Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-04
IN THE AMUSEMENT WORLD. What the Players Find to Talk bout
 Behind the Scenes.

II
 A benefit ball game will be played at the Polo Grounds, New York, next Friday, for the benefit of Carl Rankin, who is lying at
 his home in Philadelphia, dying of cons sumption. Poor Carl! Who'd have thought that the generous-hearted fellow who has been seen so frequently in New Haven would come to want. In his day there was no bet ter minstrel, in his special line of business. on the stage. He will be more easily remem- bered by his sconnection with Barlow & Rankin's minstrels. He was late end man of Docketader's minstrels.
 i The play, sNan's Acre Lot," which was produced at the Grand last season, has been revised by it's author, Frank Tannehill, Jr., and is now called ''Struck Cas-" Miss Car- rie Tutein is still the star, supported by Har- " Pepper. Miss Tutein was formerly in Dixie's "Adonis" company. Pepper is her
 husband. He is fine tenor singer, who some time ago went from comic opera into minstrelsy with mystifying suGdsnness. Lotta has engaged Paul Arthur as her leading man.
 The "Twenty Maidsns to One Dude" com pany went to smash last week, and the "Bro- ken Heart" company followed suit.
 The San Francisco Music and Drama has this to say of former New Havener:
 Lizzie Evans has requested Charley Day to write her play, the story of which has been submitted to Manager Callahan and voted proper. The sells Brothers want him to go to Australia and interview the newspaper fraternity, just as he did for Adam Fore paugh with the ''$10, 900 beauty boom;;" but having become thoroughly acclimated, and having increased twenty-nine pounds in weight since arriving here, he hesitates and
 remarks, Bush street is pretty good, isn't
 i4a" Meantime, the ever-happy thorough Bohemian is always glad to do 8 favor or boost friend to fame or fortune, lets Daylight into the columns of Music and Drama, the Clipper and the Journalist, takes hale fellow, we'll met with all, from the song \ and dance of the vaudeville to the star of the drama. There's tinge of the grey in his moustache, but no frost of age in his heart. \ Commencing his contributions to the Clipper and Spirit of the Times at the age of seven- teen, he is commonly supposed to be little less than one hundred years old; but he is as ' fresh and frisky as colt and full of repartee \ and reminiscsnce; has blown a fortune to the winds with the carelessness of 8 Dumas or c Menken, but when chided for generosity ol prodigality only answers: "It's an right boys. In distant Connecticut, by the shores
 of old Lake Whitney, is quiet home with in the sound of the bells of Yale, and wher sthe road or the editorial room becoms irk
 some will get bottle of ink-one gal. | lon-and with reams of paper I will spin out my experiences with Josh Billings, So
 Smith Russell, William Arlington, w. w
 Newcomb, John Stetson, John H. Murray
 Morris Simmonds, John Thompson, Laurt 7Keene, P. T. Barnum, Adam Forepaugh, ,JohI
 O'Brien, Sells Brothers, Sam Sharpley
 Sheridan and Mack, stSandy" Spencer
 L. B. Lent, J. M. French, W. O. Coupe and others of the show world. It will be
 labor of love-for fun, If not money-ant
 there will be no pleasanter chapter than tho
 record of year in Frisco with the friendship
 of Charley Hall. Mark Thall, Charley John
 son, "Judge" Swaney and all the boys of th,
 Rialto, from Ed Buckley, who will never b,
 Forgiven" to Ben Cotton, who is King o
 Cork, but not Dublin, shis season, and from
 Sam Martin, tailor to the vaudevilles, to olt
 Jim Cummings of ancient memory. Ant
 may it yet be many years before we pen tht
 words, ''It's all Day with him."