The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-08-02
FOOTL LIGHT FLASHES.
Items of Interest to Play Goers
From Everywhere.

Charlotte Thompson is in California.
Edwin Booth is ut present at Newport,
RI.
Milton Mobiles opens his season at ST,
Louis in September.
Harry Rainforth goes with Janauschek
this coming season.
Sol. Smith Russell commences his sea
son a, Kansas City, Mo.
-Jno. +. Raymond and wife are sum
mering Al Long Branch.
tom O'Shanter' is the title oi a new
play by j. II. Kline, Of Cincinnati.
Frank Aiken is in Chicago organiz-
ing company to support Genevieve Rog
ers.
w. II. Power, will open the season a,
Lexington. Nv. August 18th. during fair
week.
John Dillon will. this coming season,
le member OF HOolev's comedy ccm-
Pany.
The Nellie Boyd Dramatic company
will play at cheyenne, Wyoming territory,
Angus, 18th, 9th and 9th.
-Robt. McWade and company opened
at Sawtelle's theater, Helena, N. T.. July
Is, in Rip Van Wrinkle, for one week.
Miss Hardness, an American lady,
was awarded the first prize in violin COM
petition at the Conserv atoire, Paris, on the
10Th.
Tiara Louise Kellogg is to sail from
England July 2S. and, il is said, she Will
show herself TO Americans in improved
health and voice.
The World" was produced last Thurs
day nigh, at McVicker's theatre, Chicago,
to standing room only" The play will
probably run there several weeks.
Rafael .Io>effy, the well-known pianist,
Is to he transformed into an American citi-
zen, he having already received his first
papers in the naturalization process.
A western composer has Just created
q companion ballad to Empty is the
Cradle, Baby's Gone" 1t is called "Teth-
cred is the Bull Bog, Jim Can Come"
The remains III Henri Vienxtemps.
the great violinist are to be removed from
Algiers to Verviers, his birth place, where
a monument is to make his final resting
place.
Dion Boucicault sprained his foot
while making the jump rs Myles in the
Colleen Barren recently at the Crystal
Palace, London. Mr. Bonuicault was
unable to appear subsequently.
Lawrence Barsett writes to friend:
II went to zee Irving rs Hamlet. l like
him amazingly, Unexpectedly to myself.
am afraid to say how much. Ellen
Terry is the best actress ever saw. Irving
speaks iOndly OF Booth. Says there never
was such fellow, and loves him rs We all
do"
MIR. John McCullough's dresser sup
plies the following specimen OF what he
knows about acting: II have taken in all
the theaters and everything there is to Be
seen, from the tower to the British & Ken
sington Museum, But upon nv word, am
no Critic, But think know Something
about acting rs you know have had ex-
perience under Mccullough, but see
nothing to come up to the old warriors OF
our American stage.
Sixteen years ago the pulpit caused
the whole world to know that the bullet OF
3 mailman had been fired by one who had
been an actor. The pulpit seems not to
be taking any pains at al to show that the
mailman or demon who fired the bullet
July I'd, is an avOwed theOlogian, that he
has been q member of the Young Mems
Christian association and had written
rrazy books upon religious subjects, etc.
Their memory is evidently bad-iu this
instance.
We find this tough story going the
rounds and reprint il in testimony Of our
admiration for the nerve of its inventor:
During Joe Jeferson's travels through
France with his family, they CHANGED to
risit church in the provinces. The Of
iciating priest had recently died, and on
he block drapery about the altar we're the
etters X. l. p (Requiescat in Pace.) {
le6erson's Youngest son saw the inscrip-
ion, and looking up to his father, he
whispered: why, papa, how did they
Know you we're coming to-dayw