Profits and Reformation in the Arts as a Stage World Soars
A Chicago theater note outlines changes in actor Sheridan reforming his life after a bout with drink and memory loss. The piece also reports Maurice Grau's Paris visit and artists' disillusion with America, noting rising theater development in Chicago including the Windsor and planned grand opera house on Congress Street to host conventions and operatic shows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Opera House
Windsor
Clark Street
South Park Avenue
31St Street
Congress Street
Wabash
Michigan Avenues
American Opera Company
Chicago
Chicago News
Beauty Yielding to Avoirdupois on Stage
A historical note observes the rise of heavier actresses in comic opera with Lillian Russell Pauline Hall Elma Dolaro and Miss Summerville among the overweight stars reshaping stage allure. Boucicault discusses theater profits noting $250 000 offers and $4 000 weekly stars with Booth and Jefferson cited for top income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Russell
Pauline Hall
Elma Dolaro
Snailie Martinez
Miss Summerville
Adonis
Dixey
Miss Cameron
Thifth Avenue
New York
San Francisco
Boucicault
Boston
Theodore Morss
Rip van Winkle
Jefferson
Wallack
Treasury
Booth
Stage Notes on a Ballet Dancer and Katisha
A well known ballet dancer of irreproachable character says changing from short skirts and tights to long robes for Katisha in a Mikado ballet caused initial shame at first appearance. The remark reflects adaptation to a different role and costume in the performance tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katisha
Reminiscences of Public Men Across Historic Snippets
Sir Philip Crampton recalls Russian diplomacy and Potemkin’s improvised marginal notes on a memorial to armed neutrality. Daniel Webster and Dickinson debate in Congress. Gen. Sherman’s Savannah press clash with Tom Miles ends in a humorous compromise. Hayes shown as frank, steady, and unlikely to seek the presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Crampton
Catherine
James Harris
Potemkin
Demoiselle Guibald
England
Daniel Webster
Daniel 8. Dickinson
Senate
Ashburton
Webster
Dickinson
Department of State
W. R. Chandler
Philadelphia
House of Representatives
Col. Polk
United States
Tennessee
America
Mgr
Chandler
Israel
Absalom
King David
Union of Israel
Sherman
Savannah
Boston
Tom Miles
Miles
Alexander
Savannah Republican
Tailors and fools and pretty transformations
A curio of fashion and manners. The piece notes how watch chains and trousers have swung in vogue, with Carl Schurz related antics and a tailor's blunt view that fools are the most profitable customers. It then shifts to Mogg Megone and playful etchings on spelling, followed by a meditation on the art of conversation as a rare and vital human skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oswald
Albany Journal
New York
Carl Schurz
Mogg Megone
Mogg -Megone
Whittier
Massachusetts
Maine Historical Recorder
Mogg Heg
Mog Heggone
Mogg-hegon
Emerson
Boston Traveler
Too Kind Masher Escapes Awkward Home Visit
A Buffalo Courier tale recounts a would be masher who pursues a young woman at a church prayer meeting. She invites him to her home but warns that her parents would welcome him only with a prayer, prompting the suitor to retreat rather than risk a confrontation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Buffalo Courier
Arsenic Works Link to Cholera Immunity Claim
Mr 8 H Davey of Cornwall confirms Dr Tommasi Crudelli's view on arsenic preventing cholera and other zymotic diseases. Over forty years, despite nearby cholera fever and smallpox in the region around Bissoe arsenic works, not a single case has been recorded within about two miles of the source of the deadly fume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Davey
Cornwall
England
Tommasi Crudelli
Bissoe
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Aurelia Sentinel
Aurelia
Iowa
Sock and Buskin
Sheridan
Australia
Yehearsal
Tam
Maurice Grau
Paris
New Orleans
Vimes-Democrat
Tor
Grau
Far West
Theo
Capoul
Aimee
Delmonico’s
Ben. Perley Poore
Gen. Sherman
Gen. Hayes
Ohio
Congress
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