Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-14
Echoes of the stnke.

Echoes of the Stnke.
AN actor had jug of gin
And when he went to play
He hid it darkly in box,
Till he could come that way.
A super saw him hide it there.
And deftly made scoop,
So when the actor came again,
The gin was in the supe.
-Wdshington Critic.
EDWIN BOOTH has entirely recovered his
health and has started for Cleveland, where he
resumes his tour with Lawrence Barrett to-
morrow night.
Mr.. SAMUEL H. FRIEDLANDER, Manager
P. Harris general representative, is in the
city looking after the PittsburE theater on &C
count of Manager Growers death.
CREsToN CLARKE, who was obliged to close
his season at Milwaukee. week before last on
account of Illness is sojourning with friends in
Baltimore. He Is much improved.
ROBERT BUCHANAN has written to Richard
Mansfield, complimenting the latter on his
perform ance of Richard III, :" which he says
Is IAN absolute realization of that demoniac
creature"
MAURICE BARRYMORE has six white hairs in
his little mustache. But as four are on one
side and two on the other, a one-sided appear
ance is obtained which is rather worrisome to
the handsome actor and his friends
MRS. POTTER is enamored of her own ap-
pearance in the role of Camille and she per-
sists in playing it at Niblo's Theater, New York,
on every possible occasion, much to the wonder
of the public and pain of the managers.
THE Chat Noir agrees with The DISPATCH
as to Miss Maddern's standing This week it
says: Minnie Maddern will appear at the Madi-
son Square Theater next month in Feather
brain" At last we are to get draft of true
American genius.
A. H. WOOD. the young proprietor and man.
ager of the new West End Theater Harlem,
New York. will star Tommy Russell next season
In a new play by A. G. Wheeler, "Nym Crinkle,"
which is to be ready in June. The little star
will open his season in New York.
SEVERAL of the prominent theaters in Chi
cage have adopted the automatic opera glass
boxes which are attached to the backs of the
chairs. and which were first introduced at the
Academy. They have also been placed in use
at Paris and st. Petersburg. How the late
Manager Chalet would have chuckled at this
adoption of his idea.
LAST week at the Boston Theater, Boston,
the Metropolitan Opera House Company gave
five performances of German opera, and
Margaret Mather gave two performances,
matinee and evening, fast day, to the largest
gross receipts that have ever been taken in at
seven performances at that0theater. The
amount was over $2I,OO0
Reddlng Company in Phenixville, Pa, the
other day, funny thing occurred to the COM
edian, Charles Theadore. Next season he in
tends to organize company of his own and
has been quietly advertising for leading
lady. Among many replies came one from
Washington, Ind. 1t described the writer as
of superlative beauty. splendid talents, and
loaded with elegant costumes, for many dii-
ferent parts. Theadore replied that he would
like to see the photograph of this divinity. 1t
reached Phenixville in due course, and to
Theadore's vivid amaZement was the picture
| of ainegress, black as the ace of spades. A
letter accompanied it, saying that In the first
letter the writer had forgotten to men tion the
little matter of color.
THE Chat Noir relates this anecdote: Just
before visiting this country Wilson Barrett
met Henry irving on the street in London.
"Ahr' exclaimed Irving, in that eloquent nasal
tone with which everyone Is familiar. "Ah,
Mr.. Barrett ay hear y'are gaw-ing across to
plaay for the Americans. Praay saay what
you will give them" Well" replied Barrett
ha as pag ogh sad GRfT VnFP PaEs dSk
| ing down at Barrett with smile of protest;
| "you forget, Mr.. Barrett, that ay have played
Hamlet for the Yankees" "But don't you
| know, Mr.. Irving" replied Barrett, "that you
are not the only man who can play HamIetF'
E"Nawr' rejoined Irving; but ay do know that
you are the only man who cannot plaay
| Hamlet. Good morning, Mr.. Barrett"
"NYM CRINKLE" says in the Dramatic Mir
ror this week: BY the way, ought to tell you
that saw performance of Robert Esmere''
| in Washington, and it rather disguised me.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward would be maddened be.
yond measure at this cheap perversion of her
theme. To me it was quite as impudent and
| false as was IAN Iron Greed" for Mrs Ward,
| who wrote her book entirely in the interest of
| anaesthetic Unitarlanism, is here made to figure
! as a scoffer at all religious sentiment, and her
! heroine as hardened from a sweet, heroic, self
sacrificing girl into an intolerable bigot. 1t is
| quite plain that the author of this play knew
| nothing and cared less for Mrs. Wards pur-
| pose and set to work to get some benefit out of
| the enormous vogue of her book by using its
name and ignoring its ability.
A woULD-BE actor who applied to Mr.. Pal.
mer for a position. Mr.. Palmer. in his quiet
way, said: what claim have you to being an
actor, and why do you adopt the stage as pro-
| fessionf' "Well," replied the W.-B.-A., "you
know, must live" "Not necessarily" replied
Mr.. Palmer. This recalls another story of this
| long-suffering manager, who, by the way. is re-
ported to have read 1000 plays during the past
| II years-all bad but four. A well-known the.
| atrical agent called upon him in regard to an
| aspiring young thespian who had been in one
| of the M. s. road companies. "DOes he know
| anything, MIR. PalmerF asked the agent.
"Know anythingr' repeated Mr.. Palmer with
tragic emphasis, and then, in hoarse whisper
'My dear boy, he doesn't even suspect any
| thingr'
J EMMA JUCH had an experience at Taunton
( Mass, which she will not forget for some time
The company returned to Boston after the per
formance at Taunton on the 1890 train. On
arrival at Mansfield the valise containing Miss
Jucns jewels was missed. The locomotive
| which drew the train was Immediately char
| tered TO return to Taunton with her manager
and if possible find the lost gems. The distance
II miles, was made in IL minutes. The night
watchman in going his rounds, found a valiss
| lying OIL one of the sofas where it had beer
carelessly left, and had just placed it in the
baggage room when in came the painting loco
motive and its painting passengers inquirine
about a lost valise. The one found was pro
duoed, and smile, serene smile, spread 0vel
the managers face Now came the real issue
to get back to Mansfield with the jewels il
time to catch the train for Boston. EleYeI
miles away and 10 minutes to get there: bu
they did it, and the most pleased person OF
that train was Miss Juch. Cost of care
lessness, SO; estimated value of jewels
$780,