Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-06
Amusement Notes

Each smile each tear upon that face
Though lost to sight, TO mem'ry dear
Amusement Notes
What the Players are Doing.
The amusement season is frightening up
in this city.
Pat Rooncys troupe is doing the New
England circuit.
Even the Dramatic Neos thinks Gilbert
and Sullivan's new opera success.
Maude Granger, the actress, will short
ly he married TO prominent New Yorker.
Annie Pixley did tremendous business
in Pittsburgh last week.
Enchantment is drawing packed
houses at the Globe theatre, Boston.
The walking is fearfully bad for show
men who are hOmeward bound.
Frank Gardner, the leaper, goes with
W. w. Coles circus the coming season.
The prices at the opera house tonight
are low enough to draw crowded house.
Manager MishIer has the Watson, Ellis
and Kernell show for two weeks en-
gagement.
Milton Mobiles will play over Mishlcr's
circuit shortly, beginning at Scranton on
January II.
Miss Margaret Cone, the pretty little
actress OF last nights company, is a sister
of Kate Claxton.
Havcrly's MastadOn Ministries opened in
Brooklyn last evening. This is the first
time they yhave been SO near the metropolis.
Barlow, Wilson. Primrose and West
seem to be raking III as large piles as any
of them this year.
Plenty of troupcs which are continually
being organized for 'thc road " take the
road home sooner than they expect.
Frederick Leotard, of the Leotard
Brothers, gvmnaSts. while performing at
the Volks Garden, Brooklyn, fell and..wa
badly injured.
Victor Hugo has never heard of Emcr-
son. Poor Hugo Emerson is the best
song and dance man in this cOuntry.-N
o. Pc0ynnc.
A new theatre is to be erected by an as
sociation, with a capital of $4,000. on
Fourteenth street. between Second and
Third avenues. New York.
Lew Simmons and his little troupe ale
terrifying the people of the small towns
in this state. They appear in Mamch
Chunk tonight.
The Big Four minstrel company is
doing an excellent business on their trip
through the state. The press speaks
highly of their performance.
Last week s engagement of Mr.and Mrs.
Mckee Rankin at the Arch street theatre,
Philadelphia, was the best that has ever
been played anywhere with The Dan
ties
John I. Ford is said to have lost $4,000
on Gilbert and Sullivan. but he will prob
ably make it UP, as The Pirates of Pin
zance' is a success for certain.
Some of the New York managers will
hereafter abolish the window lithograph
system, by which the persons who allow
pictures to be hung in their stores. are ad-
mitted free to the theatres.
Mr.. Ford proposes to put The Pirates
of Penzance in preparation at once by
Messrs. Ford e Zimmcrman's opera COM
pany, and will produce it at the Philadcl-
phia Broad Street in a fortnight.
Charles II. Drew. the tenor, left the
Alice Oates opera troupe before they
reached this city because he had net re-
ceived his salary from Manager Jack for
some time past.
Alice Oates's third husband, to whom
she was recently married. was with her in
this city. He is young Philadelphian,
who travels with the company. but does
not act.
Emerson, Clark and the DAILY brothers
have organized travelling troupe which
includes, besides themselves. Murphy and
Shannon, Parker sisters, John Hart, Cor
della and Victorella, Babby Newcomb,
Minnie Lee and several others.
Lotta, while giving testimony in a St.
Louis lawsuit. was asked: ''What is your
age?' ''People might not believe ME if
told" she replied, ''for some say that
am 45." That was the only answer she
would make.
The Arnold Brothers minstrel company
collapsed in New York state last week,
and McCann and Holmes, the song and
dance men, worked on the railroad at ST
per day for few days. i'm order to provide
themselves with sufficient means to pay
their fares home.
The New York Mirror preserves two
quaint specimens of advertisements, the
first, of the Grand Opera House, "The
management takes great pleasure in an
nouIcing the last two nights cf Mr.. Soth-
ern - the second, "Niblo's Garden, E. G..
Gilmore. manager. Chock full every night. -
The Dramatic Meas receives $50 each
1Of the pictures OF ACTORS, WHICH UnCy
print on their first page. We would like
to know how much the Dramatic and
Musical Times receives for theirs. Last
weeks picture looked as much like COW
as it did like woman. 1t was intended
for Miss Rose Coglan.
There are in the United States $50
theatres and 120 halls and lyceums. There
are 1s4 regular travelling combinations,
so minstrel OF variety companies, 6S COM
panies formed to support stars and play in
spectacular, and seven resident stock COM
panies, three in New York, two in Boston,
one in Philadelphia, and one in San Fran
cisco.
Joaquin Miller, while at Barnum's
hotel. Baltimore, a few weeks ago, wrote
to friend in New Jersey, and ended the
letter: "COme and see me whenever you
can. am at Barnum's'' The friend
answered 81 am sorry you have COM
menced exhibiting yourself If you had
stuck to literature, you would have made
your mark and fortune. Whereabouts is
the show now?''