Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-03


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With a cordial hand shake the genial ger
tleman took leave of the eGLoBE-REPUBLIC
who felt as If he had just listened to
dozen tirst-class operas.
Muldoon makes fine Gaul.
Funny Bob Siavin will be here Frida
night.
McNish. johnson and Slavin at the GRAM
Friday night.
Evans and Hoey appear at the Crane
tomorrow night.
Frank Mayo played to over 16, 900 peopl,
| In Pittsburg last week.
Robert Downing opens at Heuck's, Gin
cinnati, this afternoon.
Maude Granger has as yet made no en-.
gagement for this season.
Lillian Russell has become very popular
with the San Franciscans.
A handsome portrait of Modjeska adorns
the first page of the Mirror.
Joseph Haworth has made hit as Jack
Yeutlett in "Hoodman Blind"
Ada Gray is having a very successful
tour in her new play, "A Ring of Iron"
Sol Smith Russell owns the play with the
shortest title on record. II is called Pa"
Dixey will appear in 'AdOnis" at the
Grand, Cincinnati, during the week of Feb.
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Dixon Jones, professor Of elocution at
Harvard, has been engaged to support Marie
Prescott.
Genevieye Ward scored hit in The
Queens Fayorite" at the Star theater, New
York. last week.
Steve Brodie. the Brooklyn bridge dare
devil, has been engaged for W. c. Cow
per's leap in ''Blaekmah."
Edwin F. Mayo as ''Davy Crockett"
gives fair imitation of his father in the
part. and seemed to meet with favor.
At the regular meeting of the Elks last
Wednesday night, jim .Donnell did the
bareba goat act in great shape.
The idea has gone abroad that this is to
be Edwin Booths last season on the stage.
Mr. Booth will play year longer.
''Zozo- will be in Dayton the last three
nights of this week. An exodus of Spring
field bald-heads is confidently expected.
Frank Aiken and Geneveive Rogers In
Against the Stream" and "ThesTicket-5f-
Leave Man, at Blacks, Friday and Satur-
day.
Robert Mantell will appear at Blacks
October IL in Tangled Lives" This play
has been received in the east with marked
approval.
Nat Goodwin may do an imitation Of
Wilson Barrett, in Little Jack Sheppard,
when the latter's style becomes familiar to
our play-goers,
The scenery used in the production of
THE Gladiator" at the Grand last night
was magnificent. 1t is the work of Vsegt-
lin. of New York.
The first performance of Prince Karl by
Richard Mansfield in Washington. on Mon
day night last. was attended by President
and Mrs. Cleveland.
Lotta's papa has been pensioned, and Is
living in rural village, under oath TO stay
there and take life easy. He never goes to
see his daughter act.
A large number of the Springfield Elks
will take part in the parade at Cincinnati
next Friday. That day is set apart as Elks'
day at the Exposition.
Ladies of Louisville are moving in the
matter of the proposed benefit to Mrs.
Rachel Macauley. The lady has been
asked to name the date.
Kate Claxton has discarded THE Two
Orphans" and THE Sea of Ice" and now
appears in .'Arra-na Pogue" in which she
persOnates an Irish girl.
For nearly forty years Joe Jefferson never
an audience till week before
last. Then he fell i'll at st. Paul, Mimi,
and his manager had to excuse him.
Hubert Wilkie, star Of the at-Cstcher
company. who has been seriously ill-at
one time his life being despaired offs out
Of danger. He is being well cared for in
hospital at Louisville.
The Lillian Lewis Company have their
route laid out principally through the South.
As Miss Lewis is of Southern birth her
business will probably be better there than
it was in the cold and unsympathetic North.
The Mirror appeared last week as six
teen-page paper. The weekly bulletin by
Nym Cr,nkle is, perhaps, the most pleasing
feature of this journal. As a dramatic
paper, the Mirror acknowledges no superior
in the world.
Richard Mansfield, who played Krafts,
the impressario. with Minnie Maddsrn last
season, will play prince Karl" at the
Grand. Cincinnati, this week. Mr.. Mans
field will be seen at the Grand, in this city,
later in the season.
Tee Ferguson and Slater Co. will pro-
October IL. This production is looked upon
as the society event OF the season.
Fresh" Ferguson will 60 in advance Of
this aggregation Of talent.
Lillian Lewis played last week in Louis
vile, and if We are to believe the papers,
received an ovation on her first entrance.
Probably the Louisville people knew what
they were doing, but those who saw her
here will not admire their taste.
The dresses that Fannie Davenport is
having made for Beatrice in Much Ado, "
are said to be novel and beautiful in a
marked degree. This lady has always
maintained reputation for the elegance
and originality of her toiletteS. She per-
sonally designs every dress she wears.
The manager of the t-Cstcher COM
pany found three letters lying on the table
in the box-Office of Heuck's opera house.
Cincinnati, one night last week. addressed
TO Jay Hunt. May Wilkes and Rachael
Booth. The letters had been carelessly
thrown down, and blotter lay across the
letters in such way as to leave curious
combination of names exposed to view.
They made "Mr. Jay Wilkes Booth"
The new drop-curtain at Blacks has not
created any great amount Of enthusiasm.
The advertisements are painted very nice
ly, but the landscape in the center, which
is. luckily. labeled "a View in Venice" is
terrible daub. The same artist painted q
curtain for the Lima opera house, and the
manager of that theater refused to have IL
lowered in public. If Mr.. Black would fol
low his example he would merit the eterna
gratitude of Springfield theater-goers.
Worth. of Paris, has decided in favor ot
hoops, but they come in use slowly. Ii