The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-18
GENERAL NOTES.

The Muldoon Picnic combination will
give a performance at Timm's hall, Moline,
next Monday night.
Frank E. Aiken and Genevieve Rogers
will give two entertainments at the Burtis
opera house, davenport, next Friday and
Saturday nights.
1t is gravely stated that Anna Dickinson
is studying othello.
Miss Jeffreys Lewis will star through
the country with La Belle Russo next
season.
Maggie Mitchell will distribute $4,000
photographs of herself as souvenirs next
| season.
Selig, the Banker. is the title of another
Hebrew play that has been concocted for
the use of Mr.. Russell Bassett.
Marie Prescott is considering a propo-
sition to divide the business of the G. A.
Watkins East Lynne with Ada Grey next
season.
Maud Granger is in a very precarious
condition of health. The physicians thus
far have been unable to diagnose her
malady.
Wilkie Collins is writing a five-act play,
to be called Lady Calissa, for a German
manager, and it is to be first performed in
that language.
Mile. Banana, the Kiralfy premier, who
danced in Michael Strokoff and the Black
Crook, left recently for Europe, and viii
proceed to Milan, her home She does not
return.
Mr. Edwin Booth, after his short Lon
don season, will make tour through the
provinces, including Scarborough, Man
chester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Dublin, Bir-
mingham, Leeds, Hull Newcastle. Edin
burgh and Glasgow.
Patti is engaged to sing in this country
for six months. beginning next October.
She is to sing twice week and receive
e917 for each performance. This is about
80, 900 per night.
Robert E. Graham left for Denver few
evenings since to join Mitchell's Pleasure
Party" for tour of eight weeks. Leo
nora Bradley is of the party also. Next
season Mr. Graham viii at last travel with
Minnie Palmer in MY Sweetheart
Miss Emma Thursby sings in New York
in the fall. 1t is said that she is to be ac-
companied by pair of nightingales of the
Crusaders times. What part the nightin-
gales are to take in Miss Thursby's con-
certs is, however, not stated.
Who has got Patti for America? is the
musical question of the hour Mapleson
claims her in the most emphatic and even
boistersus fashion, while Mr.. Abbey and
his agents, with certainly less noise but
even more confidence declares that La Diva
is theirs.
Mr.. Conway, of the London Haymarket.
is described as being decidedly the hand
soonest actor on the English speaking
stage. His profile has pure Greek out
line, and he lisps charmingly. He has re-
celved numerous offers from American
managers.
Denman Thompson's daughter, Venie has
gone and got married to Mr.. Edward Nc
Farland. The ceremony was performed
at Swansea, N. H., which is the home
stead of the Thompson family, and where
his father died some weeks since.
Mr.. Fulford, Mrs. Pixley's husband,
says his wife would have played in some
thing better than M'Liss before this if
American dramatists had been able TO af-
ford her anything superior. This is not
wholly fattering to the dramatic guild, but
| she is to have her new play this summer.
| John T. Raymond recently met for the
first time a charming bright eyed lass,
and, by way of Standardization, ven
tured, You don't know me. do your
Eyes I do-you're Fresh came the pert
answer, and SO pleased was. the commedian
that he at once offered her an engagement.