She is leaving 1 week from Maguire’s Minstrels coming and killing all week. So they heavily promote all week long a friday farewell show (2 from farewell) with the bill of Our Female American Cousin, The Widow’s Victim, and Fool of the Family. But attendance is disappointing. Saturday and Sunday tickets are reduced price with […]
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Julia Hayne at the Opera House, Frank Mayo benefits are planned
The Management in giving theatrical benefits paid the expenses of the production and turned over the receipts of the box office to the actor. Often business men and other admirers tendered a benefit to a favorite, who arranged his own program. The liberality of the Washoites during benefits made the Bulletin reporter and others “proud […]
War News told at Theatre Shows
Maguire had a telegraph set up to announce war news on stage between shows – like the newsreels. The Sunday afternoon benefit for the Sanitary Fund was interrupted with news of the Southern Surrender of Port Hudson in LA, the Mississippi River was again open for travel. The show was Mr. and Mrs. Pope in […]