Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-06
AMUSEMENT NOTES.


Hon. W. Il. English has just erected
SoU,OOO opera house at Indianapolis.
Mrs. John Drew will receive $500 week
Tor supporting Joe Jefferson next season.
Golfers Celebrated Case" company opens at
Hooley's Chicago theatre, tomorrow evening.
Tony Denier closes his season at Milwaukee.
on the 10Th. He places his profits at $4,000.
Frank Mayo has been doing good business
at Houcks Opera House, Cincinnati, during
the week.
Emma Abbott has closed her season. She
has made money, but has achieved great un-
popularity.
The Pirates of Penzanse," are still running
at the Fifth Avenue theatre, New York, to
crowded houses.
Few prominent combinations are now on the
road, and the amusement-going public are OBJ
iged to subsist on the dregs.
The calvin Joslin" company will appear
at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, tomorrow night,
if the railr DAD is in running order.
BARLEY Campbell is going to Europe to have
good time with the boys. What will America
do for new plays during his absence?
Maggie Mitchell has filled all her time from
the beginning of next season to February 1 /.
She appears to be in greater demand than ever
before.
Charles L. Davis is good character actor,
but it is to be hoped that when he comes back
to st. Paul next fall he will have improved his
support.
French & Co.'S French opera company has
dis banded at Baltimore, and most of the mem
| bers were obliged to take to the road and foot
| 1t home.
Pat Rooney drew largely at the Grand Opera
| House, Cincinnati, during the past week. He
| will be succeeded this week by Haverly's Mas
tOdOn minstrels.
Signor Majeroni returned from Florida last
week. having spent the winter in that locality
for the benefit of his health. He is much
| improved physically.
The Rentz-Santley female Ministries, who
have been delighting the delegates to the Chi
| cago convention during the week, give place &c
A an Uucle Toms cabin.
McVicker, at Chicago, has been coming
money out of Abbey's Humpty Dumpty troupe
and the Spanish Students. 1t will be the at
| traction until further notice.
Sylvester M. Hickey is going TO Europe tc
manage Henry Ward Beecher's lecturing tout
| in that country. He may make better success
of it than he did as the manager of Mary An
| derson.
| Henry Irving, the great English tragedian
| has been sued for divorce by his wife, who &C
cuses him of too great familiarity with one OF
/ the actresses of his company. He makes NJ
defence.
1t is probable that Ada Dyas may star mex
season in q new play by joaquin Miller. Sh,
| is ''backed' by wealthy lady of New York
who has for sometime past been her constant
companion.
| Den Thompson will not come West this sea-
son, as his New York engagement has proved
so profitable as to warrant his remaining there
till the dog days arrive. and some seaside re
Sort claims him.
Hazel Kinke." which was refused by nearly
all the New York managers. at the beg ginning
of the season, has had the greatest run of any
play yet brought out having had consecutiv,
presentation of thirty-six weeks.
It is again rumored that Mary Anderson il
about to be married. The report receives ad
dltlonal credence from the fact that Mary
step-father, DR.. Hamilton Griffin, pronounce
it false in every particular, and asseverates tina
she is wendell to her art.
Joe Murphy has closed his season, which h
claims has been the most profitable of his life
time. By the way, some one might ACHIEVE
distinction by discovering star or combina
ton that has realized less than $4,000 during
the year. Such novelty has not yet come thi
way.
Chicago Tribune: Barnums circus has
caught the crowd this week. At every per
formance-and two are given each dsy--th'
tents have been crowded. and the audience
during the remainder of the week will undoubt
eddy be very large. Barnum is being hand
somely reimbursed for his outlay this season
The show is richer in curiosities, horses, per
| formers, and wild animals than it has eve
been, and the accommodation for the public Ii
as nearly perfect as it is possible to be in /;
travelling show.