The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-09
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items Of Interest to Play-0oers
From Everywhere.

Kate Claxton has made great success
in the "Sea of Ice"
Don Piat,, the Washington City jour.
nalist, is writing an opera.
Fay Templeton sings at Minneapolis,
Mimi, Oct. llth, 18th and 18th.
w. j. Scanlan (Peek-a-boo) played
during the past week ut Chicago.
Maggie Mitchell very properly refused
to play on Sunday night at Cincinnati
John B. Doris Great Inter Ocean cir.
Gus exhibited at Parsons, Kas, yesterday.
-Salsbury's Troubadours begin three
weeks engagement at Chicago Tomorrow
night.
-Fredrick Ward begins q three weeks
engagement at Baltimore, Nd, ,c-morrow
night.
-Eunice Goodrich, under thu manage
ment Of VIM. Pottle, jr, played at Clinton
last night.
IF. w. Keene has accepted a rew YER
sion of Louis XII" FROM the pen of st.
Louis journalist.
-Sars Bernhardt has written a G-ama,
entitled "The Golden Pine" for the Am
bigu theater, Paris.
-"Afriks Reisse," Won Lippe'G new OPP
era which has just been produced NJ Wen.
IA. has proved great success.
The initial performance of dollars
and Sense" took place At Days theater,
New York, and was distinct and brilliant
success.
-Sslisbury's Troubadours' new piece,
my Chum," has made q hit, while the
FlOrences' new PLAY, Facts; or, His Little
Hstchet," is q failure.
Robson and Crane are meeting with
great success in "Our Boarding House."
ROBSON has the role of Prof Gilliford,
while Crane does Col. NJ. 7. Elevator.
1T was all mistake about Mary An
derson being refused tie right to play
"Pygmalion and Galatea" BY the author,
w. s. Gilbert. He has no objection what
ever.
1t Was Miss Nettie Abbott, of Kiralfy's
Enchantment company, aud not Emma,
the opera singer, who caused the arrest Of
one VI the male members of the company
for attempting to kiss her. As several of
our exchanges have mis- stated the affair,
We make the correction.
Kat. E. Stevenson, known to the the
atrical stage as Kate Claxton, on Saturday
last brough- suit in court of common
pleas No. 4 against j. E. Kinsley & Co,
the lessees of the Continental hotel. II is
to recover the value of $1,000 worth Of dia-
monds which the plaintiff alleges were ia
ken from her side while she was a, break.
fast at the hotel some two weeks ago when
she vas playing an engagement in this city.
The diamonds were in satchel, and the
plaintiff believes they were stolen. The
claim is that the hotel managers ought the
better to srotect the property Of their guests.
Mrs. Marie Hilkins, the well.known
actress, died Sept. q, at her residence in
New York city. Her name has been we'll
known on the English and American stage
for the last quarter of \ century, but she
was chiefly known to the present genera
ton of theater goers through her engage
ments ut Wallsck's and the Union Square
theaters, New York. In her youth che was
q famous London beauty. She was the
original "Mother Frochard" in "The Two
Orphans" in this country, and by her real
istic personatiou of that role she is best
remembered by the American people from
New York to San Francisco, for there Is
scarcely city of more than 10000 inhab-
itants whose thsater going public have not
shuddered or laughed at her reat perform.
ance. OF late years no revival Of THE
Two Orphans" has been considered com.
plete without Marie Hilkins in the cast.
her last appearance was As Mother Ship
ton" in "The Romany Rye" at Booths
theater, New York. She was 81 years of
age.