Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01
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LAURA BELL1NI has joined the Emma Juch
Grand English Opera Company and is winning
general commendation for her Work.
NINE. JANAUscHEK opened her two weeks
farewell engagement at the Academy OF Music,
| Philadelphia, before large and faShlonable
audience on last Monday night
IT is hardly likely that the new Gilbert and
Sullivan opera will be seen for some months at
| the Casino IN New York. The opera was to
have been produced at the Savoy Theater, Lon
| don, on Saturday, but it wills not be ready In
~tIIne.
REPORTS from the West are. to the effect
| that the low price of wheat has impoverished
the farmers, and that the people consequently
have no money TO spend for amusements At
| fractions are playing to business running from
$40 to $40 nightly, and wrecks are strewn every
where.
COMMENCING Monday, December 2 the
Casino Museum will open at 10 o'clock A. N.
and close at 10 P. M. 1t is open all day and
performances are given hourly. The foot
pianist, the bov magician, the fire king and
other clever specialists are engaged for this
week.
SIGNoR SALvISI told Mrs. Bowers, says Lew
Rosen, not long ago that he hoped to take s45,-
900 back to his native land with him at the end
of the season. Salvini is as fond of the ducats
as ever. Bolari, brother of Patti who travels
with the company, carries his money for him in
a big bag.
81 AM great admirer Of Emerson" said E.
E. Kidder, the playwright, to me some time
ago. II read his essay on The 0ver-Sour only
the other day." "AhFi Lew Rosen replied,
cynically. II fear too many playwrights, play
ers and scribblers would rather indulge in the
over-bowl."
GRACE FnKINs, of the auburn hair and the
fulgent eyes, now leading to Sol Smith Russell,
has a fondness for bright yellow gowns. 1t was
to satiriZe this mania that Eben Plympton, who
c11 AGrnrTa olro
called her "The Canary" and Wilton Lackaye,
who was in the cast with her in Mckee Ran
kin's 'Skirmish Line" jokingly alluded to her
as "The Omelette."
GYPSY ALCoTT, the soubrette of the ]. K
Emmett company, has discovered that she is an
heiress. A friend who looked up her ante
cedents during a trip to Paris has informed her
that she is the rightful owner of tiourishing
vineyard and other property. No date has as
yet, been set by her for her trip to her estates
in France, and she viii probably continue with
the organization for the remainder Of the
season.
, DON'T suppose Jimmie" Powers has an
enemy in the world. Everybody knows him
and everybody likes him. The wild, tumult-
uous greeting that was bestowed upon him on
tIAEevival of "Erminie" last week attested to
tine remarkable popularity Of the actor. He is
studious, steady, and as gentle as girl. He
never speaks i'll of anyone, never praises his
own work, and never tires of admiring Louis
dians that he has grown up with.
II NEVER saw Booth laugh heartily but
once" said Billy Mestayer last week. 1--WE
were playing Julius Caesar at the Baldwin in
Frisco. Booth was BrutIs, Mccullough was
C0SStuS, Harry Edwards was Cesar, and Char
ley Bishop and were plain, everyday citizens.
1t was the last night of the run and we all felt
frisky. So~hen Cesar spoke the well-known
line, Let me have men about me that are fat
Bishop and walked boldly up to Cesar and
shook him heartily by the hand. 1t broke
Booth all up and he laughed outright"
The letters on the subject Of religion from
several well-known members of the theatrical
profession that were printed in THE DISPATCH
last Sunday, were rare and rather racy effu-
sions, the Black Cat thinks, and the senti-
ments expressed for the most part redounded
to the credit Of the stage as an institution. The
uses that actresses put religion to were espe-
cially well described by those two pillars of the
church, Rose Coghlan and Fanny Davenport,
but the full value OF combination between
Art and Providence was only completely pic
tured by the eminent queen Of burlesque, Mrs.
Langtry. 1t appears that before going on the
stage to essay new part, the humorous lady
falls on her knees and prays that she may be
permitted to make a hit. This is a very pretty
idea, an idea worthy of great mind The only
objection to its being published is that it may
go long way towards destroying the general
belief in the efficacy Of prayer.
The Black Cat, speaking of Booths grand
work in 1.-THE FOOLS Revenge" says: There is
disembodiment of the graceful shapely
tragedIan in this strange, weird hero of Tom
Taylors drama that commands curiosity from
the start The spectacle of the great Booth
crlnging and leering in the bells and baubles of
the court fool is surprise even to those who
know him best To disassociate him from the
upright, proud, victorious poise that it is his
custom to assume, requires considerable effort
It is only his wonderful, sublime art that up
lifts the hump-backed, hopping Jester from the
disgrace of miserable comicaHtY to the summit
of thrilling force. i know Of no man who
would clothe the repulsive figure of Bertuccio
in such noble panoply Of strength, and at the
same time preserve the conflicting depravity of
his distorted reVenpeful heart