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.
She resides in a swamp near Branford, Conn, and fills the rustics with terror.
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A special from New Haven, Oct. 28 says: For several weeks past sportsmen who have been hunting in the woods in the vicinity of Branford have from time to time seen a young woman darting about among the trees. She is apparently about sixteen years of age, wears no hat or shoes, and her clothing hangs in tatters about her, barley covering her form. Who she is, where she lives or where she came from is unknown. On several occasions when addressed she replied in incoherent language and ended her sentence with wild, hysterical laughter. Any attempt to approach her is fruitless. She runs like a dear and leaps stone walls and fences in a single bound. Her retreat is believed to be in Towner’s swamp, about two miles from Branford Center, as she seeks refuge there when pursued. It is supposed that the girl has been the inmate of some asylum from which she escaped. The authorities and citizens of Branford are to organize and if possible capture her and place her in some one of the State institutions. |
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, November 19. 1887.


