Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
Stage Whianara.

| GEORGE L. MORELAND, press agent OF the
Casino Museum, has joined Barlow Bros Min
| strels as advance agent
MRS. JAMES G. BLAINE, JR, is still pros
trated and under the care of physicians. Re-
coyery seems long way oh, but she bears her
afdictiOns bravely.
GILBERT and Sullivan's new opera will be
seen in London at D'Oyley Carte's new Shaftes-
| bury Avenue Theater, the Savoy Theater to be
| given up to burlesQue.
The exact amount paid Uncle Sam for duties
| by MIR. Wilson Barrett is 81, AGO. He will sue to
recover on the ground that the goods are his
tools and implements of trade.
EACH of the Gaiety dancers wears IL skirts;
this is six more than is worn by either Lettie
Lind or Sylvia Gray, and it requires rs yards of
lace for the making OF each set of skirts.
SADIE MARTINoT has her portrait in after
noon costume, half length figure. etched in one
corner of all her letter paper. The name is
under the portrait. Miss Martinot is almost as
| uncertain in her script as in her engagements
Mr.. HENRY IRVING will not visit this coun-
| try next season, according to Dunlap's circular
He may run over for a visit, but if he ever
comes back professionally it will not be before
| the season of '92
Miss SUSIE MACE, leader of the march in
"Kajanka," it is claimed, is one Of the hand
soonest women that has ever yet been seen in
seasons with the Carlton Opera Company,
Miss NELLIE SENNETT, one Of the papilion
dancers from the Gaiety Theater, London, at
present with the "Kajankar company resem-
bles Mrs. Langtry so much in face and figure
that recently she was stopped on the street and
mistaken for that lady.
RICHARD MANSFIELD was formerly a dry.
goods clerk in Boston, fact of which it is said
he is not ashamed. On Saturday, in sending
for m fho de
tions annual ball. Mr.. Mansfield expressed his
desire to give, on his next visit to Boston,
benefit performance for that organization.
FANNY DAVENPORT tells how, when she
was little girl, her father in order to punish
her for misconduct, would not allow her to sit
at the dinner table if Booth was guest. Booth,
In those days, Davenport says, used to play
the banjo to amuse the girls Of the family.
I've heard 1t SAID he plays it better even to-day
than Dockstader.
IF the clothes of any man on earth are a bet
ter 1T than those historical poems of Herbert
Kelcey's, they are the sleek and silken affairs
that are melted over the form of Mr.. Fred
HaIlen. OF the elegant firm Of Halen q Hart
George Sand, think it was, who said that
architecture was frozen music, George did
not live to see MI. Fred Hallen's trousers. says
Tn Black Cat
EMMA SHERIDAN, who is sobbing through
the season as leading woman at the Boston
on love and everything appertaining thereunto,
but she is also skilled swordsWoman rs well.
A journalist, fencer and an actress in one
woman is something Of phenomenon. 1t is
not stated whether or not the shapely young
lady is smart enough to sew on button.
THE Black Cat says that the following letter
was the real cause of Mr.. Wilton Lackaye leaY-
ing the DAILY Company: Dear Sir-My next
production is to consist Of q revival of the
classical play known as Uncle Toms Cabin.n
l have cast my company in appropriate parts.
none OF which need mention except that of
EUd. which will be assumed by Miss Rehan.
wish to utilize your services in the play, and
desire that you shall report at the theater next
Tuesday morning to rehearse the part of the
Donkey. A. DAILY"
MARIE WAINWRIGHT Is said to scold her
company and the stage hands while on the
stage SO that an audience can hear her. One
night during her present engagement in Bos-
ton she hissed party of ladies and gentlemen
who were sitting in box and who she thought
disturbed her. The people got up and left,
much embarrassed by the insult. 1t would
seem as though Marie'S mellowing years were
hardening her tender heart. Only geese and
English pittites hiss, my pretty Vi0Ld.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made with the
Erie Railroad by which the "Kajanka" COM
pany will be brought here by special train, ar
irving on Sunday night. This will give ample
time to get everything in complete readiness
for the opening performance Monday night at
the Opera House 1t viii require stage force
of 40 experienced stage mechanics to m2nipu-
late the machinery and SIX property men for
mechanical effects. The calcium lights are
furnished by the New York Calcium Lght
company to operate the same.
1.-THE Shakesperian bangle bracelet" is the
latest in jewelry. 1t is of sterling silver an.
tiduely dark outside and inscribed with some
choice oulling from the great playwright, such
as ''Frindship is constant in all things, save in
the office and affairs of love"-Much Ado
lives is of mingled yarn. good and Ill to-
gether'-Hamlet, W. There are also rings
of the serpentine kind, that coil three or four
times around the hngers and are also inscribed
Tiffany and all the prominent Jewellers say they |
are the craze
WHILE the tank used in "Lost in New |
York" on the presentation of that play re- |
Gently at Crawford's Opera House, Topeka,
Kan, was being emptied about O'Clock in the |
morning, it burst and flooded the stage and |
storerooms below. The tank was lined with
very heavy oilcloth. which was adjustable to
a stage of almost any size. The water which |
was about two feet deep, was being removed |
by a siphon and when about two-thirds of it /
was out the oilcloth broke. A clothing store |
and the billiard room of a wetgoods estab- |
lishment suffered slight damage by the aeci- |
dent The tank had been used for three years. |
and this is the hrst accident the company has |
met with.
Mr.. WIN. H. CRANES Western tour has
been remarkably successful Mathews and |
Jessop's comedy, "On Probation" has met
with much favor, and it is pronounced one of |
the best fareieal comedies of the decade.
Cranes part in it. Jonathan StGsbee, of Chicago, |
is pleasantly modelled after Chicago's most |
famous millionaire, and is said to suit the |
comedian like glove. THE Senator the last |
work of the late David D. Lloyd and Sydney |
Rosenfeld is much more pretentiOus in plot |
and character, and has made a tremendous hit |
in st. Louis. Louisville and Cincinnati, In it |
Mr. Crane makes up in imitation of Senator /
Plumb, Of Kansas, as Senator HdnnibGl RsVerS, |
and the resemblance is, said TO be startling |
Mr. Crane will be seen in both these comedies |
during his engagement in this city which Is |
rapidly approaching.
WHEN Eben Plympton walks down Broad
way, New York, the police begin rigging up
the fire lines to keep the crowd back, or, at
least, they ought to. There is always danger,
The Black Cat thinks when Eben walks that
be will step on somebody and grind them to
powder. For he is not SO gentle as falling rose
leaves. He has way OF gnawing and search
ing his way through an obstruction like
panther boring through q hunting party. The
drew red handkerchief from his pocket Just
rs Eben was passing by, and the emotional
actor lowered his head and would have gored
the stranger to death had not matador, in
the shape of one Of the finest rushed the
victim into q neighboring cafe. And some
people say that the cyclones we used to hear
or ont IN the Northwest were not cyclones at