Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15

| Smith Russell's company at Days Theater, re-
| Gently sent her photograph TO Ellie Ellsler,
| with the modest inscription, ITO Star from
| Cloud"
IT is related of Rio de Janeiro manager that
| he engaged in Paris three tenors for the same
operatc roles. The three artists being intro
duced to each other on the high seas naturally
| demanded an explanation of the manager.
| Gentlemen" said the Brazilian impressario,
"in a week after landing. two of you will be
| dead of yellow fever. The survivor gets the
| parts and draws the salary"
Mr. CHARLES L. DAVIS telegraphed as fol-
lows to THE DISPATCH yesterday: Have
heard it is reported in Pittsburg that my prop
| ertles, scenery and bric-abrac are steal from
| the old Homestead 1t is malicious false
hood Everything 1 use is entirely original,
| and the finest in the world. Let the pubic see
| and Judge for itself Please make the fact
known that this is not No. show, but the
pany and myself in the cast"
Monday evening will be quite an eventful
one for Manager Rudolph Aronson, as it will
witness the production of The Drum Major"
| the new opera at the New York Casino, and
| the first production of "The Brigands, at the
Hollis Street Theater, Boston, where M t Ru-
| dolph Aronson inaugurates season OF four
weeks The total number of people In the two
| operas will number nearly 300, and the number
| of costumes, which includes three changes in
| gands," 800.
PITTsBURG was out strong at Albaugh's
| Theater, Washington, d. c., on Thursday last.
In one of the boxes were Congressman John
DaIzell and Mrs. Dalzell, Mrs. NJ. 8. Quay and
Miss Quay Among the audience also were all
the members of the Pittsburg ball club. The
Arthur Rehan Company gave The & surprises prise,
to see what hit their townsman, Mr.. Burr
| Mcintosh, is making in that play. Mr.. ). II.
Ryley and Miss Madeline Lucettl have
achieved great success in legitimate comedy.
A GOOD many people, says the Mirror, after
reading Gunters popular story, "Mr. Potter of
Texas" wondered why w. ]. Florence hadn't
got hold of dramatization for the purpose of
appearing in the character of the eccentric
Texan, which by general consent would fit him
down to the ground. The novelist and the actor
met for the first time on Saturday night at the
Broadway, and somebody suggested the idea.
Florence said a score of people had advised hun
to take up Mr.! Potter. but, strange to relate,
he had never even read the book. But he is
reading 1t now, and there is strong probability
that Gunter's dramatization-which, believe,
was in existence before the novel came to be
wr1tten-will introduce Florence to us in new
Characterization next season. In that event. it
is pretty safe to predict that Mr. Potter will be-
come as famous stage creation as the Hon.
BdrdlCeU Slote of pleasant memory.
THE Dramatic Mirror says: When she IS
begin the season that Manager Frohman has
been obliged to postpone on account Of her
severe illness. The statement that family
reconciliation has taken place, and that Mrs.
Blame will, therefore, not undertake her theat-
rical project, is denied with vigor that leaves
no room for doubt that the story was started
without the slightest foundation. The physicians
say that it will be fully two months before
young Mrs. Blaine can leave her house. Man.
ager Frohman has had a consultation of prac-
titioners who speak doubtingly OF her speedy
recovery from her severe attack OF infamma-
tory rheumatism. Il. b. Conway, the English
leading man, sailed last Wednesday from Liv-
erpool. He was to have been the chief support
in young Mrs. Blaine's company. As her con-
tinued illness changed the original plans, he
will be seen in the chief comedy part in 'Our
Flat" which succeeds the present engagement
of Mr.. Sothern at the Lyceum. MIR. Conway
has been aconspicuous figure in England in old
comedies. Last season he enacted the role of
Captain SlOtt.
FROM thoroughly reliable source it is
learned that Bronson Howard's new play,
shenandoah" is q great success. Nym
Crinkle. in this weeks Mirror. wrote: "But it
must be borne in mind that the play of 'Shenan-
doah' does not rest on this realism. Its merits,
as see them, are on the great effectiveness of a
story which is plausible and is told with genu-
inc sentiment and humor, and brings before us
in strict comedy attitude number OF wildly
outlined characters VINO i've ana move, ana
have their being, just as men and women lived .
and moved during the war times. 1t was excel
lently well played, and here. more than any
where else, perhaps, we saw Mr.. Howard's
painstaking hand. There was an unmistakable
thrill in the second act which brought US SO
soon from the holiday bluster of Charleston to
the sad and serious business of war in the
Shenandoah Valley, and the approach of our
dismounted cavalry singing one of the best
known of the war songs accompanied only by
their clanking sabers, stepped the audience at
once into the memories of the actual conflict.
All this was done with an illusion that was ad-
mirable, because it was but the preservation of
the illusion by suggestion"