Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-01
Pilling's Star.
Cbicap0 News letter

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Frank Pilling, who has SO long been as
ISOLATED with circus enterprises, has turned
| his attention once more to the drama. His
past experience in this line shows his fitness
| for the undertaking, for it is yet to be re-
corded that anything he has ever manipula-
| lated has proven failure. How different
! it is with other managers the daily record of
| failures tells only too well Our COLLINS,
| Annie Pixley, and other standard successes
owe their existence to-day to the EN-
ergy and perseverance eff Frank Pilling.
His last engagement is with a Miss Claire
Scott, lady who is said 10 be remarkably
powerful actress, and just the woman to
make popular success in this country.
''She is simply splendid, !" said Pilling the
other day, with justifable CLEAN of en-
thusiasm in his eye, land l think her per
Torrance of Camille, Juliet, and such line
| of characters equal to any on the American
stage to-day"
''She is entirely unknown, though, is she
not s".
Eyes; I should Judge few of the regular
theater-going people ever heard her name,
but it won't be that way long, can assure
you"
''Going to bill it heavy"
Like circus. l am one of those fell
lows who believe in letting the public know
every time you have a good thing. 1t is
bad policy to hide your light under bush
ell. l shall bill the company in the very
best style, you may depend. Mr.. Dick, of
the Jones company, is now preparing me a
number of new autographs, and my wall
paper will be the most attractive that money
can buy"
Chow did you come into business rela-
tons with Miss Scott? ~
"An old manager friend of mine-a gen.
tleman who has long since retired from the
| professiOn-saw her act once, and immedi-
ately wrote to me about her. 1 took occa-
sion to judge for myself, and it did not then
take me very long to make up my mind
what to do in the premises"
Mr.. Pilling speaks like man who has
| gone heart and soul into the affair. He is
evidently quite in earnest and determined to
make his new star quite as successful as the
other combinations Id which he has been in.
terested. He is hard at work getting first
class printing together and arranging dates
for the company. Outside of Mr.. Pilling's
assertion there are those who have seen Miss
Scott, and whose opinion could not, under
any circumstances, be other than disinter
ested one. They speak of her in the mos
giving eOAido, oAo ticNiSe 1ol hOA, uAoOl
her new management, popular success.
The Chattanooga Times of yesterday
says:
A very large and fashionable audience
which almost filled the house, greeted the
Claire Scott combination in Lucretia Borgif
last night. Miss Scott is unquestionably al
actress of marked ability and high merit
and in her Fendition of some of the thrill
ing scenes in the horrible tragedy was very
affecting. She personated the doting moth
er and demoniac duchess in highly credi
table manner. The support was good. TIL,
company leaves this morning for Gadsden
where they will open the new opera house
and will return to this city Thursday night
when 'Romeo and Juliet" will be produced
We predict for them another large au
dience.