Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-11
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Edwin Booth is in bad health. His audi
ences arc bad also.
Suthern opens at Washington tomorrow in
his well worn plays.
nip and Tuck" is the only entertainment
at the Opera House this week.
Louise Pomeroy is in North Carolina and
seems to please the tar-heelers.
Kiralfy's "Black Crook combination is
drawing crowded houses at Baltimore.
Buffalo Bill gave his business manager a
gold watch and chain us New Years gift.
Joe jefferson owns an orange orchard in Flo
rida upon which there are now 5000 tees.
Still another. Helen Tracy,is to be married in
| the spring to Il gentleman of wealth and posi-
| ton.
Charles and Rose Coughlan have been en-
gagged at Wallaeks for ths. remainder of the
season.
Bandmann quarreled with Chicago critic
the second day of his engagement at McVick.
er's. Characteristic.
Genevleye Ward has gained much praise and
several new dresses in England, and will soon
| return to this country.
Raymond did not draw well at New Orleans
last week, and lays it to the fact that he Meth
er drinks nor uses tobacco.
Henry Watterson says Mary Anderson has
the graceful step of a wildcat. Judging from
| reports, she has its temper also.
Henri Laurent, who was the active cause OF
Alice Oates last divorce, has got back to Bos
ton, and is singing at the Globe.
Princess Toto,' at the Standard theatre
New York, has proved total failure, and has
| been withdrawn from the boards.
Emma Abbott Wetherill says it doesn't spoil
| a singer to get married. Does Mrs. Wetherill
know of singer who has tried it?
The Chicago Church Choir ''Pinafore" COM
| pany drew larger houses than ever before at
Haverly's Chicago theatre last week.
mo. 99'' is new drama by Archie Gordon
which is meeting with fair degree of success
| under Manager Albaugh's direction.
Max Strakosch opens season of Italian
| opera in New York tomorrow. Miss Blanche
! Davenport and Litta are the prime dome.
both in the variety and legitimate line, has re-
tired from the stage on account of i'll health.
Lolita wouldn't tell her age in St. Louis
court the other day, leaving it to. be inferred
that the rumors alleging that she is 45 are
true.
The breaking of a fnger-nail, necessitating a
surgical operation, prevented Herr Joseffy from
f,,1E
| week.
Gen. Sherman wanted to play Ingomar to
Mary Andersons Parthenia but Mary said he
| was too much of a savage; and wouldn't con.
sent.
1t has become the fashion for actors to hunt
in couples. This pleases the public, as it as
| sures correct rendition of at least two char.
acters.
Joe Murphy, having exhausted the large
| cities, is now taking in the provincial towns OF
Illinois and Indiana, and adding largely to
| his store of filthy lucre.
Mapleson's opera company opens at Haverly'f
| Chicago theatre tomorrow evening. The sale
| of season tickets has been sufficient to secure
crowded houses nightly.
Mary Anderson's managers rented two thea
tres in Troy last week, but closed one,of them
SO that the divinity from the Blue Grass regions
would have no opposition.
The ghost has not walked in the Saville Opera
| company for several weeks, and there is i'm
minent danger of a breakup even before the
arrival of thawing weather.
Jack Haverly is going to lease another thea
tor Nou, VCrGr bo En1 fa,
his purpose. There is some danger that Jack
| will get too many irons in the fire.
''The Pirates of Penzanss, Gilbert and Sui
livan's new comic opera, is having a trench
dous run at the East, and is said to be far su-
perior to "Pinafore" in many respects.
Nelson's two weeks engagement at st. Louis
has been most successful. She carried the city
by storm, and played Juliet, Viola, Cymbeline
and Rosalind with all her old-time grace.
Notwithstanding the danger of fire in her
vicinity Kate Claxton has done a rushing bust
ness at Washington during the week just closed.
''The Two Orphans and "a Double Marriage
were the cards.
The Boston theatrical managers are initiating
the English custom of giving spread to the
critics on first nights. The custom will not be
likely to increase the public confidence in the
impartiality of the criticisms.
The Emily Melville opera company, now at
San Francisco, is one of the strongest English
opera troupes ever organized in this country
Harry Peakes and c. II. Turner and wife IAN
mis- Montague) have just Joined it.
The Young Mems Christian association of
New York has accepted the legacy of $150,0O0
left it by the late William Niblo, proprietor of
Niblo's garden. The organization will not
abate its hostility to theaters in consequence
however.
1t has been demonstrated that Patti was not
drunk at Leavenworth few weeks ago. as she
only drank four hot Scotch WHISTLES and two
hot brandies between and 10 o'clock. That
amount of liquor was not sufficient to affect
her in the least.
Boucicault and his wife agnes Robert
SOM have had another quarrel. The old mans
idiosyncracies seem to be gaining on HIM. and
his abuse of his wife-who, by the way, is
every inch a lady-has been of the most
brutal description.
The New York theaters talk of abolishing the
photographic window advertising on the ground
that it increases the number of deadheads
The shrewdest managers, however, insist that
it increases the number of paying patrons in
far greater proportion.
Miss Laura Don is becoming quite favorite