The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-16
STAGE SUBJECTS.
The Weeks Attraction at
Harper's Theatre.
Various Gossip Concerning
the Profession.
EVA FAY.

| the character OF Hr0f. ray ana 0Inef
mediums She does not claim that the
entertainment of the different features
| thereof are tricks, but rather the direct re-
suit of spirit manifestations. The many
tests will be conducted until the close
supervision and inspection of committee
appointed by the audience, and every
opportunity viii be given to detect any
bogus spirit business. The recent APP
pearance in this city of Prof Baldwin and
his expose of spirit wonders will have a
tendency to attract good sized audience
at Harper's theatre to morrow evening,
when an alleged spiritualist will undertake
to give performance The doors viii be
open at Z O'Clock, and the performance will
commence an hour later.
BUFFALO BILL.
When the posters announcing the ap-
pearance of Buffalo Bill are displayed on
the bill boards the hero worshippers are
happy, for they realize the fact that the
scout and noted hero will soon make him
self visible at the local theatre. The bills
are now up which state that Buffalo Bill
and company will appear at Harpers
theatre next week, and it is safe to assume
that the theatre will be crowded. The
company have new play this year, but
whatever the play Buffalo Bill has attrac-
tive powers that will draw large audience
anywhere. The name of the present
drama is Twenty Days or Buffalo Bits
Pledge"
HIDDEN HAND.
One of the lasting attractions among the
many plays and dramas that have been
written during the present time is that of
the Hidden Hand" There is just enough
of the improbable in its make up, and the
plot is sufficiently interesting to carry the
play to successful ending. The Whitley
combination has new version of the play
which has one striking charm. 1t makes
the play much shorter than the old YER
sions, thereby crowding more of the inter
est in shorter space of time. The COM
pany engaged for its production was
selected with special reference for the
characters which they sustain, and as a
result more complete and finished per-
Torrance is the case than would be if the
company was engaged in presenting a
number of plays. The Hidden Hand is
underlined at Harpers theatre for next
Monday night, and the sale of reserved
seats commenced this morning at Marshal
& Fishers drug store.
THE MINsTREIs
Negro minstrclsy is always in order and
peculiar interest is always added and a
genuine flavor given to it when the min
strels happen to be real colored people
They need no makeup and speak their
native southern dialect and play their own
old plantation songs with voices full of
music-touching and stirring-even if |
they do lack the highest vocal culture. |
Callenders Consolidated misunderstanding |
Callender's Original Georgias and Haverly's |
European Colored Ministries appear at |
Harpers theatre next Wednesday evening. |
The Consolidation embraces among its |
features: Billy Kersands, Ed Bowen, |
Chas. Young, Harry Hart, Chas. Anderson, |
Billy Banks, Bob Mack, Geo. Harkins, |
JAS Grace, Geo. Cooper, c. Bowen and |
others, in the first part, and in the olio,
Armstrong in limitations and dog circus, |
Wallace King i'll vocal selections; military |
of clog danci ng, with W. Simms
as the feature; dancing Zouaves, in full
force, Kersands in comicalities the consol-
idated sextette, Bob Mack in Barnyard
Sketches, and sketch called The Steam
boat Landing" as the wind-up-cast with
the full strength of the company.
GENERAL NOTES.
Blind Tom has been assiduously study
ing the flute, and with much success.
The Grand Opera house at Cincinnati
has new iron drep curtain weighing l.
200 pounds.
Elsipoff will piano recitals during the
seq son of 1898, through Germany, Swift
erland, Poland and Belgium.
The marriage of Miss Fannie Dillon,
daughter of John Dillon, the comedian, to
Mr.. r. E. Parker took place in Chicago
last week.
Some of the regulations for English
theatres laid down by the law are ridicu-
lous, but not that one requiring the pres
ence of a physician during the performance.
As proof of the widespread interest
manifested in the production of '.Parsifal,
it is stated that ON July 26th, the day of its