The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-05
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to know that tomorrow evening Mestay
er's I'VE, Us & Co." will give the first
performance in this town. Ii the reports
from all the cities are to be relied upon,
this piece is by all odds the most amusing
piece seen upon the stage for the past
two years. Wherever the company has
appeared it has been played to the capac>
ity of the house. The leading character is
veterinary doctor from Wisconsin, who
travels to New York, intending to start
up in business. The whole piece is a sat
tire upon doctors. athletes and fashions
able follies The company is remarka-
bly, strong one vocaly, comprising such
people as Miss Julie Christian, one of the
best mezzo sopranos on the stage. and
Miss Martie Crocker the soprano who
has achieved great reputation already in
comic opera. The piece comprises every
element OF popularity; there are pretty
women, bright costumes, catching music,
witty dialogue and side splitting stua-
tons, without trace of vulgarity. Peo-
pie ought to purchase seats early in order
to secure them, for if the success of the
play is the same here as elsewhere, there
will be some difficulty in obtaining
even standing room on the opening
night.
GILMO1E's BAND.
The great Gilmore of Boston jubilee
fame, and of world wide renown as the
greatest musical organizer of his time,
and at the head of his wonderful band of
fifty musicians, embracing more and finer
ton in the world, on his return to New
York after months tremendous success
at the St. Louis exposition, will play at
Harper's theatre, Rock Island, Wednes-
day evening, Nov. nth. Mr.. Gilmore
will be assisted by Madame Louisa Pyk,
the great Swedish operate soprano, who
is without superior on the concert stage.
The concert will by odds be the most re,
markable one ever given in the city.
p. s. Gilmore, of New York. is in
many respects, the most remarkable mus
steal figure of his time He is born
musician; a born leader a born organizer
of vast musical bodies of singers and in
strumentalists, and he is at the head of
the most perfect band in the world. be
cause it embraces the greatest number OF
matches solo performers, all controlled
as one man by the magic witchcry OF the
master mind. 1t is needless to recount
the heroic achievements of Gilmore in
music. He first organized in New Or
leans a great festival with chorus Of
IL, 900 children and 900 musicians. Then
the two monster Boston jubilees, at tie
first of which he has 10000 singers, 1000
instruments and 10000 auditors in a
building erected for the purpose. The
second con tanned go, 900 singers and 1000
Observation-Disclosures. in building which held
100, 900 auditors. AT this festival he had
the foremost bands of Germany, Austria,
France, England and Ireland, and the
greatest living artists. The festival with
it's building cost nearly half million
dollars. Nothing approaching these
mighty and wonderfully successful festi'
walls have ever been organized by any
other musician or country in the world 8
history. Subsequently Gilmore went to
New York, and as the result of his great
experience organized a band composed
only of the finest solo musicians selected
from all over the world, and that band he
took to England, France. Germany ETC.,
where it wrested the championship of the
globe and the concession of the press that
it had no equal in existence. 1t is this
marvellous band of fifty pieces, together
with a soprano worthy to appear in such
company, that Mr.. Gilmore is about to
bring to this city. 1t has just completed
a six weeks triumphant season in st.
Louis, and is making circuit home to
New York, via Sedalia, Kansas City,
Lawrence, Topeka, Atkinson. Leaven-
worth, st. Joseph. Omaha, Des Moines.
Minneapolis and St. Paul. To miss its
concert here is to forego the opportunity
of a life.
THE LECTURE COURSE.
Tonight at the Y. NJ. G. A, rooms,
Prof. r. T. Weidner, professor of the
ology at Augustana college, will deliver
the second of the Y. NJ. c. A. course on
"Books" The lecture is free and will
prove interesting and instructive.
EQUINE AND CANINE.
julius Cohn, business manager of Prof.
Morris equine and canine paradox which
appears at Harper's theatre Monday and
Tuesday evenings next with a matinee on
Tuesday afternoon, is in the city arr anging
for the novel attraction. The prices are
within the reaah of all. and everybody
should go.