The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-08
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items of Interest to Play-Goers
From Everywhere.

Sells Bros. circus exhibited at Green
Bay, Wis, yesterday.
-Barnum's great show drew large
crowds on the Fourth at Portland, Me.
Actors sigh that engagements are not
offered with that alacrity which is desira-
BILE.
Thomas w. Keene, the trsgedian, is
at his home in Brooklyn, n. Y, having
closed his season.
w. A. Mestayer and wife Teresa
Vaughan) have gone to Coney Island to
pass part of the summer.
Frederick Warde, supported by Kate
Forsythe, begins a weeks engagement at
Portland, Oregon, tomorrow.
Bret Harte's niece. Gertrude Girls
void, recently made a successful debut In
grand opera al London, England.
Actors with cockney accent are in
much demand for Silver King, Lights o.
London and Romany Rye companies.
Frank L. Bixby, at one time resi-
dent of this city, who has been managing
Madison Square attractions for several sea-
sons past, has been re-engaged for next sea-
SON.
Fay Templeton and company sang at
Milwaukee, Wis, the past week. The
company has been much improved by the
addition of Harry Brown and wife, (Lillie
West,) who recently Joined them, They
will proceed Immediately to Californis,
where they will sing during the summer.
SOL. SMITH STEPS OFF.
Sol. Smith, the well known &C
tor, died Thursday morning last at his
residence, 14S West Fourteenth street, New
York. Mr.. Smith had been suffering for
several weeks and his condition was deem.
ed so serious few days ago that his wife
who was travelling with Lester Wallack's
Lady Glare" company, was summoned to
his bedside. The news OF the commedisn's
death was received with establishment by
the few actors who still remain In the city.
Many of them were not aware that he was
Ill. Mr.. Smith was about 45 years old,
having been born in Kentucky In 1889.
He was the SON of Sol. Smith, the cele-
brated comedian, who became famous
| through the west and south between 1880
and 1850. The father was also a member
of the old thestrial firm Of Smith & Cald-
we'll. These two gentlemen were the pic.
neer managers OF the west, and their com
panies played to houses In all OF the prin-
cipal cities west and south. Mr.. Smith
was also a brother of the late celebrated
actor, Mark Smith. The deceased made
his first appearance in New York during the
season of 1868 at the Winter Garden thea
ire, playing the Hebrew character of Ma.
than, in the burlesque, Leap" Subse-
quently he was attached TO various com
panies and played in the principal cities
of the country, his speciality being that Of
an eceniric comedian. He acquired
reputation above the average
in that line of business. Eight year:
ago he married widow, daughter of Sedly
Smith, the old manager Of the Boston mus
cum, who had acquired something of a rep
utstion of an actress in California. Mr
Smith was good musical actor, and foul
years ago made quite hit in Brooklyn a.
Sir Joseph in "Pinafore" and in "Oul
Boarding HOUSE" He also attracted con
siderable attention as Shouter while hi.
wife assumed the role of Mrs. Culver
During the last theatrical season, Mr.
Smith scored quite a success al Tony Pas
tors theatre by his rendition of the charac
ter of the husband in "Vim," with Nei
Burgess as the leading actor, winning gres
applause. The dead actor, besides his wife
leaves stepson and daughter.