Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-05-08
PIPER'S OPERA HOUSES.
An Old TIM Il n A y A G T. Il
WHO Always LANDS ON
HIS FEET,
seine Dramatic IsecOllectiOns Of
the Cometock,

John Piper is once more on hi
feet with a bran new Opera House
the best one he has ever yet givel
Virginia City. Pirer has been {
theatrical manager in Virgin;
City ever since the first, and i
known by dramatic people al owe,
the United States.
THE OLD D STREET ROOKERY.
His old theatre was on D street
and in the early days some of the
greatest actors that. ever trod the
stage, acted in the old rookery to
crowded houses. Booth the elder
appeared there in Hamlet, and an
old French fencing master was put
on in the last scene where Laertes
and Hamlet fence. Booth for the
first time in his life met his match
with the foils, and never forgave
Chivalia, the old restaurant man
for making such a guy Of him be-
fore an audience. Once when
John Mccullough took benefit
Sharon and some friends of his
went into the green room and tried
to see how many tickets they could
destroy and pay 81 30 apiece for.
They Uttered upon floor in roya.
style, and it cost them about &c.
600. Here Goodman & Daggett s
Sycroscope was produced with
tremendous eclat with John Nc
Cullossh, May Howard and we be-
lieve Ellie Wilton in the cast. 1t
had big run and Mccullough Of
fered 100000 for it, if the authors
would eliminate one scene. They
refused and the play still sleeps in
a trunk, but whether in Goodman's
or Daggetts we know not.
Mccullough was then in the
height of his fame, and he is now a
demented wandcrer in the streets
poor wreck mentally and physically. |
Some of the largest and most
lucrative sums ever made by great !
actors were in that tumble dow N
Did rooEery on the hillside. Piper
was making money very rapidly, |
md the people used to ask him to !
build new theatre, but he only |
aughed and said he guessed the
The old one would last spell yet
Finally the old place got to be
with the profession
md whenever Lawrence Barrett
rould come there to play he would
% down on f street and carefully
the underpinning Piper
would always 90 along.
Il say john" Barrett would say
apping a rotten upright with his
'ane, do you really thing l can
LAY Richard over that piece?"
I'll guarantee dey hold. If it
,oes l gifts you ten per cent more. ,
Finally when Barrett got more
imorous Piper actually put some
resh uuderpinning under the
tage (Which hung over the hill
ide on stilts) to take away the &C
vrs' nervousness.
One night Alice Oates was sing
ng the drinking song in " Girofa y
n pretty lively style, and big lot
{ chorus girls we're dancing around.
he old stage began to shake and
way, and Piper in dismay rushed
round to the wings and called
ut :
Alice Py eimini. let up or &c
'hole stage goes down, and by
athletic appeals he got some of the
horus girls to quit jumping round
nd saved the place for the night.
Finally Bauer and Miller APP
cared in Greco Roman wrestl-
ng match. Bauer got drunk and
egan to slam dumb bells about
nd several went through the rotten
tage and rolled down the hill.
After that, Piper swore he would
How nobody but professional
ctors in the place. One night he
autioned Forrest against stamping
0 hard when he grabbed the cour-'
er by the neck in Richard and
allied him cream faced
BON" 'liar and slave" etc.
Once. a woman who lodged in an
dioining building, crawled over
cad between the roof anI CEILING
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