Fairy Prince O’Donoghue

     “First Appearance in America of the world-renowned one-legged dancer, Don Manuel Donati.”

     “Dancers of the male sex are just now shedding their legs, like crabs.  It is the fashion to dance on one only.  Donato began it, or rather a bull began it, by depriving Donato of t’other leg.  When Donato went to London the poor fellow literally had one foot in the grave, and after a brief and brilliant career before the British public, the other followed it.  Thereupon Donati “turned up.”  We learn that this gentleman has now arrived in America.  He will appear at the Hippotheatron to-night.  Here, then, is a veritable sensation.  The grand spectacle pantomime is of course continued.”

     “The entertainments at this house were varied last evening by the performance of Don Manuel Donati—a one-legged dancer—about the whereabouts of whose other leg there appears to be some doubt—recently from London.  A good many vocalists manage to get along with half a voice, some indeed with none at all; millionaires have built their fortunes on half a chance; and so there is no reason why a dancer should not pirouette on a single leg.  When the fairer sex is involved, popular prejudice runs in favor of the ordinary number of pedal extremities, but we freely confess that the necessity does not overwhelm us when it is a man.  Donati is, of course, an imitator of Donato, whose stump was of unquestionable timber.  He is an expert and graceful posturist, and manages the drapery of his dance and its involved undulations with unquestionable ability.  The performance is peculiar and surprising, and will attract the masses.”

     “Donati, the one-legged dancer, makes his first appearance in this country this evening at the Hippotheatron.”