Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-20
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

"The Guv'nor' has had good run at ST.
Louis during the week.
The Harr1sons had an excellent week of il
at Hooley's Chicago, in Photos
Roland Reed, in Gan Arabian Night" will
fill the present week at the Grand, Chicago
There are now three ''Widow Bedott' COM
panies on the road, all of them doing fairly.
Rose Conghlan has been engaged for next
season by Wallack at a salary of $3.50 per
week.
Lolita closed very successful two weeks
engagement at McVlcker's theater, Chicago,
last night.
The nautch girls have gone back home to
India. They were too respectable to make
much of o hit
Gunter, having made hit with Fresh,
the American" is at work on new play for
Nat Goodwin.
Rosa Conghlan, it is said, is about to be mar
ried. That Rose by any other name won't
smell as sweet.
Janauschek opens at Baltimore to. morrow
evening after fairly profitable season of two
weeks at New York.
Fred Paulding is nota success as q tragic
star, and will close the season considerably
out of pocket and in debt.
Mary Anderson will revisit Louisville in
April, and already preparations are being
made to give her grand ovation.
Hazel Kirke" has been successfully played
at Cincinnati during the past week, by the
original Madison Square company.
The report that Fanny Davenport is having
a glass dress made at Pittsburgh is too trans
parent. Anybody can see through it.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons' season in Philadelphia
was highly profitable. She made her best hits
in Rosalind, Viola and Lady Macbeth.
Emma Abbott's week at Boston was the
least successful of the season. The company
has made great deal of money, however.
Bernhard was not success at Pittsburgh
She is not as successful as on her first arrival,
the novelty of her performances having worn
Off
'Billee Taylor" is having great run at the
Standard, New York. It threatens to become
as great rage as "Pinafore" was few years
ago.
The Acadamy Of Music, Chicago, is running
"a Terrible Test" 1t is not stated, whethe.:
the actors or the audience have to endure the
test.
John e. Owens has made palpable hit in
his California drama, "The Man from Catar-
august He appears at New York next
week.
Genevieye Ward has scored success at
New York in the millinery drama of "Forget-
Me-Not" She dresses in very talented
manner
A colored damsel lately made her debut as
an actress in Savannah, Ga, and some one
suggests that she should have played ''Black-
hide Susan.''
Harry Sargent is writing life of Dion Bou-
cicault. He is the only man who has ever
been able TO transact business agreeably with
the irascible Dion.
There are more than half q dozen "new and
original versions of Uncle Toms Cabin in
preparation. And yet this is supposed to be a
Christian country.
Minnie PalmeI's company does not contain
a single actor or actress who begun the season
with her. Minnie's temper plays the mischief
with all around her.
SalVini's average receipts, according to his
manager, have been $1,000 for each perform
ance exclusive Of that given in his honor by
the Chicago Owl club.
Another new comedy, "The Upper Crust, -
has been tried and found wanting at Wallack's,
New York. There is no demand for crusts as
long as bread is cheap.
Willie Edouin's Sparks have attracted well
at Hooley's Chicago theater during the week.
They will be succeeded this week by Mckee
Rankin In 1.-THE Danites."
Sam Colyille proposes to lease Booths thea
ter next season for the production of "Michael
strogof," which has. already secured foot
hold on the American stage.
Commodo Foot and Jennie Quigley, the
midgets, are to be married in Westminster
Abbey shortly after Easter. The Prince of
Walls has promised to attend.
Soldene has done big business at New Or
leans. The mouths of the Mississippi are so
familiar to residents of the Crescent City that
they didn't notice the artists.
needs touching up badly. A few pots of
paint, skillfully applied, would work wonders,
especially ON the interior sets.
Anna Dickinson is shortly to appear in
Hamlet and Macbeth. Having failed as an
actress In petticoats, she is about to don the
breeches-Or, rather, the tights.
Annie Pixley will be in Cincinnati this week.
When she was last there some benevolent citi-
zens offered to buy her a better dress than the
one She appears in at Smiths Pocket.
Cazanrau and Mcdonald are collaborating
new play. 1t will probably be as original as
the jokes of the end man in a minstrel show,
or else the playwrights have turned over a
new leaf.
There are no entertainments booked for the
Opera House this week Next week Char
lotte Thompson will give three performances,
and as she was always fayoritc here she. will
draw large houses.
DR.. Hamilton Griffin, Mary Anderson's
step-father and manager, sends a demijohn of
the best Kentucky bourbon to the critics who
praise her performances. She will have
fattering reception at Chicago.
The st. Louis papers do not like Salvini's
Spartacus as we'll as John McCullough's.
They can't understand Italian, and are especi-
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