Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25

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ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
| Sullivan's Comedy Co.
The above are the theatrical attractions for
| this week
RING UP THE CURTAIN
Come tumble out the tanks and things
That go TO make dramatic artl
The prompter q standing in the wings
The orchestra has made start
The season Is here-fash out We starsi
Comedians come! We long to laugh.
D vita brevis, Tonga ars-
Ye have been gone too long by half.
We want you all-the great, the small;
From her whose face is all she has,
To him whose art can picture all
Man Is, as in looking glass. HI.
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Harris Theater will not be closed this sum-
mer for repairs. During the past week, how
ever, the management has been able to bright
en- up the place considerably. The walls have
been painted, the upper boxes have been taken
down, and new carpets have been laid in all
parts of the house. The regular season of 1882
80 begins on Monday, and Harris Theater COM
pletes the remarkable record of having been
open for theatrical performances at least once
cept Sundays.
1t cannot be said that the opening attraction
at either the Grand Opera House or the Bijou
Theater were of any particular interest The
new play, "a Royal Pass" at the Bijou and
the new actor, Mr.. George e. Staley, have not
made very pleasant impression upon Pitts
burg's audiences. The fact is, as has already
been said in The DIsPATCH's columns, the
author of "a Royal Pass has attem 2ted to
make a drama out sof material barely strong
enough for q farce comedy. Very little altera-
tion would serve to make "a Royal Pass" a
very amusing piece; and at the same time
afford Mr.. Staley larger opportunities for the
exercise of his gifts. The very incidents which
are incongruous and absurd in a serious drama
would be quite the thing in marked comedy.
The company would also, it seems, be very well
fitted for light comedy work. Mr.. Tony
Farrell and Miss Jennie Leland are both low
comedians of ability. though the latter was
impersonation of Swiss barmaid in "a Royal
Pass" The sympathy of everyone in the audi
ence went out to the unfortunate actors who
ostensible reason, in the heaviest of fur
lined overcoats and other habiliments Of stage
Russian mystery.
Pittsburg has earned in the course of the
last two weeks long rest from minstrel shows.
It is to be hoped that the local managers will
allow her to enjoy it.
No theater in town opened to more enthusi-
astic audience than Harry Williams Academy
of Music last Monday. The popularity of Pitts
burgs only variety theater is something that
no one can discount. Every night during the
past week the house has been packed, and it
promises to continue to be q gold mine for
lucky Manager Williams.
Mr.. George Q. Jenks is in New York, rehears-
ing his play, 1.-THE United States Mail" He
writes that everything is gong smoothly; and
that the season will commence at Louisville, in
McCauley's Theater. on September 9.
Little Puck" and Tourists in a Pullman
Carr are plays of stripe that are likely to thrive
in hot weather. They are both bright. airy and
Iaughable, and are built to do little more than
amuse. Just now it looks very much as if they
would have the hottest weather Of the year to
contend with. The experiment of opening
theaters in the middle of August is rather
dangerous one, as all the managers felt last
week when the warm wave came and the audi
ences fell away.
An immense yellow poster announcing in
pleasant variety Of big letters the benefit for
Burr Mcintosh at the Fourteenth Street Thea
ter, New York, has been received by The DIS
PATCH. It is pity that few Pittsburgers will
be able to see the great performance to be
given for Mr.. McIntoshs benefit. for abont a
score of the brightest actors of the day will
participate in it. The bill has variety. There's
the second act of "The Mountebank," with
Eben Plympton and others of ability in the
cast, the third act of "Ingomar'' with Burr Nc
Intosh himself as Ingomdr: running high
Jump, the prize to the winner being given by
the charming Lillian Russell, and tug of war,
four men, $50 pounds limit, open to all anna
teurs.
A correspondent of the Bulletin in brief
allusion to "Bootle's Baby" the new English
play now being given at the Madison Square
Theater, New York, says: "Kate Claxton. as
the mother of Bottles Baby" has to cry
a great deal and be mildly pathetic all
through the play. Miss Claxton is an artistic.
Well, an artistic ought to know that there are
other ways of showing grief besides shedding
among our emotional actresses to-day is this
tendency to blubber at the smallest provoca-
tion.
Mr.. John Whiteley is managing the tour
of Marie Prescott and r. d. Mclean. If Mr..
Whiteley has mind to keep the fame of his
onght to give up the awful habit he has of
writing news on two sides of the paper. That
habit has made countless millions mourn over
contributions which have never appeared in
print.
Among the new features of Little Puck"
which are promised is dance and song or two
borrowed from the Gaiety Company Of London.
which, in the English girls hands. struck the
popular fancy. The tigers" who travelled with
Dixey in "Adonis' have been translated to
Little Puck" and will serve up. presume,
some new sides of the tiny footman's life.
81
Theresa Vaughn has introduced fashion in
New York which the busy women find con-
venient and sensible and are adopting with
great rapidity. She declares it is necessary for
both beauty, health and good temper that
woman should be for half an hour at least in
tn open air every day, and she goes on to say,
Il know that for busy women this is not always
e asy. They can spare that half an hour in the
open air but they cannot spare the other half
or tnree-Quarters Of an hour to make street
toilet. But have found a way but of the diff
Guilty, think. There are many days when L
not the time to spare to get ready to go out so
put on my head a wide-brimmed directoIre,
which covers multitude of sins In the way Of
tumbled head and throw around me long
called Connemara is not one at all. The Kerry
Clark Is the one that hangs straight from the
shoulders to the feet in front, and has to be
held together to keep from blowing open and
showing the gown underneath. The Connemara
hangs in the same way, but there Is front IN
81 de which fits slightly to the figure and is but
toned all the way down, the arms coming
through long slits left between the edge OF this
q nd the loose fronts which hang over 1t. IL IL
10 ose, but perfectly conceals any morning
o n pair of loose gloves. and then am All
eady for the street in three minutes.
II every woman would provide herself with
~ ose three things there would be no day SO
that little run in the air which would keep her
skin fresh. her eyes bright and her temper
sweet. HEPBURN JOHNS.