Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-31
THE TOPICAL TAL,<ER.
A Piece OF UnHsual Advertising and Irs
ResuIts-Inhuenza Gossip-A Tale of

A Piece OF Unasunl Advertising and Ita
Resulis-Inauenza GossiD-A Tale Of
Adouis DIxey.
THE streets of Pittsburg on Sunday suggested
that circus was at the city gates. doubt
whether play has ever been SO extensively or
SO wen billed as has After Dark" The litho-
graphs were everywhere; upon telegraph poles,
on fences at street corners, in doorways, and
in every conceivable place. The fine weather
of Sunday filed the streets with people, and
they had to see the pictures of "After Dark
wherever they looked.
Coupled with the great advertising Of the
play in the newspapers, this extraordinary
lithographing put Boueicaults old play before
the public as have seldom seen play placed
before. 1t is worth noticing, too, that the re-
suit of this advertising extraordinary came at
once in an unexampled demand for seats at the
Bijou Theater yesterday.
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THE state of affairs at his theater may help
Manager Gulicb to fight the foreign foe,
influenza which has laid him low temporarily.
Mr. Gulick's illness is said to be the fashion
able, imported article, "a grippe.
IS
A DOCTOR who has a large and general prao-
tice in Allegheny assures me that the talk
of influenza. or to be more exact. of the Rus
founded If be were not doctor having
wide experience and practice that is not con-
fined to any class Ishould not quote his opinion
against the reported opinions Of other doctors
to the contrary.
One thing he said which have no doubt is
strictly true, namely, that nearly every man
who has cold of any kind, or in fact any sort
of ply sical aiIment that man is heir to, will
seek to find some symptom indicative OF Ia
grippe. The people who pore over medical
advertisements are tempted in like manner to
imagine they have the diseases they have seen
minutely described.
1t is somewhat insolent, suppose, to say SO,
but believe the influenza as it is reported to
be raging in Europe, has not yet reached Pitts
burg. if it has Amerlca.
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2 ALPR EDMUNps tells this story about
AdOnis Dixey:
There is paragraph current about Richard
Golden, who is now starring in "Oid Jed
Prouty," to the effect that the comedian was
the distinguished fore legs of the heifer in
Rlce's everlasting "Evangeline" when the same
was first produced In Boston some 16 years ago.
The paragraph states further that the equally
distinguished hind legs was none other than
Henry e. Dixey
THAT paragraph is correct" said Charles
MacGeachy the manager Of Mr.. Golden, re-
Gently, 'but it is incomplete as it stands"
What is lackingf" was asked.
"Why, the cause of their subsequent dis
missal from the company for fighting inside of
the heifer one night just after their act"
"How was thatG'
"oh." explained Mr.. MaeGeachy, "DixeY
was the easiest man to get out OF the skin, but
in doing that be used to throw his empty hind
legs on Golden and entangle him all up. On
the night of the unpleasantness Golden deter
mined to let himself out first and overwhelm
Dixey with the entire skin. The latter under
took to Illustrate Golden in the attempt by
holding on to the skin in a way that kept
Golden prisoner to his forensic fore legs.
Golden resented this with blow of his fist on
Dixeys eye. But Dixey sailed in and the two
future eminent comedians went at it within the
mock heiter like two cats in meal sack. The
and beholders were obliged to
sit on the Wriggling mass and rip open the
heifeF before they could extricate and separate
the pugnacious leggists. They were discharged
on the spot and Rice suppressed the particu-
lars of the Battle of the Legs by industriously
some other reason for the change in
the cast.
1.-The men never spoke or recognized each
Other again until last spring, when Dixey
strolled by accident into the Union Square
Theater and discovered his foFe-legged foe Of
l6 years ago starring in old Jed Prouty'
Golden sidled up to the box where Dixey was
sitting and said sotto voce: Say, Legsy, old
boy, have glass Of beer with me after the
show They did SO, and they have been the
greatest Of friends SINCE to the relief and graf
hcatlon Of their mutual acQuaintances"