Ticket-of-Leave Man, The

“[I]n commemoration [of the 100th night] the theatre will be brilliantly illuminated.”

“We are told by one of the Boston papers that the Florences have cleared fifty thousand dollars by the performance of ‘The Ticket of Leave Man’ in New York. This news, although coming from the immaculate Hub, is too good to be true; although, for the sake of Billy and his wife, we should prefer to believe in its accuracy. The piece has not been long enough on the boards to realise such a sum, even if the Florences were to take the entire nightly receipts, which it is needless to say, they do not. The play bids very fair to place $50,000 in Mr. Florence’s pocket, however, before he is done with it, which sum, we hope, he will invest in “5:20’s” or some other U. S. Bonds to help along old Uncle Sam, and at the same time secure a good paying investment; for, as an enthusiastic though illiterate friend of Mr. Chases’s says:—

Redheditary 5:20 year bonds men, need ye be told

That the principal and interest are both payable in gold?”