Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
Mrs. George Knight to Australia for six

Mrs. George Knight to Australia for six
months engagement.
j. B. Polk will, it is said, be in Fife ELS
ler's support when she appears at tho
Madison Square Theater in July.
Frank Curtis has purchased ''Harbor
Lights from French & Sanger, and will
open his season at Minneapolis September 8.
Nat Goodwin will close his season in New
England on May 49, and SAIL for England on
the 18th, to be gone about three months.
At the close Of his engagement at Nc
Visker's Mr. Dion Boucicault will regale
the patrons of the Haymarket with 1.-THE
Shaughraun."
Kate Castleton's manager claims that she
cleared 5000 during the season just closed.
The worst of it is that he counts Chicago as
her most profitable resort.
Billy Emerson, the minstrel, left McNish,
Johnson G. Slavin in New Orleans last
week and joined Kate Putnam's company.
He will remain with 1t the balance OF the
season
Mrs. Langtry, who recently booked ten
weeks of next season at the Fifth Avenue
Theater, has reduced her time to eight
weeks She will produce two new plays
during her engagement
Hoyt & Thomas have just signed con-
tract to produce their new play, entitled
"a Brass Monkey" under the management
of E. B. Ludlow, for the first time, at New
Bedford, Mass, May Is.
Applications for boxes and seats for ''The
Henrietta" Robson and Cranes latest and
most successful play, are being made at the
Chicago Opera House box Office. The en-
gagement will begin Monday, May IA.
Daniel Bandmann will play his version Of
CDR. Jekyn and Mr.. HYDE on the Pacific
coast for twelve weeks under the manage
ment of Al Hayman, beginning at Kansas
City next Monday night, and playing the
weeks Of May % and June at the Califor-
mia Theater, San Francisco.
On Sunday, Mayo, Dockstader's Minstrels
This will be the first appearance Of that Or
ganization in this city. The engagement
will be limited to one week. Dockstader's
Minstrels have for the past two years occu-
pied place in New York similar to that
held by the late San Francisco Minstrels.
ClayM. Greene is busy on the manuscript
of comedy-drama of New England life en-
titled "The Widder," which he is writing
for Mrs. Mexico Rankin, who will appear in
1t under the mana cement of Harry Miner
next season. He is also engaged on novel,
and he has signed contract to write new
play for Frederick Bryton. The latter is to
be a sensational melodrama with startling
effects and beautiful scenery. Nate SAILS
bury will produce it and probably manage
the company.
Mr.. Henderson has fixed upon the 18th of
June as the date Of his great spectacular
production at the Chicago Opera House.
Some idea of the Importance of this under
taking may be CLEANED from the extensive
preparations now well advanced. There
will be, for instance, two hundred and sixty
costumes in 1.-The Crystal Slipper" thirty
two suits of armor and one hundred and
sixty people engaged in the production. The
elaborate properties now being made at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, by
Bradwell are nearly finished. The remain
der of the properties, by Edgery, Of this
city, are also far advanced. William Daily,
stage manager of the piece, will arrive in
Chicago Monday.