Wichita eagle., 1888-05-27

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Blackthorn," closed at Louisville April 80.
Joseph Jefferson will produce two new
pieces next season. His first twelve weeks
will be played in New York and vicinity.
The attraction at the Haymarket IN Chi
cago for the week of May q Will be ''The
Main Line" with Eta Hawkins in the
principle rele.
Frank Daniels Little Puck Company
closed their season at Cincinnati on May 10
Samuel P. Cox viii manage them again next
season.
Francis Wilson and 4. n. Candy sailed
for Europe recently on the La Cascolgne.
Mr.. Candy intends making arrangements to
to produce 1.-THE Rag Baby in England.
Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, is to
spend the summer at the Highlands, where
he has bought cottage His next season
on the road is completely booked up.
The success of paul Kauvar' with Chi
caSo audiences, has been so great that
| Manager Miner has gone East TO consult
with R. NJ. Hooley in reference to continu-
/ ing. it all summer at Hooley's Theater.
Mrs. James Brown Potter closes the sea-
/ son of the Columbia Theater, Chicago. June
@ She will go then to the Grand Opera
/ House in New York, and close her own sea-
son June9.
The Union Square Theater is IN the hands
of the contractors, and Will be delivered to
| J. IL Hill completed for occupancy August
/ Is. Mr.. Hill viii open the theater Septem-
! Der g. with Helen Barry, for five weeks.
! Mr. Morton, of the Columbia Theater. in
/ Chicago, has scored another point in clos
| ing a contract with Salvini to open his
/ American tour at the Columbia next fall, in
| stead of In New York, as has been his GUS
tom heretofore.
| Nat c. Goodwin has purchased from Will
/ lam Yardley an adaptation by the latter Of
"Grin goire," entitled . A Royal Marriage"
which he viii produce next season, proceed.
ing it with Turned Up" IN place OF Lend
Me Five Shillings."
! Billy Emerson, the well-knoygn minstrel,
has been playing the leading comedy parts
with Katie Putnam, making his first appear
ance in white at Memphis April 20, and will
most likely join forces with the popular
soubrette next season.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett are
making extensive preparations for q stump
tuous and costly revival of 1.-The Merchant
| Of Venice - at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in
November next. Their next tour opens
September Y in the West.
The orchestra OF the Columbia Iheater
will be one of the features next season, and
Will be as large as any TWO of the present
Chicago theater orchestras, numbering at
least six soioists, who will make the regular
intermissions unsteady attractive.
According to recent newspaper article,
Frank Howard, the minstrel and song writ
er, is the proprietor of a farm in Iowa of $50
acres, which includes half-mile track for
the training Of blooded trotting stock. He
has realized some $40 600 from his songs.
Says jerome Eddy, Edwin Booth and
Lawrence Barrett have closed the most phe
nomenaIly successful starring tour on re-
cord Their season has been for about
forty weeks, and the profits have ranged
from $4,000 TO 10000 for every week. At
the lower figure the net proceeds of their
tour will be upward of 5000, 900. Mr.. Booth
expects to spend his vacation in Newport
and in Boston, and Mr.. Barrett will so to
Deerfoot Farm, in scarborough, Mass,
for the summer. In November the TRACE
dams begin an engagement Of eight weeks
in New York at the Fifth Avenue Theater,
during which they viii be seen in sumptu-
Gus and costly revivals of several legitimate
plays.