THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AS A "STAR."

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3516, 14 October 1882, Page 4

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AS A "STAR."

The Chicago Inter-Ocean ha 3 the latest joke on Haverly. He heard the Duke of Edinburgh had accompanied Mario Koze's singing on the violin afc a concert, and an idea struck him that he could run H.E.H through America. Filled with this sublime ambition, Mr Haverly posted off to the American Minister, and after some trouble secured an audience. Coming abruptly to business, in characteristic fashion, Mr Haverley demanded: ' Do you know the Duke of Edinburgh?' ' I do,' said Mr Loweli. 'What sort of chap is he?' 'A very pleasant gentleman.' 'Much on style?' 'Considerable.' ' Good figure, and plays the fiddle well ?' ' 1 believe so.' ' Well, I want him. You just tell him that Jack Haverley wants him at his own figures, aud in his own fashion. I'll run him about the United States in a special car, and give his lithograph an equal show with my own ; something 1 have never done with any attraction I ever handled. I'll make up a special company to go along with him and we'll bust any other concert show on the road. You tell Ed that what I say goes, and I can put him through a bigger string of theatres than any other man in the world. I don't care a darn if I have to pay §fioo a night. I can knock out more dollars with a real bang-up duke than I ever did with that cussed Queen's Own Opera Company Mapleson led me into and regularly did me with. You just put that strong to Ed, and say I have the inside track on the biggest lithograph shop in the West, and size of cut is no circumstance. There's my card and a ticket to Pony Moore's. Go down and see what I taught those fellows about ministrelsy. I'm going down to that concert where Duke plays, and you can have him talked up ready for me.' And Mr Haverley gracefully retired and cabled, to Brooks and Dickson, New York —' I've got tho biggest attraction on earth. Knocks Jumbo hollow.'