The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-01-22

The past week has been gay round of amuse-
ments. Two circuses, three nights of theatrical
performances an operate minstrel festival and
another ffst-class minstrel booked for tonight
BINGLEY & co.'s CIRCUS.
The show and menagere of Bingley & Co.
played in Tallahassee to big audience on last
Tuesday, afternoon and night They had a
small but select lot of animals and gave very
good performances. AS they only took out an
ordinary show license here it was not expected
that they would give regular circus perform
ance, but after the regular show they invited the
audience to remain and see them practice the
horses which all did. Though the ring was
small the riding was very good indeed. The
trained horses, dogs and goat, and the trapeze
performance, was the best part of the show.
HowE's NEW LONDON SHOW
The above named show came into Tallahassee
last Tuesday without puitingup single bill or
using line of advertising of any character, and
played on Bingley & Co.'S paper. The show
was not at all bad, though small, and the trapeze
performance was good. They played 10 a big
in to see the Bingley show.
MAUDE ATKINSON.
For three nights, beginning with Wednesday,
Miss Maude Atkinson, the charming emotional
actress and her talented, chaste and excellent
company, played in the Tallahassee Opera
House to appreciative and enthusiastic audi
ences. The first night. as Parthenia, in the
beautiful romantic dyl, "Ingomar," she cap
tured the hearts of all by her excellent acting
Fred G. Hoey made a grand Ingomar, and the
other characters were well sustained. On
Thursday evening" as Stephanie in the splendid
society drama, " Forget-me-not," Miss Atkinson
was tremendous success changing like a flash
from the daring, defiant adventures to the plead
ing, humble broken-spirited woman, crlnging with
fear The last night, Friday, was presented the
famous military drama, "The French Spy" in
which Miss Atkinson first appeared as a dumb
soldier boy, looking quite cute in her regiment
ais then as Hamel, demented Arab lad and a
French spy. BY her graceful gestures in this
part she captured the house, and in the heat of
the battle, as the stage was lit up by the red
light, she appeared a veritable angel about to
take flight to the realms on high In this char
acter she had sword combat with Mr. R. J.
Johnson, manager of the company, who ably
filled the character of Acmet 3ey, the Dey of
Algiers, and We never saw better or more grace
full sword play anywhere. In the last act Miss
Atkinson appeared in elegant Arabian female
costume, and was as beautiful in this as in every
other character that she assumed Mr. H. P.
Norman, as Tony with comic songs and funny
ways, was success and was greeted at each ap-
pearance by storms of applause. This company
has made an enviable reputation here, and
should they play return date the opera house
could not seat one half the audience that would
greet them
MCABE & YOUNG's MINsTRELs
Saturday night the above named genuine ne
gro MINISTRIES gave an excellent performance at
the Tallahassee Opera House Their Jokes were
fresh, their dancing fine, and they intro
duced many new features The drum majors
drill was excellent the character presentations
unsurpassed, and the music good. The voice
imitation of the cornet, by one of the actors, was
perfect. The tiny little boy, in his song and
dance and in his musical performances was one of
the most attractive features. 1t was indeed an
operate minstrel festival"
GoRToN's NEW ORLEANS MINsTRELs
This company is billed to play at the Opera
House tonight They come highly recon-
mended by the press of the country and will
give tirst-class performance. Quite number
of reserved seats have already been sold and
they will undoubtedly have a full house. Secure
your seats early or you may not get even sta1d-
ing room.
Mrs. Waites,
Having taken charge of the house known as the