The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-08

enabled to get together splendid com
pany, and the Adelphi practically be
came the home OF minstrelsy in Amer
lea. Money began to flow into the box
Office and Mr.. Haverly soon became a
I wealthy man. He then began TO
! branch out, and before he was through
branching" he had Haverly's theaters
in nearly every large city in the coun-
! try from New York to San Francisco.
! He owned the Fifth avenue, the Four
teenth street theater, and Eiblo's gar
den in New York, the Brooklyn theater;
the Broad and Chestnut street theaters
in Philadelphia. and the old California
theater in Frisco. In addition he had
at one time twenty companies on the
road. These covered every form
of Observation-Disclosures, minstrels,
comic and grand opera. He also man
aged the tour of Col. Mapleson's English
opera company, which included Chris
tine Nilsson, Minnie Hauk. lima di
Murska, and many other bright operatic
stars. Mrs. James A. Oates and Neil
Burgess in the widow Bedott' were
also under his watchful care. In fact
before the colonel got through he had
managed every operate artist of note
excepting Adeiina Patti. Sig. Arditi,
who was with the latter on her recent
visit to Chicago, was Col. Haverly's mu-
steal director with the Mapleson com
pany.
In 1873 Mr.. Haverly formed con-
solidation with the New Orleans min
strels and adding the members of this
organization to his own he played
them in Chicago, having in the mean
time changed the name of the Adelphi
to Haverly's theater. The organiza-
ton was named the Mastodon minstrels
and in it were included "Billy" Emer-
son, ''Billy" Rice, Sam Devere, Harry
Kennedy, the ventriloquist, Gus Will
Hams, Welch and Rice, song and dance
team, and others who are still promi-
nent, numbering in all City people. A
six weeks engagement was played at
the Fourteenth street thea1er in New
York and the entire profits of that sea-
son were 800 900. For the next two
years this company played throughout
the United States and then il was taken
to England. The opening took place In
Her Majesty's theater, of which Col
Mapleson was the manager, on July 26,
1889. The organization soon became
the rage in London and for five months
the theater played TO its capacity.
This led Mr.. Hsverly TO organize
company composed of genuine colored
men and in 1881 II was sent to London,
where it made pronounced hit.
1t can be said that under Mr. Haver-
ly's management have been all the
prominent minstrel ren who fourished
during the last twenty-five years.
They are all the graduates Of the Hav-
erly school refinement of work. a
total elimination of everything coarse
or even suggestive, strict attention ~
detail, and the engagement Of the best
talent obtainable, are the marked fea-
lures of Mr.. Haverly's phenomenal Sue
cess But il is the old, old story. hr.
Hayerly's case IS not m isolated one.
II Is not the first case and il won't 90
the last Speculation IN fields about
which he knew nothing cost him his
fortune. II IS fact well known that
500. Coo.
The curtain IS down forever on that
part Of Mr Hayeriy's lie and il has gone
up once more on new act In mod
est but yet earnest manner be "a en-
deav0ring 20 give Chicago q repetition
OF MS former minstrel successes That
his venture Is proving lucrative can be
demonstrated by anyone who visits the
Casino
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