1884]
 

GRAND  OPERA  HOUSE
 

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The Rajah......H. M. Pitt

Gladys......Rillie Deaves

Richard......J. O. Barrows

Buttons      .....Geo. Bruening

Emilia Jekyl    .    .    .     Marion Elmore
 

Cragin.....Dominick Murray

Mrs. Pringle.....Dollie Pike

Joseph Jekyl   ...      E. M. Holland
Job Jekyl.....Hal. Warren
 

John T. Raymond appeared Feb. 25, for one week, in " For Con¬
gress ; " Robson and Crane came March 3, in " Sharps and Flats,"
Robson as Cutler Sharp, W. H. Crane as DuUstone Flat. These
comedians continued March 10 in "Our Boarding House," Robson
as Gillypod, Crane as Elevator. James A. Heme was seen March
17 in " Hearts of Oak." March 24 the Madison Square Theatre
company presented "Young Mrs. Winthrop," with Ada Dyas,
Edward J. Buckley, William H. Gillette, Enid Leslie, Fannie
Reeves, Edwin Arden, Jean Clara Walters and Frank Colfax in
the cast. "Pique" was played the week March 31, with Agnes
Booth as Mabel Renfrew. " In the Ranks " was seen April 7; "The
Silver King," April 14; M. B. Curtis in "Samuel of Posen,"
April 21; Joseph Murphy in "Kerry Gow," April 28; "Siberia,"
May 5; and Lester Wallack's company. May 12, in "Lady Clare."
Osmond Tearle, Charles Glenney, Buckstone, Harry Gwynette, Effie
Germon, Rose Coghlan, Livingston, Mrs. Sol Smith, and Blais¬
dell were in the cast. Tony Pastor and combination came May
19; Barry and Fay in "Irish Aristocracy," May 26; "The Stran¬
glers of Paris," June 2, and the season closed June 7.

The house reopened Aug. 16, 1884, with "The White Slave;"
Aug. 25," Stormbeaten; " Sept. i, "Separation;" Sept. 8, "The
Silver King," with Fred de Belleville, Eleanor Carey, and John
W. Jennings in the cast; Sept. 15, "Pulse of New York," with
Geo. Clarke, Gerald Eyre, Frank Rose, F. C. Cramer, L. F.
Massen, Joseph Frankau, Caroline Hill (Mrs. Herbert Kelcey),
and Helen Ottolengui in the company. On Sept. 22, " Hoop of
Gold" was seen for the first time in this city; Sept. 29, Kate
Claxton in "Sea of Ice;" Oct. 6, "Hazel Kirke," with Charles
W. Couldock, De Wolf Hopper, William Morris, Chas. Edmonds,
Mrs. Edward L. Davenport, and Sydney Cowell in the principal
r&les. "Her Atonement" was seen Oct. 13, and Oliver Doud
Byron was seen in "Across the Continent" Oct.  20.

R. E. J. Miles and Barton's Bijou opera company were heard
Oct. 27 in " Orpheus and Eurydice; " Marie Vanoni, Adelaide
Langdon, Daisy Murdoch, Lillie Alliston, Harry Pepper, Harry
Davenport, Belle Urquhart, Jennie McNulty, Louis de Lange,
and Henry Leoni were in the company. "Moths" was given
week of Nov. 3 by Wallack's Theatre company; Nov. 10, "A
Bunch of Keys," by Willie Edouin and Frank Sanger's company;
" Shadows of a Great City " came Nov. 17.

A benefit for the B. P. O. Elks occurred matinee Nov. 17, and