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.
The popularity of the Cardiff Giant, an allegedly petrified giant man found buried in New York, was so great that spectators continued to pay to view him even after he proved to be a hoax. This prompted showmen throughout America to exhibit their own petrified men. Among the greatest was McGinty, exhibited by the notorious western conman, Soapy Smith, in Creede, Colorado, in 1892. Incredibly, 119 years later, McGinty is still on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe in Seattle, Washington, where he is known as Sylvester. Read McGinty’s story at Soapy Smith’s Soap Box.


