Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-03
Echoes of the stare.


MANAGER r. NJ. GULIcK and Mrs. Gulick
returned from their wedding trip yesterday.
SAM FRIEDLANDER will go to Minneapolis
next season to take charge of Manager P.
Harris, new theater, the Hennepin Avenue
Opera House.
MRS. HoDGsoN BURNErT's play is not yet
ready for production at the Lyceum Theater,
New York, although the author is hard at work
upon it. The stock company is low rehearsing
an adaptation from the French that may have
an early production.
HENRY IRVING has introduced o new idea
into the management of the Lyceum Theater,
London, that could be followed by managers
in this country with profit. Each week he ad-
yertises list of the articles of lost property
found Dy the attaches of the theater.
In answer to correspondent it may be
stated that the McCaull Opera Company will
not play at either of the theaters this season.
Neither will Little Lord Fauntleroy" reach
Pittsburg till next year. About two years
after the rest OF the United States have seen
enough OF play Pittsburgers are privileged to
get glimpse Of it.
A ROUTE for Mrs. James g. Blaine, Jr., is
being rapidly arranged, and from present pros
poets will start out on the road equipped in
every way for a successful season. A con-
tract, according to which Mrs. Blaine will ap-
pear in January. 1890, at the Biiou Theater,
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she Is to star in is being built by Belasco.
THE extremely pretty theater on Wabash
avenue, Chicago, which has steadily run into
debt under the name of the Baker Theater, and
which was built and opened upon a foundation
of debt, has passed into the hands of John H.
Havlin, the.C Cincinnati manager. 1t is such a
gem OF theatef In everv particular that it
ought to be made successful one under capa-
BILE management
DANIEL SULLY. who usually rests during
Holy Week, has contracted to play that date
in Detroit. To make up for it, however, he
laid off week before last and visited his coun-
try place in the Catskill Mountains His
neighbors arranged a bear hunt for his enter
tainment and Mr.. Sully has the record of hav-
ing killed at the first shot a bruin that tipped
the scales at 422 pounds
EDWARD HARRIeAN has approved of plans
for new theater for himself to be erected in
New York by a stock company, Of which Aus
tin Corbin, the railroad magnate, will be the
principal shareholder. 1t will be built either
on the site of or near the present theater. and
will have seating capacity of 1,600 or ZOO
with all the modern improvements both be-
fore and behind the curtain. 1t will be of red
brick, and the stage will be 40 feet deep and %
wide. 1t is expected that the building will be
up by October l.
MARY ANDERSON opened in 1.-THE Winters
Tale" at Macauley's Theater, in Louisville, on
ager Bourlier, of the Masonic Temple Theater,
to prevent her appearance at Macauley's.
Chancellor Edwards refused to grant an in
junction restraining Miss Anderson from ap-
pearing at Macauley's, holding that the remedy
OF the plaintiffs, if they had any, lay in suit
for damages; Mr.. Abbey and Mr.. Macauley
gave bond in $4,000 to secure any damages that
may be recovered in such suit.
A CHARMING little actress of my acquaint-
ance, says a writer in the Dramatic Mir or,
visited Florida two or three years ago, and
after the manner of tourists. brought away
with her baby alligator about 8 inches long.
She has kept it alive ever since by dint of an
intelligent appreciation of its astronomical
wants, satisfying Its epicurean requirements
with dainty bits of raw beef in winter and
summer. "How is ityou don't tire of the ugly
creaturew an inQuisitive female friend asked
her the other day. Chow stupidi I'm raising
him for bag. of course" 'sWell, at his pres.
ent rate of growth, by the time your hair is
gray he'll do for pocketbook."
THE New York Sun gives the following ex-
PLANTATION of the phrase 1.-THE ghost walks:'
Colonel T. Alston Brown gives us this account
of the origin of the phrase: "Harry Watkins,
an old player, relates an anecdote that is worth
recording 1t appears plausible enough to be
the true origin, because it seems SO natural. In
one of the itinerant companies of England, the
manager, himself an actor, was very fond of
playing The Ghost in Hamlet which was one
of the stock pieces of these unpaid nomads.
Salary day came and went, but as the manager
had no bank account, and the box office receipts
were too meager to warrant the alleged trea-
surer in posting over the box office door those
letters SO cheering to the actors heart, s. P. @.
r. the stomachs and wardrobes of the players
began to suffer. At last patience ceased to be
a virtue. The company grew clamorous for
their arrears A strike was organized, and at
one of the Hamlet rehearsals, when Hamlet
speaking of The Ghost, exclaimed, Perchance
twill walk again. the leader of the revolt who
happened then to be The Ghost, ignored
Shakespeare, and shouted emphatically, No!
I'm d-d if The Ghost walks any more until are
salaries are paid JAIL actors-especially those
who've been there before, many time-will
easily concede that an incident like this would
quickly become common sport, and soon fur
nish the material for new bit of stage slang"