Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-25
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

business.
Lawrence Barrett's Brooklyn engagement was
signal success.
Maggie Mitchell met with her usual success
at Albany last week
Fun on the Bristol is on the boards at
McVicker's theater this week.
John McCulloch will take rest from next
Saturday till the first week in October.
Fanny Davenport has left the United States,
and will play this week in New Jersey
Kate Meek is receiving much praise for her
acting in heavy parts in Booths company.
1.-THE Mighty Dollar" seems to be popular in
Canada, where the Florences have taken it.
Emma Abbott has been performing her escu-
latory acts in Washington during the past
week.
Raymond viii open two weeks engagement
at New York, in Col. Sellers" Big business
Is promised.
Anna Dickinson viii probably give one or
two readings in this city towards the close of
next month.
Jane Coombs has been doing fair business
in the West, and has partly made up her pre-
vious business.
Mary Anderson Will invade Canada t. his week
and test the Kanuck appreciation of Kentucky
beauty and talent.
Bandmann's company has disbanded. The
season has not been profitable one, owing to
the eccentricities of Herr B.
Haverly has built a tent at New York, in
which pedestrian tournaments are to be given
in various parts of the country.
Mario, once g great tenor, is now overseer of
the royal museum at Rome with since ure
salary of 81, 900 year. He is rs.
Nilsson says she has not signed an engage
nent with Mapleson for an American engage
ment, and doesn't propose to do so.
Joe Murphy is shoeing his horse III the Cow
Dhu" in the interior of New York, and is draw
ing large and enthusiastic audiences.
''All the Rage is moving through New York
State, and drawing largely everywhere. Will
Eaton has made q moderate fortune out of it.
Sara Bernhardt says she will not come to
this country till after the Presidential cleo
ton, and then she is coming On her own hook.
j. n. Meade, formerly the husband of Luz
ellie Western, is now managing Hermann, the
wizard. He has thus far proved good card in
New York.
Abbey & Hickey's ''Humpty Dumpty" troupe
has been doing a splendid business at Philadel-
phia during the past week. 1t will remain one
week longer.
Aldrich and Parsloe have been coming money
at the Union Square theater, New York, with
sMy Partner" and propose to remain there till
the close of their season.
1t is one consolation, at any rate. to know
that st. Paul is not often afflicted with such
profane. bawdy, fY-by-night shows as that at
the Opera House last evening.
Kate Claxton opens this week at Hooley' S
Chicago theater in ''The Two Orphans" The
theater has been heavily insured against fire
and provided with fire escapes.
Mrs. Florence travels with five trunks, each
of four of them containing nine dresses which
she wears upon the stage. She is noted as the
best dressed woman in the profession.
Syracuse theatres charge such heavy rentals
that few travelling companies can afford to stop
there. There has consequently been famine
of amusements in that city the present season.
Neil Burgess has quarreled with Nasty, as
was expected and the latter has used the words
of Othello to Cassie, ''Never more be officer of
mine'' The combination is Therefore at an
end.
ssThe Rival Cantineers'' has proved an un-
bounded success at Haverly's Chicago theater.
Two old St. Paul favorites, Miss Jessie Bartlett
and Mrs. Louis Falk, sustain the leading char
aeters.
Daniel 81. Harkins is going to star the coun-
try next season under the management of c.
r. Morton. Unless Mr.. Morton has improved
his management he will probably come to
grief.
Augustine DAILY says his new play, ''The
Way We Live, us a free translation of French
drama entitled Benevolent Women" An
other way of saying he stole it bodily la
Boucicault.
BARLEY Campbell is sharing his good fortune
with his friends, and since his recent sue
cesses has paid all his old debts and given an
elegant supper to several different patches of
his creditors besides.
The Weathersby Froliques open brief en-
gagement at the New York Standard theater to-
morrow evening, and at Its close Eliza and her
husband will go to Europe, where they will
spend the summer in travel.
Katherine Rogers was vaccinated at Phila-
delphia the other day. but the virus was poi
soned and she has been seriously i'll in conse-
quence. She was therefore unable to accompany
Boucicault to London as was originally in
tended.
Irving, the great English tragedian, is meet
ing with such success in the Merchant Of
Venice in England that he has abandoned his
American trip, preferring to retain the bird he
has in the hand to the two in the American
bush which he is promised.
At Columbia, s. c., recently, Mrs. Scott
Siddons was annoyed by THE chatter of lot of
Young people IN the boxes. She was obliged to
suspend her readings, and administered a severe
rebuke to the disturbers. After the entertain
ment she was waited upon by one of the young
men, who demanded all apology. He didn't
get 1t.
PARDONED.
President Hayes Exercises Mercy Toward
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