The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-02

why she concluded 10 give up the
regularly beaten path of the aspiring
actress it is not easy to tell. She may
have found many rivals, she may
have thought she was not realizing
sufficiently in financial way, or she
may have, through the general Gu sed.
ness which sometimes
OvERTAKES A WOMAN,
have concluded that her talents could |
find wider scope clothed only in the
typical fig leafof Paradise, at any rate
she gathered together lot of females,
some fair to look upon and some not
so fair, whom she christened as "May |
Fisk's Novelty and Burlesque Com
pany, and her Troupe of English
Blondes" and with these she created
for time a sensation among the bald |
heads and the gilded youth who have
more money than brains and more
gall than morals.
She was patronized and she made
money, but now and then she struck d
reef, because, strange as it may seem,
there are towns still in existence that
have certain laws which do not believe
that such pretty little incident as
Swinging in the lane" without being
swathed in more than a lace scarf or
a breast-pin, is exactly the thing, aud
upon one occasion the selectmen of
Brockton, Massachusetts,, refused to
grant license to the dizzy blondes
and that night when they opened
their performance with few conun-
drums of a certain kind, in the Broc-
ton music hall, the police promptly
put in an appearance and gathered up
the male part of the outfit and clap
ped them into the station house. The
BrOckton Advance, speaking of the
affair, says:
The FIVE or six hundred in front
of the stage demanded that the per
formance should go on. They pushed
forward, some of them jumped on
the stage and crowded around the or
chestra, who packed their instruments
and had business elsewhere in hur-
ry-all except the big fiddle manipu-
latOr, who had some trouble in coax
ing his big instrument through the
crowd. They stood up in chairs,
clsmbered around the Stage door and
kept up TRADE of abuse against the
police"
The matter was finally settled by
the entire audience escOrting the
blondes to their hotel, but the next
day the scene in the court room was
RARE AND RACY,
and BrOcton covered itself with glory
since it downed its own selectmen and
gave the "blOndes" glory enough to
last them through the entire campaign.
The career of the burlesquers after
this was after the manner of such
people usually; one day they were
; up, the next not so much so. Men
went to ''lodge" when they were in
town and many collapsed pocket book
|, told of their raid. County towns es.
pecially proved to be their best hold
land in this connection it may be
said that county towns as a rule have
plenty of staid citizens that are mere.
ly staid through force circumstances
but finally there came day when
like the Prodigal Son they found
themselves not able to live on the fat
OF the land and "May Fisk and her
novelty company" were novelty no
longer, in fact they were chestnuts OF
a very poor kind, and one day they
came to Sedalia and here alas as the
public already knows they went to
pieces with ''dull thud" which left
them lamenting and which finally
prevented the fair May from travel
ing with her trunks and other belong
ings and thus ends the chapter.
L'ENvoI.
1t is better for even an actress to
keep to the beaten path and have the
respect of the public than to attempt
> to cater to that degraded thing a
"baldhead" which with lis hair and its
morals also lost its constancy to "naC