Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-29
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Lawrence Barrett and his family will spend
the summer at Stuttgart Germany.
Brignoli has given Jimmy Morrissey, Emma
Abbott's taffy dispenser, a set of diamonds.
Maggie Mitchell has been on the stage pre-.
cisely thirty years, but she. is as young as
ever
John Mccullough, it is said, has made
more money than any other American actor in
England.
Kate Claxton has closed an exceptionally
| successful season at Baldwin's theater, San
Francisco. i
Genevieve Ward will return to England this
week, but will come back in September to fill
starring tour
Tony Denier will begin brief engagement
in this city with his Humpty Dumpty troupe
on the 9th of June 4lt
Mrs. Laura E. Dainty, the dramatic reader.
is to attempt the drama in the "All the Rage''
company next season. 90
Maud Granger has been engaged to play in
1.-THE Galley Slave' next season. She was sue
cessful year ago in that play.
Dramatic business on the Pacific slope is at
low ebb, and most of the theaters and COM
blnatlons there are losing money.
1t is probable that the Opera house will be
considerably renovated during the summer
season, and the scenery reprinted.
Louisville is especially favored. Beecher
lectured on the Goth, Ann Eliza Young on the
9th, and Bob Ingerson on the 2Sth.
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boards at Haverly's, Chicago, this week.
Birch and Backus are at the head of the COM
pany.
The engagement of Rose Wood in Camille"
and 'Fron Frou" on the 9th and 7th will prac-
tically close the season at the Opera house in
this city.
James O'Neill is already filling dates for his
starring tour during the season of 1928. He
will attempt tragic roles, under the manage
ment of j. M. Hill.
"Olivette" will be played at the Grand and
at McVicker's, Chicago, this week-at the
former by the Fifth avenue and at the latter by
the Acme company.
Sara Jewett, one of the prettiest actresses on
the stage, has thus far resisted all importu-
her days ''in maiden meditation fancy free"
Anna Dickinson says It was not dislike to
wearing the breaches that induced her to re-
fuse to play Claude Melnotte but dislike of
Marie Prescott, who had been cast to play
Pauline.
Joseph Jefferson will begin next season at
ST. Paul. He considers this the best initial
point in the West, and will go hence to St.
Louis, Kansas City and other points in the
Southwest.
Haverlyas European Mastodon MINISTRIES,
advertised for the I'd and Sd prox., are sure to
pack the Opera house to it's utmost capacity.
It is the best as well as the largest minstrel
company extant.
Manager Haines has already booked large
number of firstclass attractions for next sea-
son at the St. Paul Opera house. He thinks
the st. Paul public is entitled to the best at
fractions in the land, and is bound to furnish
them.
The fact that Edwin Booth is announced to
sail for this country next week leads to the
suppositiop that his wife's health has greatly
improved. If such shall prove to be the fact
there will be general satisfaction throughout
the profession.
Lawrence Barrett, the eminent tragedian,
will open his next season in st. Paul, and has
secured dates at the Opera house for an en-
gagement beginning on the 2Sth of August
His company will rendezvous here week or
two before that date.
The s'Hazel Kirke" company that has been
playing at McVicker's, Chicago, for the past
three weeks, start for tour in California to-
day. Fife Ellsler and Frank Weston, who
married on Thursday, 60 with the company,
and will call it their brl0al tour.
Remenyi, the greatest living violinist, will
give concert in the Opera house next Satur-
day evening, assisted by Mile Renie Reignard,
soprano, Edmond de Celle, tenor, and Henry
Beale, pianist. The entertainment will I'M
doubleday attract large audience of music
lovers.
Steele MacKaye is a sly dog. He is the
manager of the "Hazel Kirke" and "Won at
Last" combinations that have been playing at
Chicago for several weeks past at rival
theaters. He himself was playing in the last
named company, and he placarded the streets
with posters and dodgers announcing that
"Won at Last" was a better play than "Hazel
Kirke." The result was that both entertain
ments were largely patrenized, for the public
didn't understand the true inwardness of the
situation.
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