang of boys who amused themselves by
= pelting the red men with stones.
L 1t is said that Joint agreement has been
) entered into between the Baltimore and
. Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads abolish
ing theatrical rates between Pittsburgh
and Baltimore, Washington, New York
It and Philadelphia.
II Billy Barry, the well-known comedian,
IL who is now playing in the stock company
+ of the VOlks theatre, Brooklyn, accidental
ly shot the top of his thumb off with q
pistol while doing a sketch 4 few evenings
} ago.
Edwin Booth is 4G years of age; JOSEPH
il Jefferson, so; Barry Sullivan, 56 John S
is Clarke, 46; f. A. SOthern, 40; J. l.
u Toole, 4S; Dion Boucicault, 50; Mis-:
~ Nelson, 30; Lydia Thompson, 42, an(
Fanny kembell, II.
If you are in theatre when it takes tirt
% on the stage, you have at least seven min
IS uteS to spare before smoke or flames will
IS injure any one beyond the orchestra. De
ID vote this time to picking up watches ano
= wallcts.-Free Press.
II Charles Calender, the minstrel mana
>. ger, who has been enjoying private lifi
~ since he sold out to J. II. Haverly, ha
at another troupe of colOred men on the road
Of and Billy Kersands, whom Haverly dis
,e charged, will join his party.
IS William Gill, the leading member 0
Of "Our Goblins," is one of the best come
,t dans in this country. He is the author o
Horrors" which is now being playet
- with so much success by Rice's Surpris'
"a Party. For years he was with Samue
Is Colville's burlesque troupe.
n The donkey and cart of E. NJ Gotthold'
IL "OctOrOon - were seized for a debt to thl
m Toledo Blade printing company, owed by
J. n. Gotthold, in Albany few days ago
They were Immediately repcvend by the
,, owner and appeared rs usual in the even
ing.
p Next week we are to have good shows
g as follows Monday, Gilrs "Goblins"
u Tuesday, BARLEY Campbelrs compan!
'e in Fate. y; Friday. Tony Den
IS icr's pantomimc and variety troupe, will
70 " Grimaldi'' !: Saturday. Barney Macau
- ley as Uncle Dan'l in I" 4 Messenger from
" Jarvis Section"
10 On Saturday night Rice's "Evangeline'
company appeared in Wilmington, Del.
e The citizens thought it was Rice's Surprise
Il Party, which had been there before, until
l, the evening of the show, and the lOca
. papers condemned the performance. There
- is considerable difference between the two
u troupes. although they are both managed
:, by E. Z. Rice.
The oldest theatre in America is the
Is Savannah theatre, which was built in 1903
e 1t is a massive building of brick and stone,
and has never been remodelled or changed
in any way. The architect was an English.
man, who was brought to America by the
Blake brothers. two wealthy South Car
u olina rice planters, who at that time resided
If in Savannah.
e Columbia has no daily newspaper, but
&c there arc more persons i'll the town, who
It manage to get into shows on the '' press -
/
:, come when showmen will not stop at Co.
" lumbia or Harrisburg. The dead-heads
" in those place can tell an advance agent
= when he is ten miles off. They smell the
v paste on his trunk.
d An exchange says: 81. II. Haverly
r began life as train boy on the old Michi-
- gan Southern railroad. He subsequently
became moving spirit of Benedict and
Arlington, and later of Emerson and Cot
e toms minstrels What he is now is known
Q throughout the country" Are there any
q rich men in this country who were not at
;, one time bOotblacks newsboys or gutter
- snipes.
The Buffalo Express thinks Adelaide
Nelson should manage to exc out rather
comfortable existence from her profession
u al rewards. When in that city the other
: day, she favored the officials of the Bank
q of Commerce with a pleasant call, for the
purpose of exchanging $14, 600 for United
States bonds. Miss Nelson was accom-
i modated, and carried away the securities.
a She had 81, 800 house at her performance
J, in that city.
J. C. Crossy. who last year managed
S the North Broad Street theatre, Philadel-
phia, and who this season wrote an opera
,, entitled, "The First Life Guards" ;"
4 which fell so flat both in New York and
e Philadelphia, is no less parsonage than
n "Fatty" Stewart, who kept variety
show in Philadelphia during the Centen-