The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-15
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items of Interest to Play-Goers
I. From Everywhere.

Fay Templeton and company sang at
Erie, Pa, last night.
Sol Smith Russell appeared at Osh-
kosh, Wis last night.
Frederick Paulding will support
Margeret Mather next season.
Kate Clsxton appears at st. Joe, Mo-,
TO morrow and Tuesday nj hts.
Lizzie Evans plays at Toronto, Can
ada, the first three nights of this week.
Frank Roche, an actor Of much ability,
died in New York city April 4;h OF pneu-
monis.
The veteran actor, William Davidge,
ST., celebrates his SEVENTEEN birthday next
Thursday the 18th.
THE Imp" is the name Of Fred Mars
den's new piece for Annie Pixley. Mars
den Is also at work on play Tor Roland
Reed.
john Z. Owens, vino has been sick for
over two months at his residence near Bait
imore, Md, is now convaleSciDg, though
slowly.
Mary Anderson has refused to play in
London, Eng during Passion Week, as
she has heretofore refused to play in this
country during the same period.
Henry Irving, so report goes, has Of
fered K. b. Mantell the position of leading
man In his company, TO be vacated by
William Terriss, At the end OF this season.
Miss Maude Stewart, who has been
playing Edith. the blind girl, In Young
Mrs. Winthrop, has injured her eyeSight
by Stimulating blindness. She is at pre-
ent in Philadelphia undergoing treatment.
John A. Mackey has left RIce's "Pop"
company. The recent unpleasantness in
| this company appears TO have we'll nigh
broken it up. George Fortescue, and
Misses Irene Perry and May Stembler left
the organization some time ago.
Louise Pomeroy has arrived in San
Francisco with her husband. She las been
abroad In Australia aud the East Indies
for the last four or five years. She has
taken Dora Jewetts place In the company
at the Baldwin theatre.
Madame Janauschek mourns for her
pet poodle, which departed this life in st.
Louis, recently, during her engagement
there, aged IL. Mrs. Scou.SiddOns was
doggy's first owner, and she gave the ami
mai TO George Chaplin, who presented it to
Jsnauschek.
The Paris papers of April 5th printed
a rumOr that Adelina Patti was DESTROYS of
retiring from the stage, and had expressed
a wish to return To her husband, the Mar
quis de Csux. The rumor was generally
uiscredited in Paris, and pronounced with
out the shadow of foundation by those who
should know all about ii. Patti herself,
who ought To know, has recently denied the
truth of the rumor to the press OF this cOun-
try.
ALI Burnett, the well-kn mimic
and comedian, died In Cincinnati, o., April
iih, of apoplexy, at his home in that city.
He made his first appearance on the stage
In lS41, IN Hamlet" though he had pre-
viOus.y travelled as a dramatic reader. He
soon discovered that his greatest success
was as mimic rather than as
an actor, and In the former field he won
his laurels. He also had quite a reputa-
ton as a writer of songs, ballads and reel
tations. He was born in London. Eng,
Oct. 2 1924. He was nearly 90 years OF
age at the time of his death.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde's reputation as a
budding dramatiSt has not, 1t seems, suffer-
ed Nv reason of his unfortunate Nihilistic
play produced at the Union Square theatre.
Miss Mary Anderson, who certainly ought
to know the meaning and value OF dramat-
ic effects, believed in the aesthetic play
wright to the extent Of commissioning him
to write a piece for her, and in due time a
romance nearly approaching tragedy was
submitted TO her, entitled the "Tuchess of
PadIa." 1t proved, however, not altogether
to her liking, and she preferred to refuse it
ontwright, at the same time giving Mr..
Wilde the sum originally asked by him for
his work. The play may still see light
(tha, is, the footlightsl, as it is TO be
brought before Miss Ada Cavendish, who
is said to be sadly in need OF part strong
enough to exercise her great powers.
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