Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-10

| this week.
The contention between the spectacular and
| comedy of a high order will be the remarkable
feature in the theatrical events of this week.
| There's ballet, said to contain young women
| who can dance, and host of matters to delight
the eye in 1.-THE Twelve Temptations" to which
| the Bijou exposes the public, and Messrs Rob-
son and Crane, with play which has been
praised more than any other from an American
author and scenery said to be perfect in every
| way, ask Plttsburgers lS see them at the Grand
| Opera House.
The best way open to the average theater.
| goer is TO visit both theaters. Nay, he might
this week make round of all four places of
amusement, for Wallick brings his trained
| horses to Harris Theater and Harry Williams
OWn nOompany-one OF the pest variety organi-
cations on the road-occupies the Academy
stage.
The latest theatrical paper in the field LIE
Chat Noir, which is published in New York is
so radically different from all its cotempora-
ries and predecessors in the same sphere, and
so pleasantly different. that every one who
likes honest criticism and good-natured gossip
about the stage ought to read 1t. 9. M. s. Nc
Clellan, the editor, has hit upon the happy
mean; he neither toadies to managers or actors
nor follows the trade of blackmailer in the
common guise of journalistic free lance
The Black Cat has claws, but she scratches
with judgment. She is prettiest when she
purrs.
When a circus manager or a minstrel i'm
presario goes into the fray of advertising he
makes the fur fly. Mr.. Hi Henry, the pro-
prietor of Hi Henry's Minstrels, is going to
give Estelle Clayton, a not very popular actress,
the advantage 'of his personal responsibility,
attention and management next season." So
this week in The Dramatic Mirror he spreads
the eagle triumphantly. In the largest type
nrOCnraDlp Ia vfn
with wardrobe of the most elaborate concep-
tion, without limit in cost, and the Largest.
Costliest Solitaire Diamonds on the American
Stage, will travel in her own Private Boudoir
Car.
Hoop la, Hill in fact.
1t is to be hoped that we may at no distant
day be permitted to gloat upon the hlstrionic
abilities of the Private Boudoir Car, the Soli-
taire Diamonds. the wardrobe, the large and
small bills, the Enchanting Stage Effects, and
Miss Estelle Clayton.
Emma Abbott who will be with us next week.
will give THE Yeomen of the Guard" as a
grand opera rather than a comic opera. This
is what might have been expected, for it will
be recollected that 1.-THE Mikado" was pre-.
sented with infinite seriousness by the Abbott
Company. 1t seems that Pittsburg may con-
sider herself lucky to see Gilbert and Sulli-
vans latest work at all. When New York
critics and New York managers make up their
enormous minds that play or an opera is
not good enough for them, the provincial man.
ayers courageously say they Will have nothing
to do with it.
All the same it is the belief of a lot of level
headed people that they would rather pay 81
to see good company in one of Gilbert and
Sullivan's operas, that has not been sung to
death, than pay dime to gaze upon the mani
':Nadjy." ~ 80
Manager Wilt says that the patrons. of his
hoy t.,
roy" this season if he had not been determined
to get the original company from the Broad
way Theater. He says he has engaged the
original company for next season.
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1t is extraordinary, as somebody remarks
about every other day, that some manager rich
in resources of all kinds, such as ]. NJ. Hill, for
instance, has not taken up Miss Minnie
Madden and given her a chance to make the
mark she ought to make. She will reach her
proper place some day, no doubt, and she has
the good luck to be only q or % yet. lie Chat
Nofr puts the truth happily when it saws:
minnie Madden, who is a quivering bundle
of electric dramaticism, and the best emotional
actress we've got, is whiZZing round provln-
cial circuit as usual. There are things we
Madden has not yet asserted her superiority
and made people acknowledge the fine power
she commands. Given the chance that Mrs
Potter and Mrs. Langtry have had, what a
figure she would have NADER
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The Bijou management wish it understood
that prices will not be raised this week. The
public seems to expect higher prices when
spectacular show comes here. The Biiou's
popular prices will prevail.
So
Miss Agnes Cody showed great deal of un-
common force and deftness in her presentation
of Carrots in '49" and Billy Piper in THE
Danites." She hardly deserves comparison
with the delightful creator of these parts Mrs
Mckee Rankin, however. Mr.. O. L. McElroy
is better actor than such a company usuaIly
boasts. HEPBURN JOHNS,