The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-03-31

4 NOpuAdhOh 0VU. CcdtlBS Napdc1ty SVv.
-Thos. w. Keene appeared at Ateh;seD,
| Kansas, last night.
jamin Porter, the actor, is keeping saloon
at San Marcial, n. NJ.
-John L. Raymond closed his season,
which has been quite profitable one, at
Colorado Springs, Colo, last night.
An opera manager at Lima, Peru, was
fined $50 for not beginning his performs nse
promptly. Such Spartan justice woald
ruin opera managers in this country.
Henry AveliDg, Frederick Wsrde's
late Leading support. has Joined VIM. z.
Sheridan, The tragedian, who begins an en-
gsgsmenI al the ellis opera house, Kansas
City, tomorrow night.
The Hoop of Gold combination is
announced as having collapsed at Daven--
port, Iowa, recently. The organization
had been playing 70 bad business for some
time, the management being out some
81, 900 or $4,000, so the event was not sur
prisiDg.
"A well known impresario declares, says
the Boston Journsl. that great singers
will not allow managers to owe them.
They wsnt their salary before going on the
stage at night. Albani, the great eontrslto,
always insisted on having her salary before
singing note. Then she would place it
inside her correct. 81 do not know how il
is" she would say, placing her hand over
the money, "but the words come better
when ] know il is here" Aagini. the,
tenor, siE avs plaeed his money in his left
stocking. Badiali, the barytOne, wore al
belt and kept his money and gold pieces
there. During afternoons on which hel
sang be amused himself by weighing ,hel
gold in pair Of apotheeary's scales.
Herr Sonnethal, the great German
actor. says he hes for twelve years been fol-
lowed by "Glueckss ngel" (angel of good
fortsne) In the form OF a woman with
whom be has never exchanged words, and
of whom he knows nothing more than that
she is forever visible to him when be plays,
DO matter how remote the place. He foura
her on the deck of the vessel in which he
recently came 10 this country. To the
question, "And you know nothing of her?''
the other day, the trage1ian replied: CAB
solutely nothing. Ii would be only tire
some to recount the efforts made after my
fret curiosity was aroused. Suffice ii TO
say that they were all useless and | know
absolutely nothing Of her. l have an idea,
though, that she is by nationality Rus
sian"
An unknown lady heavily yelled seeu4
pied box nightly al the ITALIA theatre
New York, during the actors reoenten-
gsgement there, and was supposed TO be the
above mentioned parsonage.
The glitter of stage display and the
glamour which is thrown around the life
of a successful actor are all that the audi
snce SEES. 1t cannot look behind the
scenes or into the heart. 1t knows moth
ing of the drudgery of the actors life, nor
the anguish which wrings the heart, though
the actor seems to be free from care He
cinnot disappoint an audience. The mex
orable demsnds which an actors life i'm
poses were never better or more painfully
ey:empli6ed than at last nights perform
spce OF Monte Cristo. The vast audience
did not kuow that James ONelll, who
lived as Monte Cristo. was heart broken.
1t did not know that at that moment his
little child lay dead in far distant New
York, aRd that the sgonized mother had
just taken fearful farewell OF him to at
tend the burial of the little one. 1t laughed
and .clapped Its hands and paid no thought
but 10 the actors genius, and dreamed not
of the inward weeping that was drowning
his heart-Denver Tribune Republican.