Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-19

when Her Majesty bad troupe on the
road. H. Haverly or w. w. Kelly as a
rustling hustler. He seems to be doing
well now with his ",Said Pasha" company,
and he deserves it, if hard work deserves
anything. Once Thompson was strapped
hands. His trunks were also strapped.
He had some good dates ahead, and rail
road tickets had been advanced to him.
But as everybody liked Thompson there
was an attachment for him in Chicago.
Things looked bad. There was no money
in sight and none could be borrowed 1t
was then the great head of the General
came into play. His baggage had been
taken to the railroad depot; but he assured
the officer in charge that everything would
be fixed in the course of an hour, all
claims satisfied and the baggage released.
AS soon as he could he had printed at a
dodge-in printing Office some nice new
labels, with Thompson Opera Company
in big letters printed on them, and going
back to the depot about half an hour be-
lore train time, sweetly and sadly told the
Sherifl's officer that the jig was up and he
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and hire lawyer That seemed reason
able and proper, and the officer was glad
when Thompson offered to put the printed
labels on the trunks so they could be cas-
lily identified, and that he could be sure
that no Thompson Opera Company trunks
went out of the depot. That generous
offer let Thompson into the baggage-room,
and while he busted himself sticking his
labels on trunks that did not belong to
him. his advance agent, who was not
known to the officer, was actively at work
with all the railroad tickets in his hands
checking the company's baggage. Ten
minutes before the train rolled out, bear
ing the Thompson Opera Company and its
that depot. Tourists and commercial
drummers and all sorts of travellers began
to arrive and point out their trunks, select
ing those that Thompson had pasted. at
is no use gentlemen" said the officer who
had made the seizure 81 know my bust
ness. Yer CUFF is too thin. Meme of the
Thompson Opera Company's baggage can
go out of this depot until the Sheriff says
So" And the Sheriff did not say so until
it was too late to take that train, and until
he was convinced that he had been out
witted, and that he was really attempting
to hold baggage upon which he had no
claim. Thompson is man of expedi-
ency.
THE MAN WHO WRITES "KID" STUFF
Manager Smyth, of "The Burglar" says
the Chicago Herald, arrived in town one
day last week and dropped in at the Ire
mont House, his usual Chicago home.
There he fell in with De Wolf Hopper,
John Magle, manager of "Little Lord
Fauntleroy," and several other theatrical
people. Magle and Smyth have known
each other for years, and Smyth knew
who Magle was with, but, as it happened,
Magle did not then place Smyth in pro-
fessional way. The party chatted pleas
antly together, and the talk finally drifted
into the subject of advance agents and
managers. "I'd like to know" said Magle,
"who is ahead of The Burglar Who
ever he is writes lot of good kid stuff.
You know they have kid in their
show, and | have stolen this mans good
newspaper stuff in several places, changed
the name of Aimee Stoddard to Tommy
Russell or Ray Maskell, and used it in
newspapers elsewhere. Who is he-do
you know?" The party had held up to
this point, but Hopper exploded and
shrieked: "Why, you - fool, Smyth
there is the man who writes your kid
stuff, and he is half owner of The Burg
lar" MagIe turned red and led a pro-
cession into the annex.
STAGE NOTES.
Mrs Langtry says she has secured the
St. James Theater, London. for year. and
will open there January 23d in GAS You
Like It."
Theater parties to witness Mansfeld's
Richard are becoming very popular at
Palmer's. One evening lately eight of
these parties occupied boxes and seats.
The souvenir for the hundredth per-
formance of "The Seven Ages" at the
Standard Theater will be statuette group
OF busts of Shakespeare and Henry E.
Dixey. The model for the bust of Shakes
speare was secured at Stratford-on-Avon
by Manager Rice on his last visit to Eu-
rope. 1t is said that this souvenir will be
one of the most costly ever given to a
theater-goer.
Thomas @. Seabrooke has been engaged
as a member of John Stetsons "Gondo-
liers' company. He will leave "The Fakir"
company, in which he is now playing, and
Ed. Morris will succeed him. In Manager
Henderson's company, which is to produce
the opera in Chicago, w. S. Daboll is to
play the Duke of Plaza-Toro, and Joseph
Franko will be the Grand Inquisitor.
Lilly Post is the prima donna of the COM
pany.
After an absence of four months the
company engaged in the production OF
"The Brigands" has returned to the
Casino, to remain there for the remainder
of the season. The tour was one series oi
successes. In Boston the gross receipts
were over $4,000 for four weeks; in Chi
cago the sum of $4,000 was reached in
the same period of time; Philadelphia
yielded the sum of $4,000, while Pitts
burg, Baltimore and Washington averaged
50 coo each for one week.
Mark Twain's "Prince and Pauper,'
dramatized by Mrs. Abby Sage Richard
son, will be presented at the Broadway
Theater by Daniel Frohman's company on
January Goth, following the London Gaiety
Company, SO that Elsie Leslie will be seen
again on the stage of her former triumph
! The scenery and costumes, all of which
are of the period of Henry Will, are be
ing prepared under the supervision of w
H. Day, and the stage effects have been ar.
ranged by David Belasco.