Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-13
AMUSEMENT NOTES.

Mrs. Scott-siddons is touring through New
England and doing splendidly.
The usual Sunday evening concert will be
given at the Athenaum tonight.
Louis James intends to star it next season
with new BARLEY Campbell play.
The Theater Comique, recently destroyed by
fire at st. Louis, win not be rebuilt.
Maggie Mitchell opens the week at Hooley's
Chicago. She will not reach this city til next
month.
Children in arms may be well enough on the
stage, but in the audience they are intolerable
nuisances.
Ada Cavendish has undergone surgical OPP
Grafton, and is in q very critical condition at
New York.
Cincinnati theaters have been doing better
during the part three weeks than ever before
during the season.
Aldrich and Parsloe are billed at Indianapo-
lis this week. They have realized handsomely
during the season.
Sothern's son, who was cut off with shil-
ling, will probably contest the will of 'the
crushed tragedian."
Salvini opens season of eight performances,
covering. two weeks, at McVicker's theater,
Chicago, on the Dist.
The Vickers-Rogers company has gone the
way of scores of others-bnsted. Walking is
not very good either.
John S. Clarke, the English comedian, is
coming over to play "Bob Acres,' Joe Jeffer-
sons's latest specially.
New York Star; Olive Logan has seen
Bernhardt turn her back on Duchess But
then it is a very thin back.
Ed. Thorne has been sued for shoemaker's
bill and BARLEY Campbell for board bill, both
events occurring in Chicago last week.
Salvini witnessed Charley Packus's play
"Othello in Black" the other night, and
swears he will never again play the Moor.
John T. Raymond is to be married this
week to Courtenay Barnes. 1t Is to be hoped
he will treat her better than de did his last
wife.
Snow blockades have their bright sides.
One of these in store for st. Paul is the prob
able repetition of "Hearts of Oakn tomorrow
evening.
Haverly will have the finest theater in the
country at Chicago. 1t will be finished in
September and will probably be opened with
grand opera.
Agnes Atherton, the pretty buriesQue actress,
has become the mother of bouncing boy,
who has been named after the lady's husband,
Willie Edonin.
Agnes Leonard has lost about $25, 600 in
trying to make the public believe she is good
actress. She is wealthy, however, and can
afford the loss.
Haverleys receip is for two weeks Of oper
at his Chicago theater were the largest ever
known in that city. Musically the season has
also been a success.
The one-thousandth performance of 1.-THE
Danites" took place at Philadelphia on Friday
evening. Souvenirs of the occasion were pre-
sented to the audience
Jim O'Neill has never had luck since his
PRESERVATION of the Redeemer in the passion
Play" at San Francisco. Some look upon
his misfortunes as q judgment.
Alice Oates commences her new departure
at Dayton, O., to-day. She is pound to sue
coed despite faithless husbands and dishonest
managers Her pluck is commendable.
The "Oaken Hearts, combination, coun-
terfeit of the "Heart of Oak" company now
in this city, has been disbanded Frauds don't
pay when the genuine article can be had.
Gunter, the author of 1.-TWO nights in
Rome" is going to take it on the road. He
will not be as great an attraction as Maude
Granger, however, and will hardly make it
pay.
Only the better class Of burlesque perform
ances seem likely to survive the season. There
has been fearful mortality among them thus
far. There are aOne to mourn their depart
ure.
BARLEY Campbell's "My Geraldine" has
proved successful beyond anticipations at
Hooley's theater, Chicago, during the past
two weeks The discomfort in Ireland adver
tise it.
Thomas w. Keene the tragedian, opens at
the Grand Opera House tomorrow evening.
The scenery will be painted expressly for his
plays. Mr.. Keene will follow Maggie Mitch
ell to st. Paul.
"Where's the Cat?" is the latest London
success. We don't know where it is in that
city, but hereabouts you can generally find it
on the roof of the woodshed making love with
q full orchestra.
Twenty-Five hundred persons witnessed
Fanny Davenport's presentation of Camille
at Cincinnati at single matinee last week.
It was the largest audience ever seen in a
Cincinnati theater.
Boston Post: When an actress understands
that Cincinnati people consider hams nicer
than bouquets, she won't mind having them
SHE'D at her, on the stage. It's the intent of
the thrower that counts.
Annie Pixley will open brief engagement
at the Opera House on Monday evening, the
Dist inst, in 'M'liss," a character in which
she has been phenomenally successful. She
will no doubt receive a cordial welcome here.
An amateur dramatic entertainment for the
benefit of the African NJ E. church will be
given at Pfeifer's Hall tomorrow evening:
The comedietta "Off the Stage" and the farce,
''The Arrival of Mile Bernhardt," will be
given.
Fanny Davenport, who has heretofore been
regarded as the best dressed woman on the
stage, has formidable RIVAL in Genevieve
Ward, who has brought q ship-load of dresses
from Worth's. We may expect spirited con-