The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-05
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Items of Interest to Play GOefs
From Everywhere.

Emma Abbott and opera c.,m.
pany sang at Monterey, Mexico. the
past week
-Charlrs NJ. Walcott has joined
Lawrence Barrett's company as lead
Ing man.
Kelly & Mason's TIGERS" organ
izstion has disbanded on account of
bad business.
Fanny Davenport on December
18th. sent her check for $50 to vhe
widows and orphans created by the
Nanticoke. Pa. disaster.
Richard Mansfield is 10 star in a
comedy entitl u "Wias." and during
it performance be will wear no less
than twelve of ihos. stage accessories.
|. Fanny Davenport viii ouly APP
pear in Fedora" only occasionally
next season. She will play Leah. :"
"Camiile. Nancy Sykes and others
Of her old roles.
MIR. G. G Parker who gave recit-
ais at Cslifornis, Schell City and
Upton, the past week met with very
good success, the audiences being fair
sized and appreciative.
j. w. Mackay, w. Nj. Common,
w. F. Johnson and nj. w. Canning
will hold a conference 10 New York.
in reference to monument for .Joa =
Mccullough Mr.. 'Iackay has sub
scribed So, 900 and 1900 additional
will be raised by the dead actors
friends.
The gamiDs in the Brussels
theatre are expelled If caught whist
ling. An inventive genius has come
TO their assistance by providing hem
with a whistle that can be worked by
the foot, which they can use with lit
tie fear of detection.
The following attractions will ap-
pear at these places on Tomorrow
night MARY Anderson, Philadel-
phia, Pa, two weeks; Lawrence Bar
rctt, Brooklyn, week; Edwin Booth.
b. s;on, three weeks; Kate Claxton,
Harlem. n. Y, week; Kate Castle
ton, Providence. r. l., three nights;
Couldock, Macon, Ca; Fanny Daven-
port, Baltimore, week; Lizzie Evans.
Washington, d. c., week; Mr.. and
Mrs w. j. Florence, St. l. luis,
week; Powers ivy LEST" Cleveland,
week; Jsnausch K, New York, week;
James 0'Neil in "Monte Cristo," San
Antonio. Tex, two nights, Modjesks,
New York. three weeks; Annie Pixley,
Philadelphia, week; Sol Smith Russell.
Brooklyn, week; Rbea, Sandusky, o.,
two nights; Louise Sylvester, Nevada,
Mo-; Salvini, Washington. d. c.,
week; Salsbury's 1roubadour's. Gin
cinnati. week; Frederick Warde
Waco, Texas, two nights: We, Us
& Co., Lancaster, Pa, three nights;
Emma Abbott, Houston, Texas;
Thompson's opera company, Portland,
Oregon, week; McNish. Slsvin
& Johnson's MINISTRIES, Philadelphia,
week.
Those celebrated comedians L ruis
Harrison and John Gourlay support
ed By the most excellent comedy
organization cow before the public
will appear at Woods opera house
next Monday evening in the ptesenta
ton of their world renowned laughing
success, of the eccentric title Skipped
; by the Light of the Moon."s Thi,
, play was seen in this city about tvs
, Years ago, at that time Cu it infancy,
f it created a genuine laughing sensa
ton, and the mere mention Of the
comedians, names will bring smile tC
face of the most sober minded thai
witnessed the perforiusnce--uow It is
: brought hack TO US with the halo o
two years enormous success IN every
one of the princir u cities of this coun
+ try, surrounding il, with all tha
money, AID magnificent company
, can do for il, and comparatively new
= even to these who have seen il before
, as the play has been revised and re
. constructed during the past years. ant
E many new features and all new music
. has been introduced. 1t is safe to ga,
, that all who fail seeing "Skipped BY
the Light # the Moon" will mis-
: more fun than they will be able to de
3 rive from any other source for loni
q time to come.
r The laziness and impudenee OF tn
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