The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-01-15
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items Of Interest to Play-Goers
From Everywhere.

| - osSio -.ii'Sheh pays at hOuAS'iiei
Ky, this week.
Lizzie Evans plays at Springfield, No.
the 14th and 18th.
Joseph Jefferson played at Washing
ton, ID. c., the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. w. J. Florence play at
Cleveland, Ohio, this week
John Mccullough began a two weeks
engagement at Boston the 9Th.
George B. WaldroD, an old-time actor,
died recently of consumption.
Sol Smith Russell begins a weeks en-
gagement at Cincinnati tomorrow night.
Austin Breeton's biography of Irving
has just been published by the Seribner's.
John T. Raymond is playing in New
York city where he began a three weeks
engagement Dec. Slst.
Marian Elmore is to be married To
Frank Losee in the spring. Both are pro-
fesSionals.
Fay Templeton plays another engage
ment in Chicago this week, appearing at
the Criterion theatre
The amusement season in New York
has been bad so far Grand opera at two
different theatres probably the cause.
Charles Stanley, the noted English
baritone, was married Sunday TO Mrs
Elizabeth Innes, a wealthy American.
Levy, the corneI.st, is said To be pre-
pairing an autobiography for publication,
giving full account Of his prof Ssional
and marital struggles.
-"CIaudian," new play which seems
20 bor p,ala hi. - I ., coos,
be produced in this country. The scenic
sensation is the representation Of an earth
quake.
-S,rah Bernhardt is preparing a reply
TO Marie Colombier's book, entitled Sarah
Barnum." Sarah's liter4ry response will
be headed "Marie Colombier, by Sarah
Barnum."
Mr.. LabOuchere, in the Christmas num-
her OF London Truth, "drops into poetry"
To remark thai ''the pOei"-nOw houted by
fame-who was once Oscar Wilde, has be-
come Oscar tame"
-Ex-Sergeant Mason recently signed
contract with the manager of a Phiiadel-
phia museum and is on exhibition in that
city tor limited period, it is said, at 500
a week and expenses. He is reported to be
drawing well.
An invention for producing the effect
of the aurora bore,lis has been devised by
LvSander Thompson, the artist and actor,
aud patented by Messrs. Shook and Collier.
This machine is used in the scene of the
ice fields in the play OF "Sjorm- beaten" at
the Union Square theater, New York.
Mr.. Frank l.. Bixby, manager of one
Of the Madison Square "Esmeralda" com
psnies, was on Christmas day presented
with handsome watch charm bearing the
ins cription, "TO eur manager, Frank, from
the happy Esmeralda company" Mr..
Bixby at one time resided in this city.
Alfred Klein, the Buttons" of "The
Rajah," now being played at the Madison
Square theatre New York, who nightly
takes a plunge into tank of real water. is
for the statement that the Janu-
ary temperature of Croton is so far below
zero that the thermometer refuses 10 record
il.
james O'Neil, while playing ST Gin
ciunaii recently in The Count of Monte
Cristo," met BOnny Whiltou, the prop erty-
man of the old National theater, on Syca-
more street Said he, "Bonny, do you re-
member the first night 1 ever went on the
stage? That was done at the old National.
You were property-man and | = raw supe.
To encourage me you gave me the best
spear in the theater to carry that night
Bonny remembered it. "Well, said ONeil,
'here's $50 for Christmas gift"
Our thestre-goers are promised a
splendid entertainment by Clayburgh's
Creole" company, which appears at
Woods opera house, tomorrow and Tues
dsy nights. The play which they pre-
sent is the "CreOle', or "Article a." by
which title ii is best known. This is the
play in which Clara Morris appears to the !
greatest advantage. The star, Edith |
Houston, is said to be all actress of great
sbiity, while the supporting company is |
iirst-claSs. \ large attendance will doubt !
less welcome this excellent attraction, TO- !
night.
MIR. w. II. West, OF Thatcher, Prim- |!
rose and Vests MINISTRIES, gives the follow
ing explanation OF the separation of him.
self aud wife Gay Templeton) after two
months of married life: "Soon after our |
while in Chicago, We discovered |
that there was an incompatibility of tenn |
per between us, which would preclude the |
OF our ever being happy to-
yeth.r. She is bright, vivaciOus, educated, |
A perfect lady, with superior musical and
vocal attaiuments, and in many respects
nay ideal wife, but noticed that she |
hadn't that love for me that a wife should |
bear toward husband To tell the truth, /
we didn't understand each other perfectly |
We hadn't been enough In each others So
ciety before marriage, our only meetings /
being for a few weeks now and then in the
summer vacation season. Besides, woman
Who has been on the stage, petted and fiat
cred, cannot easily throw off the taste for
notice and adulstion upon becoming
wife. So we agreed TO disagree. it was a
mutual arrangement entirely satisfactory
o me, and, as far as / know, perfectly
pleasing to her. There was no intense ILL
ceiling in the matter. remember her
,indly, and would speak to her if / met
Ter. Neither one of us has sought, since
Al Il.