Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-02

FRIDAY EVENING, JULY q, lseo.
Amusement Notes.
What the Players sre Doing.
Buffalo Bill is rusticating at Atlantic
City.
Harrigan and Hart have closed thei,
travelling season.
The company of the Berger Family will
consist of twenty-tbree people next season.
Mr.. Yecker, of Fulton opera house, will
return from Europe some tine in Aug
ust.
Cooper g. Bailey's circus will be here
for certain during the latter part of Aug
ust or early in September.
Little Rosebud is travelling through In
diana with a company which is known as
the Little Rosebud Combination.
Tony Pastor attended the convention in
Cincinnati last week with his friend. He
was playing in the city at the time.
Hon. w. H. English, the Democratic
candidate for vice president is building a
large opera house in Indianapolis.
Jacob Aberle, New York variety man.
ager will put large minstrel troupe on
the road the coming season.
d. B. Hodges, advance agent of Hav-
erly's minstrels, went to Europe few
days ago taking with him over four tons
of posters and Autographs.
Miss Annie Fox, the actress, who was
last seen here with the /" Our Boys COM
pany, was married few days ago to a son
of the Democratic candidate for vice pres
ident.
The one thousandth Performance of
Evangeline" was given at the Boston
theatre on Wednesday evening for the ben
fit Of Z. f. Rice. About seventy persons
appeared in the cast.
Tony Denier closes his travelling season
of fOrty-six weeks at Aurora, ILL.,, on Sat
pany next year and it will be headed by
George II. Adams, the prince of clowns.
Alice Bateman, the clog dancer, who
was here with Watson, Ellis & Kernels,
will hereafter dance with Willis Pickert,
formerly Of Williams & Pickert. Miss
Bateman was formerly pal tner of Billy
NOonan.
Cheevers and Kennedy the we'll kown
clog dancers, who for several years were
members of Carncross & Dixey's min
strels, but who for some time past have
been in Australia, have separated after a
partnership of eighteen years.
Floyd Lawman, of Reading. who during
last season was in the employ of John D.
Mishler as an advance agent, will 60 with
Nick Roberts to Australia next season.
He is an acrobat, and is now with John
RObinsOn's show.
Josephine Morlacchi, the ballot dancer,
was the wife of Texas Jack. She was in Lead
vile when he died, and is Frustrated with
grief. She is an Italian by birth, and was
at one time one of the best dancers in the
country. She appeared here with her
husband when he last played here.
Haverly's colored minstrels began an
engagement at Niblo's garden, New York,
on Monday night. The troupe consists Of
one hundred people, including twenty end
men, four jawbone end men, three middle
men, fOr.y fema' e jubilee singers, two corps
of shOuters, a large orchestra and a brass
band of seventeen pieces. Billy Kersands
and Jim Bland are the leading comedians.
In the ring of Cooper & Bailey's show
at Haverhill, Mass, a few days ago, VIM.
ii. Bachelor turned double somersault
over eleven elephants. The animals were
placed side by side, save the last two in
the line, which were head to head. The
third elephant, the largest of the herd,
was elevated on two fOur-feet pedestals.
All of the company was assembled in the
ring to witness the feat. At a given signal
Mr.. Bachelor ran down an inclined place,
struck the battoute- board, and after
making two complete revolutions in the
air. cleared the eleven elephants and
alighted squarely upon his feet.