Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
Echoes of the SfnUe.

LIE NdclHO museum O1ferS a large ana varied
bill OF curiosities and good variety show.
Echoes of the Stnge.
In answer to D. c. WIS inquiry it may be
stated that the London Gaiety Burlesque Com
pany will not come here this season, or as far
as is at present known at all.
ANTON RUBENsTEIN, the Russian pianist, is
willing to make another tour of America for a
nightly fee of 81, 500 and Abbey, Schoeffel and
Grau are thinking seriously about it.
MARGARET MATHER will be at the Grand
| Opera House next week. and her repertoire in
cludes Romeo and Juliet" Leah" Lady of
Lyons" Honeymoon" and peg Wellington" "
The beautiful and pathetic ballad which
Louis Harrison warbled when he was last here
is entitled "Signor Bing Binger, the Baritone
| Singer" This is for the benefit of Robert
Crawford
THE railroad strike in New York cost the
theaters more than Sl0O,000 last week, and
about half that sum will be lost this week,
owing to timid ladies not caring to trust them
selves with new drivers and incompetent con-
| ductors.
MRS. LANGTRY has finally concluded to
abandon Macbeth" which has made financial
failure. Mrs. Langtry spent a great deal of
| care and money on the production, and succeeds
only in agreeably disappointing New Workers
| by her Lady Macbeth.
| SOME idea of the great scale on which Henry
Irving adyertses may be Cleaned on inspection
of a late copy of the London Era. In this
| II pages are filled with perhaps all the notices
| of the production of Macbeth that appeared in
the English papers. and the cost of the adver-
tisement if paid for at the regular rates
which is Observation-Disclosures between $500
and 81 900.
| LEW WALLACE claims to have received no
less than 60 different requests for permission to
| dramatize ben Hur." To all of them he has
replied with respectful negative, and the
statement that he himself has prepared stage
version OF his novel. The latter fact is well
known by New York managers, who, while they
admire the literary gifts of General Wallace,
have, after reading his drama, pronounced 1t
incapable Of production on the ground that he
has not known how to make real play of 1t.
MAGGIE MITCHELL is more persevering
than Lotta and the rest of the old-time SOU
brettes. All except the original Fdnchon have
given New York up in disgust, and now devote
their tours entirely to the country, The fact is
that New York insists on having her soubrettes
of tender age, and Miss Mltchelps continuous
success in characters that are fifty years her
junior is to be laid entirely to her art. She
does not look ten-year-old, but when she be-
gins to act the illusion Is perfect from the rear
of the house.
EDNA CAREY resumed her role in "a Dark
Secret" last week, but her stay with the COM
pany will be limited. She is to leave the
company on the 22d inst, at st. Louis, in order
to accompany the Little Lord Fauntleroy
party to San Francisco. Miss Carey will play
the part of the adventures, Mip7ld This
change of base was determined upon by the
handsome actress because she has found the
nightly plunge into Messrs. Jefferson and
Taylor's tank to be incompatible with health
and happiness
Mr., FIsKE relates, in the New York Mirror,
the following touching story: The last words
spoken by Mary Fiske are worthy of record. 1t
was late in the night preceding the morning of
her death. She was supposed to be unconscious
by the watchers, Several of her birds were
singing at the top of their little voices in an adj
joining room. A lady who was present feeling
that their carols Jared on the sadness and
solemnity of the hour, told one of the nurses to
cover cover up the cages To her surprise. Mary
and said with faint smile: please don't.
Who could have the heart to stop the song Of
an innocent blrdY'
In England the system of levying blackmail
on popular actresses by gallery roughs Kissing
and otherwise disturbing performances has
grown to De an intolerable offense. In Bir-
mingham this ruffianism has become SO fragrant
that the police have been called upon to break
it up. When the demands of the gang for
money is denied, they raise such tumult In
the theater at night that the performance of
the actors is ruined. Marie LOTUS the burles-
que actress was annoyed at a performance by
some of these roughs recently and had them all
arrested. The English tough is woldsh ami
NAL.
NYM CRINKLE in the Mirror asks: "Who
will write a sturdy woman's play? Must all
our effective heroines on the stage be adven-
turesses in the grip of the masculine villain?
Why does not Mrs Burnett come to the front
and do something for her acting sex? Why,
even Burnett in glorifying the nursery drama !
has put the conventional adventures into it, |
and Dearest has a background of cheapest |
stunnlngly played, grant you, by that clever |
Western girl, Alice Fischer-but who wouldn't |
like to be the clever Western girl doing some |
clever Western thing? Why shouldn't there |
be female Davy Crockett? Why shouldn't |
Eggleslon's Roxy get into drama? The whole |
West is full of heroines."
A WRITER in the Mirror says: La dies of the |
stage and gentlemen, too, you will perhaps |
laugh at Garrick. Look at home, we pray you.
Only last season Kyrle Bellew played the gar
deners son in 1.-THE Lady of Lyons" in mag
nfcent crimson satin holiday suit of q Spanish
"Majo," and the writer has seen within few |
weeks past an actress represent the part of |
starving mother about DO lose her child, from
inability to buy it some milk, attired in o lace |
dress worth 5000 with 1000 worth of jewelry |
glittering on her fingers Scarcely one of tne |
dresses you think 1t necessary to give ST. for
Is appropriate to the piece it is worn in.
LEoNoRA BRADLEY, the dark-eyed beauty
who has made strong ''hit'' this season ss Al |
thea Dale in "The Stowaway," is one of the best
dressed actresses on the American STAGE The /
costumes that she wears in ''The Stowaway,
are said to be maryels of the modiste's art.
On her first entrance she has a walking suit of
shell pink cashmere and olive green cloth,
made after the "Encroyable' style The skirt
is cashmere, plated from the waist, and the
coat is of cloth, with white lace fall and large
pink lapels. large hat of the two shades,
with profusion of white feathers, completes |
the costume. Subsequently she displays a |
unique yachting suit of white flannel and vel
low Chica silk. with hat to match, and an
evening costume of heavy white and Nile
green silk. The costume which the ladies in
the audience are said to admire most is one for
street wear which Miss Bradley created 1t is
of Eeru cloth and brick moire, made after an
old French pattern.
sAT special matinee at the Madison Square
Theater, in New York, next month dramati-
cation, by William Gillette, of Mrs. Humphrey
Wards novel Robert Elsmere" will be pro-
duced 1t was announced some days ago that
Mr.. Gillette had secured the theater, but the
subject of his play has been kept profound
secret, and is now first made public, Reports
came from Chicago some months ago that an
enterprising local playwright was at work on
the book, but nothing more has been heard of
his effort MIR. Gillette's attempt is certainly
as 1t would be difficult to imagine
more apparently unpromising dramatic ma
terlal than that of this religious romance. 1t
is understood that he deals largely with the
comic element, and that the loves of Rose and
Langham are set forth at considerable length.
Mr.. Palmers own company will appear in the
piece, and should it be successful that manager
will have an interest in it In conjunction with
the author and Charles Frohman. Miss Annie