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Day
16
Month
November
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Rctuember the concert at Hobart Hall Frlday evening, for the benefit of the ' Mt. Vernon endowment fund. The rink will open up for skating next Friday night. Mus!c will be furnished by the Huron band. Regular meeting of the Unity Club, Momlay evening, Nov., 21, at 7:45. The talk on Ruskin will be glven, also papers "About the M;in Carlyle," by Dr. S. A. Jone, and "The Brltish Scientific Associatlon," by Prof. J. W. Langley. The second Chamber concert occurs Friday, Dec. 2d, and will be given by Mme. Fannie Bloomfield, pianist, of Chicago, assisted by Miss Ida Belle Winchell, soprano. The price of tickets for the remainder of the course will be two dullars and twenty-five cents. The troup of Japane9e that gave a performance at the opera house last Thursday evening were deserving of far better patronage than thcy recelved. Tlicir performance was trnly wondeiful, the four little fellows being as good acrobats as ever gave a performance n this or any otlier city. It Is one of the few shows traveling that a person feels that they saw their money's worth alter the performance is over. The Temple Quartette, of Boston, one of the tinest organizations of the kind in America, will give a concert in Uni versity hall, on Saturday evenlng, Nov. lOth, under the auspices of the Student's Leeture A8sociation. Tliis is a treat in tlie musical line that tlic people of Ann Arbor will be very glad to avail themselves of, and tbe lecture association ought to be eucouraged in tlieir endeavors to briDg flrit-cliiss entertainments of the kind by a good audience. Rescrved seats can bo obtained at Wahr's and nt Calkins' State Street store. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat of Sept. 5tli, in speaking of the play in wliich Miss Maiguerlte Fish appears at the grand opera house on Friday evenins; next, says tliis: "The charmlngfarclal comedy-drama, 'Chlp 'O the Oíd lilcii'k,' was greeted by a large and decldedly enthuslastlo audlence at Pope's yesterday anemoon and evenlng. The serlous plot that runs through the piece was lost slghtof In the mirth and muslc wlth whlch It abounds. and the effbrts of the comedlans Scottand M1IU, and the llvely Uttle Marguerlte Fl8h, were reoelved wlth liouts of appluuse. Bobert Scott made an excellent oíd tur of the extravagant type, Harry Mills, as Jack Ltghtfoot, the Jockey, dld a large amountof original work. lita descrlptlon of the steeple chuso bel ng one of the best tli 1 gs heard here for a long time. Marguerlte Flsh was always a clever actress, and she bas lmproved wonderfully slnce her last vlslt. Her actlng Ís now of a high order of soubrette work, surpaHStng Ín many respecta Ixtta, parlicularly Ín stnglng, dancing and speclaltles were original and are glven wlth excellent ttt.-ct. Uutslde of the leadlng membors of the company, are a number of olerer people who lili minor roles. The play Ís well M'iiintud aud wlll certalnly ilraw blg buslDess1 Tho splcndid reputation of Miss Margnorite Fish alone, will fill the opera house next Friday evening, but it mny not be out of place to quote the following from tho Columbus (Ohio) Journal of Aug. 29th : "Scott and Mills and Mis Marguerlte Flsh kept the audlencu at tho Grand Opera House laughlng for two hours and a half last nlght wltb the (un extracted from 'The Chip O' the Oíd Hlock.' whlch was a grand success from heglnninK to end. Scott and Mills assume the principal male characters. Mr. Hcott as the Jolly Jack tar and chlp o' the oíd block. Mr. bcott as Commodore convulsed the audience wlth laughter by hls ovcrwhelmlngly fanny actious, and although Bupposed to bsve lost onc leg In a naval encounter, he munages to balance wlth that peculiar motlon whlch creates kIkhiIh of laughter and appluiisi-. Harry Mills, the Kugllsh Jockey, ? ave wlth Inimitable comedy a capital Imlatlon of a Derby winner. Hls songs and dances deserve special mentlon; he Is a comedian of more thau onlluary merlt and was extremely fuuny In hUportrayal of Jack Llghtfoot. Marguerlte Flsh, as Plxey, and but sweet slxteen, dld all that was expected of her and that Is saylng much. Hersplendld reputation preceded oer. Her slnglng, dancing and characterlstlc actlng wcre Toudly greeted thronghout wlth laughter and ap plause.

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