Five footlight fairies, whose faces and forms charm audiences in London, Paris and New York.
A Female Who Was Not Allowed to Exhibit Her Terpsichorean Abilities.
Actor Ricardo’s bluff jump from the stage to the audience at the Grand Opera House, Columbus, Ohio.
Spaulding & Rogers’s Floating Circus Palace.
Mrs. Dunsford, of Reading, Pa., meets with a mishap in a theatre.
Two of the charming girls who pose as "living pictures" in Rice's "1492" have a wordy war, which ends in a hand-to-hand conflict.
The fairy of the enchanted realm entertains her subjects in an earthly way.
Poster for the 1898 Broadway show "Have You Seen Smith?"
Two Little Gem Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., Soubrettes have a scrap on account of a man.

Suggestions for an evening costume. [more]
“The respectable citizens of Chicago are making an effort to rescue the city from the control of the disorderly classes. It is doubtless to-day the worst governed of the large cities in the country, and the effort to rescue it from those who have disgraced its name has been none too soon.” - N. Y. Tribune.
Quoted in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 31, 1883.


