The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-17

erly q number of tricks which other magi-
clans have made familiar, and many feats
besides, which are new and entertaining.
He was assisted by his brother, Adolphe,
and by his sister. A feature of the enter
! tainment was called the electro motor, and
consists in the playing, by electricity, of a
number of musical instruments placed about
the hall, and operated on them through the
keyboard of an organ on the stage. Mile.
Seeman figures in an act of mesmerism
while invisibIy suspended in the air. The
baby elephants and the animate and inani-
mate marine curiosities attract, as usual, a
large and interested attendance of specta-
tors.
Oliver Doud Byron's agent lately wrote
to hall proprietor in n small town near
Buffalo for an open date and received the
following reply: al don't know you. Who's
Byron2 What have you got?" But Joe
Banks, going to the pOstofhce for his own
letters, was handed the postal card in mis-
take A broad smile suffused Joe's seven
benign countenance as he read it, and, not
saying word to Byron, answered: Dear
SRA piece called Across the Continent
now in its eleventh year; fifteen acting peo-
Pile, business manager, two agents and an
advertising donkey; six different Autographs
in FIVE colors, two half-sheet hangers, three
different streamers, one twelve-sheet cut in
two colors, one nine-sheet cut in two colors,
six different three-sheet cuts in three and
and four colors, five assorted character cuts;
also, full company, all good cards,
flush treasury, never in a strait two pair
of comedians, big on the draw plays
good DEAL cuts as above, packs every
hall, lives on high game, and sure of getting
hand Now, 1 call you. What have you
got?"
The last London Figaro gives this anus
ing sketch of battle between operate
voices in that city, "Mme. Lorenzini
Gianoli, who made her debut as Norma on
Tuesday, was, it is said, engaged by Mr..
Mapleson for America, but through slip
she remained in Europe, and, in the absence
of NINE. Racchi (who has since arrived, was
engaged by Mr.. Armit. O1era-goers will
heartily wish she had been shipped to Amer
lea. A tall, gaunt figure, voice unpleas-
antly harsh and a stage presence certainly
Druidical, all told against the debutante.
The new Norma had powerful organ and
seemed an experienced actress; and, indeed,
if she had but freshness of voice and any
sort of method, she might be an acceptable
artist But in the result las atthe earlier repre-
sensations Of the opera, when the 'Adalgisa'
of Grist overshadowed the Norma of Pasta)
the positions were again reversed. The star
of the evening was the 'Adalgisa,' Nine.
Bauermeister; and the new artist, despite
her powerful voice and histrionic gifts, had
TO give way before her. A few friends of
both artists supplied, however, the chief fun
of the evening. The supporters of Nine.
Bauermeister applauded her, while the newly
found friends OF the debutante did all that
lusty Threats and powerful palms could do to
applaud their fsvorite. By and by at the
duet, Mira o Norma. the two forces ap-
peared nonplussed. For the friends of the
one to applaud the other seemed to be alb
surd, and to this incident may be attributed
the fact that probably for the first time in
the history of the opera the famous duet
missed its usual encore"